Guys, don't get me wrong please, but honestly, i couldn't agree more with this opinion.
I'm thinking for a long time how to explain this situation and boom, one of my guildy explains my feels.

Economy is one of the most important part of not only LS but all games. If you have chance to improve your gear and your wealth ~continuously growing and you can get better gear/other things (vault, guild transfer and so on) then you can feel the aim and you can be sure once you can reach the point what you want. But as - nearly everybody told already - LS is big fg sink currently. Really sad coz it kills this game. :/

I know, the solution isn't that easy, but the first step MUST BE get back a bunch of old players or new players, but anyhow, we MUST incrase the playerbase. 25 players can't maintain the whole Market system...

i think there are a few options that could increase the market..

1) sellable wellables + a little bit improved welling (harder + abit better drops) --> people could sell their wellables to have a steady income.. other people could buy them to have a) the chance to improve their gear and improve their profs
2) possibly wellables dropping from more quests than just shamans.. so you are actually able to "farm them a little bit"
3) (just a little one) people are able to put up 3 items on the market WITHOUT having to pay the fees upfront. this way people could actually just try to sell better items without having to take the risk... other people could buy items that would at this point of ls never have been on the market.. so selling/buying of more expensive gear is a bit easier again.. and still the market could not be spammed (as it is just 3 items.. the 4th items fee need to be paid upfront again if it is >19,98 fg)

The only way to make the "economy" better is to get a bigger playerbase.

Even if better drops happen, it wont really bring back any economy.
Well let's say it like this, if ppl found 150+ ee items all the time, with the current playerbase, who would buy them?
= ppl would sit on 10+ 150ee items each and no1 would buy them, the economy would be way worse than it is today.

Maybe a scaling drop system would improve things slightly. Scaling as .01,.011,.012 etc, *i don't know the numbers on this just an example*
Harder gameplay rewards risk

People are attracted to making FG, at the current moment you lose more than you make

what about few fg per mq or the chance to find fg drops ? so u could fine fg same as comfreys, rods, items and totems ?

How about making the game a little harder and to make max value per tier a little higher.
for ex T3 max ee 65, T4 max ee to be 90 and so on..

I dont have a problem with the drop rate if it's the same for all users. So the players with the "perfect equips" will still have the best items ingame, but they'll be motivated to explore/buy new items aswell.
And the market problem will be resolved.

well at first it will be harder to calculate.. and no more be the smooth 20ee per tier..
i dont think it will help.. as we dont even find max ee on our higher lvl ee items.. it would be even harder if the max ee was increased.
i would like a little bit harder mechanics in the game that are providing a better drop rate/ more profs/ more exp but being harder to play (such as higher lvl whistling for solo play for example.. like +5 or +10 lvls above your own lvl)

Not a fan of increasing max tiers on EE items, tbh i would NOT buy anything, i would just try to get higher prof to cover 30 levels instead of 20. I think it would make more sense to add a 15th tier, IE level 60 items and raise MQ to 81 or something, while increasing monster difficulty, which should increase drop quality

heres a couple of ideas...every 25 levels the minimum tier drop increases by 1. maxes out at level 100.

level 25 tier 2+ drop...level 50 tier 3+...level 75 tier 4+...level 100 minimum that drops tier 5+.
This will help skillers, wellers and more exploring / group climbs. Works well in solo and elites will drop higher tiers...more solo friendly.


Another idea for muters. Muting angelic+ minimum essence gained is rare, then godly mystical+ and unique angelic+. So every + 4 the minimum increases by +1.

I have more ideas coming later.

i like the first idea (have been suggested a few times allready).
you could even do that with smaller lvl steps imo.. like every 15th lvl (so lvl 150 would be tier10+)