When will a Currency come to the Game?

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zeto wrote:

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dust7 wrote:

Like it or not, if GGG does not introduce some revolutionary system where offsite trading is prevented, FG will be the currency of the game for the same reasons it was in D2.

This is true of any game, except diablo3 which decided to take it in-house, and perhaps a couple other games which did similar.

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Zekarde wrote:

Wow I feel edumacated after reading all that, I can see why removing gold makes sense but out of curiosity does GGG have a solution for item inflation and not just gold?

For example in Diablo 3 they have salvaging which basically works as an item-sink for anything you don't plan on keeping/trading.

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Vendors/Currency

We plan to enable selling items to vendors in the short term.

Our current plan is to have it work as follows: Vendors have a set of recipes of currency items that they offer for given combinations of items you put in your side of the trade. Players can try out different combinations of items to see what the vendor offers. If they find an interesting recipe, they can keep it to themselves or share it with other players. Each vendor can have different recipes based on what they specialise in.

Some example recipes (these are just made up on the spot, and are not actual ones from the testing copy):

hand in two magic (blue) items for an identification scroll
hand in a quality=20 weapon for a whetstone
hand in six rare items for a chaos sphere
bring a specific NPC a magic version of each dagger base type in return for a high-ish level currency item
These recipes allow people to offload their junk, upgrade some certain types of existing currency items, and collect sets of arbitrary items to get rewards. It’ll encourage trading (for the missing pieces of sets), and the information disparity will reward players who discover new recipes. We intend to change the recipes available at each NPC over time.

Once this is in, we’ll rebalance the currency system to take it into account.