Quote (Lotonite @ Sep 11 2015 09:02pm)
First, this is only one way of looking at a conversion rate. You're looking at it as a direct rate, which it is not. Here are some alternate rates to consider:
Gold is being sold on gold-selling sites (according to megaphone spammers, etc) at $17 per 100m. This makes $1 = 5.88m, or $0.17 = 1m. At this rate, 1m = 4.93 fg.
Instead of using megaphones, these items are also available for direct purchase via NX and directly sellable on the market:
100 Improved Salmon Egg Fishing Poles can be purchased as a set of 100 for 990 NX, selling at 2400 gold each. This makes $1 = 240k, and 1m = 120.83 fg
400 Improved Salmon Egg Fishing Poles can be purchased as a set of 400 for 1900 NX, selling at 2400 gold each. This makes $1 = 505k, and 1m = 57.43 fg
FG can also be obtained in different parts of this site with a conversion rate of ~$10 = 1000 fg.
At this rate, your megaphone example is worth 50 fg for 1m
100 Salmon Egg rods comes out to a rate of 416 fg for 1m
400 Salmon Egg rods comes out to 198 fg for 1m
In conclusion, you cannot try to force a conversion rate, especially in a black market. On one extreme we're looking at 1m = 4.93 fg, yet at another we have it as expensive as 1m : 416 fg. People will buy and sell at rates they feel is worth it to them for various reasons.
Fishing rods aren't traded much at all, so it would be unfair to use the rods as a benchmark for pricing. There is no consistent pricing of fishing rods (which makes sense when there aren't a lot of sellers - nor buyers for that matter). You said they were going for 2.4k each, but I check and see them as high as ~5k, which is more than double the price you stated. There isn't that kind of fluctuation in megaphone pricing, concluding that fishing rods aren't a reliable currency. You can use any item you want from Depot that is sellable and claim that it changes the ratio, but the ratios mean nothing if they aren't supported in the market. Megaphones are consistently bought and sold because they are perpetually in demand.
Next, I should state that it's only fair and most rigid if we use an official $/fg ratio set by JSP and that official rate is $10 = 290fg, or $1 = 29fg. The ratios differ very slightly if you purchase other quantities (like $100 for 3250fg, making 1$ =32.5fg). Regardless, to match the lowest quantity ratio, in the Nexon Depot I use the 5-megaphone bundle, since it's the lowest price available, just like with JSP's $10 being their lowest offer. It wouldn't make sense to find a rate using two different "bundle rates" from JSP and Nexon.
I can definitely see that, because there are price inconsistencies, there is no
official rate. But I was trying to bridge that gap and find a sound middle-ground. PuppetYuber is right. 30fg for 1million gold is absolutely absurd. 1million gold in vindictus (at leat in East) gets you ABSOLUTELY nothing. Hell, even the rate that I found using megaphones is a bit steep. It's definitely better, though.