Remove Buyable Spawners

The fact that spawners can now be owned by all ranks and can be bought in donor shops is, I believe, detrimental to the economy. Here is why.

Mob eggs - before anyone could get spawners, people prided themselves on farms. People would have horse or mooshroom farms that were very profitable (partly because of the head market). As a result, eggs were worth a fair amount. I can't really remember how you got eggs, I know one way was in the dungeon. Maybe you could also get them from voting, I'm not certain.

Drops - with spawners being purchasable in the donor shops, virtually all drop markets are harmed. Sure, this makes drops cheaper for new players, but it also makes it harder for them to earn money.

Heads - the market for mob heads used to be very profitable. I once saw a slime head sell for 160k at auction. Last week I bought one for 12k. Removing non-vanilla Spawners would help in restoring this market.

Spawners - The spawner market is currently controlled by those with large balances and large shops, with little room for new players to make money. However, were this implemented, spawners found in dungeons in the wild would be worth much more money, which would be better for new players.

Another step that might be necessary would be for the server to buy the existing non-vanilla mob spawners from the players that have them. This would be difficult indeed, and put a lot of money into the economy, but I believe worth in the long run.

I thus propose that removing spawners from the donor shop and perhaps buying all the existing non-vanilla spawners from those who have them would be very beneficial to the economy. The changes, of course, wouldn't be overnight. There are still tons of mob heads that were once very valuable floating around, and it would take time, as it always does, for the drop market to get back on it's feet. But, given time, I believe the market would recover at least some of it's former value.

 

They literally don't care about any of that I've already tried LOL.

 

There aren't any slime spawners, invalid.

-talk about witch heads, witch (get it, good pun!!) went from 10k to 100 meebles each

Invalid point, there is a very small player-player spawner market. By removing spawners at /warp shop, these players raise their buy prices and make it even harder to obtain spawners.

I have around millions worth of spawners. Plus, spawners aren't a great way of making meebles unless you invest million and hours of your time into a farm

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Change can't be definite with mob heads and such, as there are now lots of them on the market to buy and sell. Taking away a rank's perks
(legend: to buy unique spawners Supreme: buy/sell animal spawners Elite: to buy and sell first-tier hostile mobs spawners)
will not make the community happy, especially since the recent eula changes.

-1

 

+1
While I was staff we decided to deny /grass which turns dirt into grass just so the small market of grass will still be the same but since spawners have come along prices have dropped for a lot of things.

However if they are not fans of removing them I would like to know if there is a way to change the droprate of items from these spawners.

 

If you right click on a spawner with a spawn egg, it changes the spawner to that type of mob. Im not sure if thats creative only, or survival too. If thats in survival, woldnt it be a problem for this?


Btw -1

--- Double Post Merged, Jun 10, 2016, Original Post Date: Jun 10, 2016 ---

You can only change droprates of mobs in general, not just ones from mob spawners

 

This has now been put on trello! https://trello.com/c/xWAJ9Zjv/889-remove-buyable-spawners

Accepted