[CF List] The 'dis'economy of crossfire

[pc-crossfire at crowcastle.net]

[Quoting various people]

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       But is weight of the money any real issue?  Would reduced weight (or say yet
     
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     another higher denomination coinage) really help out this problem?  If anything,
     
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     I think it may be worse because large sums of money would be that much easier to
     
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     carry around.
     
     
On the other hand, it makes it easier to have things in stores that cost
huge amounts of money without having to use a separate mechanism (gems).

Personally, I think it would be cool to have a bank in some hard-to-get-to
location that would convert to mithril pieces or something like that.
Shops would accept the coins, but you could only get them by converting
them at that one bank.

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      2) Make apartments for rent and not for ownership. A player might have to pay
     
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       some amount of money every time he enters the game for them or whatever.
     
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      This might also make different apartment sizes an interesting aspect in the
     
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      game.
     
     
I like to be able to log out and back in frequently.  For example, taking a
break for a phone call or getting a drink, I'll log out to avoid any risk
while I'm away.  I don't want to have a penalty for doing so.


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      5) Just thought of costs for transportation. Why not have to pay for the ship
     
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       to Lake country or wherever you wish to go, nobody would expect them to be
     
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      free.
     
     
While that makes sense, I'm not too excited about the idea as a player.  If
you have to pay for transportation to a given land, we need to be sure that
the land has everything a player would need for a while; players won't be
moving between lands as frequently.  On the other hand, this would help
keep players from town-hopping to search each shop for that odd scroll or
potion.

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      6) One great wish of mine: Princes of Scorn should be given the chance to buy
     
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       some really expensive castle, perhaps like the guildhouses, but for single
     
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      players, which are also extensible. Maybe in this way there could be achieved
     
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       some final thing a player can save his money for.
     
     
I was going to create a map like that, but I got distracted.  You may
remember I wanted to add code for an object mover that would be able to
selectively move objects depending on various characteristics.  My idea was
to have a room where you would drop all sorts of random loot in one square
and it would move along a conveyor belt until it dropped off into the
appropriate pile.

Ultimately, an appartment or house is a place for storing stuff.  It can
also be a place for conducting party business if you let multiple players
share a single space, which is cool, but has problems with new players
finding everything already bought up.  Perhaps we should have a separate
discussion of what would make for the ultimate house, and then we could
design one with separate parts with exponentially higher prices to open up
the parts.

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     Could add a 'park' to the towns for that matter, and let people pay
     
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     different sums of money to get statues of themselves or whatever else.
     
     
You could have a set of statues that could be modified for a price.  Every
time someone makes a change, the price to change that one again goes up.
On a popular multi-user server, the high-level characters could go back and
forth bidding up the price to have their own statues.

On the other hand, we're not a massively-multi-player game like Ultima
Online, so things like that won't suck money out of the economy as
efficiently as they do in that environment.

--PC