Layering is destroying the economy

Walk up to black lotus (50-100g value), use 5 different layer alts bound to macro’s

/script LeaveParty()
/W (level 1 layer holding alt) inv

alts have addon that auto invites when you whisper them inv

loot same lotus 3 - 4 times, layering has no cooldown and takes about 10 seconds to work.

Go to next next node.

Is Blizzard going to be silent on these exploiters? Wasn’t Preacher banned for 1-month for exploiting far less?

Isn’t an exploit an exploit?

Blizzard needs to take a firm hand NOW on these exploiters and establish a stance on their tolerance for exploitation.

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Remove. The. Layers.

We are no longer all crammed in starting zones…

IF Blizzard reduced or removed layering on the high population servers that currently have free transfers, it would cause the queues to skyrocket sending more people to free transfer.

2 birds with 1 stone.
Remove layering and increase population on empty transfer servers.

And then that node has to be up in that layer (probably won’t be) and on the off-chance you can hit all 4 layers and get 4 nodes… then you’re stuck until the next one.

Also requires that no one else is doing this on your server.

Oh my God. Supply changes affect price. No ####. Supply changes do not change demand, which is what you said initially.

He’s clearly trolling. I plainly explained Keynesian theory in my first response. Just report and ignore him.

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As much as I am against layering being in classic wow at all I don’t know if the economy is “ruined” as many are claiming. On retail vanilla most servers had less than 2.5k people online at once, I believe in classic we are looking at 10k+ players online at once per server?

The people that are 60 already and farming end game mats would be making bank regardless of layering.

Well yes and no. I think the layering helped increase the gold income for people that exploited it. Even leveling with constant respawn of mobs and chests. The shear amount of just vending trash at an increased rate would yield significant gold increase over a single layer individual.

Man I hope so.

Seen 15 epic mounts on stalagg

#MyClassic

Those people would be fighting each other for the rarest mats instead of teleporting away from each other to farm in peace. That accelerates everyone’s farm to unreasonable speeds because they have no fear of being ganked and unlimited mobs to kill.

What you’re ignoring is that the demand is just as high as the supply. There are other people on those layers. It’s a fresh server, camp down. This is normal.

Except that it’s not because populations aren’t normally distributed. The higher level players are using lower level layers which are completely uninhabited in the higher zones, in order to multiply vendor recipes, rare spawns, camps of mobs to aoe, etc. They can disproportionately raise supply and because farming is so damn easy, the opportunity cost of just going there and later hopping for 5 min instead of camping a rare vendor for potentially hours, why wouldn’t you just go spend 5min instead of gold?

^Here’s what I said “initially” (and the post you first responded to). I’m not going to split hairs with you about this anymore. Clearly you’re too ignorant to comprehend the mechanics of this argument.

As I have said in previous posts, each are independent variables, but it’s the relationship between the two that establishes price.

However, your assertion is that 100 people need widgets at all times. 100 people did need widgets but then 25 bought them because 25 were supplied. Now only 75 people need widgets. Demand went down because a portion of it was met by the supply. This will continue until either the supply exceeds demand and price bottoms out, or demand increases above supply and price continues rising, or
supply maintains the demand and the market achieves equilibrium.

Just because you created a scenario where supply doesn’t affect demand, it doesn’t mean that supply never affects demand. Now please, GTFO.

This kid, espousing “Keynesian theory” like a proper freshman Econ major. Go back to class, son.

Not even a good troll :confused:

It’s funny how you keep labeling me a troll, but you’re the one butting heads with and insulting everyone in here.

Haha, yes, the upvotes clearly tell a story here, but not the one you claim. I’m enjoying reporting you, please do continue

What upvotes? I just see two ignorant wannabe Econ geniuses patting each other on the back. Oh, and LOLUPVOTES.

I’m not reading 190+ replies.

Layering is going away in I think patch 1.3? It was always messaged as a temporary solution for population issues. So any damage done by that will be short term.

Secondly, it’s the dumb *ss AH addons that are “killing” the AH. People who don’t pay attention and just go by what the addon says don’t realize they’re losing money Vs just dumping out at the vendor since they have to pay a listing fee.

That’s a problem that is literally never going to go away until people are educated on how those addons work.