Suggestions for Wild West Economy

Nothing's gonna be changed u wasted ur time

 

We don't have enough devs, but wild West will eventually get it's update, and It'll fix sheriff vs bandit and risk and reward like you talked about TheMafias. The thing is, sure the risk is totally unreasonable to fight a sheriff when you have full gear, but when you think about it, the other times of the game you get to afk process with no sheriffs on, or you can fight a 10v1 against the single sheriff that is on. There are issues, I don't know how to fix them to a good extent quite yet...

 

Keep coming with suggestions and maybe we can compile them into some wonderful update

 

I always like the prospect of making money easier, as it helps players buy gear for fights and results in an increase of fights.

The only problem I have is that players that need money won't really benefit from this that much. Tobacco's and Shroom's selling totals per hour are only about a 6000 increase, which is plenty, but most people don't process for more than an hour or two anymore. As well the people who need money are usually less experienced in pvp, so if they spend that money on gear they are more inclined to lose it soon or later. Anyone with enough skill to process at wg or poppy will have enough money already.

Increasing the selling price of wildgrass from 30 to 35 is a huge +1 though

 

Since this is economy and drug stuff I won't talk about armor and other stuff much, +1 for everything I like it.

 

Thats true, but that is considering they don't have any armor or illegals.

I have not seen people processing for a while, raising the drug prices won't make people instantly have money.

 

I think it would be best to have the tier 3's raised to poppys value or similar, with lower times possibly. tier 2 could also go up in value. This could bring more money into the economy as you've said, which makes more fights.
Big boy +1, this seems like a great idea.

 

R E S E T

 

This struck my eye.
Its very true, It's a very flawed system. Especially with the fact that a sheriff should equal 1-2 bandits full gear (excluding kevlar). Considering only one player gets to keep the sheriff head (when there could be more than 1 bandit fighting), and with that he/she could die before storing, you would think it costs more. Aside from that, seeing as there are less active sheriffs aside from the recently promoted ones, there are less fights. Which means sheriff 'hunting' is less profitable then it used to be. So, an update wouldn't hurt.

A reset should have some updates behind it. If that does ever happen, i'd like seeing this come with it.

 

The math is interesting, but what you just did here was re-iterate a bunch of well-known facts. It's obvious the economy is in shambles, the evidence for that can be seen here, and that it makes no logistic sense to fight a sheriff, yet people do it anyways. With the screwed up economy, monetization for the gamemode gets cut by over half its original potential. In my opinion, there are only two things the server can do to effectively bring back donations and the playerbase. While this thread was created to address one of the problems, there are so many more that need to be confronted before the game can run smoothly again.

One of two options the server has is to have a complete reset. It's risky, but with an good economy rework, there is a decent chance for positive results. However, although somewhat unlikely, there's a possibility that a reset may kill off the entire playerbase.

The second is for a complete rework. Take away the hardcore-ness of Wild West, and people will have more reason to stay. Furthermore, this option has more potential for donations. I'll list a few examples:

• Trainable Horse: The default horse should respawn and gain speed at increments at 0.05 after traveling a certain amount of blocks(being capped at 0.5, the speed of a speedy)
• Economy: Substantially lower prices for gear/guns.
• Processing: Place the drug processor NPC in the center of the base and increase the radius of processing to 50 blocks. That way, there will be less forced encounters with other people trying to make money.
• Monetization: Reduce the prices for premium horses in the Brawl shop. Make items in-game buyable.
• Cosmetics: Add buyable cosmetics(i.e. ability to change horse color, name, etc. package and the ability to change your horse to wither, etc.)
• Location: Putting fields closer to their respective bases.
• Teleport: Giving non-donators the ability to send /tpa requests with a 45 minute-1 hour cooldown.
• Kits: Self explanatory. Gives people incentive to log-in daily.
• Quests: Gives people simply objectives for large amounts of money(i.e. visit decker mine for 2500G)

All-in-all, make money worthless. Newer players will actually be able to obtain items, thus sparking competition. Recurring players will see no use for the additional money, so it serves them virtually no benefit.

It's not going to be easy to fix the gamemode, but it's not impossible either.