Well with that speech being said. The game time gets shorter, people get older, people are “busy”. No one “new” all of a sudden plays this game. You are dealing with people that have been playing this game since childhood. So in reality, what you say wouldn’t matter. Everyone playing this game is 29 and above.

Make D2JSP Great Again

It doesn't really make sense to call high runes a currency, in the true sense of currency, without bots or dupes. They're too scarce and not fungible enough to play the role of a currency. They would be more like a store of value. Trying to buy a ravenclaw with a HR is like trying to buy a burger with an oz. of gold. You need something more fungible. Trading HR's is just a relatively advanced system of barter, but still far less efficient than a true monetary system.

The game wasn't designed with automation in mind, so automation is what allows the market to be flooded, since bots can work harder than any human is willing to. Unlike real life, where automation is a boon because it frees up human time to be innovative, there isn't room to do much innovation in-game, since the rules of what you can do are set by the code.

Nevertheless, I have enjoyed being able to play overpowered builds that I never could when I was 16

people didnt care. thats the difference. It was never everEVER about getting rich. it was about playing the game. ppl giving ist or ohm for headstriker cuz they needed a weapon. This happened. and people didnt care. The only reason it seems ridiculous now, is because people are super selfish and want to horde wealth

If we are considering the D2 experience to be tied to jsp, it would significantly slow down the game's progression though, allowing the more casual player to stay with the curve instead of being left in the dust as far as botting items is concerned. If you are playing the game to make fg and buy/sell items early on, you either get lucky in the first few days or wait 5 1/2 months for next reset.



This is the only reason I even started using jsp (outside of the dope community, ofc). I don't know about everyone else, but I simply don't have the time to grind hours on end just to find a stormshield or a single piece of a final build I want for a character.

its like being a low ranking member of the german government in the 1930s. You can say it is a bad idea, but how much resistance are you really gonna push back with?

I mean, zero. I'm pretty indifferent either way. Was originally just asking if the economy was worth starting late if I was interested in trying to make some coin. But I'm cool with reminiscing on glory ladders as well.

who reopened this 2009 thread?

I agree. And if we could go back in time and refuse to implement jsp, we would,. but playing without jsp now? May as well play single player. Purpose of the ladder is to play as a community. Who wants to play that far behind 99% of others? Haha, which reminds me. I was killing bad guys on act 1 hell this ladder with a grinding bastard sword of lightning. I bought it from Larzuk. ROFL