Auction.

An auction npc in every village would also be a great add to this game, so you can buy and sell stuff to other players.

Well, that would only time show us, if they are going to implement it into the game, which i hope they will do.

I wouldn't really want it, if you think about it, without standard "Currency" this would be REALLY HARD TO IMPLEMENT...

Point based system:

Hmm magic item 3 effects= 3 points
(# of effects)
1-3 bonus damage = 2 points
(average bonus damage)
Elemental damage effect 10% chance= 12 points
(Elemental effects should be 2 since it is elemental and effect and + 1 per % chance of activation)
base item is 2 handed weapon= 1 point
(It takes away the option of a shield or another weapon)
So the point value of a 3 magical effect Great Sword of this nature would be: 18 points! Each Currency gem counts as 1 point... eh the devs should figure this out!

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cybrim wrote:

Point based system:

Hmm magic item 3 effects= 3 points
(# of effects)
1-3 bonus damage = 2 points
(average bonus damage)
Elemental damage effect 10% chance= 12 points
(Elemental effects should be 2 since it is elemental and effect and + 1 per % chance of activation)
base item is 2 handed weapon= 1 point
(It takes away the option of a shield or another weapon)
So the point value of a 3 magical effect Great Sword of this nature would be: 18 points! Each Currency gem counts as 1 point... eh the devs should figure this out!

The idea totally doesn't work, since with the current item system 3 magic properties could mean the most valuable item in the game (max rolls on damage prefix and suffix (using D2 terms) and attack speed) as well as the biggest crap that noone needs (any random enhancements).

Also each currency item will have different values and those will also change over time (unless they do something like straight up combine of D2 runes, that I haven't heared of).

AND YOU IGNORED MY LAST SECTION! I said the devs should figure it out, at least it was an idea rather than just criticism, your idea was to complain about an idea, I knew it wouldn't work exactly like that which is why I said what I said, it is a step in the right direction if you want an auction... I couldn't care less if: IT WERE IMPLEMENTED CORRECTLY!

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cybrim wrote:

AND YOU IGNORED MY LAST SECTION! I said the devs should figure it out, at least it was an idea rather than just criticism, your idea was to complain about an idea, I knew it wouldn't work exactly like that which is why I said what I said, it is a step in the right direction if you want an auction... I couldn't care less if: IT WERE IMPLEMENTED CORRECTLY!

Please don't take it personally, but when I see ideas that cannot work I feel like saying something. How is a non-working idea a step in the right direction?

And your suggestion was for devs to figure it out? I don't see how that is more useful than what I said (at least I provided some valid arguments).

I'm sorry you were completely right, your clearly the man for the job, if you figure it out tomorrow you get... A COOKIE!

Well some suggestions might spark ideas in the devs you know they don't do exactly as people suggest... if they did there would be some legal issues I think... at least in the states. Now earn that cookie (warning it is only a digital item and not a physical cookie... I suck at baking okay?)

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cybrim wrote:

I'm sorry you were completely right, your clearly the man for the job, if you figure it out tomorrow you get... A COOKIE!

Well some suggestions might spark ideas in the devs you know they don't do exactly as people suggest... if they did there would be some legal issues I think... at least in the states. Now earn that cookie (warning it is only a digital item and not a physical cookie... I suck at baking okay?)

Actually I don't think I'm the man for the job, since I don't see how they could implement an auction house the way we see it in most games, biggest obstacle being the relative value between the currency items which can be different at any given time, also every player might value them differently.

Closest they might come to an auction house (actually a Market since there would be no bidding) would be giving a possibility to set an amount of specific currency item(s) the player wishes to get for the item his listing. The first to meet the required item(s) gets to trade them for the item. There could be several option, for example [50xA]; [25xB+10A]; [5C] (A,B,C being different currency items) all available at once, but I guess that sounds quite complicated already.

This idea is far from perfect and also my knowledge is limited enough not being even an alpha tester of the current game, but this would give at least some chance for offline-trading.

One more thing - as far as I know GGG is currently designing the game with only the classic trade channel/ forum trading in mind, or at least those are the only methods they've spoken of. Yeah the WoW crowd will surely demand an auction house so they will definitely consider it at some point.

P.S. Who needs cookies, if I figure this out I demand ICE CREAM!!! xD