Thoughts on Dynamic Weapon Prices in CSS Created 18 years ago2006-11-17 18:52:21 UTC by TawnosPrime

Thought I'd get the ball rolling on a VALVe trashing thread for this.

I'm strongly opposed to this...now. At first I thought it was a good idea, having the popularity, or lack there of, affect the price of said weapons. That is until I tried out a map that was posted here, went to but a Deagle at start, and saw that it no longer cost $800, but over $2200! What are your thoughts on this?

I'm not too keen on the idea; While it's an interesting concept in theory and perhaps encourages players to use other weapons, I don't think CSS or other multiplayer games of this nature are good places to attempt to model economics and a virtual marketplace; that should be left to the MMORPGs instead.

2nded.

VALVe! STOP OPPRESSING US!!!

lol ya at first i thought it would be kinda cool but then like you said the guns got sooooo exspensive.

We need an option for server admins to enable and disable this feature at will. So people who would like dynamic weapons pricing can have it, but those who don't can use original pricing.

DWP is the worse idea any video game can have. This made guns cost 5-10 times more than they do in real life. In RL an AK doesnt cost 7gs, you can pick one up for under $300, and M4 dont cost that much either, highest priced M4 is 1g and that has alll the bells an whistles attachments. DWP might be good on paper like communisum is but in RL its as bad as having beer sh1t5

DWP could be used, but made better. As far as realism goes, if you've ever played ANY video game, it's usually absurdly priced. WoW, epic mounts cost a few hundred gold (my friends play wow and thats all they talk about), runescape, they have swords at the price of more than 1 MILLION gold (again another game my friends played).

DWP could be lowered and raised by a MUCH lesser price. I was pissed not being able to start a first round with a deagle. I talking also depending on the gun. I can see the mg going up or down 1k or so, and the pistols going up or down roughly $300 tops.

how do you dissable dwp in your own server? cause i dont want it on mine.

mp_dynamicpricing 0

Restart the server to make sure it takes effect.

I liked it for a little while. It was a cool novelty and before that i didnt realize that the UMP 40 actualyy wasnt too bad of a gun.

I went to buy a deagle, shit a brick, and virus scanned my comp

jk

i dunno
maybe if they get enough hatemail they'll reset it.

I think monthly resets, or less. And don't let the prices get so high. Maybe each server have its own dwp set, so if its 900 on 1 server it could be less or more on another because some people use different weapons depending on the map/server script. (AKA I use the MG alot on Unlim. Ammo Zombie Mod servers).

But that would probably take a whole nother shit load of space on the server computer.

The .50 caliber handgun got to $26,530 once and it immediately sank back down as no one could buy it...

the deagle? dont talk like your smart dave... =D

And we're not talking about what the prices managed reacher (partially not anyways). We're talking about the current problem with this and what can be done to help the situation.

A.K.A. DWP should be off by default really and I guess that's all there is to it.

the word "deagle" reminds me of www.pwned.nl

Yeah, dynamic pricing is a failure, really...I like the deagle, and it sucks that I can get an AWP before a deagle...And how does that make sense? And don't even get me started on the overpricing of grenades and kevlar...

Don't revive old threads.

Don't revive old threads.

QFT

@Stevey: don't act childish. It's just a game after all and it doesn't apply to every server out there.

Anyway, thread locked.