1.0.3 Coming Changes

[Kevin]

We keep mentioning there need to be more gold sinks - what sorts do we suggest?

I haven't really thought down this path too much but I'm wondering what reducing gold drop values and increasing the sell price of blues/rares would do. I'm talking tipping it so that most of the gold you get is from selling stuff not from picking up gold, which was more like the D2 model, where you could sell items for 50K (I think that was the final cap) but piles were still only in the hundreds. I'm not talking about giving items sell values like that. Just treating all item drops as gold, and changing the balance so that the same amount of "gold" drops but that most of it from items. Right now items sell for about as much as a pile from the same mob though I'm going from memory not from any data on that.

You'd have to drop the mat costs for crafts because mats suddenly have more value, but assuming crafts are desirable still it would seem that doing this would at least slow the flow of money into the game which would make current sinks more effective.

Again I haven't given this anymore thought than just posting it. Which is why I'm interested in the discussion.