Within this server, billions of zeny exist. Players accumulate it and use it for such purposes as broadcasting, decarding, and buying consumable items (Awakening Potion, Beserk Potion, Etc). While it is true that our server is unique in the way that our economy is based on Donation Coupons, instead of zeny, I believe it would be a lot more interesting, and maybe easier for beginners, if we found a more profound way to make use of zeny within our server. For now, the usefulness of zeny mostly lies in broadcasting and, somewhat, in the purchase of donation coupons, in which the seller does it in order to have zeny to broadcast. It's what has kept the business of zeny somewhat viable, but I believe we can find a more interesting way to make use of it within the server, and I would hope that all the people which have just been collecting zeny over their time on Forsaken RO would agree. Maybe charging several million zeny for a certain service, such as a rental monster to help you level or certain exclusive consumable items which buff you with Agility Up/Blessing, etc. I'm not quite sure on the concept, I just think we could find interesting things to do with zeny to make it a more viable form of economy within our server, such as it is on other servers.
Of course those are not the only possible ways of making use of zeny, those are just <b>examples</b>. I think it would be a good idea to find SOME way to get zeny thriving again, so any input woulld be greatly appreciated.
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Definite Suggestion #1 : I suggest we integrate more long & time consuming quests such as the elite king frigg's quest. It wouldn't even have to be for items that are better than our donation gear, it could be for items that help people that are just starting out. Like those questable rucksacks that were accepted oh-so-long ago. They could add +5 to all stats, slotted, with a 5% walking speed penalty. We could integrate items that are better than the elite sets, but not as good as the donation gears. Like questable gears that take a long time to hunt and obtain, and add the exact half of all the elite forsaken king's set, with the freeze immunity intact. It would not ruin our donation rates, which we depend on to keep the server paid for, but would give people some incentive to hunt more! Because right now most people's goals are to obtain donation gear because there is no clear, GOOD, alternative. If we create good questable items, which can be as good as donation gear or better, but mostly shouldn't, it would give people more of an incentive to stop pvping/sitting around all day and actually do something productive! Now how does this whole long suggestion relate to zeny use and consumption? Well, I suggest that for any future quests, we require zeny ANDDD event tokens to be required in order to finish the quest, to increase the value and use of zeny, so we can drain down some of that huge amount of zeny accumulated in the server. I added Event Tokens to the equation because they are severely under-needed right now as most event reward items are over shadowed by donation gears, this would increase there value, in turn increasing people's desire to participate in events to obtain them, in turn making this a much more active server!