Introduction
This document has been created to explain the design for a alternative MMORPG
economy. It is not intended to be the design of an entire MMORPG system, it is
the design of an economic system that seeks to improve interactions, both
cooperative and adversarial, by redefining several key elements. Since economics
touches so many of the other systems in game and the need to put some of the
concepts in context, it may appear that this concept is all encompassing. Some of
what you read can be changed or adapted without destroying the core of the
concept. The ideas here are presented in the fantasy genre, but the ideas can be
adapted for other genres.
Many of the terms used in this document are generic an uninteresting. The terms
are used simply to describe the concepts mechanics. If adopted these ideas
should be refined in testing and should be adapted into the game they are placed
in and made more intuitive and user friendly.

The new concept

How is this system different
In the past players have competed indirectly for the acquisition of wealth, items,
money and raw materials in PvE. In PvP players compete directly, but only after
earning rewards in PvE. The PvP reward system usually rewards players with
points that are spent for special items or skills. PvP rewards are given on an
individual basis and the rewards given in this mode of play are not part of the
economic system as a whole.
This system will allow player to compete directly as the system of PvP and PvE
rewards are all part of the same system.
The economy is specifically designed to scale, with minimal input, to player
population and player habit without having to create oppressive cash drains or
overly restrictive rules that risk breaking player immersion and experience.

Design issues
When placing the player at the center of the economy several design issues must be addressed.
 Redefining money and wealth
 Creating a currency that has intrinsic value to all players
 Player exploitation (cheating)
 Market structure
 Hording
 Controlling inflation
 Redistribution of wealth
 Creating distinct roles for different player types within the economy
 Create a system where players can accept some level of loss
 Create a system where player wealth is never out of reach of other players
These a just a few of the main design issues, all of which have been identified and addressed within
the system.

Redefining currency
The first step in redefining currency is to move away from the concept that NPC’s in the form of quest givers, shop
vendors and monsters, directly supply players with infinite amounts of money and/ or finished items. In most
systems the value of currency is based almost entirely on what coin can buy. As players obtain what they need/
want the value of the coin declines. The developer solution has been to create money sinks that are designed to
give money value by creating a need. Expansions and content add-ons that many players believe are created to
enhance their experience often do little more than make current items obsolete thus forcing players back to the PvE
grind of re-attaining wealth thus reinvigorating the value of coin by creating new items to buy.
This concept will change the intrinsic value of coin by linking it directly to something in the game world that is
considered universally valuable to all players. Whether the link between money and what it represents is explicit or
implicit is something that has not been established yet. That is to say, the design decision about where the value of
coin comes from, either what it’s made of, or what it represents has not been decided. At this point an implicit
relationship between coin and what it represents might work, but this is something that could be changed if it
improved the mechanics of the concept.
Where does the value of coin come from?
In this concept every “finished item” comes from a player crafter. All finished items use the types of raw materials
most people are all used to from other games plus one or more of five unique elements (called Enchantment Base
Material or EBM) in order to add magic to them. Items in virtually any game are valued because they improve a
players ability to obtain means and ultimately for players to reach their goals. In this concept items and the magic
that makes them powerful are separated. Players will need to obtain EBM in order to bind enchantments into their
items.
Coin in game is issued against EMB. Players exchange EBM for coin or, conversely, purchase EBM with coin. The
exchange rate is determined by several factors explained in more detail in upcoming slides.

What exactly is Enchantment Base Material (EBM)?
There isn’t any direct real world comparison for the concept of EBM, but the idea can be broken down into a few
parts so it can be easily understood.
• EBM is controlled entirely by players not NPC’s.
• All players that belong to a guild are given one of the five types of EBM for meeting some simple, time consuming
prerequisites, the kinds of things most players would do in the course of game play.
• Four out of the five types are earned from interactions with other players.
• Every item with an enchantment contains some EBM.
• Because EBM is universally valuable to all players, EBM is the commodity on which money in game is based on.
• There are 5 different types of EBM.
• Each type of EBM is different from all the other types, but all have the same effect.
• Each type of EBM is limited in the amount of power that can be enchanted into an item
• When two or more types of EBM are used their effect is cumulative, thus greater effect can be had when using
more than 1 type, the most powerful items will contain all 5 types.
• The effect of any single type of EBM is capped and the amount needed to increase an enchantment rises
progressively.

EMB and Items
Items are created by player crafters using raw materials collected from PvE. Things like Ores, hides, scales and
plants as an example. Raw materials are used by their respective crafters to create a finished item. The finished
item is then combined with whatever enchantments the user can place into the item permanently giving it it’s
properties, haste, abilities, protection ect. (see figure below). At this point the item has only the potential for each
property. EMB must now be bound into the item to increase the items abilities. The amount of EBM used at the
time of creation will determine the actual bonus bestowed to the character. The cap for the item is determined by
several factors:
• The quality of the raw materials used
• The amount and/or the number of different types of EMB used
• The level of the crafters used to create the item
+60HP
Raw Materials Sword Raw Materials
Enchantment Crafter Enchantments Finished Item Weapon Crafter
EBM Crafter
EMB
Item w/ Enchantment/s
Long sword
EMB Min +0 to Max +60HP
If the item is something permanent (not a one time use object like a potion) the item may only have the potential
bonus that was originally crafted into it. In order for a player to increase an items potential he will have to use
additional EMB. EMB can be added and lost in any item during the course of game play.

More about items
Items are created using raw materials gathered from the world of which there can be an almost limitless number. For
each type of raw material there should be different qualities. The higher quality materials will come from
progressively more difficult NPC’s and as a result can be imbued with higher levels of magic and longevity. The
highest quality components in the game will be prized for the items that they can make and repair. Of course it will
take more skill to wield weapons of the highest power.
When a crafter imbues an item with an enchantment the enchantment is permanently bound to the
item and is only lost if the item is destroyed. However, the full power of the enchantment is only
available when enough EMB is added to the item. EMB can be added and lost though game play, thus
the power of an item will fluctuate depending on how well a player earns EMB in relation to how
1 much they lose.
2
3
4 The illustration to the right represents how EMB effects the power of an item. The left side is
separated into 5 sections, each representing a different type of EMB, each type coming from one of
5 the five realms. The right side represents the EMB from a single realm. The bar is broken up into 10
sections, each section represents the potential amount of power given if enough EMB is used to
R1 reach a particular level. An item has 50 levels total of which only 10 can be reached with EMB from a
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single realm. As each level is reached the enchantment/s on an item become more powerful. Items
R2 R1 7 can have multiple enchantments and each would be represented by a graph similar to the illustration
to the left. Using EMB from multiple realms is the only way to reach an items full potential.
R3
8 The amount of EMB lost if a player was killed would have to be determined by the system that this
R4 idea is incorporated into, but this concept should work best if the amount lost was a fraction of the
total EMB imbued into all the players items. Losses would be in proportion to the total amount of
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R5 EMB the player has and in proportion to the amounts the player has from each realm.
An example of how to read the figure on the left: If the bars on the left represent an item that is
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imbued with +50hp. If there are 50 total levels of EMB then each level reached would add +1hp.
Reaching level 1 from each of the 5 realms(+5hp) would use a lot less EMB than reaching level 5 from
a single realm (the same +5hp)., though EMB from other realms may be harder to obtain.

Enchantment Base Material
EBM is acquired in one of three ways:
1) When a player guild, or whatever a player factions are called, grows large enough and meets certain criteria they
can build a fortifications. Within that fortification there is a mechanism for extracting EMB from the world. Each
player that belongs to a faction earns some of the EMB produced by meeting certain simple time consuming
criteria (things that most players do while playing the game). All players from the same realm earn the same type
of EMB. There are 5 realms, thus there are 5 types of EMB. If the damage to a player fortress reaches a certain
point, the supply of EMB for players that belong to that guild will fall until repairs are made.
2) Players that fight players from other realms can win EMB by defeating other players on the field of combat . The
EMB earned this way will be of a different type than the kind of EMB earned in #1, this is because each realm has a
unique type of EMB. The amount EMB that is earned by the winner depends on how much EMB the loser used to
create the items the he was using and the difference in character power (levels) and is therefore in some relation to
difference in both players power.
3) Players can use money to purchase EMB from other players or from the realms vault. Each realm will have a vault
that will exchange EMB for coin and back again. EMB is the standard on which the value of all money in the game is
set against. The exchange rate of EMB will be determined for each realm based on the supply and demand of each
type, including the type from the realm that the player is currently playing in.
EBM can be lost in the following ways
1) Some EBM can be lost in the form of decay.
2) If a player loses to an NPC.
3) If a player looses a fight with a player or another group of players in open battle or sieges.
4) If a crafter fails in the creation of something that contained EBM.

Redefining PvP and PvE
Several readers have noted that the presentation appears to have focused on changes in PvP almost
exclusively. This makes this system appear very PvP oriented. It’s not that this system is necessarily designed to
be PvP focused, quite the contrary, its that most systems up to this point have been extremely PvE oriented.
One of the goals of this system was for both the PvE and PvP modes of play to bring something into the
economy at large. In most systems the rewards from PvP mode of play are limited to self improvement and if
anything rewards of this type limit the need for items and money thus limiting the scope of the economy as a
whole. By reducing or removing finished item rewards from the game, as opposed to items made and sold by
players, PvE and the rewards that come from the PvE mode of play will be in greater demand by everyone.
Much of the focus in this concept is redefining the roll of the PvP and PvE modes of play. More specifically
what types of rewards players receive and where they come from and how players will interact with one
another to obtain the means to reach their goals.
Roll Input Output
PvE Time vs. NPC’s All types of Raw Material
PvP Time vs. Players *EMB
Crafting Time Items
In the output column PvE’ers earn Raw materials, PvP’ers earn EMB* and Crafters make items using both.
Thus:
Raw Material + EMB = Magic item
*EMB stands for Enchantment Base Material and is necessary for the creation of anything that contains magic.

The Realm Vault
Each realm will have a vault where EMB is be traded for the coin of the realm (whatever the fiction
says it is). The exchange rate for EMB to coin and back again could be controlled by developers who
are in possession of all of the statistics in the game. The propose of the system would be to ensure
that the amount of wealth in the system is always in some relation to the number of players in the
world. If certain trends arose that show there is inflation in the system, too much money too little
product, then the exchange rate from EMB to coin would fall. Players would then be encouraged
to keep EMB (presumably because they know the exchange rate is too low). Players would be
encouraged (not forced) to use EMB to create or repair items or simply to save for later. When
the creation of items increases relative to the amount of money then inflation would fall. The opposite is also true. If there is deflation,
too much product too little coin, then the exchange rate would rise, this would encourage players to trade EMB for coin (thus not making
new items) and use the extra coin to buy up items in the market (presumably because the sellers could not adjust prices until they could see
the shift in demand). Devs could adjust the exchange to keep things in balance or formulas like P=MV/Q (Price=Money x Velocity /
Quantity) could be used to determine the exchange rate. Because there are multiple types of EMB in the world (each realm has their own
EMB and their own coin) each realm vault would deal in each type of EMB (not coin). The exchange rates for different types of EMB would
depend on supply and demand for EMB from each realm.
The other side of the realm vault would be that it serves as storage for all player items in the realm. It would also be vulnerable to attack.
The vault itself would be made up of several structures across a wide area. The vault, where player items are stored, would be the
strongest and most massive part of the vault system. Attacking the realms vault would take several steps (10 or more) each step
progressively more difficult (taking out small towers, crossing certain geographical boundaries). Attacks would be on an epic scale requiring
50-200 players per side. Each step completed would result in a reward for the attackers. The longer it takes to complete each step the
more time the realm being attacked has to fortify positions and protect the realm vault. The reward would come from the realm vault itself
and the losses would be shared by all the players who have money or items deposited there. This system would keep money and items “in”
the game at all times. Because most players in the realm would have an investment in the vault, even if your not online, you can count on
their being someone who is just as motivated to see that the vault is protected as you. Looses of wealth would be small for each person,
but the number of people with items in the vault make raids on the vault profitable for the attackers, and remember attackers that are killed
also loose some of their EMB to the defenders. Smaller realms mean small rewards to the attackers.
This part of the system could be modified. Players could build keeps and do the same, but the problem of being attacked when players from
a particular guild are off line can make things pretty frustrating. There are other possible solutions I have thought of here but I’m not going
to write them all out as this solution, generally speaking works best.
The realm vault concept is very open and could be implemented in any number of ways .

This presentation incorporates several flowcharts. The point of
the flowcharts is to help you imagine the concepts given. The
charts help to cut down on text and should describe the
concepts more effectively then words alone. See the simple
explanation below on how they are used.
By some action, may lead to
This This
And/or
This

EBM EBM EBM EBM EBM
Type I Type II Type III Type IV Type V
Liquids Realm I Realm II Realm III Realm IV Realm V Blood
Minerals Plants Hides Bone
One or more of 5 types of
Raw material Raw Material
player controlled Enchantment
harvested from gathering harvested from NPC’s
Base Material
Crafter (enchanter)
Enchantment/s
Magic Item Crafter (Combines
Enchantment Combined Enchantment and item)
With normal item
Non-magic item
or component
Weapon Crafter
Armor crafter
Alchemist
Tailor
Siege Craft
Jemcrafter
(and others)
This slide expands on the table from the last slide and shows how different player types perform different activities like gathering, PvE
(fighting NPC monsters or doing quests), exploring the world and engaging other players in PvP. Most of these concepts are familiar to
most players. The part that depicts PvP is one of key the innovations described in the following pages.

This diagram illustrates how each of the • Raw Materials – Raw materials come from NPC
three basic play types (for this illustration monsters or from gathering, harvesting or
exploring is considered a type of PvE) mining.
interacts with one another . • EBM – 4 out of the 5 types of EBM are earned
directly from combat with other players. One
The “S” in the diagram represents the type is given to the players of each realm (players
primary source of a particular element and Player
in the same realm earn the same type).
the “C”’ represents consumption. Combat • Items – Items are created only by player crafters.
The diagram is meant to show the
relationship and interplay between player
types. Players aren’t limited to a play type,
but would be most effective when friends
or acquaintances specialize in a roll.
C
S S
C
S C S C
C S
NPC S C Item
Combat Creation

Review
The following points have been established so far:
To create an item players must use traditional raw The supply of EMB remains uninterrupted as long Players can earn EMB in two ways, as a stipend for
materials. EMB is used to create the as players protect the source of their factions belonging to a faction, and by defeating other
enchantments that make them magical (powerful). supply. players in combat.
The amount of EMB used in the creation of an The power of an enchantment is determined by There are five kingdoms, each control a unique
item increases the types and number of the amount and number of types of EMB used. source of EMB
enchantments that can be used.
EMB is a resource controlled strictly by players. It Though the ideas are presented for the fantasy Upon creation EMB determines the potential
cannot be farmed by players from NPC’s genre, they can be adapted for other genres. power of an item.
The other raw materials in the game are just as
important in the creation of the games best items
Preview
The following points will be explained in upcoming slides:
Because of the universal value of EMB, it is also the The amount of EMB in each realm is finite relative How are weapons created and how EMB affects
foundation of the system of coin within the all five to the number of players that belong to each their creation.
realms. realm.
Item potential is fixed, but item power will How EMB changes hands.
fluctuate.

The system of money
Now that you understand what EMB is and how it’s used the question is, where does money come from and how do players acquire it? The concept is
extremely simple but effective. Because EMB is established as universally valuable and the demand for EMB will always exist, then the system of money
will be based on the supply and demand of EMB.
Put simply, players can trade a specific volume of EMB for a specific amount of coin. The exchange rate will be based on supply and demand for each
type of EBM in each realm.
EMB is used to create items. If there are too many items and not enough players buying, then the exchange rate for EMB would rise. This would
encourage players to create more money. That money would, in the short term, make items more affordable. If the opposite were true and the
amount of money in game was high and the items to be bought were in low supply, the exchange rate would flip-flop. Each volume of EMB would be
worth less coin. This would encourage players to keep EMB and use it to make new items.
In later slides the mechanics of replenishment of EMB back into the world are described. From a developer point of view this is where the cycle can be
interrupted and manipulated to ensure that the amount of money and raw materials in play is consistent with the number of players in the game (with
samples taken over time).
Foreign and local Realm Vault
PvP Play EMB (exchange)
COIN Auction house Raw Material PvE Play
This diagram represents the push-pull relationship between PvE play and PvP play Each type of play will be important for the creation of the best items
in the game. The concept is to motivate players with opportunities for accomplishment and accomplishment is fueled by items. Items are created using
a combination of raw materials collected from different styles of play.
The amount of EMB in the world is not infinite nor is the amount fixed. The amount will be base on the relative skill level of each player character in the
world. As a player obtains more skill and gains access to more powerful items the amount of EMB in the world will rise. Remember that there are 5
types of EMB and each type can only be obtained by players of the same realm. To ensure that hording or other player manipulation doesn't under or
over inflate the money supply The amount of EMB could be determined by using a price level formula, P=MV/Q, where P = price level, M = cash in
circulation, V= the velocity of money, Q = quantity of goods
The cycle of EMB looks like this…..
Players receive their stipend and use it to create items or exchange for money (explained in the next slide). As explained EMB is lost to players in combat,
but EMB is can also be lost in the form of decay in several ways. Items will naturally degenerate with use. The amount of degeneration will be in relative
proportion to use. Decay can placed through the system in several ways. The idea is to keep each mechanic small but the aggregate should be enough to
ensure there is a flow of all types of materials in the game assuring there is always a healthy demand.

Figure 1 shows how players earn wealth Figure 1
in the traditional F&D economy that
most of us are familiar with. Finished
Items
Below is a diagram from the new Inventory
concept. You can see that each part is
color coded to match figure 1. The Raw NPC
primary limitation of the figure 1 Player NPC’s Crafter Auction
Material Vendor
diagram (the F&D system) is that the Interaction Money
player can circumvent the entire system Money Money
Environment Or Points
if the player chooses. The auction, Money or
Points Wealth
vendors and crafters are all optional.
Figure 2
Monster and Raw Finished
Figure 2 shows the new concept. Note that in figure 1 Interaction Auction
Environment Materials Items
NPC’s are the source of all three types of wealth. Below
in figure 2, you can see that there are multiple sources
of wealth. Raw materials come from NPC’s and EMB Player Crafter Wealth
comes from interaction with players. The path to all Inventory
items travel through real players. In figure 1, above,
players engage only in PvE to create wealth. The new Interaction Enemy Realm
EMB Money
Players Vault
concept in figure 2 requires two modes of play, both
PvE and PvP.

This diagram shows how unwanted items can be sold in the player auction markets for money, which can be kept or traded back to the
realm vault for EMB.
Commodities to sell
Monster and Raw Finished Auction/
Environment Materials Items Trade
Inventory
Player Crafters Figure 3 Profit
Other Realm
EMB Money
Players Vault
Exchange

The cycle of EMB
How EMB is acquired and used has been explained. This illustration shows how the system works as a whole. When EMB is lost due to
decay or player death, it returns to the world (in a way described by the games fiction). This is the opportunity to adjust the levels of
EMB in the world to adapt to changes in player population or play habit (if the mode of play shifts heavily to one side or another).
Statistics can be taken periodically (weekly perhaps?) If there is too little EMB in the world relative to the number of players (perhaps a
promotion drew in several hundred or even thousands new players), then more EMB can be added, transparently to the players in the
world. If there is too much EMB then the system can simply “shed” EMB through attrition (decay or periodic one time drains) until the
amounts in the system come back into balance with the with the number of players. The actual amount of EMB in the system would
have to be determined though testing.
Raw Material (RM) EBM
NPC’s and Mobs Enemy players
The World/ Environment
EBM adjusted based
Harvested Raw Material EBM foreign and local On the total number of
Levels (population)
EBM exchanged
for coin, items or trade RM and EBM lost
Items changing from Player raids
Inventory
Hands through On EBM storage
Trading, conflict
EBM
Fees, bartering
RM and EBM lost
Crafting from Failed crafting
Or salvage
Raw Material
RM and EBM lost due
Items to item use (decay)
Raw materials
Reintroduced to the world

When EMB is lost in the form of decay, failed salvage, crafting, looting or whatever “drains” are in the system, the EMB that is lost
would return to the system to be re-harvested by players . Adjustments to the re-introduction of EMB would be made if there was a
large population shift, or players characters were attaining greater power or if the system is unbalancing itself though unseen player
action. This would have to be a last resort, but is a way to “fix” the system and maintain the games playability.
The actual numbers could be preset by the developers so that players could expect to achieve some level of predictability. All of this
would be transparent to the players. All the player would know is, as a percentage how much EMB is left in their source. The source
wouldn't be something that is visible to the player. Oil wells pump oil, but we can’t “see” how much is left. A player would know that
player losses result in EMB returning to the realm that it came from (explained to the player though the games fiction) and that would
explain the fluctuations in percentages day-to-day.
Raw materials could work in a similar fashion, though that would have to be worked out later.
Raw Material (RM) EBM
NPC’s and Mobs Enemy players
The World/ Environment
EBM adjusted based
Harvested Raw Material EBM foreign and local On the total number of
Levels (population)
EBM exchanged
for coin, items or trade RM and EBM lost
Items changing from Player raids
Inventory
Hands through On EBM storage
Trading, conflict
EBM
Fees, bartering
RM and EBM lost
Crafting from Failed crafting
Or salvage
Raw Material
RM and EBM lost due
Items to item use (decay)
Raw materials
Reintroduced to the world

This is a simple diagram that illustrates the choices players have in the system of economics
Player
Raw Materials
EBM from Realm Vault
From
Gathering or PvE Stipend or PvP exchange
Crafters
New items and
Services in the world Market Money

There were many design and game play decisions that were thought about when creating this system. Some questions that I’m often
asked about the system.
How much EMB is there in the world?
The amount of EMB will fluctuate depending on the number of players in the game and the relative skill levels players have obtained.
This is because players of higher skill will demand more EMB then players of lower skill.
Where does EMB go when it’s lost though decay?
The games fiction will explain how each realm has particular type of power (EMB) and it is the crafters that “imprison” or “bind” that
power in player items. Once lost EMB returns to the realm it came from. In the case of game mechanics it will be so EMB can be re-
harvested. Realms who’s players lose more EMB than they produce will run short and be forced to look to other realms to supply EMB
for their items.
Why have five realms?
This will ensure a diverse social climate. Since players control EMB it will also help protect against exploitation. For a single player to
play characters from al 5 realms to give the EMB acquired to one of his characters would be futile and would probably be harder than
just playing a single character.
Why have weapons vary in power?
A lot of thought was given on how to make combat meaningful. The conclusion was that players enjoy status and weapons and items are
part of that status. Forcing players to lose weapons is too frustrating for most players. Instead let them keep their items and loose what
makes the item powerful. Thus the player maintains the potential for power even if he looses what makes it powerful. To regain what is
lost simply means playing the mode of play he enjoys and trading with other players for what you need.
Meeting the same player in combat several days apart could have very different results. Players will never know how powerful their
enemies are on any given day because the items they carry will vary in power. The best players will be those that think about their
situation and choose their battles carefully.

This diagram illustrates the path a player must take to create or obtain a magic item. This diagram looks at actions from a more player-
centric point-of-view.
EBM/ Local & Raw Materials
World/ Environment
/or Foreign
Enemy Players (PvP) Monsters (PvE)
Player
Magic Items Friendly player
Quests Trading of:
Items
Raw Materials
EBM
Enchantment Non-Magical
EBM Crafter Item Crafter
Crafter Item

Relationship of PvP and PvE players
This diagram illustrates the relationship between PvP and PvE players. Both modes of player will bring rewards
that the other mode needs.
Realm Vault
PvP Play Foreign EMB
(exchange)
COIN Auction house Raw Material PvE Play
When looking at the way the most popular systems in place work now, it’s easy to figure out that players aren’t an
integral part of other players success. PvP in most games produces nothing tangible for the economy, only for the
individuals who take part. Some games reward PvP players tokens or points for combat with other players. Those
points are spent buying items from NPC’s, but the rewards in this mode of play are only between the NPC and the
player, no different than playing a cooperative style game. Transactions between players and NPC’s takes away from
player driven markets.
The diagrams on this page demonstrate that in the new concept PvE and PvP are equally important in the world. The
raw materials needed to make items come from combat with monsters or exploration of the game world. The key
ingredient needed to create magical enchantments for items, called EMB, comes from PvP. EMB is so valuable that all
coin in the world is based on it. This illustration shows that PvE and PvP are equally valuable and players who enjoy
each type of game play will find that their talents are equally useful within the game.
Players could choose to engage only in PvP and exchange EMB collected in combat for money at the realm vault and
use that money to buy raw materials collected by PvE’ers. PvE’ers will sell their raw materials for money and exchange
it at the realm vault for whatever quantity of EMB they need.
Players can choose what modes of game play to engage in. Foreign sources of
EMB
The important thing to understand is that finished items come
from elements collected in both the PvP and PvE modes
PvP
of play. Player 1 Player 2
PvE
Raw materials from
NPC’s & the world

Player-to-Player Player-to-Game
This diagram represents the exchanges exchanges
MMO world in the new concept.
Player to game exchanges do not Gifts received
EMB
yield money or finished items.
Sell service
(repair ect.)
Gathering
Here we can see all player inflow Taxes and fees Inflows
and outflows and player-to- by players
ITEMS IN Questing
Stealing – Cash
game and player-to-player and or items
exchanges. MONEY IN Monsters
Auction
Selling
Player
NPC services
Auction ITEMS OUT Rez, travel, heal
Buying
Taxes or fees
MONEY OUT
Paid to NPC’s
Buy service Outflows Item and EMB decay,
(repair ect.)
item destroyed
Items or cash Raw Material waste
lost
Items or money
stolen
Gifts given
Green = Money Drain
(money and items
Recycled back
Orange = Items Into the world)
This is not a true
Other
drain in the F&D
Player/ Characters
Sense.

The Author
I’m a FPS/ RTS guy who discovered MMORPG’s back in 1996 with games like UO and Meridian 59, though I didn’t
dive in until the release of DAoC in October of 2001. There I found a new home in MMORPG’s and have played at
least two dozen since then. DaoC, SWG, WoW, AoC. Eve and Warhammer, are the games I have spent the most
time playing. Other games I have dabbled in are Shadowbane, EQII, CoH, AO, LineageII, LoTR and most recently
Aion. I have also tried several F2P games as well as dozens of trial offers.
I’m an active member of several MMORPG developer forums, though my interest is strictly in game design as I
have little skill in programming. By nature I’m a hardware geek and my job is troubleshooting, installing and
planning for high end Storage Arrays.
I miss the competitive nature of the FPS, but enjoy the social and cooperative nature of the MMORPG. Much of
the ambition behind this project is to expand competition between real players while maintaining the persistent
and socially driven ideas of the MMORPG.
Please feel free to create links to my work.
© 2009 Christopher S Brown (talinguard@gmail.com)
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in relation to this publication will be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.

Thank you for taking the time to read this presentation. Currently it is a work in progress. If the concept interests
you or you would like to discuss it, I currently have a thread open at MMORPG.com
http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/244996/My-new-economics-concept.html
I welcome any input anyone might have.