Board Thread:LOC General Discussion/@comment-108.35.154.66-20130911165857/@comment-5428123-20140329092012

76.79.134.150 wrote: In regard to LOM server being more stable than LOC's. That might simply be due to the number of players playing and actively pinging the server. I suspect that even though people who actively participate in events in US has dropped, LOC still have significantly more players than LOM.

In regard to bound pp. It's a terrible idea to turn all pp to bound version. That essentially punishes the "rich" regardless of how the rich got rich. However, what is not terrible is to stop releasing regular pp a bit, so not to contribute to the inflation. In fact, the current raid, Dark Horizon, doesn't give out pp as reward anymore. The card price has finally start dropping, and this event will causing it to fall even more. It could very well be the case that LoM simply has less users using it, explaining the better performance. However, without being able to directly compare user counts, it's mostly speculation at this point. The event reward ranking pages for LoM would likely be the most revealing in this regard, since higher standards for rewards would point to a lower user base.

The drop in prices can be directly attributed to the new patch Applibot released. Since cloners are no longer pumping potions into the game economy, potions are drying up. This is probably for the best, since prices were pushed unnaturally high before thanks to cloners highballing prices intentionally. Prices will likely drop for a bit, and then settle at natural market prices once people have had time to adjust to the new market conditions. I do wonder how this will affect future event rankings however, since potions are now limited and people will actually have to make important decisions on how they spend their potions. Maybe I can finally make top 200 in an event for once (it's been months since that happened).