05-02-2003, 04:40 PM
And with Gold Find additions to items, the gold amounts you suggest will become trivial to acquire.
Gold is actually quite useful.
1. Repairs
2. Buying Blue items of particular quality for socketing, use, or cubing
3. Merc Resurrecting.
4. Gambling.
If there was to be any change, IMO the place to change Gold's role would be in Gambling.
Make Rare's the game's Best items again. If we do that, as it was in original Diablo II, then Gambling becomes a method for trying to get excellent rares, as does MFing loads of monsters to jack up the drop rate.
That would also make dupe deletion easier. Doing a comparison every few days of all rare War Pikes, for example, and s pitting out those with identical stats would be pretty easy to do from a data search and management perspective. If the results show obvious duping, erase them all from the servers. That would put a totally different spin on the item market at ebat in terms of how perishable a super item is. :) Legit MF traders, whose reputations could be verified, would still possible make some dough. By keeping track of who they traded stuff to, they could even help blizz track down dupers if someone bought one and then duped it for further profit taking.
When certain well know rares are discovered to be duped, then the ALL of them get deleted, since the original finder and or the person who traded for it before the first dupe are guilty, as accomplices, of contributing to the dupe.
Fan outrage? Bah. Caveat Emptor, the Real law of the Economy!
Gold is actually quite useful.
1. Repairs
2. Buying Blue items of particular quality for socketing, use, or cubing
3. Merc Resurrecting.
4. Gambling.
If there was to be any change, IMO the place to change Gold's role would be in Gambling.
Make Rare's the game's Best items again. If we do that, as it was in original Diablo II, then Gambling becomes a method for trying to get excellent rares, as does MFing loads of monsters to jack up the drop rate.
That would also make dupe deletion easier. Doing a comparison every few days of all rare War Pikes, for example, and s pitting out those with identical stats would be pretty easy to do from a data search and management perspective. If the results show obvious duping, erase them all from the servers. That would put a totally different spin on the item market at ebat in terms of how perishable a super item is. :) Legit MF traders, whose reputations could be verified, would still possible make some dough. By keeping track of who they traded stuff to, they could even help blizz track down dupers if someone bought one and then duped it for further profit taking.
When certain well know rares are discovered to be duped, then the ALL of them get deleted, since the original finder and or the person who traded for it before the first dupe are guilty, as accomplices, of contributing to the dupe.
Fan outrage? Bah. Caveat Emptor, the Real law of the Economy!
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In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete