Wait..milk? Heirlooms and building apartments in banks? Wtf?! I'm willing to wager that made a lot more sense when you said it inside your own head.
I'm pretty sure you meant "tantamount" as well.
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The point is, based of what the game actually sells, it's more worth it to buy elixirs with gold rather than Platinum. Buying an elixir that costs 10 Platinum and lasts 5 minutes or until you die =/= Buying a campaign that costs 10 Platinum that you can spend 15-20 hours on. Based on that specific relationship (as opposed to just cash/gold/platinum ratios), you'll find that Platinum costs are very erratic in some areas of the game and totally renders cash/gold/plat ratios useless. For instance, Ozz the Merchant sells a lv 5 bow that cost 10 Platinum, or 20 gold. What's the deal with that?
I guess we now know for whom the "buy with platinum" button in the elixir store was created.
Thanks for all the feedback besides the rage about potions :/
I understand what you're saying and although I dont want to beat this to death, perhaps I haven't been clear enough...
I never said anything about 10 plat. pots. That manipulates my entire point of cost effectiveness from the get-go.
Secondly, I never mentioned or even alluded to the idea of NOT buying campaigns bundles or other game content. Using platinum to increase the depth of the game is a fabulous idea especially considering that theres...no...other...way...to buy it. So grats for that insight.
I having a hard time recalling many circumstances where "very erratic" platinum costs convolute the "cash/gold/plat" ratio into complete uselessness...Yeah, there's a few merchants that have awkwardly posted prices. It's probably a typo. If a player has a problem making the decision on which currency to use in these tumultuous moments, they're brainless.
Bottom line?
A person's play-style will dictate how much of which currency they will spend during an amount of time. Personally, I do my best to keep my toons in the best possible gear at all times even if it's for a short duration. That costs me a lot money, so in this case, gold is my bottle neck. Frankly, I'd love to hear money-ain't-a-thang from the people who think using plat for pots is ridiculous. Using the cheapest pot you're burning 18k in gold for one hour of game time. So please, create a thread and share some of that wisdom. Now that I'm thinking about it, the gold using players probably don't pot nearly as much as I discussed from the beginning which was....all....the....time. If you pot...all...the....time like I did because you were doing Keeper Runs in your dreams. Use plat. If you throw one back every once in a while when the stuff hits the fan, drop gold. That's a gangbang of logic and mathematics right to the dome.
Thing is, you can farm gold while using said elixirs -- you can't farm plat.
I can understand using plat for things that can't be bought with gold, but otherwise I don't get it.
At this point I don't think you will get it especially when you cease to grasp the paradox of spending gold to acquire a similar amount of gold. Using platinum to buy farming pots instead of gold is not only sensible, it's mathematically superior. Please refer to my above post and read it slowly lest we ride this merry-go-round again.
Welcome to the god equation, no matter how perfect it is, you are wrong. Why? I shall explain myself
Our entire Universe has been worked out in theory to be mathematically superior, but it's not, yet we function the same, do we not?
Platinum may be mathematically superior, but you have no way to calculate the personal value of real currency to that equation, making it not mathematically superior. You could counter with personal value of in game currency, but its not defined as true currency. It's Fiat money, but not real currency.