It'd be a good sink for the endless heaps of redundant Shards that tend to build up; of course, you can offload a lot of them at the Auction House, but a lot of Shards are worth essentially nothing, and it's frustrating to see them pile up in the inventory with the only option being to shunt them off on a vendor for a single Crown apiece.

Ever read the description on a shard? You would need to go 10:1 with shards as the 10, not the minerals. Shards are teeny tiny minerals.

I don't see a problem with this at all. I'm also thinking it should be possible to craft higher-level materials using low-level materials. Just because the "materials" in themselves are also "manufactured" in a sense when you look at them.

I'm also thinking it should be possible to craft higher-level materials using low-level materials. Just because the "materials" in themselves are also "manufactured" in a sense when you look at them.

Untenable. It devalues high-level materials and reduces the incentive to explore deeper Tiers, not to mention that a sufficiently determined player could probably skip Tier 2 altogether unless manufacturing was so tightly controlled as to be essentially neutered anyway.

It's people like you who ruin the economy for the rest of us.

Yes, it is profitable to sell popular shards but where does the money go after that? there's a little thing called inflation if one doesn't take money out of the economy too.

With this, both the problem of too much mat & crowns could be potentially be resolved while also not compromising OOO or its players. OOO doesn't lose money and the long term players get a bigger say in what gate goes where (since most newbies will simply auto-sell disrupting their hard work to balance the gates); in the end better gates also means better crowns. think of a bigger picture than yourself. These matters affect a lot of people.

I like this idea. GO FOR IT, I say.

sirlaggalot said:

Where does the money go after that?

Well, lets see...

• Some of it gets spent on buying other, more expensive materials.
• Some of it is used to buy CE (which I use almost immediately both for extra clockworks runs and for upgrading my gear)
• Some of it is used to buy recipes (and when I buy them from Basil 100% of those cr go straight out of the economy)

The money gets put to good use upgrading my gear, and somewhere between 10 and 30% overall ends up getting taken out of the economy by the generous cuts taken by the AH and CE exchange. I fail to see how this "ruins" the economy.

EDIT: Deleted blatantly inflammatory remark so the mods won't have to.