Castle and the Market$

markeeting DR lets go

In an older game I played there was Store bought weapons and Player made weapons. Store bought weapons were rated at 100% efficiency, Player made weapons could get up to 200% efficiency, with slightly better stats. The point was to get people to by player crafted enhancements or craft them yourself. If you couldn't afford them at the time, you could outfit yourself with store bought ones and then save for the playermade ones.

I wish this game was more like that - sure we can do that with SOs, but the gap between SOs and Set bonuses is huge. Here is what I would think could be a discussable idea:

Establish a normal baseline of what people are usually willing to pay for IOs - more on this later
Allow all Crafted IOs to be bought from a store, these can't be stored or sold on the market.
Add a flag to all player crafted IOs which grant either Extra percentages or better set bonuses (Maybe an extra %HP added or another %recharge point added)

This would allow players to purchase already crafted IOs from a vendor and that money is now destroyed. A user could then save to craft their own IOs or purchase off of the market.

The real question is how to determine how much IOs should cost from the store? player demand is different. LotG might be worth 100million each for me store bought, but only worth 50million from someone else?



I would also like to add that Purples and PvP IOs wouldn't be able to be store bought. There needs to be a different vehcile for getting PvP drops though.

I was incorrect.

From Paragon wiki: http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Consignment_House

Previously, at the time of server maintenance, any characters not logged in for 60 days would have their consignment items deleted. However that changed with the release of Issue 14 (April 07, 2009).
Characters (on active accounts) who have inventories, bids or items for sale in the Black Market or in Wentworth's Consignment House will no longer have to log into the game within 60 days to avoid item or influence/infamy expiration. In-game Black Market and Wentworth employees will still give their friendly reminder, however if your account is "active", they won't take your "stuff".
Note: The definition of "inactive", now refers to an account whose subscription is no longer paid for. Yet there is still some question as to whether the consignment item deletion for inactive accounts also has the 60 day grace period.

However, the note above might explain what some folks are seeing. For ACTIVE (as in you are paying--doesn't matter if you NEVER log in) accounts you stuff stays there past 60 days. Also it seems (sounds like from the wording) that the deletion won't occur if you pay up on your 59th day. Whether you log in or not.

EDIT: macskull was correct.

They could also have special event inf sinks. I think the first thing they need to do is change the rate at which inf is generated. But even if you do that, you have a bunch of inf in the system that needs to be yanked out. Rather than add a permanent inf sink, which might start to look cruelly expensive after everyone becomes impoverished, you could have a one-time-only inf sink that may or may not reappear the next year.

Imagine a store that sells fireworks for inf, but only in the first week of July. How much inf would that suck out of the system? If needed, you could reopen that store in December, for a New Year's celebration. If the amount of inf in the system goes down, you can adjust the fireworks prices downward.

A costume shop that sells the Halloween temp powers during October? You could trick or treat for them or just buy them, your choice. Either way, they would expire at the same time.