Ectoplasm Obsolete?

Now, this is just an observation or so that I've made.

In this game, obviously more than others, money is a problem. Not really making money, but storing it. You can only trade technically 100k at a time. Keep 1mil only in storage at a time. Pretty restricting isn't it?

Well, I have my own money storing problems, and wanted to find out a way to input more money into trades. So, i started to think what could replace the symbol of wealth in Guild Wars:Ecto.

Vioalla, it hit me. Black Dye. I have noticed a pattern of, well perhaps more than a month, or more, Black dye has been 9k or over at trader. While Ecto at around 7.5.

So, the question is, since people are struggling with money management anyway, why not just switch it to :100k+(x) amount of black dyes?

If I am buying somehting for 100k+50 ecto (yes, I am aware many people don't have this type of money), why not switch just to dyes? I believe 250 stack on one pile anyway. If you save 2k for each black dye you switch for ecto ( 2k of space), then you would only need about100k+ 39 black dyes or so to reach the equivelent. Just a thought.

I'd rather get ectos than black dyes for my rare perfect weapon. But that's just me.

Where would all the black dyes come from though? I think the trader would run out as there aren't the thousands of black dye floating around like ectos.

If you want ectos you go to the UW, if you want black dye you go...um...er...

Unfortunately, if the market were to crater, you actually have a use for ectos - FoW armor. This is why ectos hold some sort of value. There is only a very limited use right now for black dye, which, if the market were to crater, would have very little use (and therefore wouldn't hold its value).

People still buy for 100k + ectos? Didn't the announcement of Inscriptions kill that market?

Anyway, people with 1,000 platinum + ectos should have a rich tax put on them. There's no reason people should be sitting on that much wealth.

Black Dye would not work because it isn't stable by any stretch of the imagination...

Make a presearing char and farm what, 2 black dyes at most a day? Or farm UW and get 2 ecto per run on a good day?

105 ecto = fow
4 black dye = one dyed set

You can get a large quantity of ecto and have use for it, while black dye would just sit there once youve dyed stuff.

And you cant jsut magically have ecto turn into black dye.

Great, Socialism comes to GW, next we'll open a welfare office in Lion's Arch for poor players.

I personally dont like trading with black dyes. The market is not as stable, and people are constantly buying ectos, but no one is buying black dyes.

So, I would prefer 100k+700e rather then 100k+425~ Black dyes.

Ive never had a problem selling black dyes...if you're having trouble... Ascalon district 1...buy'em for 8k sell'em for 9k its like the effin stock market

i didn't go for the preview nor have i read up much about nightfall but what if the new expensive armor in Nightfall don't use Ecto but a new kind of Material? what would all the ppl with thousands of ecto do with them?

I think everyone should use charcoals. The reason is simple: I've bought up 1000's of them. So I think everyone should switch from ecto to charcoals.

Obsidian armor(what ectos are used for), will most likely always be the most expensive armor in the game, also, FoW is a core area, so it is accesible from any chapter.

yeah but what if Anet wanted to eradicate the enourmous gap between the rich and the new people/poor ppl so they made ectos obsolete by adding new Obsidian armor that require new material?

There would be no economy or rare items if they tried to do that.

If they did decide to eradicate the gap the simplest way would be to turn the servers off, because nobody would be playing the game then.

Ectoplasm is not obsolete and will never be. It value might lower, but it will always hold value because of its use in armor. End of dicussion.

Ectos can be easily turned into cash. Black dyes can't (unless you dump them to a merchant at a ripoff price) Simple as that.

Killing the game, the great equalizer.