Unchained Expansion!

EchoRP’s economy in it’s current state is controlled by server scripts and OOC processes. I appreciate this needs to be in place to avoid ridiculous inflation and metagaming transfers, but it kills the endless possibilities of RP and monopolies within the server.

I want to begin by reviewing the state of pawn items / chop items. I will be using random figures for example purposes.

• These items can be sold to NPCs / Sale Runs for $200.

• These items can be sold to contacts/friends for $600.

• Now businesses such as Pawn Shops need to compete with one another and the other possibilities for sales to attract customers. Possibly buy at $350?

This is what I call an open market which requires RP, contacts, time, business strategy, advertisement and reputation - just to make the money. The harder you work, the more you make whether you are the buyer or the seller.

Now to the issue and what needs to change:

The state of car sales. Once again, random figures for example purposes.

• I have a bike I want to sell for as much money as possible, as you would expect.

• I have a buyer, a contact, who wants to buy for $100,000.

• I can’t sell to him as the minimum limit sale of the bike privately is $105,000.

• He does not want to extend his budget. So I have now lost the sale, and also struggling to find any buyers for this figure.

• TUC is offering $95,000 for the bike.

• I have no option but to sell to TUC and take the loss. Even when I had a buyer who was willing to buy for more than TUC is.

The server script has stopped me from RPing, making contacts, building a reputation and developing (if seen in this way) my business. But not only that, the server script has also forced me to go to TUC which many are now saying, is a monopoly business. TUC is controlling the market with the assistance of the server script.

This is not fair and kills the possibilities. I understand why limits are in place, but we need look at controlling the economy in other ways. So lets look at why this limit is here and what we can do alternatively:

It’s here for a money sink to ensure taxes are paid?

• Taxes can still be automatically charged on all vehicle transfers in relation to the stock value of the vehicle. This is something that affects both sales done privately and through a business like TUC.

It’s here to ensure people are not selling $1000 cars for 10x the value?

• Staff team can track stuff like this. We have a strong staff team that know what they are doing. If this sale is done to hide the transfer of money which is OOC and against rules, then ban them. But if it looks legit and the seller is good at making sales, then good! I love to see it.

Its here to ensure people are not transferring assets against the rules?

• Ban them. Simple as that. I can transfer someone 1 million dollars now with no restriction in place so it’s not like we are new to people trying to do OOC trades. It’s just something we’ll have to deal with.

Let the public buy/sell at the price they want and open the market! End the monopoly. End the chokehold on the public.

I will end the suggestion with one question for you, the reader. One that will have you thinking:

If private buyers were offering a better price than TUC, would you sell to a private seller instead?

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If the answer was yes, then you have automatically agreed TUC is protected by a server script and you are forced to use them, not because you want to.