I have a sad story to tell all of you, and it is not one I can admit to with any great pride.
I was going through a wolver den, when I spotted something shiny on the ground. It was a single crown, dropped by a bush. A 5 crown piece, to be exact. I immediately rushed forward and picked it up, and then hit the escape key to return to haven. The temptation was just too great- I just KNEW that there would be an ecto drop costing 5 crowns for me to buy, and sure enough, I was able to afford it... but that left me unable to play for the day, as this was the tenth time it had happened.
I just can't help it. I see low tier materials on the auction house, and I just.. must... have... them. I can't stop, and I was hoping that you guys could help me.
I've been playing this game for almost 30 years now, after I built the internet ahead of time, and I'm still a tier one knight- all I've accumulated is this garbage... I was even featured on an episode of "Hoarders" for my inability to save my crowns. I also stockpiled over 600 dead cats in my refrigerator, but I'm pretty sure it was the ecto drops, which required 3 terabytes of memory to store as a number.
I was thinking that the bank would work just like real banks do. It should give out loans, and be a for profit organization. Once you're in debt, all your earnings will be ripped out of your wallet, and your internet connection won't work for anything but the wiki, the forums, and the game's servers until you pay it all back. Every last crown of it.
Actually, I was hoping it'd work more like an angry loan shark that doubles as a piggy bank. Players would have the option to take out loans, but if the loans are not paid back in time, dark strangers would track down their IP, dress as strangers, and mug them. And the bank would hold money. Actually, the bank would take your money and hold it by default, and wouldn't tell you the amount you had unless you opened up and fully expanded your arsenal, where it would then display it as a Magic-Eye type thing. The game would also take 5% of your crowns away from you every day as payment for the bank. It would only inform you about this in the small text, and whenever you targeted the bank in the "monster weakness thing". Deals "5% of your wallet" as its damage type.
I was also hoping that the bank could start players off with student loans for completing the tutorial missions, to make the game more realistic. And then I was wanting for the various NPCs that introduce topics to force players to go to job interviews before they were given info/put to work. The loan sharks would require players to pay them back the tutorial fee before they were let off, and the game would warn players of this fact when they signed up at the beginning of the game.
Sad story, +1.