It would be neat if there was an item you could purchase for about 10 Crystal Energy that lasted for a day called a Heat Canister. As long as it's in your inventory, Heat you get doesn't upgrade your gear: it's stored inside it instead. You then sell the Heat Canister to vendors and they give you crowns for how much heat is inside it.
I don't think there should be any sort of cap: you just have a 24 hour limit on it obviously before you have to sell it and buy a new one.
Thoughts?
If we sold it to vendors we would get terrible prices. Rather, what if we had a heat market? Players could sell and buy heat in units of 1000.
No Way! You can already buy everything on this game, don't take away the last thing you have to conquer by yourself!
Well, it would give high level players something productive to do...
@akragster: The very existence of heat is to have some type of thing that you CANNOT get in any way other than playing. It's the "experience" of the game. Being able to buy it, even from other players, would completely defeat its purpose.
The point of this is to have some use for Heat after all your gear is level 10, to help get the crowns toward your next star gear set, or especially for players who are already in full 5-Star level 10.
I already buy heat from other players. I offer newbies 100 crowns to die; then I res them and take 30% of their heat. The workaround is already there. Making it easier to sell your heat would be fine and wouldn't be apocalyptic as some people are suggesting.
That's more of an exploit than a feature of the game, and it still requires you to actually go into Clockworks and fight monsters: you can't just sit in Haven and purchase all the heat you want. Heat would become just another Mat for people wanting to upgrade to 4-5 Stars.
@ Daystar That's not an exploit. It IS a feature of the game. It encourages people to resurrect their fallen teammates, and it allows the heat loss from dying not necessarily become a total loss. You can even use it where if one person dies, another revives him, and then the reviver can subsequently die to pass some heat back. It also encourages people to party together more often, because more people getting heat means more heat to compile together.
What you described is the way the game system works. Paying someone to die repeatedly so you can farm all their heat is a manipulation of the system, also known as an exploitation of its rules. If OOO wanted people to be able to trade heat, you'd be able to trade it, period.
If you could just buy the heat to level your gear what is the point of playing the game at all. There needs to be some aspects of this game that require time and effort and not just have everything able to be purchased. The point of a game is to play it and have fun, not see how big your wallet is and just buy the end game.
ooooo how about the timer starts when you activate it? i would love something like this especially if i have all my equipment at max