Curse

lefty hagorn · Mar 14, 2006, 04:19 AM // 04:19

It would help stop the ebay gold selling people and also stop the people who have been holding crap for months to buy what ever they want iin chapter 2. It would be a awsome idea to send everyone into chapter on an even playing feild.

96TSi · Mar 14, 2006, 04:20 AM // 04:20

yea! we could have sojs!!

master_ranger_matt · Mar 14, 2006, 04:23 AM // 04:23

O.K., this should go to the Sardelac Sanitarium game suggestion thing. It wouldnt stop ebayers, they would farm the new currency as well. The reason you want this is you're probably poor. I myself have a good bit of money saved up for chapter 2, and I feel after farming for many, many, boring hours I should be rewarded and be able to get what I want when Factions comes out. The good players and those with experience should reap their benefits, if not then why not reset everything everyday to even it up?

Ninetail Trickster · Mar 14, 2006, 04:24 AM // 04:24

Quote:

Originally Posted by 96TSi

yea! we could have sojs!!

Sojs? Sausage? Meat for money? o_O
Er, anyway.
Seems like a good suggestion, but I think that's why the primary currencies are Gold, Platinum or monster components- all of those break barriers. Every society in the world (for the sake of clarity) wants gold, platinum, and other precious metals.
Er, also, I'm guessing it may be too late to do such a massive alteration this close to release. >_<
Edit: Dangit, I wouldn't've replied. I thought this WAS in Sardelac.

Sunai · Mar 14, 2006, 04:24 AM // 04:24

Sorry, but this would stop nothing. It might take a little while for ebay gold sellers to come back, but they won't be gone forever. You can also take items between campaigns, so nothing would stop you from buying a bunch of materials from a Prophecies trader and selling it to a Factions trader, for example.

Chillin-N-Killin · Mar 14, 2006, 04:24 AM // 04:24

oh for the love of god no SOJS if they introduced sojs i am going to kill myself.
I like it just the way it is.

shadowfell · Mar 14, 2006, 04:26 AM // 04:26

Yay, another bad idea. Threads like these are started usually from the viewpoint of people who haven't spent or invested wisely and would really like to see the people who have, start over with nothing. Silly.

Besides, most of the wealthier players worth isn't estimated purely in gold, it's for the most part, rare materials and items. Very nice ones. Wouldn't matter -what- the currency is, those items will still sell, and be worth, a LOT of them.

However..

While we are at it, how about we declare 2006 go for broke year, so that in 2007, they can reset the national economy, absolve credit card debit and level homes, give everyone a polka dotted sack of bologna sticks and let everyone start over from scratch again. Maybe we can trade in pogs next fiscal year...

96TSi · Mar 14, 2006, 04:27 AM // 04:27

haha the soj idea was a joke. but a funny idea.. kinda like the ogre slaying knife lol

i like the fact that gold is worth something in this game. if there was a new form of currency, it would be sold on ebay just as much as gold is now so what would be the point in changing it?

noblepaladin · Mar 14, 2006, 04:32 AM // 04:32

New currency would not work. I'm sure that people in Factions will want some of the Greens, Superior Vigors, etc from Prophecies (i.e., people would buy Superior Vigors with gold and give to their new characters). So, the items/gold just leak right over.

WasAGuest · Mar 14, 2006, 02:53 PM // 14:53

New currency is a great idea. Just call "gold" something else. Now it's "new" but we have lost nothing.

/pouts over the loss of the bulwark, due to rollback last night.

Kawai · Mar 14, 2006, 03:06 PM // 15:06

I think this is also a good idea as well, as it makes everything even.. better yet they shud call it jade pieces. They shud make the merchants and everyone in the Factions map only trade in that currency.. And then the proficies people can play against the factions people in some competitive way to adjust exhange rates lol...

Kitty · Mar 14, 2006, 03:20 PM // 15:20

That would just be overly complicated for all the players who have linked games.

Starsky-sama · Mar 14, 2006, 03:21 PM // 15:21

Quote:

Originally Posted by lefty hagorn

It would help stop the ebay gold selling people and also stop the people who have been holding crap for months to buy what ever they want iin chapter 2. It would be a awsome idea to send everyone into chapter on an even playing feild.

IMO. still nothing wrong with gold being a currency.

If Anet wanted everyone in chapter 2 to be in the same level field, what was the point of creating Prophecies(ch.1) and then making an expansion. By what you are suggesting, why not just make a completely different game that doesnt associate with each other. Also, then Anet's whole idea of linking or not linking(standalone) goes out the window, bcuz not everyone will be choosing to link probably and those players will be missing ch.1 content on their ch.2(factions) standalone account. Hence, by not having both/ or linked you will already be missing the total available content possible for a game account.

Also, players do not only use "gold" as currency anyways at this time in the game. All tradeable items ingame are already being used as currency.

/g'day.

KvanCetre · Mar 14, 2006, 03:25 PM // 15:25

Would SoJ give us +1 to all attributes?

eudas · Mar 14, 2006, 03:27 PM // 15:27

(referring to the OP)
this is the dumbest idea i've read all day. of course, the day's just started, but still.

eudas

Str0b0 · Mar 14, 2006, 03:29 PM // 15:29

Yes the SoJ would give +1 to all attributes but it would make your gold worthless. That's it's secondary mod. I believe it reads." Ruins the economy 100% chance" LoL

EDIT: On topic though I would like to say that gold has been a universal currency since the first man was able to pick up a piece and go. " Oooo pretty." True this is real world history versus fantasy land , but it is just more likely that if one developed society on a planet uses gold the others will as well. It's just the way we are. We value the rare and the pretty.

Captain Arne Is PRO · Mar 14, 2006, 03:53 PM // 15:53

.............. what about when you link your account are you going to carry around 100k gold and 100k ... mesos?