Hello fellow Minecrafters.
I started playing Minecraft, partly because I wanted to fly around with an Elytra. I hadn’t played the game since they added Ocelots. So watching youtubers/streamers flying around in Minecraft just looked like so much fun. I wanted in on that!
So I joined the eGO server, because the community always has been great.
I spent quite some time with my littlebrother and duo-partner (Sir_Fluffingtons AKA Igeticsu ( Whom I am taller than )) getting to The End, so we could get our hands on these moth-wings.
After running around the end for an eternity, we realised that the Elytras were gone, all looted.
Fair enough, you snooze you lose.
As luck would have it, some player-shops were selling elytras! Amazing!
Here’s the kicker
A great feature on the server is the Voting system! IT’S FREE MONEY, YO!
250$ ($ will henceforth referred to as Schrute Bucks), per vote!
Now, as you might well know, you can vote on 6 different websites, once per site, per 24 hours. You will not only get the 250 Schrute Bucks, you will also get 1 block of Bedrock and a cake per vote.
That’s a grand total of 1500 Schrute Bucks and 6 Blocks of bedrock per 24 hours.
The bedrock can be sold at the EC-Shop for 70.000 apiece. But you can currently sell them at a player-shop for 80.000 apiece, so do that instead
Some quick maths were done, and it turns out that doing nothing but voting and selling the bedrock to the player-shop would give you a daily income of 481.500 Schrute Bucks. In order to get an Elytra this way, it would take a player 311 days . And that’s with voting exactly every 24 hours.
That’s for the player-shops. Not for the EC-shop. This tactic at the EC-shop would take a player 332 days.
There are of-course ways to make money quicker. You could always mine diamonds and sell diamond blocks or Ores.
That way, a player could save up for an Elytra by selling 13500 diamonds to the admin-shop. Now I don’t know about you, but to me, that’s a lot of diamonds. Like a lot a lot!
Let’s disregard that way of getting the Elytra!
You know what, let’s disregard the player-shop elytra all together. Because as luck would have it, you can buy an Elytra at the EC-shop!
Here the price is a bit different, because it is sold for items.
(1 Bee Spawn Egg and 24 Enchanted Golden Apples).
Now that’s unlucky. I have neither of those.
Luckily you can buy those items right there in the EC-shop!
24·25.000.000 + 10.000.000 = 610.000.000
:yikes:
That is. A lot. Like a lot more a lot than just a lot.
I’ve witnessed quite a few people ask if the End still had Elytras. I’ve also witnessed quite a few people log off 5 minutes after being told they can be bought at /shops. I speculate if that could have something to do with the outrageous prices.
At this point I have a few questions. Are the Admin-shop and EC-shop not existing to keep player-shops from being overpriced and prevent inflation? If not, what exactly is their function?
If they are existing to keep inflation at bay, how come the prices in these shops are so inflated?
If the Elytra is meant to be an exclusive item, why is the EC-shop selling them in the first place? If they are not supposed to be an exclusive item, but rather meant to be a fun addition to the game, then why are they so expensive?
I’ve been told that the reason neither of the Ends will be reset, is because a few Elytra-looting people are going around grabbing all the Elytras for themselves, and selling them at outrageous prices, and thus upsetting normal, new and slower players, which leads to them quitting the server.
Which is a point I just cannot fathom. Why battle these outrageous prices and Elytra-looters by offering a way worse alternative, or none at all, instead of using the EC-shop and Admin-shop to keep inflation at bay? If the problem truly is that people are quitting because Elytras are too expensive when they are being hoarded and sold but a select few, then why not do something about it?
I personally cannot come up with a new system that would work, that is not why I am making this post. I am making this post purely to point a finger at something I see as a problem.
My main point is as follows
Elytras are fun. An Elytra is a tool to move around quicker, just like enchantments are a tool to upgrade armour and items. The fact that they are being categorized as a novelty item is just absurd. And the fact that the reason for them being a novelty item, is that they were being hoarded and sold at outrageous prices, is quite absurd.
They are simply too much fun, and too practical.
I’ve been told we’ve lost players on the server due to these high prices for specifically Elytras. Why combat it with selling even more expensive Elytras and making them a novelty item by refusing to reset the End or lower the prices in the EC-shop.
Regarding Novelty Items
Items such as Dragon Heads, which are just as rare as Elytras, since they spawn on the front of the same ships the Elytras can be found in. These Dragon Heads can be bought for a whopping 750.000.000 Schrute Bucks at the EC-shop. What about the Dragon egg then? The rarest item in the game, which serves no other purpose than to be a trophy item. Well, it was a part of the admin shop for a while, but you could only sell it in the shop, not buy it. Not only that, you could only sell it for 5.000.000 Schrute Bucks. This meant that in the admin shop, you could trade literally the rarest item in all of Minecraft, for the price of buying a single diamond block . And don’t forget, you couldn’t get the egg from anywhere, other than if you were the lucky player to enter the end first after a reset and defeat the dragon.
Bonus Point I’d like to make for those who have made it this far
Yes, the prices are steep, it encourages people to partake in the structure of the in-game trading system and to put in hours on the server, I get that.
PS. I myself have an Elytra, so does Sir Fluffingtons. We stole them.
I started playing Minecraft, partly because I wanted to fly around with an Elytra. I hadn’t played the game since they added Ocelots. So watching youtubers/streamers flying around in Minecraft just looked like so much fun. I wanted in on that!
So I joined the eGO server, because the community always has been great.
I spent quite some time with my littlebrother and duo-partner (Sir_Fluffingtons AKA Igeticsu ( Whom I am taller than )) getting to The End, so we could get our hands on these moth-wings.
After running around the end for an eternity, we realised that the Elytras were gone, all looted.
Fair enough, you snooze you lose.
As luck would have it, some player-shops were selling elytras! Amazing!
Here’s the kicker
150.000.000 Schrute Bucks
:jerry::jerry::jerry::jerry::jerry::jerry::jerry:
And that’s the cheapest of the cheap!
:jerry::jerry::jerry::jerry::jerry::jerry::jerry:
And that’s the cheapest of the cheap!
A great feature on the server is the Voting system! IT’S FREE MONEY, YO!
250$ ($ will henceforth referred to as Schrute Bucks), per vote!
Now, as you might well know, you can vote on 6 different websites, once per site, per 24 hours. You will not only get the 250 Schrute Bucks, you will also get 1 block of Bedrock and a cake per vote.
That’s a grand total of 1500 Schrute Bucks and 6 Blocks of bedrock per 24 hours.
The bedrock can be sold at the EC-Shop for 70.000 apiece. But you can currently sell them at a player-shop for 80.000 apiece, so do that instead
Some quick maths were done, and it turns out that doing nothing but voting and selling the bedrock to the player-shop would give you a daily income of 481.500 Schrute Bucks. In order to get an Elytra this way, it would take a player 311 days . And that’s with voting exactly every 24 hours.
That’s for the player-shops. Not for the EC-shop. This tactic at the EC-shop would take a player 332 days.
There are of-course ways to make money quicker. You could always mine diamonds and sell diamond blocks or Ores.
That way, a player could save up for an Elytra by selling 13500 diamonds to the admin-shop. Now I don’t know about you, but to me, that’s a lot of diamonds. Like a lot a lot!
Let’s disregard that way of getting the Elytra!
You know what, let’s disregard the player-shop elytra all together. Because as luck would have it, you can buy an Elytra at the EC-shop!
Here the price is a bit different, because it is sold for items.
(1 Bee Spawn Egg and 24 Enchanted Golden Apples).
Now that’s unlucky. I have neither of those.
Luckily you can buy those items right there in the EC-shop!
1 Bee Spawn Egg: 10.000.000 Schrute Bucks
1 Enchanted Golden Apple: 25.000.000 Schrute Bucks
1 Enchanted Golden Apple: 25.000.000 Schrute Bucks
24·25.000.000 + 10.000.000 = 610.000.000
:yikes:
Jebaited
That is. A lot. Like a lot more a lot than just a lot.
I’ve witnessed quite a few people ask if the End still had Elytras. I’ve also witnessed quite a few people log off 5 minutes after being told they can be bought at /shops. I speculate if that could have something to do with the outrageous prices.
At this point I have a few questions. Are the Admin-shop and EC-shop not existing to keep player-shops from being overpriced and prevent inflation? If not, what exactly is their function?
If they are existing to keep inflation at bay, how come the prices in these shops are so inflated?
If the Elytra is meant to be an exclusive item, why is the EC-shop selling them in the first place? If they are not supposed to be an exclusive item, but rather meant to be a fun addition to the game, then why are they so expensive?
I’ve been told that the reason neither of the Ends will be reset, is because a few Elytra-looting people are going around grabbing all the Elytras for themselves, and selling them at outrageous prices, and thus upsetting normal, new and slower players, which leads to them quitting the server.
Which is a point I just cannot fathom. Why battle these outrageous prices and Elytra-looters by offering a way worse alternative, or none at all, instead of using the EC-shop and Admin-shop to keep inflation at bay? If the problem truly is that people are quitting because Elytras are too expensive when they are being hoarded and sold but a select few, then why not do something about it?
I personally cannot come up with a new system that would work, that is not why I am making this post. I am making this post purely to point a finger at something I see as a problem.
My main point is as follows
Elytras are fun. An Elytra is a tool to move around quicker, just like enchantments are a tool to upgrade armour and items. The fact that they are being categorized as a novelty item is just absurd. And the fact that the reason for them being a novelty item, is that they were being hoarded and sold at outrageous prices, is quite absurd.
They are simply too much fun, and too practical.
I’ve been told we’ve lost players on the server due to these high prices for specifically Elytras. Why combat it with selling even more expensive Elytras and making them a novelty item by refusing to reset the End or lower the prices in the EC-shop.
Regarding Novelty Items
Items such as Dragon Heads, which are just as rare as Elytras, since they spawn on the front of the same ships the Elytras can be found in. These Dragon Heads can be bought for a whopping 750.000.000 Schrute Bucks at the EC-shop. What about the Dragon egg then? The rarest item in the game, which serves no other purpose than to be a trophy item. Well, it was a part of the admin shop for a while, but you could only sell it in the shop, not buy it. Not only that, you could only sell it for 5.000.000 Schrute Bucks. This meant that in the admin shop, you could trade literally the rarest item in all of Minecraft, for the price of buying a single diamond block . And don’t forget, you couldn’t get the egg from anywhere, other than if you were the lucky player to enter the end first after a reset and defeat the dragon.
Bonus Point I’d like to make for those who have made it this far
Yes, the prices are steep, it encourages people to partake in the structure of the in-game trading system and to put in hours on the server, I get that.
PS. I myself have an Elytra, so does Sir Fluffingtons. We stole them.