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blue crystals are the bitcoin of sarnaut

when i started this game i had to pay 6 gold for 1 BC. multiple veteran players told me im far too late to gain anything reasonable at this rate. it is funny to look back

last year I bought it at 5,3 to 5, 6k, why is it so expensive now?

in general a higher exchangerate means there are more players exchanging gold to BC than otherwise
the only "real" goldsinks in this game (except buying BC) are golddust for runes, leveling up your craftsmanship (which is pretty much done after max level) and gold for the maze (which is actually pointless as it gets reset after not some time so the gold is wasted)
everything else costs only minor amounts of gold and thus is negligible

generally speaking:
unlike in RL where things just get more expensive and salaries do not get higher, in allods the gold you get from the common sources (KOE, battleground, goblinball, quests, astralshipthings) gets more every patch so its within normal boundaries


especially since you can now exchange UNLIMITED battleground-tokens for gold you can make much more than before now in a comfortable way

EDIT: this has been changed back to limited, what a pity

Quoted from "Astafieva"

There hasn't been any change as you mentioned. The amount of Symbol of Gold that can be purchased is limited to 75 per week. (1500 BattleGround Emblems in total) It was always like this.

i just logged in to check this and got surprised

i remember having having almost half of my safe full with stacks of "signs of victory" and then there was an update one day where i was possible to click them all which was fantastic as you could now have unlimited of them and i finally had freed up all the space in my safe deposit
then i went to the BG npc and was surprised i could trade ALL AT ONCE (gave many millions of gold) - was just happy i have kept them so long (the initial idea was keeping them for weeks when i have less tiem to play to still get my max gold out of this)

then, they added the right of allowance thing but you could still just go for the "battleground gift" which gave the same amount of gold
now when i right now checked and used the "battleground gift" i got 1500 bg-emblems back

seems this has been changed not so long ago - bummer

back to undergeared-reincarnation-BG-goldfarming it is then. i figured they had changed this in order to remove the incentive do do this but obviously this was not the intention

Quoted from "Astafieva"

Yes, emblems used to be stored in the bag/bank before a unique valuables tab was added for them but that update didn't remove the weekly affordability limit.

With 11.0.01.39 Patch,

-Removed the limit for the Battleground Emblem currency
-The alternative currency Part of the Battleground Emblem was renamed to Right to Allowance
-The cost of the Small Symbol of Gold is now 1 Right to Allowance.
-Repetitive use of the Battleground Gift will now yield 1500 Battleground Emblems instead of gold.

As a result no one could never exchange unlimited gold with all of their emblems. do I remember wrong?

i have a vivid remembrance of logging in after a patch and being able to right click all of these stored "signs of victory" and then exchanging them at the NPC in yaskers tower
also, i was standing in Al rihat at this time. so its likely this was right after we got the "irene" patch or after the patch that removed elemental damage from gear but i am not completely sure about that
i am certain because i was able to exchange all that gold at once and felt so happy because i already thought about throwing away SOME of the "signs of victory" at least
it might be possible i went for the bg-gift after the limit or not but i certainly exchanged like 40 full stacks of "signs of victory" or something at this point (now you can stack up to 100.000 i think but back then it was way less resulting in a lot of stacks if you played actively every day)

maybe this was possible only for a short timeframe however because afterwards i sadly had less time to spend on allods resulting in never having an abundance of "signs of victory" again since then (which resulted in not even noticing the limit came back)

you did the math
indeed an interesting topic

in the last time i have played less than usual but still counted 1965 players
as i mostly play at the same time of the day this means i miss all those who normally play at the other time plus a lot of the leagueplayers which do not engage in PVP-battlegrounds at the same time

likely i miss around at least 1 third of the active players all the time (maybe even more) so lets add at least 33% so 648 players more for a total of 2613 players
they may be more but i want to have a conservative estimation

some might be reincarnations and count towards one player but as reincarnations play a central role in making gold due to leveling, battleground and other activities it does not matter in our calculation here

then there are the "invisible" players which are named after their playstyle of logging in on their personal allod, doing astral runs and then logging off, without regularly showing up in yaskers tower / battleground. sometimes see them for a brief moment at astral academy. if i would not have some of these in my friendlist and have some convos with them i would never have known of their existence and unique playstyle

so for the sake of an easier calculation lets round or estimated 2613 up to 2700 active players
dividing these 2.226.400.000 gold by 2700 players results in 824.593 gold per player
dividing this by 80 days leads to a meager 10.307 gold per day
thats even less than selling the drops from the normal al rihat / astral
so the numbers are surprisingly small actually
for reference, an active farmer gains roughly estimated 3.500.000 gold a day

the recommendation that naturally comes by looking at how things are, is buying BC and keeping it for later as it rises in value. it is similar to real life where you also put your non petty cash into gold, bitcoin, real estate or stocks to avoid inflation