Ridiculous. First off, we'd need a Basil on every level and obviously, everyone will sell them (there's no reason to keep them right?). Rather than an NPC, the game should automatically give you money for every vial you have when you go to Haven. Anyways, dont expect more than 20cr per vial.

Can't we just allow a sellback to the vendor? That way when you reach either of the terminal or the next Subtown, you can sell them to the NPCs for that little extra cash. I agree that I don't like them to go to waste but better to work with what's already there.

Vial trading? Sounds like command fusion from FF games. I'd say no to that.

With the missions, considering there's absolutely nothing you could do with them anyway, put them on auto-cash-in?

Then again, they could just do that ever time you go back to Haven via a lift if you did that...

A/ Being able to sell them would discourage using them. They're already under-utilised as it is without people having incentive to not use them.

2/ We don't need another cr influx in the game. Even selling them at 50 each would allow another 500 per floor/run. 500 may not sound like much, but when you only make 8k on average per run, that 500 becomes about 7% more. If this was available every floor, that 7% would could become as high as 20%, depending on how many drop in a floor, and how often they may drop.

C/ They don't drop randomly like mats and can't be "given back" once taken, without usage, so will create a "race" for them as everyone in the group runs towards them to grab them, wanting the money. If this can be done every floor, then faster running/ahead/greedy players can rack up a lot more than others which defeats the current system of "fairness in sharing" that the game has.

Oh cool, I get to pick apart my own post!

A/ Crystals don't have any use other than to sell them, so the pricetag on them doesn't discourage you from "using" them as intended, since their intended use is to be sold away. In fact, as things currently are, there's very little incentive to actually sell them as they are, meaning that many endgame players simply have thousands of them stocked up and waiting for a purpose.

2/ Crystals sell for like 1~3cr each and you can only achieve a total possible maximum of 24 on one floor, which is very unlikely alone, and you'd need to sell them all at 3cr for them to even make up my hypothetical vial price of a single vial, whereas you can get twelve vials. That's an absolutely mahoosive difiference. Also, due to the second part of point A/, this further decreases the overall cr influx issue from crystals, as a large portion of them never actually get sold in the first place.

C/ Crystals are completely equally shared by everyone. Even if you pick up none on a floor, you'll receive a duplicate copy (they're treated like cr) of the crystals that everyone else picked up, unlike vials which can only be picked up and used by a single person.

So, in what way would this be the same as crystals?

There's no real balance for it. Even at 50cr per vial it creates too much free cr. At 1cr per vial it's utterly negligible payout but I guarantee people will still think "meh, no point throwing them, might as well get something for my time. For the rest it makes no difference and was pointless to implement. At 25cr it encourages never ever using vials to make sure you have a max load to sell to get some meaningful cash. I don't approve of anything that encourages not using an item in favour of selling it. Not even just for the sake of cr, but we get vials to use them; why should we ever feel the need to stockpile and ignore them? Vials should be used; it's part of the game.

also, why does your post go A-2-C?

Why not? o:

In other MMOs you can also level up and get 90% of your gear from drops. There's no comparison here.

We can buy vials to use them. I think that's really all I should have to say on that subject...

No trading. Then it would be too easy to get whatever vials you wanted for any situation. And plus, where and how would you trade them in?

If everyone got a vial every time someone picked one up, it would cause a few problems:
-too many powerful vials (curse, fire, freeze) obtained too quickly. Would have to increase drop rate.
-what if someone picks up a vial, but someone else's hotbar is full?

@Darkbrady: What do those examples have to do with this? Those are different game mechanics. This is directly related, and nothing that's different about other MMO's relates to this comparison. We can buy vials to use them, but why can't we sell them if we don't use them? Only seems fair.