Testing 218: Exoworlds, Blink, Rift and Umbris!

[james]

@Jiivita

but it also gave rock value (at lest to me it did) without exp I don’t even want to pick it up and I seriously would want a filter to prevent it junking up my inventory… I also wouldn’t want it laying all over the ground hiding things in the floor =/

The coming Economy machine will give the blocks a base coin value.

@Jiivita

On the value side of things, I thing we need more reasons to want to pick up rock. First thought that comes to mind is some sort of way to recycle / convert rock into other resources… I’d happily dump a smart stack of rock into a compactor to crush out 1 to 3 gems or some other ore/coal/fossil etc

We did consider adding 2 new economy machines: A recycling machine that would take bundles of resource and spit out something more valuable, and a coin machine that would spit out some coins.

We have ultimately concluded that the coin machine is the best solution here. (I made a post of the forum a weeks back about what the coin machine would do and why.)

Found it:

Guild members do not generate footfall

Totally disagree here. This path just leads to some players doing all the cheesy things to maximise their gain, and everyone else getting annoyed that playing the game straight doesn’t return the same value. My evaluation is that for the majority of resources there is a huge over supply in the economy. Supply > Demand. For a few resources there is parity and a really healthy economy: Rough Oort Stone and Shards. Supply = Demand. In this market we can see that the number of resources entering…

and here for comments on the possible recycling machine:

Guild members do not generate footfall

Why trash it when the coin machine will convert it into coin? We did consider this, but rejected it - because we think players will get blocked on the “large input -> small output” recipe. It’ll be perceived as grind. “I have to mine 100 rocks to get 1 blah. In MC you only need 1 rock to generate blah, etc.” You must be new around here This will be supported. Unjoking aside - we did consider a sibling machine to the coin machine that was a recycling machine that would take large …