A Gold Sink

[StompArtist]

If people weren't willing to pay the crazy cs prices then items would not cost so much...only way to stop ridiculous prices really is to not pay them..then prices will drop.

This works in a normal economy. PL has an infinite amount of gold coming in and virtually no gold coming out (potions aside).

[Conradin]

Guilds!!!!!

Let us custumize our guild hall for cash! Things to add could cost 20k-5mil. This is the perfect gold sink.

[vaffunculo]

What about the ability to dye armor? You would be able to craft dyes into your armor to make it more personalized, just maker the dye very expensive maybe 500k per dye and one dye is only enough to do one item.

[Yvonnel]

What about the ability to dye armor? You would be able to craft dyes into your armor to make it more personalized, just maker the dye very expensive maybe 500k per dye and one dye is only enough to do one item.

I like this too!

Tapatalk'd from my PowerWashed Fascinate

[StompArtist]

What about the ability to dye armor? You would be able to craft dyes into your armor to make it more personalized, just maker the dye very expensive maybe 500k per dye and one dye is only enough to do one item.

That is a great idea.

[drewcapu]

There are a couple of gold sinks in place but the amount of gold is so low that they are not effective: cs listing price

This is the simplest one to implement.

Listing fees that scale upwards a bit more for high priced items.

[AdinoEznite]

i think the guild customization and the dyes are good ideas

the whole 500k = 1 plat seems kinda ridiculous
i could just download a free app for 1 plat
i think you have to make it more enticing...either 500k for 5-10 plat because otherwise i dont see people using this gold sink at all

[CanonicalKoi]

KOL had a big problem with this. They made a bunch of silly things that cost a fair amount of gold and siphoned it out of the economy. Stuff like the ability to "send" another player a birthday card or cake or a Valentine's Greeting or a balloon bouquet, things like that. One of the most popular items was the Wall of Graffiti--you purchased your can of spray paint for gold and painted whatever slogan struck your fancy (keeping it semi-clean at least). Stuff stayed on the wall for 3 days, I think, before it faded out. If you wanted it back up, you bought more paint.

And David's idea really isn't that silly--make some vanities purchasable only with gold. It doesn't have to be the same as the plat versions--gold antenna, anyone?

ETA: Hey, there's an idea. Make a wall (or four or five) in Balefort "Memorial Walls". You buy a brick with your char's name on it for gold and it goes into the wall, on display for future generations of gamers to wonder what the heck an Otukura/Apollo/Mysticaldream/Rauen is.

[Otukura]

A few of the issues you have listed can be fixed by simply flooding more Low level pinks into the game.. IMO this will affect 2 things:
1) prices for low level pinks will drop and allow a level 10 to actually afford level 10 gear.
2) money invested by all the high levels will be lost on the twink gear they have bought.

No this isn't exactly a gold sink for high levels but I think everyone needs to remember in any economy there will be the rich and then there will be the poor. It only makes sense that the longer you play the more money you should have. what I really think needs to happen in this game is the fix of the amount of drops as the game progresses. if you think about it as the game gets older so do the players. The rarity of the drops at the higher and newly released levels should remain the same but as the game goes on I really feel lower level pinks should become more common to prevent the type of inflation that we have seen from occurring and making the gear basically unobtainable to lower levels that actually need it which is what we are seeing now.

Either way that's my 2play...lol

Flooding the markets would defeat the purpose of a pink, making it non legendary. Something no one liked at level 45. I'm not sure if this is an anyway influenced by your wealth, but I think that it would be a plus for merchants. You, say, 100m might be worth 3 times the value now.

perhaps the devs could add a sorta lucky dip e.g you put in 10k and get a random chance for good loot (scaled to your level) so you will get a pink sometimes good sometimes bad just random i reckon this would be awesome just make getting a good one really rare cause i can see rich people abusing this so much!

An idea! I like the random part of it; even something like a 10k mystery elixir, that would be a random plat elixir. Plain 2x damage/armor/xp for 5 minutes would be common, maybe a combo elixir would be more rare.

Here is a gold sink...
20 Plat = 500k, you can buy it once a week. Atleast the players who wouldnt prefer to pay real money for the game would be able to sink some money for something that will get burned up.

That's the exact opposite of what I'm saying... did you mean that in reverse? (edit: saw Glutt's post, guess we both thought that)

Houses. Purchase with plat. Weekly gold rental fee. Upgrades for gold, etc.

Tapatalk'd from my PowerWashed Fascinate

Another idea.

Perhaps I don't understand what a gold sink is, but crafting is based on drops and the gold isn't exactly lost but traded. Elixirs used to be a true gold since they were consumable items, the gold you put into them was lost after 5 minutes of play time. Even though recipies are consumable, the gold isn't lost since they are drops and if they're bought from cs then the gold you spent to get it may be lost to you, but another player has it so it's not actually sunk into anything.

As for the other suggestions, they are already implemented into the game in a form of plat sink. Corpser's random loot chance is basically the idea behind platinum item packs. So as Drewcapu stated once the best idea for a gold sink has been identified, even if STS implements it into the game it is only a matter of time before someone from the marketing division realizes the potential to make actual money from the idea and it become a plat purchase only. I think Ixillicus' idea was ok in reverse (but has been suggested numerous times) to allow players to turn gold into plat, but more realistically 500k = 1 plat so a capped player can only get 20 plat per week (maybe change that to month), but again this could cause STS to see a decrease in revenue even if only a bit so it doesn't stand much of a chance to become a reality.

There are a couple of gold sinks in place but the amount of gold is so low that they are not effective: cs listing price, guild charter purchase. What about some new form of quests; you would have to pay a premium to accept them and the end product is a desirable prize, maybe use the hard to acquire crafting pieces or even some of the non set pinks from Nuri's campaign. Maybe even a completely brand new set, much like how cyber set was. Talk to Nuri and she will offer you a quest, kill 1000 zombies in Haunted Symphony and get a para scrap/glyph blade steel and since the item is a quest reward it won't be tradable or sellable. Quests would cost 25k to start for crafting parts (maybe 100k for blade steel), and 250k to start for actual gear. This idea basically makes it so you're buying these items along with a bit of work and the finished product you cannot sell or try to recoup your losses via cs, so once the gold is spent it's gone.

Love the post, as always.

While this is true, eventually it will catch up with them and bankrupt them. I know a few players that lost millions doing that at nuri launch time.

Welcome to the forums.

Guilds!!!!!

Let us custumize our guild hall for cash! Things to add could cost 20k-5mil. This is the perfect gold sink.

Was thinking of this after seeing Yvonnel's post, +1.

This is the simplest one to implement.

Listing fees that scale upwards a bit more for high priced items.

Was thinking of that too, a while ago. I'd actually like a smaller fixed price and a higher percentage. Listing stuff for under 2k doesn't pay off too much.

KOL had a big problem with this. They made a bunch of silly things that cost a fair amount of gold and siphoned it out of the economy. Stuff like the ability to "send" another player a birthday card or cake or a Valentine's Greeting or a balloon bouquet, things like that. One of the most popular items was the Wall of Graffiti--you purchased your can of spray paint for gold and painted whatever slogan struck your fancy (keeping it semi-clean at least). Stuff stayed on the wall for 3 days, I think, before it faded out. If you wanted it back up, you bought more paint.

And David's idea really isn't that silly--make some vanities purchasable only with gold. It doesn't have to be the same as the plat versions--gold antenna, anyone?

ETA: Hey, there's an idea. Make a wall (or four or five) in Balefort "Memorial Walls". You buy a brick with your char's name on it for gold and it goes into the wall, on display for future generations of gamers to wonder what the heck an Otukura/Apollo/Mysticaldream/Rauen is.

Hehe, also love the post, as always. I'd buy a brick for each of my characters. Only thing I don't like is that it's a one time thing, not something you'd be buying a lot of.

[Ayc2000]

Hehe, also love the post, as always. I'd buy a brick for each of my characters. Only thing I don't like is that it's a one time thing, not something you'd be buying a lot of.

every month costs 100k?
or there could be some glorified bricks that you have to pay monthly for...then when/if you quit, you can revert back to the normal brick with no monthly fee

[Whirlzap]

Simple. Make the Omnipotent Crown of HARDCORE Dreams available to be bought with gold. Will 5 mil do the job?

You spent Omnipotent wrong. Good idea, but call it Hardcore, because it's not only for people who are rich in real life.

[Whirlzap]

Flooding the markets would defeat the purpose of a pink, making it non legendary. Something no one liked at level 45. I'm not sure if this is an anyway influenced by your wealth, but I think that it would be a plus for merchants. You, say, 100m might be worth 3 times the value now.

I'm agreeing with Tank on this.
DROP RATES ARE WAY TO DANG HIGH!
Some game I played before, heck, the lowest drop rate was so low it took developers a few weeks to test it.
Around 0.0067 I think. And the drop is the best weapon in-game from the highest level boss.
In this way, we would only see one of these drops maybe once every month or so of the whole community farming.
In other games, 0.5% drop rates were considered to be high and such. But here, we have like...1% drop rates and still complain lol.:/

[Whirlzap]

Some suggestions for gold sinks:
GAME-WIDE Message Microphones, 50k or something fee per use. It would be a function available to all and simply for advertising, fun, or other purposes.
Restrictions are:
-Swear Word Filter
-5 minute cooldown to prevent spamming
-Limit of 100 characters to prevent flooding

[Otukura]

I'm agreeing with Tank on this.
DROP RATES ARE WAY TO DANG HIGH!

Tank wants to make them higher.... Anyway, I'm sorta opposed to the idea of Megaphone type things. Every game I've seen it in is a dying game, and they seemed to be put there just to draw the last bit of money out of the consumer's pockets they can.

[Otukura]

NECRO, cuz I still think it's relevant, more than ever.

[NECROREAPER]

NECRO, cuz I still think it's relevant, more than ever.

Oh hai

[XghostzX]

I didn't realize this was kind of a bad problem after reading all of these posts. There are simple things that have been listed above that should definitely create a gold sink:

1.) Guild Hall decorations.

2.) More customization for your character through gold: too many items are in the store that cost plat.

3.) Not even a guild hall... housing would be better too!

Although I don't think that players should have the ability to purchase platinum through gold.

[Phoenixking]

Mounts and pets for golds, item combinations, gem and lil peices added to items badges on chest, create a sheild (put your logo on a vanity sheild) paint walls (guild hall some town area), ability to hang pictures (tap to zoom), book of guild memories (book in a pedestal in guild hall with memorable pics. All for gold, now I'll (-O.O)--[]_GO_] on specifics

• Mounts And Pets

1. In a certain town there will be a stable with mounts in them, you can rent them for a period of time like renting a horse in a tourist spot. And it's a certain price per hour or per minutes for gold, you get more speed, and the better and more cools that the mount is the higher the price by better I mean higher speed, armor, and dodge.
2. pets shouldn't just be for people with plat. More uncool pets would be able to be bought by the stable npc, some would give a stat boost the higher the price the better the boost+the cool look enhanced.
3. stable master will be the npc with a stable by them

• item combination

1. not such a good idea but you will be able to combine an item from the same level, classification (int dex str) type of weapon (dagger talon crossbow gun longbow wand staff sword hammer mace axe stick bracer sheild wing leather robe plate cap hood helmet) for example you combine a drainers bow with a raid roach bow and you get a new look as in a mixture of them. And new stats, the bigger stats are the one it's focused on, this will give variety, one its been combined its impossible to do it again. You can't sell the combined items.
2. crafters can be the npcs for this

• gems and sparkly thingies or eye catching things

1. things like gems *like the things that girl put on their stuff* but more cool. You can add gems to your armor sheild helm or weapon. You can get gems as a drop and pay the npc to allow customization
2. you can add things that sparkle you'll have to buy the items, an example would be. I want my bracer to have a fiery aura how do I do this? you buy the customization to make it look like that, one customization per item that's it's implemented on, if it's been customized when you sell the item, the customization will me deleted.
3. items and add-ons, you can add amulets to your armor or little design items, like a vampire or a cross or a dragon on it and you'll have to buy it from the npc
4. the npc will be am item customization npc. With treasure chest by them

More to be added

[Livemau]

dude houses in a castle for the guild where we can buy more stash slots and only we can enter unless we inv someone inside

[Swimmingstar]

Teleportation
Base/House
More elixirs for gold.