Lets not forget semi-veteran players, or those who have acquired a certain amount of power, but technically not yet in par with veteran players. Those are the ones who played this server for at least 3 months or so. They are alright on their own, but they do not have enough funds to acquire the rarest of items like Ladder Wings or WOE drops. They are the ones who needed help the most. With a few extra coupons in their pockets, to what item would they spend it on? My answer? Rental Items.
What are rental items to be exact? It is something that would augment their current lack of power so that they'll be in par with the donors and veterans, but only for a limited amount of time. In my opinion, items like these would not affect the economy drastically, but it would give value for donation coupons. Event coupons are already expensive as it is, but donation coupons on the other hand, is quickly losing its value. Rental items however, would put that value back into action. People would have an increased need of coupons, and that would be their motivation to farm more yggs to sel, et cetera, et cetera. It also gives an alternative to those who cannot afford items yet, let alone to donate.
So how does this work? It only works on items that would not be dangerous to sell in the donation room. Something like a Non-slotted headgear that gives +25 to all stats, lasts 3 days and costs 5 donation coupons. The 7 day version would cost around 10 coupons or so.
3 days = 5 c's
7 days = 10 c's
You saved 1 coupon, which is not bad at all.
Other rental items could be accessories that gave +15-20 to all stats. It could be useful to both veteran and new players alike, without the fear of having another "overpowered coupon item". Another variation to this would be the +25 stat accessory, something like "Refined Strength Belt, non-slotted rental item available for 10 days and costs 10 coupons as well." All transfer methods are locked except for storage (not gstorage). Once the item is used (consumable, then equip), the timer will start its count even after you log off. Extra stat boosts would greatly help the newbies to be able to farm items or hunt MVPs.
Others:
Drop-rate booster(?)
I already agree to one part of the "spending your extra coupons for items", but since the major e-livelihood of some people would be at stake here, I wanted to remain safe.
If lets say, the Admins decide to implement luxury consumables (or items that could still be obtained the old fashioned way), I don't think it would have that great of an effect to the current standard prices. In fact, I find it to be somewhat convenient since people are sometimes too lazy to bargain for prices and such.
Example:
200 Pcs of Lightning Converters
(Lightning Converter Box)
- costs xx amount of coupons in the luxury shop
It would probably cost more than the average Lightning converter that is sold by piece, but if you can afford it, why not? The point is, the people who sell their manufactured lightning converters would have no downside with this. Why? They could even increase their prices a bit since the already set amount of 200 converters via the NPC is set in xx amount. If you look at it carefully, the prices of a few hundred converters is still very low, around 20 coupons per 200 pieces? So lets say the NPC sells 200 for 30 coupons, then the merchants could increase their prices (of self-manufactured converters) by selling it for 25. Or they could still sell it for 20, but thats a guaranteed 20 coupons. No bargains, or fears of having to sell them for 15:200 ratio.
Same with speed potions and stat-increasing foods. If ever some of what I said has been already mentioned, then forgive me.
PS: Sex change items please?
