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Drifter Salvage -Let's Move it Move it

gerberatetragerberatetra Posts: 825 Arc User
edited October 2013 in Suggestions Box
In the opening of the Mega-D event one of the things that was brought up was Drifter Salvage and making it account wide.

TT was a good sport and asked the Devs [I know not whom].

The response was the usual Cryptic blanket response*; "we don't have the technology".

But never fear! The Red Robot is here to halp!

Here's what you do.

Give the Drifter an item, called Drifter's One Time Trade Token .

They should come in denominations of 1, 10 or 100.

Not surprisingly they cost; one, ten or one hundred Drifter salvage respectively.


What do these Trade Tokens do you ask?

Why you click them and they turn into Drifter Salvage.


Awesome right?


Well.. no.

First they need to be at least Account Bound

Awesome!!!

Now you can chuck these babies at yourself, or other toons willy nilly!

But wait there's more!


For tons of extra fun.. don't make them bound at all!!

That's right Billy! Now you too can trade all that Drifter Salvage you've hoarded up!


Think of the possibilities!



*Don't get me wrong. I don't hate the Devs, they are our friends and helpful game makers. But I've been burned by this excuse often enough that we should know it's a lie. It really means, "We haven't Figured it Out and Don't want to" If you're wondering why, ask some geezer like me about the 'We Can't Make an Exit Button fiasco'.

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  • gerberatetragerberatetra Posts: 825 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    And yes, I know they can do this...

    Cryptic..

    ..can make a box that drops Drifter Salvage..

    +

    ..can make Drifter Sell stuff for Drifter Salvage..

    +

    ..can make Drifter Sell items/boxes that aren't bound or are..


    =

    ..they can do this!!

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    Some may come and some may stay
    Watching out for a sunny day
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  • flamingbunnymanflamingbunnyman Posts: 1,995 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    I don't think that making Drifter Salvage tradeable is a good idea. But making it Account Bound is a brilliant idea.

    Bonus points if they make future boxes just drop the account bound items.
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  • theravenforcetheravenforce Posts: 7,153 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    Why not just create a slot in your hideout banks which allow you to deposit Drifter Salvage from all your toons? Allowing it to be a shared currency?

    I have a number of toons with odd bits of Salvage on, would be nice to be able to consolidate them into a lump sum
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  • gerberatetragerberatetra Posts: 825 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    theravenforce wrote: »
    Why not just create a slot in your hideout banks which allow you to deposit Drifter Salvage from all your toons? Allowing it to be a shared currency?

    I have a number of toons with odd bits of Salvage on, would be nice to be able to consolidate them into a lump sum


    They've flat said on multiple occasions that they 'can't' do it with the current tech.

    I dunno why

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  • theravenforcetheravenforce Posts: 7,153 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    gerberatetra wrote: »
    They've flat said on multiple occasions that they 'can't' do it with the current tech.

    I dunno why

    Have they tried turning it off and on again? :tongue:

    lol?

    I'm no developer but if they were tagged as currency then it should work in a similar fashion to G/N/L currency.

    Perhaps the developers who made hideouts had coding data that the new team don't?
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  • gerberatetragerberatetra Posts: 825 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    theravenforce wrote: »
    Have they tried turning it off and on again? :tongue:

    lol?

    I'm no developer but if they were tagged as currency then it should work in a similar fashion to G/N/L currency.

    Perhaps the developers who made hideouts had coding data that the new team don't?

    Well I don't know it it has anything to do with Hideouts per se.

    But the Tokens would be handy.

    Here we are now going to the West Side
    Weapons in hand as we go for a ride
    Some may come and some may stay
    Watching out for a sunny day
    Where there's love and darkness and my sidearm

    In game as @forgemccain
  • gerberatetragerberatetra Posts: 825 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    flamingbunnyman wrote: »
    I don't think that making Drifter Salvage tradeable is a good idea. But making it Account Bound is a brilliant idea.

    Bonus points if they make future boxes just drop the account bound items.


    I was hesitant about putting that idea in there, but.. I really can't think of a good reason why it shouldn't be.

    Virtually anything it can buy is tradable, so why not the resource itself?

    Conversely things like Recognition aren't but most of the things it can by aren't either.

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  • crypticbuxomcrypticbuxom Posts: 4,630 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    Why not make Drifter Salvage tradeable? They already have your money from the keys that were used to open them.
  • spinnytopspinnytop Posts: 16,467 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    I like the idea of Drifter Salvage being an actual item that sits in your inventory that is Bind To Account and stacks to 999. Cause then I can be like... look at this stuff I salvaged.
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  • gerberatetragerberatetra Posts: 825 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    spinnytop wrote: »
    I like the idea of Drifter Salvage being an actual item that sits in your inventory that is Bind To Account and stacks to 999. Cause then I can be like... look at this stuff I salvaged.

    Would be kind of nice...


    Hmmm...

    Cowboy hat icon?

    Nah...

    I'm thinking maybe a pile of junk icon.

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    Watching out for a sunny day
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  • avianosavianos Posts: 6,200 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    While you are still on it, can we get MORE COSTUME PIECES in the Drifter Store please?
    like... I dunno THE CURSED EYES WHICH were AVAILABLE on the Introduction of the RetConed Ghost Cowboy into a Cyborg Cowboy, Drifter?!!!

    Seriously why was those Removed?

    If you want the Cursed costume packs but you werent around during the Cursed Grabbags, you are pretty ****ed!! since you will never have access on them (just like Power Replacement Costume Unlocks)
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  • gerberatetragerberatetra Posts: 825 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    avianos wrote: »
    While you are still on it, can we get MORE COSTUME PIECES in the Drifter Store please?
    like... I dunno THE CURSED EYES WHICH were AVAILABLE on the Introduction of the RetConed Ghost Cowboy into a Cyborg Cowboy, Drifter?!!!

    Seriously why was those Removed?

    If you want the Cursed costume packs but you werent around during the Cursed Grabbags, you are pretty ****ed!! since you will never have access on them (just like Power Replacement Costume Unlocks)

    I don't know really. There's no good reason we can't get this stuff now by some means or another...

    Hmmm..

    I think that older stuff should be on Recognition Vendors instead.

    I really don't want to end up paying for* content that's essentially been paid for already.


    *and yes it being in the drifter store is essentially being made to pay for it, lets not go down that road.

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    Weapons in hand as we go for a ride
    Some may come and some may stay
    Watching out for a sunny day
    Where there's love and darkness and my sidearm

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  • gansetseggansetseg Posts: 48 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    I'd like to see tradeable Drifter salvage. I'd love to see it as something we don't only get from lockboxes.

    I'd like Questionite to be easily tradeable, too.
  • klittyklitty Posts: 1,540 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    Do you know what would be nice? To have a Wallet system. All resources shared by all characters in one... Simple... WALLET.

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  • gerberatetragerberatetra Posts: 825 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    klitty wrote: »
    Do you know what would be nice? To have a Wallet system. All resources shared by all characters in one... Simple... WALLET.

    *rides a charriot pulled by kittens back to Tyria*
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    Me too.

    But again they said they couldn't do that *shrugs*

    So this is something I know they can do.

    Here we are now going to the West Side
    Weapons in hand as we go for a ride
    Some may come and some may stay
    Watching out for a sunny day
    Where there's love and darkness and my sidearm

    In game as @forgemccain
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