A shared Storage would be nice expecially for those people that don't play much online.
As for a house...I duno I find it hard to picture a Witch Doctor walk through a portal to his humble home sit down for a while and make himself some cookies...:P
While I'd like a "home" somewhere, I'd very much prefer one, gigantic chest, shared across all your characters.
There's really no reason to limit storage space, since it only leads to muling anyway, and it's likewise useless to have one storage for a character and another "shared" storage across all characters, when they might aswell all share one big one.
I agree. I feel that a shared storage per account would be extremely good. There was a Diablo II mod called Requiem for something-or-other, and they had shared storage... and I had at least 50 pages full... but then again, I saved every unique and set item just for the possibility of using it on a different character.
First off, there is no need to attack me for trying to debate a point.
Secondly, there are more efficient ways for economical security than basing an economy off of something stable like gold? Prove it.
Thirdly, how much skill does it really take in buying and selling items? How hard is it to really sit in a chat room to get an average price of an item, or strike a deal with someone trading an item you need with an item they need?
And finally, common knowledge of history and economics dicates that bartering items is based off of need, or knowledge of how to get what you want based on values. A farmer with cows needs medicine, the doctor, however, doesn't need any milk. Currency makes the medicine accessible to the farmer, and still allows the doctor to have something of value to him.
Which is exactly what I said. In D2 you need skill to be able to profitably trade items, it was something that you were required to get good at. In a gold based economy that won't happen, everybody and their grandmother will trade just as good as everybody else. What happened? They removed the skill required.
Having skill to be a good merchant is fine enough, but it seems a lot of companies (Blizzard included) are going the route of "bad apples spoil the bunch". You may have the skill to effectively barter and trade your way to a moderately fair proposition... but not all people care about the "fair" aspect. There are people out there, dupers//hackers included, but not limited to, who would want to have an unfair advantage over others, especially new people who got lucky with something like, say, the infamous Gull dagger. Prevention is the best cure, but isn't always welcomed by all... especially by those who use the trading as it was intended to be used. Sorry mate. I understand your argument... but in this case, security betters intent.
Sorry, I hit post without finishing out the thought. I share the same mindset with him on this matter. It's not that easy to find the correct price on certain items, as they tend to fluctuate to higher degrees than normal gold-based auction houses do. Also, by keeping a Gold Standard, it keeps it simple. How many devices were used to barter with? Last I remember, there were SoJs, several types of small charms, Ohm Runes were a basis for a little while.... Standardization isn't a bad thing, and one can still barter item for item, but there is a bit more of a solid substance behind trading now.
Sorry, I am still bitter about a thread last night. Bashiok just said this today:
One of the largest issues with a bartering system is that it prevents any ease of entry into the system for players. I have an item and I think it's probably worth something, but I have no idea what its worth and no easy way to find out. You have an item I want, but I have no idea what you may want for it or if I'm going to get a fair trade for it. You may throw a bunch of acronyms at me, get frustrated I don't know what I'm doing, and then leave. That's not going to be a positive experience for either of us, and neither of us get what we want out of it. With a stable economy and currency, there's at least a common language that anyone can understand regardless of their game knowledge.
Wait wait, so you're saying that if Player A finds Epic Item 1 finds Player B to scalp the item at a high price... It's Player B's fault for being ignorant to prices having played for a short amount of time in these private rooms all of the PKers say they should be staying in.
How is that a bad thing though? The approximate value of items can still be trans-literated into gold amounts. "I'll trade you my Occulus for your Tal Rasha's full set" "Are you mad? Full set is worth 15k, Occy is only worth 7"
On the same token, why not have a specific Bazaar set up, similar to that of EQ... one room that can hold a large amount of people (PvP turned off), and have the ability to buy items off of the players as if they were vendors?
Agreed! =D Thanks for all of the warm welcomes! After seeing all of the flame battles (and trying to get both sides to look at logic rather than trolling... *sigh* to no avail), I was starting to get antsy to see any sign of intelligent life.... but I seem to have been mistaken!
How about less of an auction house and more of a classifieds section. Like a news paper, you post a small article named "WTS or WTB fiery cock of diablo". Inside of the articles, you could post, "Barter: Looking for Shriveled old Balls of Baal or Asshole of Mephestos (ring)". Or you cold even make the article name " Fiery Cock of Diablo for Shriveled old balls of Baal or Asshole of Mephestio". Then you could implement a search system thats had 2 boxes, One has WTS, WTB, and barter, the other is a blank for you too type in said item. I think this could work. It eliminates the spam and just makes a message board.
Yeah, there was something similar to that in Guild Wars too, where you could scroll through an active list of WTB and WTS lists.
Don't forget that the drops are on a person to person basis... like a credit system (or, at least that what I thought).... so it's easier to bypass items that you don't want // need. That'll also fix the problem of people just sitting behind to clean up the scraps.... if you call that a problem.
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I'm at my brother's house, showing him the the gameplay and cinematic trailers. *laughs* I'll be on tonight at some point.
~Oath
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Killing one man to save a thousand is considered evil because of the act of killing, but the intent is good.
Saving a man who you knew was about to blow up a school is considered good because you saved a life, but the intent is evil.
*shrug* Gray is everywhere.
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Same, but I had a nerdgasm with tears.... tears of fiery joy for Diablo III.
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What about Voodoo cookies?
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I agree. I feel that a shared storage per account would be extremely good. There was a Diablo II mod called Requiem for something-or-other, and they had shared storage... and I had at least 50 pages full... but then again, I saved every unique and set item just for the possibility of using it on a different character.
Just my 2gp
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Secondly, there are more efficient ways for economical security than basing an economy off of something stable like gold? Prove it.
Thirdly, how much skill does it really take in buying and selling items? How hard is it to really sit in a chat room to get an average price of an item, or strike a deal with someone trading an item you need with an item they need?
And finally, common knowledge of history and economics dicates that bartering items is based off of need, or knowledge of how to get what you want based on values. A farmer with cows needs medicine, the doctor, however, doesn't need any milk. Currency makes the medicine accessible to the farmer, and still allows the doctor to have something of value to him.
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Having skill to be a good merchant is fine enough, but it seems a lot of companies (Blizzard included) are going the route of "bad apples spoil the bunch". You may have the skill to effectively barter and trade your way to a moderately fair proposition... but not all people care about the "fair" aspect. There are people out there, dupers//hackers included, but not limited to, who would want to have an unfair advantage over others, especially new people who got lucky with something like, say, the infamous Gull dagger. Prevention is the best cure, but isn't always welcomed by all... especially by those who use the trading as it was intended to be used. Sorry mate. I understand your argument... but in this case, security betters intent.
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One of the largest issues with a bartering system is that it prevents any ease of entry into the system for players. I have an item and I think it's probably worth something, but I have no idea what its worth and no easy way to find out. You have an item I want, but I have no idea what you may want for it or if I'm going to get a fair trade for it. You may throw a bunch of acronyms at me, get frustrated I don't know what I'm doing, and then leave. That's not going to be a positive experience for either of us, and neither of us get what we want out of it. With a stable economy and currency, there's at least a common language that anyone can understand regardless of their game knowledge.
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Yeah, there was something similar to that in Guild Wars too, where you could scroll through an active list of WTB and WTS lists.