I just want to see footfall fixed and left in place for a month before anything else with the economy is done.
“Active” players are still eking out a living. It’s the “passive” players that really need that income back.
In addition, entirely too many of our builders and portal operators are spending far too much time earning money instead of actually playing the game.
I’ll agree with you, though, that some kind of daily feats or something would be a good addition, especially for beginning players who are “active” all the time, anyway.
“Active”: A player who wants to spend their time hunting and gathering.
“Passive”: A player who wants to spend their time crafting and building
The economy/coins is my fav part of the game. Its what makes this all different to the other million voxel builders out there. I love the business sim aspects. Please dont change them.
I dont agree with this definition. here is how I see it
“Active” A player who logs in and plays the game.
“Passive” A player who logs in for 10 mins a day for quick store maintenance, and collect the coin they made while offline. or is otherwise lazy and expects everything handled to him and/or her
Building is not passive as you are placing blocks and doing something, Now granted the act of placing blocks isn’t going to yield anything other then exp and prestige values in most cases, but why should it?
Then I type my vote here. No I do not support this change.
I believe you are incorrect, as I recall the devs mentioning that they are addressing it in the next patch.
Nothing appears to have changed regarding the amount I’ve been receiving either.
Was unable to vote after 2 hours of opening this topic, but i would like this change.
A currency that player is able to generate by active means is what we need.
I see oort as teleportation fuel and for a race that frequently travels this way makes just sense to have this as a currency.
I like a lot of things in OPs suggestion.
Not to be sideways though, but wouldnt the exact same result occur if meteorites just dropped coin and portals were fueled with coin?
In both scenarios the other resource no longer exists, and the one that remains is used for both trade and travel, generated by the same means and farmed from hunts…
I dont generate enough to notice much difference. Opened some new portals and went up a settlement rank so assumed the slight increase ive seen was due to that.
Would be awesome if you could share whatever info you have instead of just laughing at people.
I’d like to see where you specifically saw them saying they actually fixed it. They said they are working on it and will try to have it out as soon as possible. But I haven’t noticed any change to my footfall. In fact if anything it’s dropped a little on my busy plot. And I own part of a road that’s in an ultima portal hub
Is there any info around this or are we just assuming? Seems like an odd thing to forget in the patch notes considering how hot of a topic footfall/economy has been the last few weeks.
But nothing actually changes with this, it doesn’t solve anything either, it only looks better theme wise.
Now you get oort from meteors you can turn into cash to warp around or buy other things with. Now you get cash from footfall and from buyers you can use to buy oort or other things with and warp around.
With this change you get oort from meteors you use as cash to buy things with and warp around. You get oort from footfall and from buyers you can buy other stuff with and warp around.
Nothing changes, doesn’t solve the economy, only makes buying and selling oort defunct…
At the moment, coins are used to get someone else to farm something for you. There is no NPC to buy stuff from for coins. But the amount of time people are willing to farm for someone else is limited and therefore adding new coins with footfall would not change anything.
WoW has a subscription you have to pay with either real world money or gold and has the ability to buy gold with real world money. That solves the problem as there is now a reason to earn gold and a way for everyone to obtain it. Boundless could sell gleam club for gold and allow you to buy gold with cubits. I do not want that! Real world currency and in game currency must not be exchangeable at all!
Lynxs idea of using the currency to buy something awesome from the game, like fueling your portal, is actually brilliant. It’s a lot cooler to get a portal then to waste your currency on “repair bills” and it makes you possible to “waste” an infinite amount of currency.
The other problem Boundless has is that, for coins to be useful, everyone must be able to earn them. At the moment the only option for most player is to hunt and sell oortshards.
“Fixing footfall” would not change that as only the few player in the center of the big cities would really get coins. My base is out in the wild with zero visitors and I would continue to not get any footfall. Now, you might argue that that’s fair because no one gets anything out of my build, why should I get paid for it. But in the end I will continue to not be able to spend my non-existing coins.
Lynxs suggestion does not change that as for me the only source of currency would still be hunting oortshards.
The other problem is that whoever has coins can farm everything he needs much more efficient. You won’t be able to farm meaningful amounts of something with iron tools to sell to someone who owns gem 3x3 tools. To fix the economy, AE tools would have to be removed to give people with lesser equipment the change to farm and sell some things. Use your gem hammers to farm diamonds and buy mud from someone with iron tools, it’s a problem that you can farm mud 100x faster with gem shovels.
Again, Lynxs suggestion does not change that. I like the idea as it adds an unlimited gold sink. But I think the economy needs a lot more work then that.
I cant see any way the devs would make a change that significant without mentioning it. Last time a simple oversight in patch notes caused all sorts of drama, and its not like this has been a quiet topic lately so i would be very suprised if they just forgot it.
Hopefully someone chimes in with an update. Im intrigued to know if all the effort developing my settlement is bringing in more traffic or not. I assumed its still just counting unique visitors.
