The Economy


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GlowWormQueen

10:42pm Jun 14 2016

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CURRENT STATUS
I think it should be easier to aquire TU, but I don't think that there is not enough TU. Currently gaining TU is largely reliant on luck (luck in stock market, luck finding rare eggs, luck hatching rare creature) and there should be more TU to be gained through sheer skill.

 BUYING AND SELLING
Cheap would be most things under 25,000 TU. Expensive would be something over 100,000 TU. What is the most expensive purchase you've made within the last 180 Days, and how much did you spend? I bought a Rave Item Kit for somewhere between 2-3 million TU. Selling has been relatively easier.

 PAYMENT METHODS
I almost exclusively use TU for payment methods. Other methods are just too cumbersome.

INFLATION / DEFLATION
If anything, I've noticed a bit of deflation. Tesuri eggs, while normally around 135,000-150,000 were selling for less than 90,000 for a little while. This is no longer the case last time I checked however. Prices tend to bounce around and I have not noticed an upward or downward trend.

CASH SHOP 
I have never bought or sold CP as I find it far too expensive in terms of TU and I have no desire to spend real money in a virtual game. Therefore, my understanding of the economic in terms of CP is limited.

GAINING TU 
I make TU by finding and selling rare eggs, selling rare, non-nattie pets in the auction, and through the stock market. Occasionally I'll do quests. It isn't difficult per say, but it definitely takes time and patience. There should be methods of making TU that are not so heavily reliant on luck. For instance a flash game where gaining certain scores will give you more TU, or even items.

NEW FEATURES
 I don't understand the need for two different types of store credits. Additionally, should a egg hatch fail, it shouldn't count towards your three hatches as the fact that you lost the egg and can't sell it is detriment enough, losing a hatch is overkill. Any other changes I can think of are not pertinent to the economy.

Athena

12:18am Jun 15 2016

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CURRENT STATUS
How do you feel the economy is currently doing? Is there enough TU to go around, or is there too much/too little?

I don't think there's enough TU going around. The whole "rich get richer while poor get poorer" saying is sadly very accurate. I feel that there's probably a handful of users who are currently sitting on millions/billions of TU that aren't spending much of it (who have also been players for many years that are sitting on a bunch of rare items), while the rest have to struggle with hopes of getting decent hatches and we all know how the games don't provide much TU either. 
It's sad to say, but I honestly feel sorry for anyone new to to the game, and those who don't cave and buy CP all the time. It's very difficult to play Res without oodles of TU. 

 BUYING AND SELLING
What would you consider to be "cheap" and "expensive" in regards to buying or selling something? What is the most expensive purchase you've made within the last 180 Days, and how much did you spend? Has it been easier to buy or sell goods within the past 180 days?

Hmm.. that's a bit of a trick question.. I personally think that anything under 5 mil is cheap, and anything over 30 mil is expensive. But then again, it also really depends what you're spending your TU on.
The most expensive thing I've purchased in the last 180 days was a Kioka egg for derp day. I spent 650 million TU. Seeing as how the ONLY way I can make any TU on this game is by purchasing/selling CP, it cost me around $150.00 CAD (selling the CP @ 500k a pop & selling achromatic mutant veram tails for the remaining TU) to purchase the egg. To which then I decided to sell the Derp Kioka because I felt it was such a huge investment and I was struggling for TU, but I was only able to find one person willing to purchase it for 300 million TU. I lost over half what I paid for it. 

To answer the question if it's been easy to sell/buy.. No, I don't find it easy at all.

In regards to selling; Everyone is always trying to haggle you because nobody has TU and it's very difficult to sell items that are 50 mil +, regardless how rare they are to come across. Not only is it difficult to keep my rancher shop stocked because I never hatch anything good, but when I finally have something to put in there, it hardly sells. I always make sure that my pets are the lowest cost out there, and it can be weeks before a pet is purchased. Same thing applies for H.A items. It's just a difficult time to sell anything right now. You always hear "I would buy, but I don't have any TU".

In regards to buying; Everything is expensive. Name tags, beans, dye kits etc. However, that's not what exactly gets under my skin... I could live with those items costing a few. But collecting/buying names has made me kind of want to cry a river on many occasions. To be more specific, my goal is to get a wicked showroom going with names I desire. I just really want to be a name collector and have some sweet pets I could be proud of. Well... I am entering close to 300+ names searched for me, and I'm standing with about 6-8 names I've been able to successfully purchase. If I'm not mistaken, my memory is a bit foggy on this one, I had to pay 100mil each for 4 out of the 6-8 names. Why do names have to be so expensive? It's because you have users that have been on here for 6+ years that are hoarding all the good names, making what is limited to the rest of us just so ridiculously expensive. The sad part is that people can get away with charging a lot because fools like me will buy them because we are so desperate just to have something. 

In my opionion (opi-onion lol! ~ im lame.); 
  • - Showrooms can hold sooooo many pets, making it easier for the players who have been around longer to hoard all the good stuff and nothing is circulating for the rest of us. Kind of makes me feel as if perhaps we should of had a limit to how many pets you can hold in your S.R? Ofc, that idea would be hated by many I'm sure haha.
- We shouldn't be able to price pets at 2,147,483,647 TU in rancher shops! ;n; Nobody will ever have that much TU to spend (if someone actually does.. pls free Riven then sell her to me? HAHA!) Nothing in the game is worth that much. I hate to cry like a baby, but it's really not fair, especially when the owner decides to slap a pet in the R.S at that price, then quit. That pet will be forever untouchable, and tbh, that kind of really sucks lol. Same thing goes for those who put pets in their rancher shops, never prices them, then quit. I understand that putting a pet in your showroom/rancher shop means they are safe forever... But if we can obtain old usernames of inactive accounts, I think we should be able to purge creatu names as well. We are really at an all time low when it comes to names that are available, and releasing a few pets on banned accounts is awesome, but I also think we should also be able to obtain names from users that haven't been on in many of years. (i have a huge list of names on banned accounts.. please free more?? <3) 
If something like a name purge happens, that will also help get the TU rolling in res again. People will be able to create pets with these names, and sell them. I feel like it's a win/win for everybody.

 PAYMENT METHODS
How do you pay for things; whether it be TU, Pets, Items, or CP? Is it easy to make a purchase for something when not paying with TU?

I pay for things with TU. It's not easy to pay for things if you're not using TU. People very rarely accept pets or items as payment anymore. It seems everyone is struggling with TU, so nobody wants to trade for other pets/items because they know it may be difficult to sell later on. Of course if the person is planning to keep the pet/item, then that's a different story.. but it's very difficult to find those kind of trades.

However, I purchase CP only to sell it for TU. So I guess I can say in the long run I pay for things with CP? haha.
 
INFLATION / DEFLATION
Would you say our economy is "inflated"? When did this "inflation" happen, if so? Can you recall a time when something costed less, and if possible please list why you think it increased in price over the time.

I would say the economy has inflated drastically. When it happened is beyond me, as I was on hiatus for 4ish years. It was quite a shock to come back to, to say the least.

CS/Retired Items, as time goes by since they were released, seem to go up by millions each year. For example, my personal favorite, the Robin Kinky Outfit. In 2011 it was in rancher shops for 75 million, and the last one sold for 450 million in 2015. In 4 years the price went up by 375 million? Ow. I think they inflate because as time goes on, it's more and more difficult for people to get TU, so they raise their prices.

CASH SHOP 
Do you buy and sell CP ((Cash Points)) to make TU, or gain something else on the site? How much and how often do you usually purchase CP? What would you consider to be the "going rate" for CP? Do you find this amount too expensive, not enough, or just right? Do you think items sold in the Cash Shop are too expensive, not enough, or just right?

I buy CP. I buy a lot of CP. I feel like it's the only way I can get TU, so whenever I am at the end of my rope with no pets or items left to sell (which is fairly often as I normally don't want to sell what little I have on Res, and when I do, it can take weeks before it ever sells), It's the only thing I can turn to. I'd say I spend approximately $40.00 CAD every 2 weeks for CP. 
The "going rate" for CP is between 500 - 600k, although I have never seen anyone ever selling CP at 600k before. I sell mine for 550k each, and I personally feel as if it is not enough. While you can argue that it is pretty expensive, because nobody has that kind of TU to spend.. You can also argue that a lot of things on Res are very expensive and you'd like to get something worth it out of your real money purchases. 

The items in the Cash Shop could be reduced in price, imo. As mentioned previously from other users, the creatu egg nests are very expensive, and the chances of you getting anything other than a nattie are too slim to risk spending so much on a nest, only to sell the creatu itself for practically nothing. 

I also would be very happy to see name tags, beans, gender pendants etc deflate. I mean, some people make their res living off that.. But being on the purchasing end of it... 7 million TU to change your pet from male to female seems pretty steep.

GAINING TU 
What is the main way(s) in which you make your TU? Do you think it is easy or hard to make TU? How could making TU be made easier, if it is too hard, and if it is too easy how could it be harder to obtain?

The only way I can make TU is buying/selling CP. I am not ashamed to admit that the stocks confuse the life out of me, so I can't do them... ever. 
I think making TU is very hard, especially for those who are not spending real money.
I try to rely on hatches so I can sell good pets as well, but in the last 3 months since I came back from hiatus, I have only had one good hatch (an achromatic that sold for 15 mil). So unless you're selling your hatches every day, you're losing out on TU in the long run by hatching your own creatus (if you're a rancher ofc). You can make 9 mil a month by selling hatches for 300k each = 27 mil in 3 months. Or if you get lucky, you can hatch an achro once and sell it for less than that. (just my point of view ofc)
 
I think TU could be made easier if we had more games/events that rewarded TU. The egg hunts are fantastic, even though I feel as if we lack some summer time hunting festivities. Possibly even give out more CP for your dollar? I feel more people would be willing to spend money on CP if they felt it didn't go so fast.

NEW FEATURES
 If you could add ANY new feature to Rescreatu what would it be? What would the rewards be? Would it be free, or cost to play? How often could it be accessed? What other ideas would you implement into the feature?

I would like to see a new event similar to the comet event a few years ago. Maybe an under water/fairy theme? (I'd like that ^^ haha) Prizes could be items you can only obtain from participating in the event (would love some more H.A items). Maybe even spice it up a bit and release a pet you can only get for completing the quests. 
Aside from that, I don't have many ideas. 



Thank you very much for reaching out to the players for our feedback. This is exactly what makes res amazing, and will help us grow. 



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Drenn

12:25am Jun 15 2016

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CURRENT STATUS
For tu, I just wish there was an easier way to earn a bit more tu, especially for hatchers.  I currently run a wish forum to grant wishes, but I end up having to rely mostly on donations.

 BUYING AND SELLING
I don't sell goods, but most expensive I think was on creatu.  a lot of creatu seemed to have an inflation, or at least people are pricing creatu for more than what seems like they are worth.  at least for common creatu.  cs and season seem at decent prices.  but common creatu seem only to continue to increase in pricing.

 PAYMENT METHODS
I pay with tu for items.  as for trying to get cp, it would be nice to be able to get some for those of us who are poor.  I currently don't have a job and with my health it has so far been impossible to get work.  if that cant be changed, it would be good to be able to earn a bit more tu as a hatcher.

INFLATION / DEFLATION
again I see increase in tu pricing for creatu.  I don't know about items well, but I think the increase is due to maybe new players over pricing things.  I don't know the reason but ive been seeing the increase over time, especially in the past year or so.  ive seen common creatu (silver for example) being priced to 5mil, sometimes higher.

CASH SHOP 
I cant afford cp.  the reason is mentioned in payment methods.  because of this I can not answer this question.  I know if I could I would get one creatu made into a custom effect creatu.

GAINING TU 
I am a hatcher so earning tu is done mostly through hatches.  I have been getting a ton of failed hatches and been pretty much getting only natties for the last few months so I haven't been able to get any tu much except for donations for the factory.  I have been able to get a couple mil now and then for selling a couple precious creatu including an albino.  other than that the only way ive been able to get any tu is through the luck features (random tu and the tu in clam shell one)

NEW FEATURES
I cant remember if it was on here or gaia, but I swear the game snake was playable on here.  Anyway I think it would be fun to have.  it would be free but the better you do the more tu you can get.  I think more creatu affects would be fun.



Eclipticca

5:57pm Jun 15 2016 (last edited on 5:58pm Jun 15 2016)

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1. Current Status:
Currently the economy is all over the place, what I mean by this is the 3 ways to earn TU on this site all have their own market and the prices are either really high, or it dips really low.

Egg Market - This market is like a rollercoaster. For example, Veram eggs seem to have a never-ending change in pricing. It could be well over 150,000TU per egg one day, and the next it could be as low as 20,000TU. I had a brilliant idea to solve this and ensure egg prices stay reasonable. There should be a NPC designed, like a hunter, who gives you TU for your eggs. However this only goes for eggs that can be found naturally. This doesn't include Quelis either. You could get 10,000TU for common eggs, 25,000TU for uncommon, and 50,000TU for rare eggs. The prices can be adjusted as seen appropriate however this would set up the base market for all eggs. Nobody would ever low-ball and ruin the market of eggs again, and this would make eggs much more valuable.

Rancher Shops - The prices of creatu can be insane, depending on the color you want. This is however the best place to make the most money. Having 3 hatches a day, you have a far greater chance to hatch something rare and worth a huge amount of TU. Albino and Calico colored pets are the best ones to hatch of course. Albino can bring in easily anywhere between 20 -60 million TU depending on the species (not including seasonal pets).

Merchant Shops - A lot of items are priced far higher than their value. I always try to buy food to stock my food pen up for a week at a time, and I never ever buy from player-owned shops. I bulk purchase food from the NPC shops, which on average have a price 60% lower than the same item in a player shop.

2. Buying and Selling:
What I consider 'cheap' are the items in NPC shops like I said. As well, due to the unstable egg market I just search for the eggs I need. I have stopped selling eggs due to the economy for them.

What I consider 'expensive' would be items in player-owned shops. I'm not paying 90,000TU for an item I can buy at the NPC shops for 2,000TU, it makes no sense.
The most expensive thing I purchased in the last 180 days were specific colored pets I wanted for my Gondra collection, and dyes to color natural pets, as well as some rare seasonal pets I've really wanted to own. I spend millions on creatu, and I rely on my hatched pets for income. I have successfully sold 2 albino pets amounting to almost 100 million. Most people buy creatu like I do, they also tend to have a favorite and try to collect their colors.

3. Payment Methods:
I pay for things with TU only. That way I can ensure I'll be able to afford whatever I need.

4. Inflation/Deflation:
I believe the market constantly inflates and deflates at various times. It mostly happens when a player prices their eggs/items/pets slightly lower than someone else. Then depending on the popularity of that egg/item/pet there could be a "bidding war" for who has the best, and cheapest price on the market.

5. Cash Shop:
I have no idea what the going rate for CP is since I've only purchased it for my own personal use, not to gain TU. I used it to purchase one of those color jelly beans.

6. Gaining TU:
It's actually incredibly easy to earn TU. You just have to get very lucky with your hatches, and potential finds in the forest. There is also some luck with the springs that could dye your pet any color, I've managed to get albino from that once. However the site is all about luck, patience, and chance.

7. New Features:
Like I said about the Hunter NPC, a method to help control the Egg Market economy would greatly benefit the site, and make eggs more valuable. By users swapping the eggs for the base TU given by this NPC, they'd be eliminating eggs from the site to avoid lag and clutter. This may also make the economy far more stable in the long run. However, this NPC could/should have a set limit for how many eggs you can give per day for the payout. I'd say no more than 3-5 eggs per rarity so people don't go nuts with it. This can be tweaked as seen appropriate of course, it's just an idea.

Hope this information can help bring light to the economy.




taiiyuto

8:53pm Jun 15 2016

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CURRENT STATUS
(How do you feel the economy is currently doing? Is there enough TU to go around, or is there too much/too little?)

I'm not the most regularly active user, but I've noticed the economy trending upwards over the past few years that I've been here. Certain smaller-scale items, like food, has become more expensive than I ever remember it being before, and certain pets on the market? Forget about it, no chance I could afford most of those. 

 BUYING AND SELLING
(What would you consider to be "cheap" and "expensive" in regards to buying or selling something? What is the most expensive purchase you've made within the last 180 Days, and how much did you spend? Has it been easier to buy or sell goods within the past 180 days?)

Cheap, for me, is like the price of most foods right now, anything under 10,000 TU. The most expensive thing I've bought in the last 180 days would be the Orchid dye kit value pack, for 4,500,000 TU. The only reason I was able to afford this is multiple occasions where pet transactions worked out well, and I just never happened to spend the money until now. However, I have no idea what a good standard for selling pets for is, either, so that's troublesome.

 PAYMENT METHODS
(How do you pay for things; whether it be TU, Pets, Items, or CP? Is it easy to make a purchase for something when not paying with TU?)

I'm pretty sure I've only used TU in regards to purchases., so I can't really say. I personally haven't been inclined to use the Cash Shop in many years, as nothing has been really appealing enough.

INFLATION / DEFLATION
(Would you say our economy is "inflated"? When did this "inflation" happen, if so? Can you recall a time when something costed less, and if possible please list why you think it increased in price over the time.)

It seems like it's become a bit inflated, compared to how it was many years ago when I first joined. I signed up in 2009, and those first few years tended to have extremely cheap prices for food and toys (the only things I really purchased back then) that I can see have gone up more recently (I was mostly absent from 2012-14) I think things have gone up in price because there are many ways for people to consistently generate TU instead of trading, buying, and selling for it, and it caused everything to have to adjust upwards.

CASH SHOP 
(Do you buy and sell CP ((Cash Points)) to make TU, or gain something else on the site? How much and how often do you usually purchase CP? What would you consider to be the "going rate" for CP? Do you find this amount too expensive, not enough, or just right? Do you think items sold in the Cash Shop are too expensive, not enough, or just right?)

I didn't even know this was an option. I've never purchased CP to my knowledge, so if I ever did it was years ago. They seem a little expensive, but that's because the only items that appeal to me are creatu color-based items. The clothes seem like a reasonable deal by comparison.

GAINING TU 
(What is the main way(s) in which you make your TU? Do you think it is easy or hard to make TU? How could making TU be made easier, if it is too hard, and if it is too easy how could it be harder to obtain?)

I've mostly made my money by selling pets passively, as in, whenever somebody drops me a message about wanting a particular pet or their name. So, by accident. I'm not aware of most of the methods for TU-making, so for a casual player, it might be a bit tough.

NEW FEATURES
 (If you could add ANY new feature to Rescreatu what would it be? What would the rewards be? Would it be free, or cost to play? How often could it be accessed? What other ideas would you implement into the feature?)

New methods for users to be directly involved in pet-creation processes. It seems that there haven't been any new pets in a long while... at least, not regular pets. Only cash shop pets. So if there were some new method for pet creation, such as polls to vote on new pets/features for pets, submission threads for folks to offer up designs, or maybe contests for design entries, which can then be revamped in the Rescreatu style? This is something I really enjoy in certain other petsites, and I think it'd be a good way to bring even more users to the site. And you could offer dye kits or color-change items as rewards, as that's going to be a very tempting reason to offer submissions. 
Wendla

7:49am Jun 16 2016

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CURRENT STATUS
(How do you feel the economy is currently doing? Is there enough TU to go around, or is there too much/too little?)
I feel as though there is a lot of tu on the site, but not a lot is circulating. Because of the high prices of so many things, people are saving up their tu, which leads to bank accounts with millions in them just to get one item or pet.

 BUYING AND SELLING
(What would you consider to be "cheap" and "expensive" in regards to buying or selling something? What is the most expensive purchase you've made within the last 180 Days, and how much did you spend? Has it been easier to buy or sell goods within the past 180 days?
I find many things that people want to be fairly expensive, which makes sense. That is simple economics. The cheap things are the ones that are easily attainable, or have no worth. Then again, this is relative to the consumer and how much they are willing to spend on a certain item. As for the most expensive purchase, I'm not quite sure. I don't remember.

 PAYMENT METHODS
(How do you pay for things; whether it be TU, Pets, Items, or CP? Is it easy to make a purchase for something when not paying with TU?)
I usually try to pay for things in tu, but pets and items work too, especially if I'm trading one item or pet to another of equal value.

INFLATION / DEFLATION
(Would you say our economy is "inflated"? When did this "inflation" happen, if so? Can you recall a time when something costed less, and if possible please list why you think it increased in price over the time.)
I feel as if the prices have increased since 2011 (I started then), but I can't really pinpoint any exact point.

CASH SHOP 
(Do you buy and sell CP ((Cash Points)) to make TU, or gain something else on the site? How much and how often do you usually purchase CP? What would you consider to be the "going rate" for CP? Do you find this amount too expensive, not enough, or just right? Do you think items sold in the Cash Shop are too expensive, not enough, or just right?)
I don't really pay much attention to the actual cash shop. I pay more attention to the clothing items, so I don't know much about the going rate for CP, or how much most people pay for it. I mean, seeing as people spend actual money to get CP, it does sort of make sense for people to pay like 25mil for 1CP.

GAINING TU 
(What is the main way(s) in which you make your TU? Do you think it is easy or hard to make TU? How could making TU be made easier, if it is too hard, and if it is too easy how could it be harder to obtain?)
I make tu from selling hatches. I'm pretty bad at stocks, so there's that. I don't know if there really is any way to make making tu easier.

NEW FEATURES
 (If you could add ANY new feature to Rescreatu what would it be? What would the rewards be? Would it be free, or cost to play? How often could it be accessed? What other ideas would you implement into the feature?)
It wouldn't be a new feature per se, but I would love to see more games, especially card games. Like you could bet a certain amount of tu, and if you win, you gain more, or there could be a shop where you can use your tu to buy chips, and you can also trade those chips in for tu, and stuff like that.




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Melo

2:17am Jun 17 2016

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CURRENT STATUS
The economy isn't great, there's not enough for new/returning players.

 BUYING AND SELLING
Cheap would be 1m and under and anything above that is expensive. The most expensive purchases i have payed for are beans, which are around 8m if i'm not mistaken. It has been harder to sell goods as everyone now has a lot of everything.

PAYMENT METHODS
I prefer paying with TU or items/pets and it is harder to pay with any other method as there are more steps.

INFLATION / DEFLATION
Our economy isn't inflated, just look at Gaia Online. When i first started, 'cheap' was 50tu and anything around that range. Expensive would be 1m. But honestly, i don't know when that happened, when i returned from my hiatus the economy was already like this. 

CASH SHOP 
I don't use CP. Period.

GAINING TU 
The main way that i make my TU is to sell things on the chat and personally, i feel it's hard to make it as once again -  everyone has everything nowadays. Remember when calicos were expensive?

NEW FEATURES
A new feature i would add to Res would be the battle feature. I feel that it would draw in more players to the site.



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Jelicia

12:51am Jun 21 2016

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CURRENT STATUS
(How do you feel the economy is currently doing? Is there enough TU to go around, or is there too much/too little?)

I feel like there's enough TU, but the only people that have a decent amount of it are the old players. Newbies have no hope whatsoever of getting anywhere with this site without help, and its ridiculous.

 BUYING AND SELLING
(What would you consider to be "cheap" and "expensive" in regards to buying or selling something? What is the most expensive purchase you've made within the last 180 Days, and how much did you spend? Has it been easier to buy or sell goods within the past 180 days?)

Its never been easy to sell things on here. Pets are going for millions more than anybody can afford. Nobody can get an albino without paying 30mil or more, and seasonal pets are being treated like nothing more than a few extra normal ones. We need some variety. Everything is expensive now. Heck, even the NPC shops have begun to get more and more expensive. The new kids cant even afford to pay to feed their Creatu, let alone try and buy new ones.

 PAYMENT METHODS
(How do you pay for things; whether it be TU, Pets, Items, or CP? Is it easy to make a purchase for something when not paying with TU?)

I always pay with TU. I dont like paying with pets because my pets are mine. They're my babies. And I can't afford to get any CP because I'm not going to spend real money on virtual points, and because I dont have enough TU in my bank to buy any from anyone else. If I cant pay with TU, I dont buy it.

INFLATION / DEFLATION
(Would you say our economy is "inflated"? When did this "inflation" happen, if so? Can you recall a time when something costed less, and if possible please list why you think it increased in price over the time.)

Oh lord. Okay, I joined this site wayyyyy back. 5+ years ago. I had a while where I left and when I returned, everything went NUTS. Pets are expensive, items aren't worth anything, nobody uses Atqueen forest anymore and to try and get anything decent is fighting a losing battle. Pets didn't cost this much when I joined. This used to be a fun community to be around in and play with. But now its just... everybody has separated. The old/rich stay where they are and the newbies are isolated into their own little world.

CASH SHOP 
(Do you buy and sell CP ((Cash Points)) to make TU, or gain something else on the site? How much and how often do you usually purchase CP? What would you consider to be the "going rate" for CP? Do you find this amount too expensive, not enough, or just right? Do you think items sold in the Cash Shop are too expensive, not enough, or just right?)

I've purchased CP once, and it was probably the worst decision I made.

GAINING TU 
(What is the main way(s) in which you make your TU? Do you think it is easy or hard to make TU? How could making TU be made easier, if it is too hard, and if it is too easy how could it be harder to obtain?)

Its so hard to make TU now. The only ways I can do it anymore is when I stumble on a pile of TU or play games.

NEW FEATURES
 (If you could add ANY new feature to Rescreatu what would it be? What would the rewards be? Would it be free, or cost to play? How often could it be accessed? What other ideas would you implement into the feature?)

More egg hunts. More activities and surprises and contests that people want to engage in. Get Atqueen forest back up and running again. Make this site fun.



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hoppinhippo

2:24am Jun 23 2016

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Hi hi, I hope I'm not too late for this but even if I am it's always good to do some talking :P haha I saw this before and then kept putting it off. Anyways please keep in mind that I know nothing of economics and life in general but I do my best *thumbs up* 

CURRENT STATUS

I feel like that depends on person to person. Like there's a lot of players with very little tu and then some with heaps and heaps. There's not really a res middle class you know? In general though I'm pretty sure it's too little.

 BUYING AND SELLING

In regards to buying and selling I'd consider anything less than 100,000 to be cheap and over 20 million to be expensive. Why? Because 100,000 is an amount that (with a bit of luck and effort) a starting player can make in a day. Unless the pearl game is super mean to you it's not that difficult. 20 million might take a week or two depending on stocks but it's doable and not too hard. (This is just from my personal experience). I tend to make lots of small purchases instead of big big ones but the most expensive items I buy are probably around the 25 mill mark. I bought some rainbow dye kits recently and that was a hit to the bank. (So worth it though) I haven't been on that long so I can't say but buying (I don't sell things :P) has definitely been easier since I invested and got better at stocks. I'm not much of a saver though so I tend to blow my cash pretty quick.    

 PAYMENT METHODS

I normally only pay in tu. The only time I ever paid with items was when it was easter and I traded seeds for a cursey undead thing. It was pretty stressful trading but I think it was just because I suck at keeping track of sent items. (Totally lost count and sent waay too much...but that's okay I had lots of seeds anyway :P)

INFLATION / DEFLATION

Well I've only been on for three months so I can't tell you much about price increases. That said maaaaan things are wild here. I guess it's because we don't have pricing guides so people just put whatever and it's pretty hard to earn heaps of tu when you start so new players underprice items (e.g. once I saw an albino for 90,000) but yeah it's really hard to judge how much things should cost. Especially the eggers. I was so confused when I used to sell them like one day I'd put them up for 400,000 and they would get sold and then sometimes they would spoil at 75,000 idk. 

Anyway~ in terms of inflation and deflation I would say inflation? I don't really know what that means though. But just saying there is like a really huge gap between how much cool items/rarer pets cost and how much I earn in the average like day. And the gap between nattie prices and high coloured pets is bigger the Bass Strait...wait no, bass strait be pretty small...i don't know enough bodies of water for this simile. Bad idea.

Side note: oh natties, you are so cute but so worthless.   

CASH SHOP 

I've never bought or sold CP so I don't really know anything about it, going rate included. That said people buy it so it should be okay?? Cash shop items are pretty decently priced and I'll probably be buying stuff in the future (more like definitely. I'm just waiting for the right eggs to appear. Aaaaahhh let it be sooon).

GAINING TU 

Most of my tu is made through stocks though I did win one of Roo's raffles and it really helped my out a lot. I could invest so much *insert emoji with the fist clenched in victory and crying eyes* Making tu was pretty hard when I first started and I spent like hours hunting for eggers. My luck with the daily games was pretty bad but I did have fun. Since I normally play when I watch my lectures I didn't mind egg collecting (actually really help me study since I zoned out less :P). Recently (in the past few weeks) I noticed it was easier to get tu. Though maybe I've been lucky...I keep stumbling on the random events ^.^

I think it might be good to change the stock system and make it more consistent. Hmmm like you could have stocks drop to 50 more often and have them sit at an average of like 100-200? A jump to 300-400 for a few random stocks each month and a 500+ for one each month? If they sat at 100-200 you could probably have a consistent income of 2.5 to 7.5 mill a week which is like once decently coloured/effected pet. The main problem is right now stocks don't drop low often enough which makes me hesitant to sell any (I'm looking at you ANT). And when they are really low they can stay that way for eons i.e. weeks so I don't buy them and then suddenly they sit at over 300 for like a month. I hope I'm making sense. 

Wait I have realised that increasing tu would probably just make pets more expensive so the problem wouldn't be fixed. Which means the high coloured pet shortage would need to be dealt with. But you can't do that without changing hatch chances and doing that might be baaad. Unless you made colour changes in the springs more likely as a tester to see how it worked...Speaking of hatches I feel like the chances are actually way off. For example, I have hatched about 90 Easeros and still have 0 blacks - excluding my spring dipping. Like that's just weird. And since I'm on every day which means about 90 hatches each month logically I should get one achro, calico, blonde and silver since they are all 2-3% and 0.85x2=1.7% but this is a lie and instead I am stuck in a natural abyss. I don't knooow but I don't trust the hatch chances.     

NEW FEATURES

Okay, I know this is probably not what you mean by new feature but if you could put a date on top of the time it would be so helpful. I get really confused about the res day compared to mine and it makes things like auctions and seasonal events a little difficult. 

In terms of new res games a wheel of fortune or something would be great!! 100-1,000 tu to join so it's good for new players and you can play once a day. Guaranteed to win something so it keeps the fun and excitement up. There are different categories e.g. food, clothes, pet, weapons...kinda what you can buy in the shops at the moment. When you win you get a random item. So it'd be something like "You have won an item from Clothes! To collect your Black Cargo Pants click here" for the creatu colour chances would match hatch chances so maybe it would help lower the prices of albinos and such.

Anyway, that's all my ideas. I hope they made sense and good luuuck!!  


CreepyPastaHyena

2:38am Jun 23 2016

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CURRENT STATUS
(How do you feel the economy is currently doing? Is there enough TU to go around, or is there too much/too little?)
I believe that there is and there isn't enough tu going around. I believe that items that people need like food can be too pricey they don't want to buy it and then their creatu go to the graveyard
 BUYING AND SELLING
(What would you consider to be "cheap" and "expensive" in regards to buying or selling something? What is the most expensive purchase you've made within the last 180 Days, and how much did you spend? Has it been easier to buy or sell goods within the past 180 days?
Th most expensive purchase I have made was on a pair of heeled boots that I only realized they were priced high when I accidentally bought them instead of flip flops. I consider cheap to be less than ten thousand and above that expensive.
 PAYMENT METHODS
(How do you pay for things; whether it be TU, Pets, Items, or CP? Is it easy to make a purchase for something when not paying with TU?)
I prefer to pay with tu because I like my pets and I have no credits or cp
INFLATION / DEFLATION
(Would you say our economy is "inflated"? When did this "inflation" happen, if so? Can you recall a time when something costed less, and if possible please list why you think it increased in price over the time.)
I would not say it has inflated but I would not say it has deflated either. I am currently studying economy in a high school course and I would say the economy is basically a straight line and always has been
CASH SHOP 
(Do you buy and sell CP ((Cash Points)) to make TU, or gain something else on the site? How much and how often do you usually purchase CP? What would you consider to be the "going rate" for CP? Do you find this amount too expensive, not enough, or just right? Do you think items sold in the Cash Shop are too expensive, not enough, or just right?)
I have never been able to buy anything from the CP shop
GAINING TU 
(What is the main way(s) in which you make your TU? Do you think it is easy or hard to make TU? How could making TU be made easier, if it is too hard, and if it is too easy how could it be harder to obtain?)
I mainly make tu by doing quests and when the odd "wow you found tu" appears at the top of the screen. I believe that it is perfect already and it is a wonderful mix of perfect and hard.
NEW FEATURES
 (If you could add ANY new feature to Rescreatu what would it be? What would the rewards be? Would it be free, or cost to play? How often could it be accessed? What other ideas would you implement into the feature?)
I would make quests that give out random prizes like an assortment kind of.



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VintageAssassin

3:51pm Jun 23 2016

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(So I started off answering this paragraph style and then realised that more people where answering each section, so the first section is basically just a paragraph of my views and opinions in general, and then I broke that down into the other sections.)


CURRENT STATUS
At the moment I think tu is only some of the problem. It makes sense that people who have been on here longer have more things and creatu and all of that but they hold such a large majority of the rare items and such that it makes it really easy for the prices of such items to get way out of hand. This means that tu doesn't go as far within the community. Shop prices aren't too bad, but then again I have been here for a year now so I'm not buying anything impulsively anymore. So many of the worthwhile clothing items and such are bought and sold between players only due to their limited run a few years ago, making it almost impossible to get your hands on them without having to basically go broke. 

BUYING AND SELLING
(What would you consider to be "cheap" and "expensive" in regards to buying or selling something? What is the most expensive purchase you've made within the last 180 Days, and how much did you spend? Has it been easier to buy or sell goods within the past 180 days?
I think "expensive" is somewhat relative but usually when something gets up into the 8-digit region I become really cautious about buying it. I think the most expensive thing I've bought in the past 180 days was probably a Gold/Silver dye kit from the black market 

PAYMENT METHODS
Not paying with tu for me just means making a trade, it's hard to value things as someone often comes out on the bottom, tu is easier. 

INFLATION / DEFLATION
I've only been here for a year so I'm not sure about inflation but I've heard that tu used to go further. 

CASH SHOP 
I don't bother with the Cash Shop, I know I'll get carried away and spend too much so I stay away from it, so I don't know how expensive things are in the CS.

GAINING TU 
I mostly make my tu by getting lucky with good hatches and then having to sell those creatu, random lucky items that I happen to find and manage to sell, or generosity from other users. I think it's hard to make a lot of tu, saving tu is hard with the costs of things like food and clothes. I'm not sure how it could be made easier to make tu aside from increasing payouts on certain games like the Mystery Box: a gold bag payout is only 10k tu which is barely enough to buy you a decent item from the clothing store.

NEW FEATURES
It might be nice to have a feature that somehow utilizes the large number of natural hatches that people acquire. I'm not sure what could good a heard of nattie verams could be but having some kind of goal that involves quantity aside from quantity itself. Creatu are an investment that takes time and dedication but not necessarily money so it could help with the inflation issues.
matt

8:42pm Jun 29 2016

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Thank you all for your feedback and suggestions! I am reviewing it and will be using this for careful consideration when planning future events and features and making changes and updates to the site. Our 3 winners who were randomly selected to win a full set of Dye Kits are GlowWormQueen, Ebbet, and hoppinhippo. Congratulations to all of you. Thank you for playing Rescreatu!

-Godric
SilverThorn

11:45am Aug 21 2016

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CURRENT STATUS
I think that the tu is hard to earn round here, especially as a person who has joined recently, i find it hard to earn tu, which limits (very tightly) what I can buy. Luckily, i have been given tu by some very nice friends, but not everyone is that lucky. Maybe there should be a place where you can give/trade (say a shop) creatu, somewhere you know you can go and you will be able to sell it, rather than having a bid/sale for it. 

 BUYING AND SELLING
the cheapest thing I've probably bought is a book, recently, flowers for Randall. I don't really know the most expensive thing i've bought because 1. i dont have much tu 2. It always feels like a waste. I've kind of talked about it more in the Current status.

 PAYMENT METHODS
Well, with tu, personally if find it quite easy BUT i think it needs to be improved slightly. say, i want to make a purchase, but i dont have enough tu On Hand. when it says 'you do not have enough tu to make this purchase' i think it should have something saying 'withdraw tu from my bank' and when you click on it, have a little pop-up thing, like they have when you click on a item and it shows the deion. and on this pop up should be:
similar to you bank, a thing that says 'withdraw tu' and you type in the amount you would like to withdraw, rather than having to go to your bank. Just to make it easier.
But otherwise Payment Methods are very good :)

INFLATION / DEFLATION
Well, one thing which was (and is still happening now) is that Leverene eggs price raised very suddenly to 400k. I think the reason is either someone (it only take 1 person) raised the price on one egg, which no one bought. and then other people thought that was  suitable price (or the price they were at the moment) and copied that person. 
OR 
they could have got rarer to find, because i notice i wasn't finding as many Lev eggs as usual, and more Poar and Malal.
I havn't really witnessed anything else, as im new, and not a big buyer.

CASH SHOP 
Well, i don't buy cp, because i cant. So i don't really have anything to say about the cp shop, except some items from there i would like... and they cost a high price in tu.

GAINING TU 
I gain my tu in a few ways. Here are the main ones: Stocks (i've started them and am making good progress) selling names, eggs and creatu. I find it quite hard to earn tu, but when i do earn it, i earn it in about chunks of 10mil. Advertising is tough too. Maybe increase the amount of tu newbies get too. 500k? or even 5mil?
Also, you could make it more... realistic, you know as if your atuaually living a life. I'll stop writing here and put it in the:
NEW FEATURES
okay, so you get to be a Rancher/Merchant, feed your creatu play with them... e.c.t
BUT what if you went into more detail? You have to go on a adventure of a life. Start of as someone young, have to go to school, make choices as you grow up, choose what you will become. 
Ok, maybe that might be a bit too much but, who knows?
Wait, also, i thought this was a animal-kinda virtual world? 
So... when i first came here, i expected it to BE more animal based. I mean, yea, it's GREAT with all the creatu info and everything, i enjoy it, but it could be better.
FEEDING/PETTING
Make it more fun, memorable, to feed. Maybe have a area, get an Artist (there are lots of amazing ones on Res) and they could draw a feeding-like place, somewhere, just a little setting. And there could be you standing there. and then your pets could come one by one and you can feed them, pet them and stuff. 

PET/YOUR HOME:
you should be able to create yourself a home and then also (maybe a miniture version) be able to make each individual pet a home. you should be able to drag and put items into it too (and have stardusted, frostlight, derp... versions of all the furniture) and choose a basic template (out of 5?) to  make a star to your home.


so, improve and expand what you can do with creatu and all that.
Maybe even have gardens where you can grow your own food!



SilverThorn

11:45am Aug 21 2016 (last edited on 11:47am Aug 21 2016)

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I Hope I can help you!
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CURRENT STATUS
I think that the tu is hard to earn round here, especially as a person who has joined recently, i find it hard to earn tu, which limits (very tightly) what I can buy. Luckily, i have been given tu by some very nice friends, but not everyone is that lucky. Maybe there should be a place where you can give/trade (say a shop) creatu, somewhere you know you can go and you will be able to sell it, rather than having a bid/sale for it. 

 BUYING AND SELLING
the cheapest thing I've probably bought is a book, recently, flowers for Randall. I don't really know the most expensive thing i've bought because 1. i dont have much tu 2. It always feels like a waste. I've kind of talked about it more in the Current status.

 PAYMENT METHODS
Well, with tu, personally if find it quite easy BUT i think it needs to be improved slightly. say, i want to make a purchase, but i dont have enough tu On Hand. when it says 'you do not have enough tu to make this purchase' i think it should have something saying 'withdraw tu from my bank' and when you click on it, have a little pop-up thing, like they have when you click on a item and it shows the deion. and on this pop up should be:
similar to you bank, a thing that says 'withdraw tu' and you type in the amount you would like to withdraw, rather than having to go to your bank. Just to make it easier.
But otherwise Payment Methods are very good :)

INFLATION / DEFLATION
Well, one thing which was (and is still happening now) is that Leverene eggs price raised very suddenly to 400k. I think the reason is either someone (it only take 1 person) raised the price on one egg, which no one bought. and then other people thought that was  suitable price (or the price they were at the moment) and copied that person. 
OR 
they could have got rarer to find, because i notice i wasn't finding as many Lev eggs as usual, and more Poar and Malal.
I havn't really witnessed anything else, as im new, and not a big buyer.

CASH SHOP 
Well, i don't buy cp, because i cant. So i don't really have anything to say about the cp shop, except some items from there i would like... and they cost a high price in tu.

GAINING TU 
I gain my tu in a few ways. Here are the main ones: Stocks (i've started them and am making good progress) selling names, eggs and creatu. I find it quite hard to earn tu, but when i do earn it, i earn it in about chunks of 10mil. Advertising is tough too. Maybe increase the amount of tu newbies get too. 500k? or even 5mil?
Also, you could make it more... realistic, you know as if your atuaually living a life. I'll stop writing here and put it in the:
NEW FEATURES
okay, so you get to be a Rancher/Merchant, feed your creatu play with them... e.c.t
BUT what if you went into more detail? You have to go on a adventure of a life. Start of as someone young, have to go to school, make choices as you grow up, choose what you will become. 
Ok, maybe that might be a bit too much but, who knows?
Wait, also, i thought this was a animal-kinda virtual world? 
So... when i first came here, i expected it to BE more animal based. I mean, yea, it's GREAT with all the creatu info and everything, i enjoy it, but it could be better.
FEEDING/PETTING
Make it more fun, memorable, to feed. Maybe have a area, get an Artist (there are lots of amazing ones on Res) and they could draw a feeding-like place, somewhere, just a little setting. And there could be you standing there. and then your pets could come one by one and you can feed them, pet them and stuff. 

PET/YOUR HOME:
you should be able to create yourself a home and then also (maybe a miniture version) be able to make each individual pet a home. you should be able to drag and put items into it too (and have stardusted, frostlight, derp... versions of all the furniture) and choose a basic template (out of 5?) to  make a star to your home.


so, improve and expand what you can do with creatu and all that.
Maybe even have gardens where you can grow your own food!


Thank you so much for this, it really helps me to just tell everything simply :) 
I hope i helped!



SilverThorn

11:57am Aug 21 2016

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also, just to say, GlowWormQueen
if Failed eggs didn't count, what would the point of them be? 
Plus, in real life you DO get failed eggs... and you would get too many creatu if there weren't fails. But there should be something in case you do get a fail.
Maybe a system (not a other user)could sell every user 2 hatches for some tu? That would also be a good way to not have too much tu running in Res (even thou i think there's too little.



iooni

5:19pm Aug 24 2016

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hi there!, thanks for listening to us players. we have a great support team here in res, i love it.

CURRENT STATUS
Economy in this site is extremey well designed as i see it; we have:
1. An unlimited and free supply of the things we actually need: eggs, storage, toys, and food for our pets; with the posibility of getting more/better stuff if you choose to;
2. Several ways to get tu both depending on luck and/or on your own work;
3. The posibility to get Credits and Cash Points both with real money or with tu
4. Events, uptdates and activities to make sure that economy (and the in game currencys) move arround (not sure if the word is fluctuate, flow or move arround).
5. Retiring/unique items every year to make sure that if you play long enough you will be rich within the game (by getting items that newer players will consider rare, extremely expensive, etc.).
6. New rare/expensive items and pets to keep players that get tu/CP/Credits easily hooked to the game and sepending it.
(as an aside note i want to point out and thank you Res because its a great way to teach/train kids in real life economy and money handeling)

For me personally its always been easy to get tu, and i mean from the 1st day i started playing, so i became more the spending (;D) and collecting type of player (yes, we are out there, and theres many of us, but the complaining voices are usually louder and more often heard, even when you want to help/coach them). For me (and a few other players i coached ages ago) this has never had anything to do with luck or selling things, i mean, my luck with hatches has always been awful, and i hardly sell or trade for anything. I also don't think it has that much to do with the time you have been playing the game (i mean, i got most of my crazy goals in a very short time, and went farther in terms of tu and getting pets/items than players that have been here longer than me and keept complaining about how hard economy is, ... aslo, im 3-4 days back from a 2 years vacation, and already got and spent arround 50Mtu without selling a single thing or getting any luckier than i was before); actually, i believe it has to do more with dedication, gathering information agout the game and takeing the right actions.

as for other players (or economy in general), ive heard the same discussion over and over through several years: players (old or new) waiting for tu to come their way by doing the same thing over and over again (and all at the same time with the same items/pets), obtaining the same results (xtremely low profits and lots of frustration). As i see it, it gets down to one thing, get knowledge about the game and stop relying on things that doesnt depend on you.



iooni

6:00pm Aug 24 2016

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 BUYING AND SELLING
mmm, the most expensive thing in the past 4 days, somehing arround the 15M i think, i dont remember what it was, something for my HA; ive been on an spending spree this past few days and i dont remember the price of the individual items. At the end it was something arround 50M, maybe more, getting things from 100tu valentine cards to backgrounds and expensive stuff for my HA).

"cheap" and "expensive" are relative terms as i see it; it depends on the avaliablitiy of the item/pet at the moment you buy it, and how much you want it.

Ive been absent from the game for about 2 years, but im finding V3 (except for a few glitches, wich is to be expected on a new version), prety much the same to V2 at the moment i left in terms of prices and the avaliability of stuff. What i can contribute is that the hugest change in economy happened after the V1-V2 transition, specially with the introduction of the new CS and Uldavi pets. After that, every seasonal event and introduction of new items/pets/features brings along a boost, and a sort of equalization of economy.


 PAYMENT METHODS
i usually pay everithing with tu; and if therese something i want and dont have enouch at the moment i rmail the owner and ask if it can be hold for a couple of days; tradeing for stuff confuses me just to think about so i dont usually do it. As for CPs ive purchased them from other players in the past, and i think once from the cash shop, it went smooth back them for both options. In terms of cash points, the current prices wont allow me to get them with real money right now (income in my country is like 1/4 of that in the us so its not an option for me right now); in the past ive managed to buy cash shop items from players useing tu (they did pay with cash to resell the items; some of them told me it was their main way to get tu).


INFLATION / DEFLATION
mmm, nop, i dont think economy in general is inflated; i have noticed since quest got updated in V2 some user shops store quest items at 5x or more their usual price, but you can still get those same items from NPCs shops at a normal price so my guess is those players are useing their shop as an extra storage. The other aparent inflation may be the cost the items/pets needed for the specific seasonal event, wich is to be expected, and great for economy in general.(some of this was answered ont the previous post)



iooni

6:28pm Aug 24 2016

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CASH SHOP 
Im currently not buying cash shop points, it think the price is just right for the average income in the US (sadly is not the same for my country, but it has nothing to do with res. the price is fair).


GAINING TU 
The stocks, quest and games are and always have been my main ways of getting tu; ive always found it reliable and easy as staded 2 post ago lol. I wouldnt want you to makeing it harder not for myself and because most players dont seem to figure out how to get it and would be terrible for them if it was indeed hardened; also, i would love to have more ways to get it just for fun and to get a wider variety of activities.
Back in V2 res opened an external forum to get ideas for this and many other topics, there were Amazing! ideas there. It would be great if we could reactivate that forum (or bring it here).


NEW FEATURES
lol, as just stated, theres an external res forum with excellent content about this (ill try to copy paste some of them here later); theres also a couple of old features that would be great to get or get back: trainin center, battles (i dont like them but most people do), the parties, job tower, eggs quest (great to boost economy for ranchers), kir takeing natti to ginger pets to back to uldavi, the other color comets, the whirpool was never activated, the unknown effect, attaching your pets to your HA as the NPCs have, makeing the weapons/toys/lipsticks and the rest of the wearables already existing in the game ...comunal/team quests would be cool!, also gardens/farms and houses to decorate/furnish but thats not old features.



iooni

6:30pm Aug 24 2016 (last edited on 7:39pm Aug 24 2016)

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heres the link to that forum (it dates back to 2013)

http://rescreatu.ideascale.com/a/ideas/recent/campaign-filter/active/tags/forum


i also found a very old forum thread i opened on this same topic wich some people liked, but im asking for all my old posts to be deleted so you wont have much time to read it
http://www.rescreatu.com/forum/cat/feedback/suggestions/economy/~page/1/



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