Adding new quantities of OG rares is a touchy subject and something we don't have any plans to do currently. Two ideas that have been floated by players which would be nice to hear some discussion on are:
a) Releasing new items which are identical to party hats, but can only exist on ironmen, and letting ironmen buy them from a store for discounted prices (since there's not much use for GP on ironmen beyond a point, but it would be hard to thieve 50m on an iron)
b) Letting ironmen buy a rare from a player using gp and have an admin facilitate the trade (truly endgame since that's a lot of thieving)
c) or something else
Let us know your thoughts!

I'm all for ironmen getting rares, especially previous ones. There are very few ironmen with any OG rares. My ironman has red phat, skull mask, santa, elf, Winter hood, winter cape, winter gloves, black ears, 2 reaper hoods, and 2 hunter capes. Whenever an event is hosted for rares, I always try to get the rare on my ironman before doing it on my regular account. As a droid player, it's not very easy to multi accounts (especially more than 2). I think that every so many years, a new portion of hats should be dropped. We've had numerous people banned with rares and another bunch quit thus making them rarer and rarer. Maybe drop a single color each year and only so many of them that way it doesnt change the market on every color at once?

I'm not good with ideas on the situation but I do know that I dont want the value of my ironman rares to go down as there are few with the items. If it gets implemented that we can just buy them from a store, I'd want to be able to xfer the ones I have to a normal char first.

b) Letting ironmen buy a rare from a player using gp and have an admin facilitate the trade (truly endgame since that's a lot of thieving)

Definitely do this.

As for adding more og hats to the game, it probably would not be a bad idea to replenish the stock to at least what it was a year or two ago or something, pretty sure the count would be dropping somewhat significantly every year. Great way to get tons of people participating in some cool big-scale events.

From my point of view, I have worked my arse off to raise the money to buy rares. In specific relation to Party Hats, the market has fluctuated and evolved organically as the population and supply of Party Hats has fluctuated.

Yes, with recent occurrences there may be less Party Hats in the game now but I think it is a very bad idea to re-release any Rares as that would have an outside effect on the market immediately.

A simple example being the re-releasing of Party Hats. Simply through supply and demand, the price of Party Hats would immediately be reduced and all that work, all that effort that players such as myself put in to afford their Hats would literally be invalidated in one foul swoop.

I watched the price of Blue Party Hats go from 36m to 50m and higher. Prices rise and fall based on player interaction. It happens every day from trimmed armour to the more expensive Rares. If a player wishes to try and grab a Rare at a bargain price, they need to time their pulling of the trigger carefully, watch market trends and try and strike deals.

Keeping up with the fluctuating and ever-changing market of Rares is an exhausting exercise but it is meant to be. Rares are so-called because they come with exclusivity.

If you want a specific Rare, set your mind to doing whatever you can to obtain it. Make money, save that money and, one day, you will ultimately have the cash to buy that item - no matter the price.

The making of money is not impossible. No matter what the amount. There are plenty of people on this server that are obscenely wealthy and if you were to ask a bunch of them how they did it, i assure you that you would receive multiple methods used.

Re-releasing Rares, at least in my instance and opinion, will piss off and upset players that bought them at a price that was as a result of an organic market’s evolution.

I do not believe re-releasing Rares should ever happen. Admin should concentrate their efforts on the design of new rares.

As for Ironmen, i believe that they should be able to buy Rares from other players through Admin mediated trades. Just because an Ironman is an Ironman doesn’t mean they can’t make however much money they so desire. I can think of at least one skill that requires literally no market interaction and makes gold appear out of thin air...

I mean if you wanna go with supply and demand, the supply has probably already decreased from people quitting/dying/alching by accident. Maybe release a low amount of new rares but as rewards for tournaments and other events?

There is enough rares in game for the population size imo.

It's just that a few people have MULTIPLE rares/sets and horde them.