Episode 6 - Credits Lies and Exploitation

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Episode 6 - Credits Lies and Exploitation

• ⭐ SPECIAL REPORT Topic: Economy & Inflation

Special Report
The inflation in the Star Wars economy has been steadily getting worse and worse and it all seems to have come to a head today. On the forums today there was a post titled “BioWare, GTN Prices are insane, it’s time to do something”

• Hot Topic - Hypercrates are now so expensive, they are selling for over a billion credits and so players are trading them in general chat instead of GTN.
• How did it get that way
  • Exploits
    • Over the years various ways that allowed to to duplicate credits or items
    • During the worst one billions of credits were generated by taking advantage of the in-game vendors
    • The duplicators then went and bought all the rare items on the GTN, so the billions of credits were distributed even to normal people
    • And when the accounts were banned the legitimate items were also deleted, making the supply low and the credits in the non-banned economy high
    • The credits from the multiple exploits over the years were also laundered in various ways - send them to a friend, send them through the guild bank, stash them in the legacy bay, etc. and not all credits still in the hands of exploiters were even banned or removed
    • THE BIG ONE companion gifts cleared out the economy
    • Plug to learn more
  • Quests and vendors give too much credits
    • Quests reward a ton of credits
      • This makes credit selling worse
    • Can sell items to vendors for tons of credits (ex level 75 gear)
  • How is inflation fixed?

YOU HEARD IT HERE LAST - NEWS

CALENDAR IS AVAILABLE! https://www.swtor.com/info/news/article/20211001

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