And you fail to provide any reasons why.
~ @Coelho
Shop sales are low, people dont want to spend huge amounts because of the choked cash supply. 20 and 30 percent tax is excessive.
And you fail to provide any reasons why and purposely ignore the issues behind it.
Issues were too much imcoming cash, inflation, too many items, exploits, and in general too easy to get rich. Im paraphrasing here, but thats the general idea of why meepshop was removed. Right?
Why was it a bad idea? Exploits aside (i cant speak about something i dont know details about) It was a very efficeint system... convenient, easy to understand, and had aspects of supply and demand. Huge economic shocks are rarely, if ever, a good thing. Was it a perfect system? Absolutely not, but it was far and away better than what is there currently.
Prices are low, and most shops are only selling, the ones that are buying are generally full on stock. The poorer players cant really sell items they dont want/need, and its just not fun to go to 87 different shops to try to sell off your extra stack of lumber.
You either have no clue what you're talking about or are incredibly ignorant.
Currency sinks...
1) Buying a town and its upkeep/expansion.
2) Buying a pwarp and its upkeep.
Thats about it... so yea, there wasnt, and still isnt a whole lot for players to spend large amounts of cash on. In the old system, large currency sinks would have helped balance the incoming flow. Large currency sinks will still needed no matter what economic system is on the server. I hope that you guys will put fun ones in rather than adding or changing taxes.
There is no sink involved. The player can choose not to use it (as you stated), and choose to go directly to the shop.
A tax in games is just one form of a currency sink. Saying it isnt a sink and wont remove money from the economy is simply not true.
In your original post, you never said "if the tax was smaller I would use it." You said: "this is a bad idea, do this other stupid thing instead."
"As a customer, i would not use this service as you have outlined it. I wont pay 20 or 30 percent just to buy something, ill pwarp and get what i need instead."
Thats my original quote. I also said if you are seriously considering this, you should consider adding one of the other 2 systems back instead.
Now, if you read "i wont pay a 30% tax, ill pwarp instead" as me flat out refusing to use it, even at a lower rate, then im sorry... ill make it more clear. I wouldnt ever use it at 30%. 5% i would, and possibly 10%, but anything above that is just shooting yourself in the foot.
Making items easier to buy makes more people buy them. This is the most simple of concepts in any commerce business.
This assumes that there is incoming currency on the other side of it. If you arent collecting a paycheck, you arent going to go out and spend money like you were. The same goes here. Money isnt flowing, people arent buying. It wont matter how easy it is to buy stuff, they have little to nothing coming in to replace what they are spending, so spending constricts.
To my dismay, I do read posts like yours. My decisions are highly influenced on the opinions of others - but of course you can not expect me to listen to someone that discredits themselves as much as you.
If you listen, then answer me this. If the vocal bunch on the forums would have been against a change, would you have went ahead and done it anyway?
If there is nothing posted, then there is no current status. The staff is completely transparent in this regard. Your paranoia simply makes you believe that we hold information for some reason.
I dont believe you hold back info out of malicious intent. But communication about when things are going to happen, if there are server issues, ect is lacking. Its more like you guys get around to it when you do rather than being out in front of it.
MeepCraft has been active for almost two years now? There is a lot of experience and a lot of reasons vshop was removed. Listening only to the people for vshop is naive. Listen to the people against it for real reasons as to why it didn't work.
The staff are fully against it for reasons that we've stated time and time again.
Listening only to those against it is just as naive as listening to only those who are for it. Again, no system is perfect, but there are plenty that are better.
The fees still need to be worked on, but I don't want to favor donators too much.
My opinion: for whatever its worth... a tax is a tax, and shouldnt favor one person more than another. Donators dont pay less for towns or pwarps, they shouldnt pay less for this.
And now, a suggestion for this system since it is destined to be put in: If you can do this system as a "buying from shops" setup, why not do the same for "selling to shops" and have a fee on top of it. Same idea as buying, with the convienience and tax factor... whats not to like?
