Just wanted to say thank you to everyone who made it out. I know it was a bit chaotic with the crashes. Hoping we'll be able to learn from it all and make experiences with 125+ people in one room better.

We drained close to 20 billion silver in Prime. It's possible for that number to be a bit higher if some data was lost during all "fun pauses" on Saturday. We drained over 1 billion in Platinum.

I'd like to thank GMs Haliste and Thandiwe for assisting me with the grounds. While the services were the focus, the big thing for me was creating an area that captured the essence of what happened to Coraesine Field. I hope the area leaves a lasting impression of cause and effect.

Approvals were made by GMs Coase, Estild, Kaikala, Tamuz, Galene, and Wyrom.

Platinum's weekend was made possible by GMs Haliste, Thandiwe, Tamuz, Naionna, Skhorne, Kaikala, and Wyrom.

Prime's weekend was made possible by GMs Haliste, Thandiwe, Aiza, Galene, Mazreth, Necios, Kaikala, Kenstrom, Elidi, Tamuz, Naionna, Lydil, Valyrka, Elysani, Mariath, and Wyrom.

Special thanks to the GMs who helped out in the background, whether it was tackling a bug or dealing with the crashes.

This will conclude the Coraesine Field/Forest events.

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Wyrom, PM

I thought the GM merchants did well handling the chaos. Fun event even thought I blew my wad of silvers about 7 services into it. :)

Didn't win anything but if nothing else getting some smithy services was worth going. I'm glad you let the smithy be open. Everything seemed to be priced fairly reasonably except the weight reduction. I liked how the merchants were quick to take people away who won and made it difficult for people to sell their spot.

i just wish the services was at night , i was at work for about 90% of all the event .

I was really happy to be able to attend, and was thrilled with the smithy services I got. Also some of the GMs did a great job RP'ing their merchants, which was a real treat to behold.

Now that we know that 20 billion silvers were taken out of circulation, any chance you'll reveal how many silvers are still in circulation? Enquiring minds would really like to know!

"The Great Auction of 2016 drained just under 13 billion silvers." -- Wyrom, August of 2017

So in a year and a half, TWO events have taken ~33 billion silvers out of the game.

I'd be curious to hear how much the various WPS smithy services have taken out? (Obviously excluding CCF here--where it was wrapped in with that total--and bloodscrip.)

Personally, I'm intrigued by the fact that Padding is (by silver volume) 10x more desirable than Weighting--despite the fact that padding has been available all along (through Premium Points, if nothing else)--and folks can only use a single armor at a time (as opposed to different weapons for different creatures [vulnerabilities or relevant flares]), and not even taking into account Two-Weapon styles.

On the other hand, this is probably also indicative of people taking already-padded items and dumping even more onto it [so, higher price per Service], whereas weighting is at least moderately likely to be starting from scratch.

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And, to be clear: THESE thirty billions of silvers, are entirely separate from the previously-accounted-for ~33 billions of silvers, correct?
(From the 2016 Auction, & CCF just now.)

Combined totals, in comma delimited numbers.

	Weighting		Padding		Totals
	Silvers	Bloodscrip	Silvers	Bloodscrip	Silvers	Bloodscrip
August 2017	1,077,000	1,746,247	700,527,000	1,703,497	701,604,000	3,449,744
September 2017	60,415,000	718,144	5,030,948,000	633,979	5,091,363,000	1,352,123
October 2017	172,120,000	0	1,679,990,000	0	1,852,110,000	0
November 2017	0	0	895,415,000	0	895,415,000	0
December 2017	1,518,182,000	3	0	0	1,518,182,000	3
January 2018	34,789,000	0	18,038,000	0	52,827,000	0
February 2018	1,045,772,000	2,041,709	9,260,314,000	2,202,868	10,306,086,000	4,244,577
March 2018	24,332,000	0	5,890,967,000	0	5,915,299,000	0
April 2018	12,253,000	0	1,174,340,000	0	1,186,593,000	0
Totals	2,868,940,000	4,506,103	24,650,539,000	4,540,344	27,519,479,000	9,046,447

<Personally, I'm intrigued by the fact that Padding is (by silver volume) 10x more desirable than Weighting--despite the fact that padding has been available all along (through Premium Points, if nothing else)--and folks can only use a single armor at a time (as opposed to different weapons for different creatures [vulnerabilities or relevant flares]), and not even taking into account Two-Weapon styles.>

10x is a bit more then I would have expected, but with weighted weapons being unblessable, I'm not really surprised that padding is more sought after. Esp since nearly everyone wears armor of some sort (even if it's ASG 0), but there's a huge number of characters that don't attack with weapons... though a new type of weighting for runestaffs that increases the potency of spells would be awesome....

Starchitin

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<<Weighted weapons are blessable, although the heavier the weighting the harder it is (and the less time the bless lasts).>>

Hhhmmm.... the Bless page on the wiki needs updating then. The pure potion and Symbol of Blessing pages too if it's not just the cleric spell that works this way.

Starchitin

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I was referring to this page, not the one for 304: https://gswiki.play.net/Blessing

Starchitin

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