2 things. Ship Travel and Money.
Our economy is driven by player based shops near warps, which are absolutely great! But, and now that I think about this, people way back when used to have to go on long voyages, selling goods from one town to the next based on demand and supply, and that was how they made money. I think that Piratecraft should also have this system! To start off with, we build 4 NPC Towns in diverse environments, all accessible by Sea. And each town has a port, where you could dock ships, and sell/buy your cargo!
For example: There are 2 towns, town A and town B. Town A is in the desert, and it has an abundance of glass. In order to make glass, it needs coal. So Town A sells glass cheap and buys coal expensive. Town B is in a mountain area, and sells coal cheap, but doesn’t have a lot of glass for buildings, so it needs glass. Neither town has a warp. At Town A, on the port, there are Trade Signs going to the Server Account (Just like at Cove!) , where you pick up the glass, and sail to Town B. At Town B, you sell the glass, make a SMALL (emphasis here, not too small, but definitely not large) profit, just enough for you to buy coal to sell to Town A. And so you go, back and forth, each time making more profit, meaning you can buy more goods, meaning you can sell more, and gradually make more and more money. Now, here’s the catch… the seas are infested with pirates that are all too willing to steal your cargo instead of buying it themselves! Also, the towns have to be reached by ship only.
Now, we encounter another economic problem. Players begin to build up quite some hefty sums of cash! Now here is the beauty of this.. the player owned shops now have more customers! More people with money means more people wanting to spend that money! So the player owned shops, that sell all the nice goods that the NPC Cities don’t sell, can bump up their prices! And now, after this period of growth is over, and the general player population has little money to spend on the now expensive goods, the shop prices will drop back down, slowly, to normal, which stimulates people to start trading again!
Now, here is how the player shops don’t get to make TOO much money. If they have all these customers buying their goods, they’re going to run out of stock right? And as consumers run out of money, they’ll have to drop down their prices, or else nobody will be able to buy anything! Now since the player shops are out of stock from the “buying craze” period, they’ll want to get some more resources! So they get raw materials, and they too use the NPC Trading cities to get these materials.
All the money is directed toward player owned shops in this server, so this economic plan is mostly to stimulate the general population of Piratecraft, while also keeping the Merchant’s in order! In addition, it also adds a more realistic flavor to the game, with a system of Trade Routes and Trading and Pirating! Also, as we add more NPC Trade Cities, players will have to discover new trade routes to make maximum $$$! People can then fight wars over control of the best Trade Routes!
So come on guys! Let’s do this! 😀
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Retired Pirate 6/25/14 -- 6/15/15
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