I'm about to tell you about the plain unvarnished truth about the hype in NewCapital when it comes to .ru items.(ru items = items from other cities than NewCapital)
The economical term is - Supply and Demand.
Quite easy actually, the idea is to have something a lot of people wants and just a few people are offering.
For instance: Gorgeous girls.
Everyone wants them but there aint too many of them available, thats why people like Bill Gates can have a wife like he has.
Back to the subject:
In NewCapital we are blessed with a lvl8 set, Smashing Set, thats it - no other lvl8 items and absolutely no lvl9 or lvl10 items.
Sounds quite boring don't you think? So everyone is trying to personify their set in any way possible, the most common way is to use lowlevel items found in the caves or in the shop. But what everyone really wants is some other lvl8 or lvl9 items as complement to the Smashing.
We have some lvl8 items from other towns, brought to NewCapital back in the days.
Out of those items I can metion a few:
Genious Wristbands http://capitalcity.combats.com/encicl/object/naruchi82.html
Sunset Helmet http://capitalcity.combats.com/encicl/object/helmet59.html
Spiked Shoes of Sunset http://capitalcity.combats.com/encicl/object/boots13.html
Just to mention a few.
Now the funny part is the price.
From what I learnt you can buy NewCapital items in a special "EuroCredit Shop" now we dont have any shop like this so we get to rely on buying stuff from eachother for insane prices.
http://newcapital.combats.com/forum.pl?id=1243340780&n=sales
Sunset Helmet for the bargain of 100 ECR
UPDATE
http://newcapital.combats.com/forum.pl?id=1243544768&n=sales
the price changed and it's now for sale for 10 000 cr instead. :)))))
Sneaky Paladin
I wrote an suggestion for quite some time ago that the easiest way to improve the profit in NewCapital would be to to create a similar ECR shop in NC aswell - untill that happens - we will see prices like this becoming more and more common so you better start loving that Smashing Set of yours :)
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