I think you are overreacting. Silver output was approximately halved, but this is the beginning of a discovery process: finding a balanced silver generation rate. So yes, slashing output by 50% may have been too much, but your complaint is a good thing as it helps me figure out what value is too low.

I don't accept that the previous rate of silver was balanced. It clearly wasn't: the money supply has been increasing at an unprecedented rate over the last few months. Measuring the growth of the "server balance" on /baltop actually gives you an underestimate of the money supply growth rate, because many choose to keep their money in physical form or in town and nation banks. There were also several farms being planned or beginning construction, so this growth rate would only have increased over time.

Raising upkeep is not the answer to this. This is for two reasons. Firstly, there is no strong correlation between wealth and the amount you pay in upkeep. A miner or silver farmer could live in a town of a few chunks and pay less than $30 in upkeep. Secondly, raising upkeep to a rate that offsets the excess money earned from silver would entail towns paying thousands of dollars a day. That is obviously not an acceptable solution.

Tl;dr: New rate too low? Probably. Old rate balanced? Not really. We'll find a reasonable rate eventually.

I believe that it would have been a better course of action to reduce the ease at which gravel can be obtained electronically rather than reducing the silver rate from gravel. I

understand that silver may be op but this punishes the wrong people I think.
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For example, the cost of cobblestone in the igneous processor or the cost of turning cobble into gravel in an electric ore grinder could be increased instead, this punishes large electronic silver farms instead of punishing those who may be mining for gravel and making money that way.

Yeah I agree it’s better to slow the speed or increase energy cost of the electric ore grinders and electric gold pan, limiting silver in the electric dust washers isn’t the best way to solve the issue

Wooo i agree

The past few updates have been getting worse and worse and keep damaging the WRONG part of the playerbase. I dont silver farm much as its a rather boring grindind process. But when I do I dont want to make so little because a certain player has no life and has a grinding addiction. We arent all the same

What I suggest is like the ones above my message. Increase electricity cost to damage large farms and not small ones as much.

even reworking the time/energy cost would be better
slowing down the rate of electric ore grinders (and lowering energy per second accordingly) will limit no lifers as the amount of money they can earn each day is limited

The current silver nerf is a direct nerf to silver, what I mean with that is, any other dust was not affected by this nerf.

All of these "nerf gravel" or "nerf the SF machines" suggestions will also affect the other dusts, which is not what we're trying to achieve here, the only direct and correct nerfs for silver are the current one or lowering the amount of money obtained per ingot.

all dusts should be nerfed though too not just silver

no nerf needed pls just return it to the normal rates

theres also billionaires irl so why not here

blue the other dusts are so useless i could start giving them away for free just because i dont want more than 50 dubs of useless dust. also slowing down gravel production doesn't negatively affect other dusts as they are so common