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<blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 6984361" data-attributes="member: 6775031"><p>Are you sure about that? From an economics standpoint, it seems like the machines would just become rare enough that it would no longer be profitable to try and scam them, and then the scam would become less popular as opportunities became less common. Once you get down to only one or two people pulling any given scam, it behooves them to not be so blatant about it that their source is shut off entirely. You'd need more than a handful of independent operators before the tragedy of the commons starts to apply.</p><p></p><p>But still, that's a simple trick that anyone could try, and only a small percentage of those eligible actually went through with it. Applied to a much smaller scale (level 6+ non-Lawful spellcasters), it's not a guarantee that more than one or two who even want to pursue that career option, and those few should have enough sense to not kill off their market by being too blatant. If they stole enough to make society re-evaluate the whole concept of a bazaar, then bazaars would end and people would simply stop taking this feat since there was no longer any obvious gain to be had, which means bazaars would come back a generation later when people forgot what they were afraid of, and it should basically stabilize out to the point where application of the feat wasn't significant enough to kill off the bazaar. Probably.</p><p></p><p>Of course, all of this is predicated on the fragile premise that sixth-level spellcasters are common enough to disrupt the market and ninth-level spellcasters are basically unheard of. While it <em>might</em> follow from that premise that bazaars wouldn't exist if you add this feat to the mix, that premise doesn't hold in all worlds. In some worlds, there will be dozens of high-level spellcasters available in any given city. In some worlds, even first-level spellcasters will be rare enough that they can't wreck the economy. Saying that the existence of this feat would guarantee bazaars don't exist is like saying the existence of Eladrin (in 4E) would guarantee that they are killed on sight since there's no possible way to detain them; it requires a fairly specific confluence of circumstances in order for it to logically follow.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Crimson Binome, post: 6984361, member: 6775031"] Are you sure about that? From an economics standpoint, it seems like the machines would just become rare enough that it would no longer be profitable to try and scam them, and then the scam would become less popular as opportunities became less common. Once you get down to only one or two people pulling any given scam, it behooves them to not be so blatant about it that their source is shut off entirely. You'd need more than a handful of independent operators before the tragedy of the commons starts to apply. But still, that's a simple trick that anyone could try, and only a small percentage of those eligible actually went through with it. Applied to a much smaller scale (level 6+ non-Lawful spellcasters), it's not a guarantee that more than one or two who even want to pursue that career option, and those few should have enough sense to not kill off their market by being too blatant. If they stole enough to make society re-evaluate the whole concept of a bazaar, then bazaars would end and people would simply stop taking this feat since there was no longer any obvious gain to be had, which means bazaars would come back a generation later when people forgot what they were afraid of, and it should basically stabilize out to the point where application of the feat wasn't significant enough to kill off the bazaar. Probably. Of course, all of this is predicated on the fragile premise that sixth-level spellcasters are common enough to disrupt the market and ninth-level spellcasters are basically unheard of. While it [I]might[/I] follow from that premise that bazaars wouldn't exist if you add this feat to the mix, that premise doesn't hold in all worlds. In some worlds, there will be dozens of high-level spellcasters available in any given city. In some worlds, even first-level spellcasters will be rare enough that they can't wreck the economy. Saying that the existence of this feat would guarantee bazaars don't exist is like saying the existence of Eladrin (in 4E) would guarantee that they are killed on sight since there's no possible way to detain them; it requires a fairly specific confluence of circumstances in order for it to logically follow. [/QUOTE]
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