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We oughta get some good Resource sinks going.
keikomyst
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All we really have to spend G on nowadays are costumes, retcons and the Auction House, and the Auction House does very little to sink G's from the game. Also, bags and healing devices I GUESS, but they're a little pointless, especially since buying bags is a one-time thing and we can just heal ourselves with powers.
I'm not saying we should increase the price for manual retcons and costume changes. I'm saying that we should get more things to spend our G's on.
1. Drifter Salvage for G's
OH GOD OUR PROFIT MARGINS. 10 G per 1 salvage? 100 G for 1 salvage? Whatever. Just let us buy Drifter Salvage with monies.
2. Old weapon unlocks
Price them at 50G or 100G or even 200G a pop.
3. More Bank slots
200 G, 300 G, 400 G, etc. etc. etc. up to 1000 G for ALL THE BANK SLOTS.
4. Sell old lockboxes at a vendor for 10 G a piece.
And that's all I got right now.
I'm not saying we should increase the price for manual retcons and costume changes. I'm saying that we should get more things to spend our G's on.
1. Drifter Salvage for G's
OH GOD OUR PROFIT MARGINS. 10 G per 1 salvage? 100 G for 1 salvage? Whatever. Just let us buy Drifter Salvage with monies.
2. Old weapon unlocks
Price them at 50G or 100G or even 200G a pop.
3. More Bank slots
200 G, 300 G, 400 G, etc. etc. etc. up to 1000 G for ALL THE BANK SLOTS.
4. Sell old lockboxes at a vendor for 10 G a piece.
And that's all I got right now.
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Players buying keys with money to open lockboxes to get salvage makes them money.
Players selling questionite for zen, which was purchased with money, to open lockboxes to get salvage makes them money.
Selling salvage for resources instantly loses them all that money that the pvpers are spending to get those legacy devices, as well as the money that people who like vehicles are spending to get those cool salvage vehicles.
By weapon unlocks I'm guessing you mean the weapon costume options? Yeah, I have this terrible feeling that we're never seeing another new ( or returning ) costume option unless it comes from a lockbox.
You can buy more bank slots with Zen.. so again, they lose money if they let you get them with resources.
And selling lockboxes for resources... well, that wouldn't lose them any money... but that's also not a resource sink. Plus it seems they got the message and somewhat reduced the drop rate for lockboxes anyways...
Also, I can barely keep my resources in the triple digits, and you want to stretch resources even thinner? I already gotta farm questionite... I don't wanna farm resources too
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by the way, Silver people? Sub for a month and buy your Bank Slots with resources. You spend less RL money that way.
Congratulations you have just solved the issues you pointed out
along with all the OPs suggestion impliment a zen to gold exchange rate maybe 1zen = 50G or somthing that way once people burn there way thrugh there gold reserves purchasing all the new resource priced goodies they can then top up there gold by converting purchased zen into resources.
And proceed to watch the market, quite literally, explode due to the sudden loss of G value?
Yeah, not really a good idea, especially when the economy already is unstable.
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1. Charge Silver players a 1-time fee in resources, based upon their character's level, to change their power colors right then and there. They can pay per-power or for all powers, and they get 1 color choice per purchase.
2. Have an "unbinding fee" to unbind an item. There would, of course, have to be some limitation to this - like if items are meant to be bound from the start, then they wouldn't be able to have this function performed on them.
3. Have lesser version of the Alert buffs available for a resource cost - for instance, you could buy a 10% XP boost, (that'd stack w/ the Smash Alert buff), for an amount that's reasonable and scales w/ character level.
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look around on AH, there are lots of them, they come from lockboxes.
One day I bought a large sum of boosts with around 60G. Ask around and people would probably have them eager for selling.
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I'd add a extra condition to this - no unbinding of limited use items with less than the maximum number of uses.
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4. Convert Global to Recognition
This will give a broader access to those mod packs in those Recog stores.
5. Add a vendor that sells Experience
Characters can use their Globals to buy out experience in RenCen. Also there's an option at the end of collecting a mission to convert experience gain into Resources instead.
There's two functions to this that benefit all character levels. You can level faster through content to somewhat keep up with Smash Alert leveling. Max level characters can decide to get money rather than useless experience that disappears.
No need to program the XP Gifting function when you can just give Globals to players to buy levels.
Keep Alert XP as it is, perhaps even boost it a bit. But charge globals to enter. And charge double if it fails.
Dose gold really have a value at the moment?
also if that gold was then being used to purchase something like drifter salvage at say a rate of 10G per 1 salvage its going to take a lot of gold to get a decent amount of salvage. If they did it maybe as 100Zen = 10g = 1ds that would serve to drain some of the excess gold floating around out the market but also open up the possibility to make money from the players purchasing Zen to convert to Gold.
If you add highly desirable items that are available for in-game money, people start hoarding and farming cash to get the items. Once they've got it, they KEEP building up cash, so they can afford the next thing.
Inflation is impossible to combat in a world where everyone has a printing press to crank out alk the money they want. And that describes every MMO I've ever played.
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What? People have no control over who they get queued with, so you can't actually go punish them for fails.
I queued the Mind I'm running atm for an Alert yesterday, and at level 8, she was the third-highest character in the group. You can imagine how that went - but that wasn't the fault of the two level 20-somethings, who would've cleared the alert with another char their level (or may even if I had had a Radiant, which unlike another alleged support AT seems to get a Heal by level 8).
Well, the point is with a cash entry. Lower levels will be discouraged from running alerts. Either they are really newbies and wont have the cash to sink into them a lot without supplementing their grind with real missions. Or they are alts being bank rolled by higher level characters, with the assumption being such players would be typically more skilled and savvy then your average fresh noob.
And with a failure penalty its a minor way to discourage leeching and quitting out. The idea being if you want to grind on easy street youll have a small toll to deal with. If you want to grind risk free there is always the alert free way.
If you discourage people from using Alerts as an alternative to doing the annoying Westside arc for the umptillionth time, you discourage them from playing new toons at all.
(And don't even get me started on how Craptic, in another show of heir infinte lack of anything that could, with a lot of goodwill and turning blind eyes, be mistaken for even a smidgeon of a semblance of something vaguely akin to wisdom, also saw fit to assign one of the two level 15 crisis zones over the other, giving you insufficient choice there, too.)
So the difference between doing umptillionth alerts. Is different from doing umptillionth westside arcs, exactly how?
Repetition is repetition, however you want to color it. Right now alerts offer so much more too gain that running normal missions almost feels like short changing yourself. I don't think that adding a toll to alerts is a penalty as much as it brings them into parallel with everything else. There-by actually increasing diversity, instead of pretending options exist in the face of completely unbalanced choices.
I thought this thread was about resource dumps, why are you talking yet again about how to gate people out of smash alerts?
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Yet again? Do you know something about my posting history that I don't? Ive not really been vocal about alerts, for or against, at all. Truth be told, i'm not really vocal about much of anything.
As far as the rest, the suggestion was for a resource sink. The idea seemed a simple fix to several well talked about complaints...beyond just resources. Regardless, it was just a suggestion. I honestly see no need to take it personally.
Like, rather than getting the entire hideout as we currently do, our hideouts come in a series of stages, bought with Resources or Zen (include the option for profit, but keep the free option at absurdly high prices).
Of course, this would take time.
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For what more bank slots ? After On Alert i didn't even used 1 bankslot anymore. Before of course everything was packed with crafting materials and Elite Blues from Freon Runs, but now i only pack R4 and R5 Mods in my shared bank (that i've upgrade after On Alert) and thats it.