Dear Act… I mean… Blizzard.
Layer hopping IS an exploit, please do something!
If you are not banning those bastards at least implement some cooldown(15min) or anything to prevent it. It is ruining the economy.
How is layering ruining the economy exactly.
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They’re taking our jobs!
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Ive seen it with my own 2 eyes
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People use it to farm mobs/nodes at unnaturally high rates, concentrating wealth even more than can be achieved by the usual no-lifing approach.
A) Is this actually happening or are people buying into this week’s Classic Forum Moral Panic?
B) How is flooding the marketing with materials, thus driving down the price of those materials, an effective way of concentrating wealth?
C) How are people concentrating wealth anyway when the game is a week old and nobody has any money?
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By layer hopping
There’s already higher levels with stacks and stacks of black lotus, arcane crystals, etc.
starting out with an insult, great way to ask for something there.
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A) you can observe streamers doing it.
B) you can see the market flooding effect of low level mats from sheer population. More valuable things are hoarded by the fewer players high enough to collect them. Furthermore, vendors pay a static fee for items, so if your aoe farm is cranked up by layer hopping, your gold gains are proportional.
Edit: see diamonds, or the drug trade to see how having lots of something doesn’t necessarily drive down its price.
C) I dunno what to say to this. People are 60, they’re stocking up on high end mats. A week is a long time.
It means his farmed items are worth less than they would be if other people couldnt farm as hard as they are now, layering is great for buyers, bad for small time farmers, but great for the people who really really know how to farm, at least until more of those people adopt layer hopping.
Its still a supply and demand economy, if players try to sell 50k black lotuses at once, it just means buyers get to buy at the absolute price floor.
Im not mining or herbing, so I like the cheap prices when I go to buy, cloth is also fairly low, but obviously less farmed, still pretty cheap at the moment.
The market has moved, you can still make money in the market, even if its through something different than your farming plan you came up with beforehand.
Layering will be removed, stock up on cheap good when they can be heavily farmed, sell them when layering is removed and supply dwindles.
You can still personally make money off of layer hopping while never layer hopping itself.
Post links. And streamers aren’t a large enough proportion of a server that they can ruin the economy.
How is hoarding the mats making them money?
Diamonds and illegal drugs are controlled by cartels which are able to restrict access to drive up the price. You can’t restrict access to high-end mats in any way that isn’t already possible without layering.
A tiny fraction of the playerbase is 60. Its not really worth the rest of us worrying about that handful of players’ economy.
This point is key. By the time joe blogs can pick his own lotus, there’re just a handful available each day. Right now while Pete powergamer is doing it he’s stocking up big time.
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Which is what I would eventually get around to. Even if layer hopping ends up having a serious effect on the economy, the people its going to benefit are buyers.
You stockpile on the presence of layering then restrict access in its absence. Also who said anything about ‘illegal’ drugs? 
How is this any different than something that can be done without layering? How do you even restrict access outside of keeping nodes on a PvP server camped? What keeps any Tom, Dick, and Harry from stockpiling at the same time? How does any of this actually end up ruining the economy?
Oh, and since, we’re getting away from this: DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY ACTUAL PROOF THAT LAYERING IS RUINING THE ECONOMY!!!
Inflation. There are some materials that are supposed to be scarce. If everyone have gold, gold has no real value.
It’s obviously going to be fixed.
Those doing it in the mean time are cheating. So good ole classic can ban hammer will be back. Which is a good thing; they deserve it.
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