do you actually think you will have a mats/herbs economy with 100 players? ....
And how much exactly do you think people will pay for your herbs/mats? when the gold is 100k and someone buys a bulk of 50 mats from shop (low tier, higher tier are more expensive) the cost is 2k/pc. Easy math for you there, try to figure out the cost with different gold prices, I'm sure you can.
Do you want to be a billionaire in game farming herbs??
There's a reason why other private servers have both mats and herbs in boutique. Having rich people that run an economy on the server just because they know how to gather herbs/mats helps no one. Go play the game, help people, progress, do shit, stop smelling flowers 10h/day to get rich.
Pay2Win with herbs and mats? dafq is wrong with people... !?!?!?!?!
A) I will not have an economy with 100 players , i will able to START an economy to a new server . Big difference .
B) It is not about maths and billionairs , it is about having free players to a game or converting it to a lobby of 300 accounts only . Free players always bring new players . This is a pool of potential future cash shoppers . I not give any other private servers example but there are even free fashion , not mention of course mats or herbs or drops . As free player (if you were ,
you talk like "i m the rich boss with my credit and i give a @# about all of you , i buy and win ) if have to chose , what would you chose , a new server that there is no viable farming option and pay everything or a server that almost everything is free and can be farmed for future selling to rich peoples ?
C) What is the % of rich persons in a well established server ? Easy question , i know the answer , and seems to know it you too . Let me enlighten you . Well established and known servers have less than 2% ( yes , 2%...) truly rich people , the rest is the pool of potential cash shoppers that spend like 10$ per month , worthless to even talking about it if want a viable server . At 10k accounts server , persons that spend well over 500 $ per month is never reach 3 digits . NEVER . But for having 10k accounts , must bring them here first . With what ? With a p2w policy right out of the box ? Fail at start .The p2w policy can start AFTER you have a healthy pool , a nice amout of population and from them rich people % that donate monthly . It is not how many actual rich you have right now ( we talking at 150 persons i consider rich the fountains that gave their money and just a few more , only a few ), it is how big pool you want in future . This tactic will fail .