So you go to the auction house, and things cost crowns. What if you could instead, click a button and pay for them with real money?
This real money would then be translated into CE, and sold on the energy market. The leftover would be stored into a variable that, when it reached 100, would go towards the next auto-buy of CR from the energy depot. It would be the same as buying CE and translating it into crowns for use on the auction house, but it would imply to players that buying things from the auction house- especially things like hats and costumes and accessories- is the "done thing." It would not take any set ratio of crowns to CE, but would instead take the current buy price for crowns as the value of energy.
There are many applicable rules on when the button for CE could appear- for instance, you shouldn't be able to buy things that cost less than a certain amount of CE- for instance, an ecto drop for 10 cr shouldn't be buyable for a penny. It could possibly be used to create bids, although not necessarily- "Buy now with USD" is more my train of thought.
So my question to everyone reading this thread is:
In addition to your thoughts on the above paragraph, how often/how much CE do you buy, and would you consider utilizing this method of purchase, should a highly desirable item that you want show up?
During promos, getting random rewards will be more tempting.
Another problem is that the dollar-to-energy conversion varies depending on the pack.
It would be a shame if an item costs 3200ce while you could have had a small discount at 3500.
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