I'm not entirely sure if this will be good or bad, currently trying to gauge what people think about it.
As I see it, the most important commodity in EU now is PED. PED are deposited, PED are rolled through EU professions, PED are withdrawn. Currently, there are a lot of PED sinks in EU, and EU would come to an abrupt stop if nobody deposited anymore. Currently MindArk seems to be bent on removing the MU from the game (one obvious reason would be that it helps smart ppl to deposit less and get by more).
How removing TT would work:
1. Everything would only have market value (as in, whatever other players are willing to pay for it).
2. Ammo would be crafted (by crafters) from widely available resources (from mining). Example: crafting blp would take some iron/lead ore and some gunpowder (which would also be crafted from other ore / enmatter). Similar examples can be found for Laser / Plasma. Mindforce can easily be crafted from Sweat, or vibrant sweat, make it more available, would also mean a boost to mindforce since newcomers would have a meaning for their gathered sweat.
3. Repairing melee weapons would take mostly metal ores and some forging / crafting skills. Every type of melee weapon could have individual type of materials required to repair it.
4. Mining probes could be crafted
5. Shrapnel could still be converted to universal ammo.
6. Remove EP ammo, or convert it so that it uses widely available ore / enmatter (like every other ammo). People will still gamble on ammo, mainly because the resources needed would be widely available and widely needed.
7. Markup on items would be a raw value per unit (translated from current % MU of TT value).
8. HOFs would be based on the amount of items looted / rare items rather than TT value. (xxx looted 5120 Lysterium, yyy looted 432 Devil's Tail, zzz found a rare Magic Item that does nothing)
What this would achieve:
1. You can still deposit PED and withdraw $ from the game.
2. Stuff still have value, and the value goes up and down with availability / demand (whereas currently people are guaranteed 95% returns TT back).
3. Mining / Crafting / Hunting / Trading are all back tied together, at least at some basic, high demand level.
4. You can remove unused stuff form game, or allow people 1-2 months to TT everything that they don't need prior to this. Also stop dropping crap from mobs / mining that isn't used in anything.
5. PED would only be used for fees and for buying stuff directly from other players or Auction.
6. It would make PED loss less apparent. You can now to out and hunt and figure out at the end if you either lost or profited from that hunt / mining session. After this, it'd be a lot harder to track returns and also involve actual trading skills for getting your money back.
What side-effects this would have:
1. Initially, it'll greatly diminish turnover until people accommodate to the new system of having to craft ammo / repair stuff using resources (rather than PED)
2. I guess being eco would still have an effect on what / how much you can loot compared to people in the same server as you, so eco equipment would not loose value.
3. There might be a possibility of high MU items today to loose value since there would be no actual TT gain.
4. More PED would be deposited in the game, since all this only increases the value of PED, by increasing the need for fresh PED (since it inhibits turnover)
Feel free to suggest other things that would be possible once the TT would be removed, and also provide negative feedback if I failed (and most likely did) to account of something.
Edit: Added mining probes logic, hofs logic
As I see it, the most important commodity in EU now is PED. PED are deposited, PED are rolled through EU professions, PED are withdrawn. Currently, there are a lot of PED sinks in EU, and EU would come to an abrupt stop if nobody deposited anymore. Currently MindArk seems to be bent on removing the MU from the game (one obvious reason would be that it helps smart ppl to deposit less and get by more).
How removing TT would work:
1. Everything would only have market value (as in, whatever other players are willing to pay for it).
2. Ammo would be crafted (by crafters) from widely available resources (from mining). Example: crafting blp would take some iron/lead ore and some gunpowder (which would also be crafted from other ore / enmatter). Similar examples can be found for Laser / Plasma. Mindforce can easily be crafted from Sweat, or vibrant sweat, make it more available, would also mean a boost to mindforce since newcomers would have a meaning for their gathered sweat.
3. Repairing melee weapons would take mostly metal ores and some forging / crafting skills. Every type of melee weapon could have individual type of materials required to repair it.
4. Mining probes could be crafted
5. Shrapnel could still be converted to universal ammo.
6. Remove EP ammo, or convert it so that it uses widely available ore / enmatter (like every other ammo). People will still gamble on ammo, mainly because the resources needed would be widely available and widely needed.
7. Markup on items would be a raw value per unit (translated from current % MU of TT value).
8. HOFs would be based on the amount of items looted / rare items rather than TT value. (xxx looted 5120 Lysterium, yyy looted 432 Devil's Tail, zzz found a rare Magic Item that does nothing)
What this would achieve:
1. You can still deposit PED and withdraw $ from the game.
2. Stuff still have value, and the value goes up and down with availability / demand (whereas currently people are guaranteed 95% returns TT back).
3. Mining / Crafting / Hunting / Trading are all back tied together, at least at some basic, high demand level.
4. You can remove unused stuff form game, or allow people 1-2 months to TT everything that they don't need prior to this. Also stop dropping crap from mobs / mining that isn't used in anything.
5. PED would only be used for fees and for buying stuff directly from other players or Auction.
6. It would make PED loss less apparent. You can now to out and hunt and figure out at the end if you either lost or profited from that hunt / mining session. After this, it'd be a lot harder to track returns and also involve actual trading skills for getting your money back.
What side-effects this would have:
1. Initially, it'll greatly diminish turnover until people accommodate to the new system of having to craft ammo / repair stuff using resources (rather than PED)
2. I guess being eco would still have an effect on what / how much you can loot compared to people in the same server as you, so eco equipment would not loose value.
3. There might be a possibility of high MU items today to loose value since there would be no actual TT gain.
4. More PED would be deposited in the game, since all this only increases the value of PED, by increasing the need for fresh PED (since it inhibits turnover)
Feel free to suggest other things that would be possible once the TT would be removed, and also provide negative feedback if I failed (and most likely did) to account of something.
Edit: Added mining probes logic, hofs logic
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