TC drives the Toribash community and is used to value any and all merchandise in Toribash. Hence, I find a discussion of the value of TC "Discussion" worthy.

// Most of what I say is focused around the Art/Textures board. This is simply because I'm not a Marketeer.
// Feel free to include how much TC per hour you've made via Marketing. As this is highly relevant information.

Flipping burgers at McDonald's nets you at least 7.25 USD per hour in Texas. Conversely one would need to make a 72.5k head-texture in one hour to match this rate.

Of course, no-one expects texture making to be a substitute a real job. But these rates raise a question. How much is TC really worth? I'd say it takes an average of five hours to make a head worth 50k for a decent texture artist. That gives a rate of 10k per hour ~ 1USD per hour. This rate means that making textures for TC is equivalent to getting paid one dollar for an hour of work (Which poor incentive for people to become great textures).

The art market seems pretty inactive at the moment (See 300k minimum set request with no participants. This isn't just nitpicking, the inactivity and lack of will to create new art generalizes to other requests and the rest of the Art/Textures board as well. If you think otherwise feel free to say so and discuss those matters). Does the value of TC have anything to do with this? I don't think there ever was a time where 1USD ~ 1k. But, if the value of TC doesn't have a huge impact on the activity of the Art/Textures board, then what does?

Finally, as I said before, I'm no Marketeer. So I can't say for how healthy the Items board is. If someone could give some input on this that'd be great. From my observations though it seems relatively healthy. The flames market seems pretty dead and hair's don't seem that popular either, but of course they just got released.

There have been people who have made quite a lot of money with this game.

As I recall, leys said that he has bought cameras and what not for himself using the money he got from selling tc he got from dueling.

I'm sure someone could make a living doing this, but it would be extremely hard to do.

If you were to make a living off of toribash, you would need to be the best player that ever has/will exist..

No you don't, dueling isn't the only way to make tc.

Some people market or make art.

Yea, look at shevaroler, he has 1 million tc and he's only a 2nd Dan

Putting a value on tc is hard and I can't really answer it but I did do some interesting maths regarding this.



And regarding artists.

Lots of people make textures and art just because they enjoy it. Getting paid is nice but it's not their whole reason for doing it.

With people buying tc with there own money, which puts more into currency. Is it possible to get a stable number for tc's worth?

how about i just play in tourneys all day a shovel like a pro so i can win money xD jk jk jk im not serious...

but i would geuss that considering the lower prices of items on the market, tc value would deminish, simply because the market becomes "ebay" or "craigslist" where you get things much much cheaper.

Wait, but where does the tc you get from a booster come from? Isn't it just spawned out of nowhere? So, if you did do this, and you managed to obtain 60kk tc, that would lower the value of the Toricredit and would result in some inflation, right? Taking that into account, tc rates would instead be a little lower. I think.

If you just kept all of the tc secretly to yourself and didn't use it at all I don't think it would cause any change but as soon as you start selling it in copious quantities and introduce it into the market then the prices would start to shift.
Anyway, no idea how long this method would work for because you're correct, yes. Tc from wins and tournies is effectively spawned out of nowhere. Or an out of market source at least.
Because of this the booster method would probably only last a few months before the tc cap is reached.