Scoper wrote:

Jess wrote:

I actually remember the reason they got rid of the smaller player owned businesses is basicly because of the problem right now.

People would just buy the businesses, jack up the price and sell it back right away. Businesses have always been that one thing people will buy no matter how much the price goes up because they can easily be sold.

Which is why they should be unsellable :/

They were actually.

The official ones like gun Point and Ammo Mart.

You could only sell the player businesses, im pretty sure AM and GP just passed between co-owners when the owner disapeared or went inactive.

Just now official businesses have become like player businesses.


Then again i remember back in the day you had Sales picking flowers 24/7 to buy Speedy Pizza for 200k. He must of kept it for over a year and was by far the richest player.

Also a time when food was a big deal and there was only DH and SP at the time so it was basicly pure profit. No spoil system or tax what so ever.

I miss Sales paying me in Pizza and giving out tons of pizza while raiding, when raiding was actually fun.

I too miss when Era was more fun.
Ahh, the good old days.

Jess wrote:

I actually remember the reason they got rid of the smaller player owned businesses is basicly because of the problem right now.

People would just buy the businesses, jack up the price and sell it back right away. Businesses have always been that one thing people will buy no matter how much the price goes up because they can easily be sold.

hachi was the one who removed a good chunk of player owned businesses because back then when everyone was so worried about a stable economy, we felt as if those businesses were damaging it.

Frankie wrote:

Jess wrote:

I actually remember the reason they got rid of the smaller player owned businesses is basicly because of the problem right now.

People would just buy the businesses, jack up the price and sell it back right away. Businesses have always been that one thing people will buy no matter how much the price goes up because they can easily be sold.

hachi was the one who removed a good chunk of player owned businesses because back then when everyone was so worried about a stable economy, we felt as if those businesses were damaging it.

I also remember talking to him and him saying something about how hes fucking tired of the businesses being traded every day and no one appreciates the business they want to just make a quick buck.


Man i miss when people actually cared about the economy

Jess wrote:

Frankie wrote:

Jess wrote:

I actually remember the reason they got rid of the smaller player owned businesses is basicly because of the problem right now.

People would just buy the businesses, jack up the price and sell it back right away. Businesses have always been that one thing people will buy no matter how much the price goes up because they can easily be sold.

hachi was the one who removed a good chunk of player owned businesses because back then when everyone was so worried about a stable economy, we felt as if those businesses were damaging it.

I also remember talking to him and him saying something about how hes fucking tired of the businesses being traded every day and no one appreciates the business they want to just make a quick buck.


Man i miss when people actually cared about the economy

why? when was the last time era's economy was actually stable? a looooong time ago. it took like 7 years for staff to finally stop worrying about it and focus more on gameplay.

You're welcome.

Lol I miss the old player shops. They were fun and all, but they didn't work well at all. At the time there weren't nearly as many guns as there are now, so all of the businesses ended up selling the exact same thing. Also PPA failed so many times. I know I've deleted it twice, once as GBA and once as PSA. It doesn't work without a company to compete with it/larger wages for the agents. It also won't work because noobs can't afford it and anyone other than them are good enough at pking to protect themselves. PPA never really served a good purpose, it's just something that was on Era for a long time so nobody ever deleted it. The best thing they could do is help in gang raids, which is unnecessary nowadays.

I remember having the only business that sold Ravson ammo, so I started selling it for 100$ each. Good times.

That's funny because I remember being the only business and making my own prices for everything.

I am me wrote:

That's funny because I remember being the only business and making my own prices for everything.

There were many player owned business's

I liked Apple Pie.

Rofl...You actually remembered the name I used for it?

Yeah lol.
If I remember correctly, it was right where the healing hut by PT is now.

Yeah, the healing hut was on the opposite side of the street, next to PT.

I remember buying a business in a really shitty location. Then being able to sell it to buy the one right beside the hospital and BB.

That was also when the hospital was actually used and people didnt just unstick. Not to mention i had BB right beside me which was raided constantly.

I think i ended up giving up selling Guns all together and just sold ammo..



Think i named the business Arrow Ammo, i have no idea why. Probably because the bow was released at the time aswell or some shit.

Yeah, I remember that shop. I thought it was one of the coolest ones. I was actually going to restore those shops at some point. I had a lot of the work done for it, but instead I actually just turned what was done into the mall. And then the hire/fire GUI I had made was converted to regular shops we have now.

Tim_Rocks wrote:

Yeah, I remember that shop. I thought it was one of the coolest ones. I was actually going to restore those shops at some point. I had a lot of the work done for it, but instead I actually just turned what was done into the mall. And then the hire/fire GUI I had made was converted to regular shops we have now.

I was actually thinking about suggesting this. But, with the mall, it is kinda pointless. I actually had some elaborate new-player owned business scheme thought out with buying licenses to stock certain guns, investing money into your business, etc.

But then I got drink and forgot it. And the mall is just a simpler version of it anyway.

oh, and every gun is already sellable via one NPC anyway. Ideas's purpose = null. This post's purpose = none.

Right, I scratched it and split up the project into other stuff. I didn't want to complicate things by allowing players to have control of the prices and what's for sale.

Tim_Rocks wrote:

Yeah, I remember that shop. I thought it was one of the coolest ones. I was actually going to restore those shops at some point. I had a lot of the work done for it, but instead I actually just turned what was done into the mall. And then the hire/fire GUI I had made was converted to regular shops we have now.

Pretty sure you worked for me Tim..... and then i hired you for my radio station aswell