LOOT NEWS: PM Wyrom left a long post (or several…) regarding the loot data since the changes in January. He said: “We moved the needle hundreds of millions. Not billions like the goal was.” The bottom 95% made more, the top 5% was where things were before the changes, and the top 1% didn’t quite hit over 32m anymore. They will be analyzing the data and restrategizing before upcoming adjustments. Join the discussion on Discord.
Text of Discord Post follows:
PM Wyrom
Loot Data
on 31 March 2026 at 9:16 PM
from the Official GemStoneIV Discord
on #general-announcements channel
Just checking in here at the end of the month. We are going through the data and we’ll need to make some adjustments. While the optics are likely there are a lot less silvers now, the reality is, these changes barely moved the needle. The bottom 95% made more silvers and the top 5% was right on track of where things were before the changes. The only different is the top 1% didn’t quite hit over 32mil anymore.
I certainty realize this isn’t the best solution. We turned a lot of knobs his time and we dove right into it. And it wasn’t enough. So we need to restrategize and come up with a plan that works. We’re not going to simply roll this back, but we aren’t going to keep the current implementation either.
The goal isn’t to create a fair market where we try to dismiss players who put in the work to earn while giving more to the people who don’t put in the effort. It’s to make sure we can keep silvers worthwhile and to keep providing value to them without hyper inflating all prices to match top earners.
We’ll announce something soon, I can’t give an exact date, because we are going to analyze the data beyond big number too big. We put a lot of effort into this. I give back as much as I can to the GS economy. I sacrifice a lot of time to make sure enjoyable events can happen with silver and I continue to fight for CLAIM to exist, because I find it very important.
We’ll be in touch soon. Not :rsn:, just soon as we can.
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As for the Fash item, they won’t stack, but we’ll figure out how we want to work that in. Accounting (not Chris in Billing) will have to get over it.
I also know this is always hard to believe, but there are thousands of unique players who play GS. The average playtime is a little over an hour. And that is removing anyone who just logs in and out for login rewards. So there is a big pool of players not represented here.
That’s part of the data we need to examine. Most 1%ers are well over 20mil. We think we know what’s happening, we’ll need to determine if a loophole, an oversight, or GMA.
The bottom 95% didn’t really make less in March. The median was actually higher.
We moved the needle hundreds of millions. Not billions like the goal was. I do think part of it is people get down and out by the negativity and might think they are impacted. Lot of herd negativity can happen. Just like real life, most people are undecided where they land, and will follow the lead.
I’ve never used Lich, but I do think something people are using are also reporting very high number recordings from some script. Might be something to look into from those script maintainers.
Right now, 94 people hit loot cap this month. There are 1,782 people who did not. And there are a lot of zero earners we don’t include.
Loot cap is account based.
But the last few messages sound more like, hey these are really good changes for the whole game. But like I mentioned, we’re going to go over the numbers and restrategize. Make sure our goals are clear and we’re designing the game with those goals in mind.
Maybe we’ll sell bridges for big silver sinks too.
I know that 94 accounts had less fun with loot cap in March.
This is a game, the aim is fun.
To answer some questions that went silent in here. The goal is also not to make things like trading, purifying, chisels, etc worthless. We just need to strike a balance. I really want to be able to continue to offer everything I can for silver. I am your biggest advocate. I just want to get it under control in some way.
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