sorry if this dbl submits
Hi i just wanted to pop in to enumerate of the 74 custom items i went thru and tried my best to ascertain the overall situation with custom clothing.
13.% custom owners have Quit/ Abandoned the account for a good while +1 Banned owner in this percentage of 'null owners'
any sales or auction of these items is no longer reflective of the owner bc they are 2nd hand market.
22.% sell for 10kp-399kp (most 300kp or less)
07.% sell for 399-999
17.% sell for a million++
++ - if someone trades for chests, chests are reliably mills+ so those owners are in this percentage by my count, and for reference just to highlight a spider georg of owners h3ll has over a 5th of the ++ category themselves.
41.% are private *
For private there were many motivations, it's for their OC, not enough energy to dist
guild only loyalty
free quests/seasonal events as to not charge
personal use for personal reasons, which closely mirrors the original function and intent of customs-
limited slots due to "fatigue/availability" "trying to balance wanting private and making ppl happy by distributing some"-ect.but are sold out so all sales are second hand now.
over a 5th of * category are lucif3n+v10 once again some spider georg statistic spike.
This leads me to believe it is the manual communication nature of custom ownership that leads to this great gap in how things are done and user exp overall. I think a market of some kind would help a lot, both is user exp improvement and moderation bc i think that will come with an automated market.
The secret custom economy is not real, and even most other custom owner's aren't welcome in that "clique" bubble other players feel, bc the reality is that most custom owners don't know each other, never talk, had to hype themselves up to get their c4c trade turned down bc that user isn't interested in fem/masc items ect. and the "clique" is really like, 6 players that looked around and realized no one invented the ceiling yet so they are gonna take it to the moon ASAP
Also vu3h, a custom owner did implement a price structure where so far they ask that custom owners pay them what they charge others, and instead M4hogi took advantage of the free distribution event. Even tho M4hogi sells their sphinx lion for a mill a pop, noticed ig there were no rules against it. Idk, what you described is basically there and those same few players are always gonna push the envelope/press their advantage.....
