Campaign Currency Exchanges?

dragoness10 · February 2016

First off Devs, excellent listening and implementation of the Stables system. TYx1000

This is the suggestion that got brought up again the other day in our Custom Channel chat - Currency exchanges.

Let's say you have 100 Gauntlegrym Coin lurking in your inventory, but you don't want any more of the regular Glory bought armor for PvP. You'd like some of that nifty new PvP gear you get from doing Stronghold PvP. If only there was a way to get banners faster for effort you've already put in!

Another scenario - You've ended up running Sharandar a million times with your guild mates, and dutifully picked up the campaign currency quests EVERY time to get currency for the Guild Coffer at the Stronghold. Another project is currently in the works so you're holding onto those 200 Crescents until you can donate again. Meanwhiles your progress on the Well of Dragons campaign has halted until you can earn more Cult Secrets.

A possible solution to both of these situations to assist players would be a Campaign Currency Exchange located conveniently near the Bank in Protector's Enclave. Walk in, trade currencies, and progress in campaigns/ aquire currency for gear / aquire needed currency for guild coffer.

(Please note, currency exchange would NOT cover any Shards of Vouchers. These remain in inventory as Items.)

A good ratio for the conversion rates would be 2 to 1. Also, the level of currency would have to be equal.

2 Gauntlegrym Coin for 1 Banner, or 2 Banner for 1 Gauntlegrym Coin.

You would not say be able to exchange 2 Cult Secrets for 1 Feywild Spark because Feywild Sparks have a higher value. You COULD however exchange 2 Feywild Sparks for 1 Dragon Fang (of the Well of Dragons Campaign).

Why the 2 to 1 ratio? You want people to still have to put in effort in doing some of the campaigns, but not be able to autocomplete anything besides the Cryptic money making Zen items for Campaigns. (Cryptic needs to pay its Devs! )

This would also allow guilds to meet Campaign Currency requirements for upgrades in the Stronghold faster via exchange.

There's the suggestion - discuss below please.

durynte · February 2016

Isn't the very characteristic of the various currencies to NOT be exchangable? If it was tradeable then some could buy their ways through campaigns by means of currency trade, and that is not intended, I guess, other than with Zen.

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dragoness10 · February 2016

If you are an avid PvPer whom has puts most of their gameplay into Gauntlegrym that effort should not be wasted by preventing you from getting the Stronghold gear by lack of banners. However to balance that the exchange CANNOT be 1 -1 to be fair to those whom didn't do Gauntlegrym much, or are new players. Hence the 2 - 1 exchange rate suggestion.

The same goes for campaigns. Effort put in counts for something, but would not automatically put you ahead of people starting a campaign on a character, or a new player. You would STILL have to buy the packs for automatic completion whether it be by RL money purchase, or in game exchange.

EDIT : There are botting concerns on this. A daily limit of how much you can exchange per grade of currency may be put in so this helps limit botting possibilities.

somtaawkhar · February 2016

The problem with currency exchange is that people will just exploit whatever is the easiest to obtain currency and then exchange it for everything else, bypassing all the work you are supposed to put into obtaining them in the first place, and making all the already trivially easy campaigns easier.

Although I do think every campaign should be updated to allow players to exchange their currencies for AD, like you can in the Underdark campaign once you have unlock everything.

hammbo1969 · February 2016

Another scenario is, as demonstrated by moi. You are a purely solo player, no guild. You've run all campaign content (barring Strongholds of course) and have maxed all campaign currency. You've also raised all artifact items to legendary/mythic so no point exchanging your currency for belts/necks from the vendors. How about swapping xxxx currency items for xxxx AD.

To be honest, whether you do or don't is not important to me personally, but would be nice to not be capped - again...

malakut · February 2016

Yes yes yes and please yes!!!

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dragoness10 · February 2016

magenubbie said:

somtaawkhar said:
The problem with currency exchange is that people will just exploit whatever is the easiest to obtain currency and then exchange it for everything else, bypassing all the work you are supposed to put into obtaining them in the first place, and making all the already trivially easy campaigns easier.
And this is why, no matter how many arguments you can find in favor of the suggestion, it will never happen. If they will allow any way to skip content it'll be through the zen store.

There can be adjustments made to campaigns so they are more "equal" to do. They did that when the number of required tasks to complete in the Elemental quests went from 16 down to 8.

Zen purchase would be for the "superlazy I want to spend money" players. That's more "complete" for a campaign. Using leftovers as a true F2P may not complete a campaign, but it'd help speed it along.

The idea of other campaigns offering a currency to AD exchange might be possible. Aforementioned concerns on botting though will be brought up against it.

Maybe we need more enchant options?

If you have more ideas or something else to say then please - post below.

Campaign Currency Exchanges?

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