Saltpetre drop rate?

[fidach]

Have a look here:

@james

An coin / economy machine would act as a guaranteed purchaser of some resources and would establish a base price for the item in the game. This would allow players to always generate a coin income if they’re willing to gather resources. I do consider this a hack on a pure economy - but there are real world examples.

This machine would:

1. Take resources out of the economy and hence reduce supply.
2. Establish a minimum price that the items can be sold for.
3. Allow the player-player economy to sit above these prices.
4. Allow an arbitrage for players who upgrade their economy machine.
5. Allow players to always generate coin in exchange for collecting resources.
6. Shift shops to focus more on crafted items.
7. Give us a dial per item to reduce supply based on price.

So an economy machine will reduce over supply without nerfing gathering.

Another solution is to increase demand to match supply. IMO this is much harder, and I’m open to ideas to do this. There are a few options here:

1. New Boundless players will increase demand. (But also increase supply!)
2. Allow coin poor players a mechanism to generate coin to allow them to purchase more item - see the coin / economy machine.
3. Create a reason for coin rich players to purchase items. (Any ideas?)

We have been thinking about this issue for a while and it is planned for release after the Exoworlds.

There was another post confirming it is coming after exoworlds, but can’t track that one down!