[Suzerain of Sheol]

Originally Posted by Quiet Man Cometh

I'm not sure how runes factor into this. I thought it was more talking about Aurum prices. RDI's I can understand being more expensive given that they are rune prices and it's always an estimate of sorts when it comes to aurum equivalents, but when the ADI's start costing a bundle that's then it gets confusing to me. The aurum donations items haven't gone up in price have they? The there's no real money involved since aurums largely come from posting. No one needs to buy runes to get aurumn items so I don't see how it's necessary that rune prices need to affect those items other than rune items.

Aurum comes from posting, it's not related to real money, so I don't why there should be inflation at all. One of the concerns I have for the aurum pricing going up is not that the prices will be beyond reach but that quality of posts may drop because people feel the need to get aurum faster and more of it just to afford the items they want. I'd rather aurum remain a perk of chatting here rather than something that makes posting seem mandatory in order to have a spiffy looking avatar.

It's because they're a finite resource, as I mentioned above. Granted, there ought to be more ADIs than RDIs floating around, but they're still gone from the normal market after the month is over, meaning that they're discontinued and rare, after that.

And I imagine, for the worry in your second paragraph, that if it came to that, the admins could always either step in to regulate the market if they really had to, or change the amount of aurumn gained from posting.

I empathize with that concern, since for me personally, I spend a lot of time per post, and mine tend to be lengthy, meaning I don't end up posting as much on here as the chattier people. At the moment, I still feel like I make enough aurumn to get by with my posting style, but I can see that becoming a concern if prices go up that much that the only competitive way to earn aurumn is to more or less spam.