So going through the dynasty 8 properties, there are multiple issued with the entire economy of property within the server because cheap property in the long term is too affordable, and low rate motels are too expensive. Ill give some numbers based on current economic values

A basic motel is listed at: 50$/hr
Housing can be as expensive as: 70mil, 35k, or AS CHEAP AS 1k up front (this means a lease as low as 20$ a month)
Property rental can be: 1k a month

Heres some mathematical issues. say your character sleeps in a dynasty 8 hotel for 6-8 hours. thats about as long as most people sleep (log out)
that means you would spend 300-400 dollars a night to spend at one of these hotels. Where simply purchasing a full property at the cheapest level being 1k, means you are set for that entire characters lifespan and saving money within 2 days. this makes motels obsolete. and in turn, kinda makes middle class property at 35k obsolete as well

1k-2k to rent specific properties makes sense as thats how high certain rent can go here in cali (real life san andreas), and the economy being 1 to 1 means this is realistic. 

Here is a bigger issue. The valentine hotel run by the lovely Natasha charges 100$ a night for its cheapest rooms which is reasonable within the economy, especially for characters starting poor and rping poverty. but this still becomes obsolete after 10 days just buying a cheap 1k permanent property


HERES MY SUGGESTIONS ON HOW TO BALANCE THE MARKET:
-NPC dynasty motels should not be so expensive per night, 100$ a night as a baseline market price makes a lot of sense and helps give options to poorer players, or players on the run, or even homeless players. Specifically because you can buy like 10 sandwiches for that price

-Housing should NEVER go as low as 1k (REMOVE IT). Housing should feel earned, but reachable, and match realistic west coast america values, while still not being too grindy. 35k-75k for the cheapest properties that can be purchased make the most sense as a property as low as 1k up front completely ruins the market of players trying to run a motel and takes away any poverty struggle of motel bouncing you can experience. that extremely low number breaks the market, (IDEALLY 75k should a miminum) but i understand not wanting to encouraging grinding, so 35k minimum also makes sense

-match property leases to match new markets, but add interest to incentivize saving cash for a property. 1k-2k is fine for basic properties, but add a mini interest rate to incentivize finding new financial avenues. 3% 5%? start small till we balance it better


I hope this makes sense! and you guys agree

heres some pictures so you can see what i mean

 

Edited August 13Aug 13 by Oheus

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