massive revaluation

A thought popped into my head today. Suppose the devs decide that they don't like how big the numbers on the market are. Imagine they are content with the amount of time it takes to earn the inf necessary to buy the loot. They just don't like seeing such big numbers with so many zeroes.

How could they use the new Going Rogue* expansion to massively revalue our currency? Some way of trading in huge amounts of inf to get small amounts of NewCurrency, which can be used to buy equivalent amounts of stuff. Maybe something as simple as making merits and AE tickets purchasable with inf, at steep prices. Or a new currency, maybe one that can be used in a new cross-faction Praetorian market or something?

I dunno. It's just something that popped into my head. What do you think?




* Not to be confused with the Going Roget expansion, aka "City of Heroes, Protagonists, Stars, Champions, Capes, Guardians, Exemplars, Protectors, Paragons, and Villains, Criminals, Miscreants, Scoundrels, Evil-doers, Malefactors, Rapscallions, Rascals, and Reprobates."

we already have enough currencies in the game. we do not need anymore.

All they need to do is give us attractive inf sinks.
Or more of them, anyway. Costumes and the market fee can only evaporate so much wealth, even with Fulmens out there doing the work of ten normal players.

One idea I saw that I like is a crafting table inside every Wentworths that anybody can use, except it charges 2x the 'usual' fee.

Some variation on the inf-for-prestige base exchange in the new zone is likely.

Oh hey, here's an idea- what if inf (influence or infamy) can be spent on filling up your Going Rogue karma bar? It makes good thematic sense, you're 'destroying' your reputation in your old haunts to be accepted on the other side.

Actually....it wouldn't surprise me ab it if this is one of the mechanisms they use to switch sides.

for every table

for every field with a unit of measure of INF

divide by 10

Tickets buyable = instantly make inf more valuable.

I think my problem with this idea is that I'm not really interested in making concessions for people that bad at simple division and multiplication.

I also don't think it's as big an effect as you do, because I encounter very few people in game who seem to have that particular problem. In fact, I'd say I meet more people in game who grok the whole relationship between selling things for profit and earning enough to buy things than I do on this forum. Even when I run into people who haven't really thought about that, they often seem more accepting of an explanation of it than folks who post to the contrary seem to.

Most of my characters have somewhere from 50-60 free costume tokens. Each. I agree that the game could use more things to spend my lucre on.

In my opinion too many currencies are part of the problem and part of the reason we are here in the first place. The more currencies the more diluted each currency becomes.

IMO if the devs are happy with the current loot generation rates then they need more and better influence sinks to soak up the excess and reduce the pool.

One of the first steps would be to make the influence to prestege conversion equal to the rate that influence is converted to prestege by being in SG mode. They might actually get more people to use the feature if it was equitable.

Next would be to eliminate invention salvage from base created items and substitute prestege in all cases. (Why does every SG have to find or buy all the components for their base items. There's probably a SG supplier out there that could sell them the fully assembled unit). It could even be done in a way similar to the real world.

Buy the parts to build your computer in the real world or buy it pre-built. The former is cheaper, the later (usually) faster though more expensive. Both ways (with reasonable associated costs. It does no good at all if one way is measurably superior to the other) would give more options.

Next eliminate invention salvage requirements for empowerment buffs and convert them into influence costs that scale with player level. The devs could also make those buffs have a longer duration, and higher magnitude/value for a much greater than base inf cost.

Adding salvage into the market system by not spending it for bases and buffs would increase the availability of that salvage and decrease it's price while simultaneously reducing the inf pool by making it used for temporary buffs.

Increase the functionality of the Auto doc / tree of life. It can be used to sell things make it possible for it to vend more things as well, make tier 2 inps purchaseable there or allow players to craft or create multi-aspect inspirations there or at the crafting table for large fees.

As an example a player has a tier 3 heal insp and a tier 3 endurance insp. For a (largish?) fee at a crafting table it could be turned into a tier 3 "teal" inpsiration that does both heal and endurance simultaneously.

Make temp powers available for a certain amount of influence (perhaps even a "fixed" value at Wents like the AH one use teleporter). There are lots of temp powers that are rarely seen in game that could be made purchaseable with inf.

I personally would repeatedly pay a decent amount of inf for a temp power that does nothing except raise the accuracy of all my other temp and vet powers to 95%.

You've come up with some great ideas, MK. Now if we can just get the devs to act on them...

I'd say simply give us -inf associated with debt. It would fit thematically, too.

The numbers can't be too high, though, or we'll drown in a sea of whine. But say, get defeated at lvl 50 and you lose 100k. Not much by any standards (2 lvl 50 SOs from Ghost Falcon), but every little -inf adds up.

Also I like the idea of double crafting cost tables at WWs, even though I'd never use them myself.