Sunday, September 16th, 2007
Issue: 40   Editor: MadamNyxxie


The BL Rollercoaster Moatilliatta
Inflation is the result of a larger volume of cash resulting in a higher general price.
As in real life, financial inflation has both positive and negative effects everyone; and this is not untrue for Bootleggers.

In October 2006, Bootleggers was reset, and all players had to begin again, with $500 each. Now, almost a year on, there is roughly $750,000 per player, which makes a total of approximately $50,000,000,000.

This is inevitable considering players who use the Federal Bank; of which gives three percent interest every 24 hours, players that use the Stock Market, and any large casino wins, amongst others.

How does this effect players, poor or rich?

The most obvious of these is the price of Bootleggers points. These have had a very rapid increase in price; the average price back in October was $3,000 - $4,000 per point. The average price is now $40,000 - $45,000, almost one year on.
This has obviously had a negative effect in players wishing to buy points with Bootleggers cash.

However, users wishing to sell their property using points can benefit from this.
Players can also use points as an ‘Alternative stock market’ by buying points, and selling them for a higher price.

So how much more can point prices rise? Will there be a limit?

Another financial change the Bootleggers community has witnessed recently is the increase in car price. This change is a result of the Auto Burglary update that happened two weeks ago. The fact that cars can now be found by the police much easier is probably an explanation for the increase in car price.
This also means that OC leaders will have to recalculate the average percents that are given to drivers to make it more fair.

So it seems we will have to let Bootleggers economy carry on unpredictably until the next reset, which doesn’t look to be anytime soon.