ROYAL RUBY • NIGHTCLUB • BEHEMOTH/PRIMAL

[Teppie]

If we're talking about an immersive experience within a roleplay setting, paying 10,000 real gil to me seems crazy, I realise everybody is doing it on that data center it seems, but it's still crazy. It's crazy from an out of character sense because it's way cheaper to make. It's crazy from an in character perspective because within the game world's setting, 10,000 gil would be ludicrously expensive for a dzo steak even if we're talking gourmet mark ups. Player economy is highly unreliable to base the game world's economy. So you use in world points of reference. And in a data center where there isn't a problem with people exploiting RP to make bank OOCly the prices are a lot closer to those in world points of reference and feel a lot more reasonable and realistic from an RP point of view and most importantly, are in character prices, not out of character prices.


Ultimately what it ties down to is not some RP justification, or some IC justification or even OOC justification, dzo steaks are cheap to make...if they HAVE to be made.

It ties down to there this norm of trying to make money off of RP on other data centers where RP is scarce.

OP may be one of them or OP might be doing what he think is right in what sounds like a terrible norm.

People can do it if they really want to, but let's not pretend there's an RP justification for it. But I find it terrible that it is in a state where charging for RP is the norm.

If you think about it, based on these standards, if my character concept was a billionaire Ul'dah entrepreneur. I'd have to be a billionaire in game. And if my billionaire showed up and bought everybody drinks then I'd be screwed if it was a new character I created and I only have 10,000gil to my name. But it might be the exact thing this character does, he might be the sort to be frivolous and try to buy friends, because he's that shallow.

I'd have to toss that entire concept aside until I get the gil to be able to RP that concept.

Getting a lot of gil isn't really all that hard. You can find a venue that doesn't charge for drinks/food, you can discuss the RP idea with the venue operators to see if they'll play along with your RP concept. You can define new elements to your character that makes him more stingy. That seems to be creating a problem when there are obvious solutions. I don't really charge for food and drinks at my venue because I don't like putting that kind of effort into accepting gil. I'll just let people tip, and all our food is an in-RP offering anyways without the inventory clutter.