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I could be in the minority here, but I haven't fielded a single complaint about defenses in my time. What are the issues with them, exactly?

Also, the specific issues with the economy are not just "older players make more money". This is and will be an understood truth no matter what comes of overhauling it, because that's just The Way Things Work, and that's fine to an extent. Our economy may not be Aetolia levels of broken (assuming it hasn't been fixed since I've visited last), but it will be if left unaddressed. I for one don't want to see herbs selling for 1gp per, or potions selling for less than it costs to make them.

Defence upkeep and stancing/parrying would be nice, sure. But right now, the state of the economy is bad. I know there are some people who have hoarded millions of gold and can earn millions of gold a day and can sell things for super cheap who disagree that the economy is bad -- this is likely because those people don't remember what it's like to be a newbie or midbie, struggling to earn gold.

Is earning gold hard? Not especially, if you spend your entire day doing it, but who wants to do that?

Further, there are so many things you just cannot find enough of in the Aetherplex, or in city shops. City shops? Not even that useful anymore. You can't earn a profit in those, because of people who undercut so badly. People who can aethertrade (i.e., have Tailoring, Jewellery or Cooking, the power to do it, the commodities to do it, the time to do it, etc) earn extra gold that way, which further inflates the gold issue and makes some items grossly undervalued that should be more and others exorbitantly valuable that should be less by limiting the tradeskills people have (unless they're lucky and choose to have multiple ones; as a demigod who also values combat powers, I can't take SecondTradeskill, so I have to pick between aethertrading and a useful tradeskill).

We've had this argument before in the Discord, and the response was usually "Well, just do X." but as a newbie or midbie, sometimes you cannot 'just do X'. The economy needs to be fixed for non-demigods/non-aethertraders who want to make a profit in their shops to afford things like credits so they can improve themselves.

AC functions fine right now. The upkeep/stancing/parrying can come later.