Call me a dunce (okay, don't, it's my birthday today), but....

I just read that the metals shortage plot has "crippled the sanctuary economy" or something to that effect. I know I don't play every day, but I haven't seen any tangible effect for my character or anyone else's that I play with. My replaceable weapons are still the same price, there are still plenty of weapons and armors available for purchase (so it seems), and the quality still seems high. What have I missed????

It would seem to me if there truly was a shortage, we would be seeing: All metal armors and most metal weapons disappearing from merchants EXCEPT those recovered as treasures and then sold back. An increase in prices of the leather armors and non-metal weapons. An increase in sub standard weapons (gee, "rusty dagger" is looking like a better weapon all the time even if it IS -1 to hit and damage!).

One could argue that this would not just cripple but would totally emasculate the economy, especially for new players, but this is supposed to be a hard server anyway. This sort of true hardship might actually motivate players to work toward ending the metal shortage (for crying out loud, I'm in the dwarf faction and WE don't care about the metal shortage - it's not affecting us!)

Thoughts, or at least does anyone have some examples of how the economy has been affected?

Fullplate being sold for 6k instead of the usual 2k? ... the metal shortage was resolve over a month ago.

there was plenty of effects- but again, if you dont participate, it will pass right above your head.

Happy Birthday!

If there's a journal entry about recent events still, and it's talking about a metal shortage, that's because we haven't updated it yet.

That would be it then. Never bought a suit of plate.

Thanks :)

Mort Fullplate being sold for 6k instead of the usual 2k? ... the metal shortage was resolve over a month ago.

there was plenty of effects- but again, if you dont participate, it will pass right above your head.

AScottBay If there's a journal entry about recent events still, and it's talking about a metal shortage, that's because we haven't updated it yet.

if they're not updated, they should perhaps be removed then? It confuses new players, or players (like me) who haven't played on the server in a while. I'm not overly used to the date system, so for me it's not obvious that it's outdated.

I think it would be nice if the website, but more importantly the IG story related things were kept up to date, but I think this is likely a drag for DMs and they would much rather be rocking IG than tap-tap-tapping away.

Maybe a player or players with some scripting skills could volunteer to make some of these updates?

I love it when citizens' responses reflect current events, but it's gotta be hell keeping up with them.