Anyone have a currency cheat sheet?


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The sheer amount of currency alone makes me reluctant to play the game and now I see that they are adding more. Anyone have a breakdown of the different types of currency/rewards for myself and possibly new players?


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*head scratch* I guess I can throw one together.

How's this?


 

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Originally Posted by Chaos Creator View Post
*head scratch* I guess I can throw one together.

How's this?
/golfclap

Very nice.


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Reward Merits
Vanguard Merits
Hero/Villain Merit

Incarnate Shard
Incarnate Thread

Astral merit
Empyrean merit

Architect Entertainment Ticket
Prestige
Candy Canes
This list brings pain to my fingers....

I consider Shards and Threads as invention components not necessarily a currency. I don't understand why the Reward, Vanguard and H/V merits can't be combined into the same system to simplify things.... Why are they really different? For what they are used for, it really doesn't scream out to me the need for a difference.

Astral/Empyrean merits are imo simply there to encourage ppl to play iTrials more.

Arc-E Tickets I can kind of see the reason to have them to use for Arc-E bonuses but then again, why not use Merits for the that too... after you get past opening up maps and characters and such they are good for some of the same stuff merits are good for. (recipes and salvage, ect.)

Prestige No other use but Base related items, ok fine.

and Candy Canes... a seasonal goodie... not too bad



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you forgot that shards can be converted to threads, left out Notices altogether


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By the technical definition, we only have one currency in the game. Everything else is nontradeable token systems. I don't see keeping track of what's out there as particularly daunting either. I have a harder time remembering which alts got which drops and where my salvage and recipes are, than keeping track of who has how many tokens.


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you forgot that shards can be converted to threads, left out Notices altogether
Updated. I considered notices but didn't consider it worth putting. If you think it is.. well then done.


 

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By the technical definition, we only have one currency in the game. Everything else is nontradeable token systems.
Very True.... and it just gets harder and harder to keep track of who... has what.



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You included the Incarnates stuff for crafting, but left out salvages (regular and halloween)? They're tradable even. But then again, if tradable is a criteria, then even regular enhancements apply.


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You included the Incarnates stuff for crafting, but left out salvages (regular and halloween)? They're tradable even. But then again, if tradable is a criteria, then even regular enhancements apply.
Grumble grumble. Added!


 

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There is a ridiculous amount of currency in the game, it's true.


 

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Grumble grumble. Added!
Pictured it more along the lines of: *$&@#....@#*&*&%!!!!!..... fine.....



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I started to put this guide together...

http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/How_To_Get_Stuff

but I ran out of steam by the time I finished inspirations. It's still on my to do list. Personally, I ran out of brain space when the empyrean thread whatever came along. It's funny. I was totally on top of the market. I mastered inventions with no trouble at all. The various kinds of merits struck me as silly, but I could handle it. I studied the Incarnate stuff when it first came out, and quickly got myself a nice Alpha thingy. Then they made more Incarnate stuff, and something in my brain just snapped. Now I know how the camel felt. I haven't played any of the Incarnate content since they added threads. It's just too much for me. If I play that content, I might get a thread, or some kind of new merit thingy, and I won't know what to do with it. Or even worse, I might get a choice of rewards, and I won't know which one to take. Caught between my fear of making a mistake, and my inability to figure out how to avoid a mistake, I'm paralyzed. I've only played low level characters since those new thingies came out, and even those not very often.

I realize it's dumb. On the other hand, it's a pretty common phenomenon in the real world. I'd like to think that if this actually mattered, I'd find a way to get over it, but since it's just a game... oh well. There are still story arcs in Ouroboros with no star beside them, so I've got fun things to do. I was hoping that maybe someday I'd catch up and master the intricacies of an increasingly complex game, but apparently I'm just going to fall farther and farther behind. With a full time job, an evening master's degree program, wife, kids, and trying to keep the house from falling over, I just don't have any more brainspace for this game, and what I've allocated in the past is apparently no longer enough.


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I like Chaos' spreadsheet.

One thing I thought of that's not on it right now is using tickets to create invention salvage. That seems potentially worthwhile to mention, since both things are on the table, and as far as I know, it's actually a moderately common activity.


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The sheer amount of currency alone makes me reluctant to play the game and now I see that they are adding more. Anyone have a breakdown of the different types of currency/rewards for myself and possibly new players?
Adding more?

Paragon Points are not in game currency like Merits, Inf, etc.


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Left out the 2 ? new ones Points and Vet Tokens ?

Just a guess seeing as the installer license agreement specifically mentions it, NcCoin may be in there somewhere as well


 

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Left out the 2 ? new ones Points and Vet Tokens ?
There's not enough information about Paragon Points or Paragon Reward Tokens to include them on a currency chart now.

They're also going to be global currency, not character-based like everything on that list.


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Left out the 2 ? new ones Points and Vet Tokens ?

Just a guess seeing as the installer license agreement specifically mentions it, NcCoin may be in there somewhere as well
But these are not currency -not in-game anyway.

Vet tokens are (Paragon rewards) what the current vet reward system is becoming.

paragon Points are the buy-for-real-money points used for the game store (costume pieces, etc)


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First, thanks Chaos!

Second, I am thinking of currency as anything you can exchange for rewards. Like the paragon points, something else, and the new coming vouchers.


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Originally Posted by Redd35 View Post
First, thanks Chaos!

Second, I am thinking of currency as anything you can exchange for rewards. Like the paragon points, something else, and the new coming vouchers.
OH 2 more, Vouchers and certifications


 

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Paragon Points are the buy-for-real-money points used for the game store (costume pieces, etc)
I was under the impression that there WOULD be an in-game store to use those.



 

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Originally Posted by Redd35 View Post
First, thanks Chaos!

Second, I am thinking of currency as anything you can exchange for rewards. Like the paragon points, something else, and the new coming vouchers.
Eh, the vouchers really are not currency, unless you want to call vet badges currency. It's just how the system marks you having bought things with empyrean and astral merits while lacking a method of doing a global unlock cleanly based on in game actions. The only other global in-game unlocks are either Epics (which can frequently be forgotten by the system) or AE related (and some people apparently have issues similar to the epic ATs there too)

If you are going to call Vouchers and certs currency, then so are recipes and salvage, really.

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I was under the impression that there WOULD be an in-game store to use those.
There will be but the currency itself won't be obtainable in game - and represents (directly) real-world cash. So I find it bad to call currency compared even to the various merits and such.


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I like Chaos' spreadsheet.

One thing I thought of that's not on it right now is using tickets to create invention salvage. That seems potentially worthwhile to mention, since both things are on the table, and as far as I know, it's actually a moderately common activity.
Added!


 

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I do not think Notices belong, but if they do, then so do the other Alpha slot components that TFs drop and the components that drop in the trials (or can be crafted with threads). It might be best just to have a category called Incarnate Components which would include Notices, the Alpha components, and the trial components.


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