Spiral Knights - Crown and energy Banks!!!!!!

Crown and energy Banks!!!!!!

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Tue, 10/11/2011 - 21:14

Energyhealer

Ok I was playing the game and I was thinking of ways to get more crowns, when out of nowhere an idea hit me BANKS!!!!!!!!!! Why not have them? You can save your crowns for later use and, if you have them, save energy as well. So this is how I planed it out:

Crown bank:
Location: East side of haven where the crafting station is
Rules:
- Interest is 2.5%
- it cost crowns to take out crowns say like 5 CR
- You can then use those crowns on any avatar on you comp.

Energy bank:
Location: Same building as Crown bank
Rules:
- You have to pay for a Bank account (US dollars: maybe $15)
- No interest
- it costs 200 crowns in order to take out energy
- It only applies to the avatar you created the bank account with

So what do you guys think?

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 21:22

Starlinvf

The energy bank serves no

The energy bank serves no purpose.... none at all. The interest rate on the crown bank would ruin the game economy (its been suggested before, argued, and continuously shot down for that very reason), and neither provides any service that mailing it to the account couldn't do cheaper.

And if anyone is thinking about citing CE security.... why is anyone else able to login to your account in the first place?

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 21:27

Energyhealer

^ Well for on thing I can

^ Well for on thing I can tell you they should have fixed that problem a long time ago, what I'm not getting is how it would ruin the economy?

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 22:17

Antistone

I can see only downside to

I can see only downside to giving free money to the players that already have too much. They'll just use it to bid up the prices on everything and make stuff harder for anyone else to afford.

This is obviously just an ill-considered scheme to pump free money into the game because you want people to give you crowns. If the devs decided to add more money to the game, there are about a million better ways to distribute it than this.

But there has to be some ideal level of crown drops, and I see no reason to assume it's higher than the current level. Players will always ask for the rate to be higher, but that logical extreme of that philosophy is just to unlock everything instantly and for free, which actually makes for a less satisfying game, in addition to destroying the publisher's revenue stream so that the game would never have been made in the first place.

So look at it this way: if the game is going to give out the same TOTAL amount of crowns either way, would you rather have those crowns be given as rewards for fighting monsters, or as interest for already having a ton of unspent crowns sitting in a bank?

Tue, 10/11/2011 - 22:44

Gwenyvier

Crown bank: There's already

Crown bank:
There's already too many crowns in the game, and not enough crown sinks. Generating free crowns for doing nothing would just cause inflation. I assume the interest rate is daily. Hmmmmm, drop 10k in there at the start of the month, by the end of the month you have almost 21k. Now lets make that 100k, end of the month you have about 210k in the bank. Just from letting it sit there, and yes that's your 2.5%. (Excel: 10k in cell A1, go to the next one =A1*1.025, then drag the cell down so it duplicates into the next 29 cells) See the problem?

Energy bank:
So I get to pay real money to put my Energy in a "bank" then pay crowns to take the Energy out of the "bank" and I get no benefit, at all, for having it in there? OMFG! SIGN ME UP!!!!!! For those that didn't catch the sarcasm... it's useless. Unless the Gremlins get the amazing ability to steal my CE without killing me I have no use for a bank that doesn't provide interest, and you can't give interest on Energy or OOO would go out of business.

~Gwen

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Crown and energy Banks!!!!!!