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1 days ago

animalaugust

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dude this economy is a MESS

tell me why is it that you can buy 750k pebbles for 10ms but can only buy 1ms for 990k pebbles???

750kp:10ms

1ms:990kp

literally how does this make sense am i missing something or is the state of this sites economy just a mess rn

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1 days ago

JoyfulWhimsy

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Granted I'm new, but I had to very quickly realize that I'd basically need to pretend this is a single player game because the economy portion seems so wonky and the active player portion is close to non-existent. It's such a shame because this game has a ridiculous amount of potential. Everyone has seemingly jumped ship. I'd follow but FR is too big/overwhelming for me to jump into now.

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Pebble generating companions.

Even with fewer than 100 wolves I can make around 100k pebbles a day with just a click of a button thanks to the Play With Nana feature. Some people have 500 wolves, so assuming the same payout they could make 500k Pebbles a day. Add to the fact that there aren't very many Pebble sinks and it becomes a huge problem. I bought the Pebble Path for the event and it wasn't even a dent in what I have saved.

Counterwise, it takes A While to earn Moonstones if you don't buy them with IRL money, so it's hard to trade anything for them. Very few in game items feel worth buying or selling for Moonstones, and because people don't need Pebbles, there's no incentive for people to buy Moonstone Items from the Mole Mart to sell for Pebbles on the Flea Mart. I think the majority of Moonstones are traded in the Custom Apparel market.

The userbase also hasn't grown enough, and has shrunk severely since the site opened, so there's just fewer people who might have Moonstones they'd want to trade.

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22 hours ago

animalaugust

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@JoyfulWhimsy that's fair. im on FR and it is definitely very overwhelming at times haha

@Veradana ohhh thats so interesting actually! only making abt 2000 from playing rn but 100k is crazy omg. and yeah that makes sense. i know this site isnt super busy and the custom apparel demand is pretty high

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21 hours ago

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look i don't know what's happening either

it used to be normal. like 1MS:25kPB but there was a point not long ago when I bought 1.2 mil pebbles for 10 moonstones??? like what the heck???

Gosh I hope it fixes itself soon

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20 hours ago

animalaugust

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@Silvershadow RIGHT LIKE THATS WHAT IM SAYING when i was doing comms months ago the ratio was so much better. and now ive come back months later and i am so lost LHDFLJFK

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17 hours ago

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I just came back too and oh boy.....

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12 hours ago

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When there is a hard cap on the total number of moonstones that can be generated per day, and moonstones are the only thing that gets you anything of value (besprinklers, custom apparel), and pebbles are absurdly easy to collect, you get a very awful mix resulting in moonstones costing an abhorrent amount of pebbles that'll only continue to increase as demand for moonstones stays sky high and demand for pebbles plummets. I can't even give away the millions I have because people straight up don't have anything to spend them on.

One user can only generate a maximum of 2.5 moonstones per day (25 moonstone shards). If there are barely any users, then barely any moonstones are being generated. There used to be more as people would buy moonstones from the site, but recent admin behavior (lol recent, recent as in since The Great Silence) has made a lot of people cancel their subscriptions and thus cut off more avenues for moonstone generation.

You can't even grind to take advantage of the high prices, or try to drop them, because you literally cannot make more than 25 shards per day. The game mechanics prevent that.

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11 hours ago

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If they unshackled moonshard generation limits, the economy might get a little bit better after a massive delay because of the pebbles currently in the system, but I wouldn't hold my breath until there's anything worthwhile to buy with pebbles.

I also wouldn't hold my breath for that, though. Per the main dev, LW isn't pulling a profit, and I can't see them releasing their grip on the moonshard generation until it was comfortably solvent... But it's a catch 22. People don't stay because it's lonely without a functional economy and too expensive to pay for MS for everything you need it for, which I & many others have said since.... Before the Beta. Unfortunately. :S

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8 hours ago

animalaugust

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before beta is crazy! i love this site a lot, it's a lot of fun and has so much potential, i just feel like it's at a standstill right now. and i dunno if they're gonna be able to pull out of it before it starts to slip

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