UO still needs a gold sink!
we have 20+ years of gold accumulated in this game. and we have tons of players that have been around that long... there have been days ive made 20plat in a day...i know others who have made more..... we need a way to get gold out of the game, not just 20m here 40 mil there...a real chunk of gold at a time.......
So heres my idea. What do people spend gold on in game...well the same things they spend money on in rl...big flashy things to impress the people around them. People will pay insane amounts of money for a junk CU just because of its color "blaze". People will pay slightly less but still insane amounts for rehued renemed EM things.
We already have Gypsy's in game. Why not take a page from WOW and their darkmoon fair. Why not have the Gypsy camp set up outside a town for 3 days once a month. they could offer rehued pets, not more powerful, not a new graphic "unless an artist wants to make something special"
you could have an exotic trainer in this band of Gypsys. they could
offer one rehued pet a month. lets say when they rolled up in Yew this
trainer offered an abyssal hued CU for 4plat....and that 3 day span is
the one and only time they will ever offer that hue of that animal....
now thats a gold sink. people will spend all month making money for
when our beloved Gypsys roll in.. people will look forward to it....
people will buy stable slot tokens off the store!
Lets say for example, they show up on a Friday outside the town of Yew. They have games u can play for turn ins "like in the dungeons now". you pay gold to play these games and it would be totally random as to if you win or not. the games themselves could cost less as you would be working to a bigger prize. a deco item of some sort thats is currently in game but not available to players
The same could be done with a weapons master, they could have some really nice weps... some could be equipable only in fel "for the pvp lovers" they could also only do damage to other players in that facet, would be useless on monsters.Could apply same thing to armor for fel pvp.
You could also make them sell bank sitting armor...where it would be a set of pretty much junk armor but it could look uber cool and have a sparkle effect or something when u double clicked it..... all this stuff couple also be a plat or so..... anyway just my random thoughts as i sit here trying to find a reason to log into UO......
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well rich player problems roll down hill friend. when there is an inflation of gold then even common every day crap prices raise. and to people returning or people who dont farm for drops, em items or do idocs it can be really challenging to keep up
2) I am not sure if this is a good idea, which is to allow paying of uo store item using game gold. Make it possible but not "cheap".
3) Character transfer is overkill. Most of the time, we do that just to transfer items. Sell a token with 100 charges that can be used for item transfer between shards. One charge per transfer.
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Start the roll Ill take a plat or 2. Ill spend mine and not need incentive.
Why don't you distribute those Plats among new and returning players who need it VERY much in order to afford all of the High end items, Powerscrolls that would make them competitive with existing, Veteran players ?
Giving something to buy would just make it yet another exclusive items that only those with the "Plats" can afford to buy....
Instead, re-distributing the gold to New and Returning players would bring back all of the players' base to a more common ground....
Just a thought.....
How about they bring back chaos vs virtue or factions with some gold sinks tied to them, or even a revamp to vvv with some gold sinks
Unless you can come up with a way to make sure the "gold" comes from the player not "Avatar" and his like it's not worth the effort. I can see the web having a sale on in game gold just in time for the "Gypsy Fair".
There are a lot of things that go into pricing. It's not just the amount of money available in an economy. If gold you can get from PvM doesn't mean anything anymore then why is gold farming still a thing, which it is?
this si the only game i played the gold stay on ground after champ and no one loot gold...and still price go up...maybe some massive gold dupe still occur just saying...
Cheers MissE