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dr_aplet · Feb 12, 2007, 07:02 AM // 07:02

a couple of notes. i like the armor polishing/dirtying, perhaps every 3 days.

one thing that would be cool is to buy a set of skins for your armor. preshined and colored all pieces are the same. effect and color changes the price.

another thing that would be cool is a locker (extra storage) that cost money each time you access it.

also for those that have titles people should be able to buy medals that pin on your armor that show your accomplishments without haveing to look at their name. for each change of armor new medals must be pruchased. again it does not affect the gameplay but is a cool effect.

i also really like the idea of gambleing,
1. it gives ppl something to do when they are hanging out without having to leave the conversations in the town. conversing and gambling, its like drinking and smoking.
2. gives ppl the oppertunity to amass wealth quickly (not reall, house wins) just one more role... one more hand.

something esle that would be cool is to pay for some kind or relaxiation, trip to the hotub/pool, massage.

their could also be a tax incured in different towns to open up merchants. say for example, a person chooses a home town (Personal houses) and is tax free there only but any where else there is a small hike or fee for using merchants.

lastly if they incorperate the private shops idea then there would be an "advertisement "fee or "set up shop" fee

Collintag · Jul 15, 2007, 03:41 PM // 15:41

I posted this before but the threads have been moved around and I can't find my old idea anymore so sorry if anyone notices the redundancy.

How about a lottery?

Once per week there could be a lottery with one grand prize rare skin weapon/item and maybe 100 other item prizes or gold. This would only bring in a small amount of gold and items into the economy but take a lot of gold out from those that didn't win. It could be made as either character based or account based so that people are only allowed to buy a set number of lottery tickets per week (like 1-5 tickets), kind of like the treasure chests are limited to once every 30 days per character. This would prevent people with lots of gold from buying 1000 lottery tickets every week to increase their chance of winning and being greedy.

I think this would be a fun activity and could also count toward Gamer and luck titles. Imagine every friday night the drawing is held in towns across GW and one lucky winner gets a Tormented Shield and 100 others get 5 or 10k. The next week the prize is a rare mini-pet or 20 ectos. The options are endless!

There would be one blackout day per week where no tickets can be sold and that would be the drawing day. That way Anet can award the prizes based solely on the existing tickets and make sure only one grand prize gets put out there. Instead of redeeming tickets at an NPC, prizes would appear automatically in players inventory as a gift box like the birthday presents do. This would also prevent players from hoarding up tickets for several weeks in order to redeem a ton of them all at once to increase their chance of winning. There could even be a winners list posted each week in the main towns kind of like the Tournament winners trophies.

Torino Cowell · Jul 15, 2007, 07:54 PM // 19:54

i think this is a really great way which could help put the economy back on tracks . great idea!

Nemo the Capitalist · Jul 15, 2007, 08:37 PM // 20:37

/signed...........

even greater way for Anet to let us waste more time online...

we all win

btw need elite mission titles as well.

Example: r2 SAge fool of the deep

Trump card 500 runs in there ^ ^ u go boy

Diddy bow · Jul 15, 2007, 09:55 PM // 21:55

A weapons mod trader would work i think. As it is now the countless ammount of gold that changes hands with mods just geos from one player to another but a trader would start makeing the gold dissapear. Its about time weapon mods lost the "magic" and anet just accepted they are a neccecity

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Willow O Whisper · Jul 15, 2007, 10:31 PM // 22:31

My gold is alredy dissapearing without these cool features

like the idea

genofreek · Jul 16, 2007, 04:28 AM // 04:28

I really love the idea of /dances that can be learned by various characters (Warriors rocking out like Necro men? Hell yeah!), hairstyles, and a few other cosmetic changes.

Not so much for some of the broken items like purchasable goods that kill DP, but I don't think ANet would implement those anyway.

Hyper.nl · Jul 16, 2007, 08:02 AM // 08:02

Quote:

Originally Posted by spiritofcat

There is a problem with the economy in the game as it is now.
That problem is that gold is created at a much greater rate than it is destroyed at.
This causes inflation, a decrease in the value of gold.

[...]

I don't agree. Actually, we have seen quite a big deflation lately. Almost everything has been lowered in price quite a bit, rougly since the hard mode update. Prices have been lowered with 30 to 50% approximately. Sometimes even more.

Examples:
Unidentified golds: used to be 1 to 1.5k, now they are 800g to 1k.
Ecto's
Black/white/red dyes
Sapphires
Vigur runes
Many greens
Domain of Anguish gemstones

freekedoutfish · Jul 16, 2007, 10:10 AM // 10:10

I /signed all of them except the housing idea. I dont see a need or reason for houses. I wouldnt offer any actual functionality and it would just add to the bandwidth being used.

We have storage to store items, so I just dont see a ingame benefit.
We have guildhalls to hang out if need be.

KlutzySpy · Jul 16, 2007, 10:33 AM // 10:33

/signed

i would give hundreds of platinum to change my necro's haircolor

Torino Cowell · Jul 17, 2007, 06:27 PM // 18:27

this is a really good idea which i hope is considered for both the long term and short term . it would definately have an impact on the in game ecomony

October Jade · Jul 17, 2007, 08:16 PM // 20:16

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hyper.nl

I don't agree. Actually, we have seen quite a big deflation lately. Almost everything has been lowered in price quite a bit, rougly since the hard mode update. Prices have been lowered with 30 to 50% approximately. Sometimes even more.
Examples:
Unidentified golds: used to be 1 to 1.5k, now they are 800g to 1k.
Ecto's
Black/white/red dyes
Sapphires
Vigur runes
Many greens
Domain of Anguish gemstones

Did you bother reading the date of the post to which you refer? Twenty-five months ago. Around that time, runes routinely sold for tens of platinum, and black dye and ecto were the only de facto money sinks in the game.

rancidgoat · Jul 17, 2007, 09:00 PM // 21:00

i really dont see how these are going to help GW.

i mean they look nice and all but i cant think of a good use for them,maybe in your guild hall to wash up after a GvG?

genofreek · Jul 17, 2007, 11:59 PM // 23:59

Ba-dum-tssh.

TigMagick · Aug 13, 2007, 10:43 PM // 22:43

I like the idea of changing looks, and more + foods for in game.
Also like the house idea, but that would lead to more ppl want to get "married" in game. I'd only pay to have a house if I could "invite" someone to join in or go to someones house if they wheren't online. Since I play w/ Family members I got addicted... I mean introduced to GW