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Economy
Markets in Ashes of Creation are regional, which means that each market has its own character. Because resources will shift locations as they’re exhausted, this will keep people moving about the world, seeking out the best resources for their crafting builds, and the best markets for their goods.[2]
The economy is usually something that happens in the background of other games. From day one we knew that the economy was going to be something really important to us.[3] – Jeffrey Bard
One major feature in our economy that differs from most fantasy style MMOs is that we're not approaching it from a global scale. Rather, we're trying to carve the world up into regions and make each one focus independently, while of course at the same time working together.[4] – Peter Pilone
Opis zmian:
- There will be no central auction house or warehouse.[2]
- There will be item decay and other ways to combat inflation.[5]
- There will be player to player trading.[6]
Marketplaces
Marketplaces are constructed service buildings that are available for placement by mayors of any Town (scena 4) node or higher. These are distinct from a market, which is the unique node building that unlocks at Village (scena 3) of Economic nodes.[7]
- Marketplaces grant certain trade benefits as well as player stalls that the citizens may participate in.[7]
These are buildings that the mayor has agency over determining whether or not they should be a constructed project. Constructible buildings can be selected at open plots that are gained as the as the node advances. If they elect to begin construction of one of these types of buildings- one of which is the marketplace- it'll grant certain trade benefits as well as some stalls that the citizens may participate in.[7] – Steven Sharif
A node's government decides the placement of its marketplace. After that, the community must come together to build it.[7][8]
Marketplace UI
Player stalls
Player stalls (also called Kiosks and rental stalls) are rentable locations near the unique building in an Economic node[11], in Marketplaces (the constructible building available for placement by mayors of any Town (scena 4) node or higher), or as business buildings on freehold plots.[12][7]
- All nodes do have the ability to spawn player stalls. If you're not an economic node and you don't have a market- that's essentially your unique building- then you can construct essentially what is I guess would be called a... marketplace; and that marketplace will then come with certain services and it will come with a certain number of stalls. The economic node as I recall has the ability to construct an auction house and the auction house serves through the economic means the ability to list and sell items and that comes with additional stalls as well for the players.[7] – Steven Sharif
Renting a player stall enables players to sell items as well as provide repair and enchanting services, even when they are not online.[13]
- Player stalls are rentable by node citizens.[14]
- Player stalls may be utilized for a period of time based on the price paid to rent the stall.[13]
- Player stalls are linked to a player's warehouse.[15]
- Player stalls do not require the attendance of the character or for that character to be online.[14]
- Players are able to input required items for repair and also purchase required materials for that repair.[17]
- Player stalls may still operate during node siege declaration. This is subject to testing.[18]
- Players are not able to be attacked or robbed while occupying their player stall inside the limits of a node.[19]
- Bulletin boards that list the items available in player stalls can be accessed from anywhere in the region.[16]
- These give the location of the stall so players can travel there and purchase the items.[16]
- Stall sales are also listed in auction houses.[20]
- This may no longer be accurate.[21]
Economic node benefits
Economic nodes that have reached the metropolis stage unlock the linked economy superpower. Economic nodes with this superpower share their Auction house listings with all others.[22]
- Up to two economic metropolises may be linked in this manner.[23]
- Metropolis level economic nodes enable worldwide sale prices for auction houses across Verra.[22]
- Items listed in one linked economic node can be bid on from any other linked economic node.[22]
- Linked economies also connect the economic metropolis and its vassal economic nodes.[22]
Economic Nodes that have reached the Metropolis Stage unlock the Superpower “Linked Economy”. Any Economic Node with this Superpower unlocked shares Auction House listings with all the others, meaning that the items listed in one Linked Economy Node can be bid on from any other Linked Economy Node. Linked Economies also connect a Metropolis and any Vassal Economic Nodes belonging to that Metropolis.[22]
The Linked Economy Superpower has the potential to create a massive market that spans the world. This will allow players to attain and sell goods with ease, providing those who have access to these Economic Nodes a faster path to fortune in the lands of Ashes of Creation.[22]
Item sinks
It's important for a healthy economy to have item sinks, so that anything that can be crafted can also be destroyed:[24]
- Over-enchanting carries the risk of destroying that item[25], rendering it useless for use temporarily.[26]
- Players gain craftable items and recipes from deconstructing (salvaging) completed items.[25]
- A portion of resources and materials are lost when caravans or nodes are destroyed.[27]
- Corrupted players who die can lose gear.[28]
- Item durability (item decay) does not destroy items, but it acts as a materials sink.[28][29][30] Zero percent durability will unequip an item, increasing its repair costs.[31]
An important aspect of a healthy economy is having some item sinks available... There are three kinds of item sinks: You can gain craftable items from deconstructing completed items; You can have decay... and if you want to over-enchant that item there will be a potential to destroy it as well. It's important for an economy to experience those types of emphasis on what can be crafted as well as seeing those items that are crafted be destroyed as well..[30]
The concept there is this is part of the engine that is supply and demand. So the server is constantly generating these materials on tick as they propagate throughout the world and get repopulated, players are going out there and collecting these things. We want to make sure that there is a driving force and factor behind what crafters and gatherers are out there doing: There's constantly going to be a demand for them to supply these things. Whether that death is from PvP or from PvE these are going to be necessities for players to constantly provide.[29] – Steven Sharif
Item durability
There is item durability (item decay) in Ashes of Creation.[30]
- Item decay does not destroy items, but it acts as an materials sink.[28][29][30]
- If you allow it to get to certain stages, or to get to a destructed stage then it requires a lot of material components in order to return back to its former glory.[35] – Steven Sharif
- Over enchanting an item comes with the risk of durability loss if a safety margin is exceeded.[32][37][38]
- There is durability in the game... It's not going to be a trivial durability. There is a potential to destroy gear (weapons and armor), but there is also an ability to reforge that destroyed gear using a portion of the materials necessary as well as finding an item creator who can reforge it.[30] – Steven Sharif
Item deconstruction
Players gain craftable items and recipes from deconstructing (salvaging, dismantling, disenchanting) completed items.[25]
- There's salvaging where you can deconstruct an item to get components only capable of retrieving from salvaging an item that can be used in crafting other types of items.[24] – Steven Sharif
- Specific and necessary crafting materials for higher tier items can only be obtained through the deconstruction of lower-tier items. This is designed to keep lower tier crafted gear relevant through progression and across expansions.[39][40][24]
- Specific crafting components yielded by gear deconstruction, and some of these components can be only be obtained from gear of certain enchantment levels and type of equipment. These components are needed for certain recipes for gear and other ancillary crafting professions. But the itemization team is still ironing out some of these flows.[39] – Steven Sharif
- Item deconstruction will not be a meaningful way of circumventing restrictions on transit of resources and materials.[41]
Player to player trading
There is player-to-player trading in Ashes of Creation.[42][43][44][45]
- Q: Will Ashes of Creation have player-to-player trading? Will there be anything stopping me from gifting a friend that's fresh to the game a bunch of in-game money to help them get on their feet quickly?
- A: There won't be anything to stop you from doing that.[44] – Steven Sharif
- Player to player trading, interacting with vendors or NPCs, and the ability to access storage is disabled for corrupted players.[46][47][48]
- The nature of player to player trading already introduces that in an open economy game... that is why we have measures to attempt and heat flag suspicious transactions, active gms and other honeypot systems/agents that will be active in discovering those types of cheaters.[43] – Steven Sharif
Banking
Banking between characters is being discussed.[53]
Account management
Strona do zarządzania kontem jest używana do przypisania pierwszy lub kolejny raz przedmiotów z crowdfundingu do konkretnej postaci:[54]
- Skórki kosmetyczne.[55]
- Przenoszenie przedmiotów pomiędzy postaciami, gdzie można je zastosować tylko do jednej postaci an raz.[56]
Caravans
Caravans are vehicles that facilitate the transfer of cargo across Verra.[60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68]
- Caravans are the induction of emergent gameplay, which means you cannot predict the situation you're going to be in when you use a caravan. That's part of the risk: The risk is the unknown. If you could predict it then your ability to mitigate that risk would unfortunately remove that dynamic- that ratio of risk versus reward.[69] – Steven Sharif
- Personal caravans are used to transport cargo for one or more players.[64][65][66]
- Mayoral caravans are used by Mayors to transfer cargo between nodes with established trade agreements or alliances.[62][63]
- Caravans are initiated from and arrive at caravansary node buildings within Village (scena 3) nodes and above.[70][64][71][72]
- Caravans create an objective-based PvP event in the open-world that players can choose to attack, defend, or opt-out of.[73][74][75][76]
- PvE caravan events can cause roadways to be blocked off or hostile mobs to spawn to attack the caravan.[77][78]
- It is possible to launch decoy caravans and merchant ships, but there are visual hints of what is contained in a caravan.[79][80][81] Decoy crates may be available via social organization progression.[79]
Stock exchanges (also called Stock markets and Share markets) enable players to buy and sell shares in Nodes, Guilds and Social organizations.[82][83][84]
- Stock exchanges were a Kickstarter stretch goal unlocked for reaching the $3 million dollar mark.[84]
- This is a planned feature for the launch of Ashes of Creation.[82]
- The value of stocks is influenced by world events and the performance of nodes, Social organizations or guilds.[85]
- Hard metrics, such as quest lines, nearby resources, citizen progression, and purchases of local real estate, will determine the value of purchasable shares.[84]
- There is no regulatory commission to restrict the purchase and sale of stocks.[85]
Security systems
Security systems will be in place to combat cheating, exploiting, botting, gold selling/real money transactions (RMT), item duplication and other things that affect the economy starting from Alpha-0.[86][87][43][49][50][51][52]
- A broad spectrum of approaches are going to be utilized in order to try to protect the integrity of the game once it launches. Testing of these systems will begin leading up towards Alpha-2.[87]
- Security is always at the top of any concern when you have a closed system like an MMO is... We've seen a lot of MMO is launch without security in place and the economy gets ruined as a result thereafter. And every band-aid that's slapped on top of that wound is just making things worse. And so part of why you take the time in order to ensure that things are done correctly is also the security component of things; and that's where testing with a live audience is a bit different also than testing with a Q&A audience as well, because you're going to get those bad actors- and we call them bad actors because ultimately they're attempting to destroy the fun for others... So what we've done is we've hired some security experts who've worked on massive other MMOs like World of Warcraft and other games, and they bring with them lot of experience; and we're going to be testing that in leading up towards Alpha-2. It's a very important part of Alpha-2. It's not something that we really addressed with Alpha-1 because again, that was a much more barebones functional testing experience. We did see some issues during Alpha-1 and we made it important for Alpha-2 to test those systems. We have a broad spectrum of approaches that we're going to be utilizing in order to try to protect the integrity of the game once it launches.[87] – Steven Sharif
- These systems collect user data and flag abnormal activities for investigation. This combined with player reporting functions generates a live "heat map" that draws attention to unusual behavior.[86][43][49][52]
- We do have already built into the game on the outset is essentially behavioral metrics. So in the game, as a player does normal things and they acquire normal gold, that's all good and well, but if there starts to be item IDs that appear on the player account that are out of the norm, like either a large amount of gold, or significant legendary items, what it does in the back-end it flags the account for view so that we can take a look at where did this item come from. Is it coming from a known gold seller or a flagged bot, or whatever; and then we investigate. So we're going to be pretty hard on the ability for players to subvert the natural economy systems by RMT or botting.[49] – Steven Sharif
- Botters, cheaters, gold sellers, and RMTers, will face severe penalties from the active GM/community team.[86][88][89][52]
- It's important to note that there is a sanctity that must be protected within the game from RMTing; and let me just go into a little diatribe about this: But in games that I've played where the company or the publisher does not enforce rules, it becomes the standard that you buy gold if you want to be competitive. If you want to compete at the top tier levels in certain games, and everyone's buying gold, you almost either have to buy the gold or you're just not going to be able to compete with those people and that's a really shitty feeling to have. Excuse my French, I apologize. That is sucky; and in order for that not to be the case it is the responsibility of the publisher or the developers both to make sure that we have stringent practices from a CS- from a customer customer service perspective- to enforce our rules and to make sure that players are aware if they partake in this there is a huge risk in doing so. It's not going to be a slap on the hand. It's not going to be a "we told you once, we told you twice, we told you three, four, five six times okay. We're just taking some gold away", that thing. We have got to ensure that it is feared to do those things because that ashes has active GMS, it has active customer service, it has an active community team.[89] – Steven Sharif
Real estate
Players buy the deeds for housing from the node itself, or may buy and sell properties from other players.[90][91][92][93][94]
- The developers are considering an auction-based method for listing new properties that become available for purchase when a node advances.[95] Currently freeholds may be acquired via auction.[96][97][98][99][100][101]
- Housing will have a base price that scales with the number of citizens in the node.[102]
- There is no cap on the price of player-originated housing sales.[103]
- In-node housing will be at a premium, and is expected to be hotly contested.[94]
- The more apartments that have been purchased in a node, the higher the price scales.[104]
- Player housing that is destroyed during a node siege can no longer be sold.[105]
- Freehold plots may be purchased from and sold to other players,[90][106] or can be obtained via deeds issued by a Village (scena 3) or higher node.[96][97][98][99][100][101][107][108]
- We're establishing a real estate market that players can invest in and then sell within the in-game economy, but also they are a resource that's subject to removal through the sieging system as well, so there's a bit of risk implied there but the idea is that this is something for players to strive for.[106] – Steven Sharif
- Housing ownership can default back to the node if the owner fails to pay their property taxes. A balance and penalties will be charged to the new purchaser of the home in the manner of a "foreclosure process".[102]
- Players will not be able to exceed their allotment of housing in the game.[112]
- Rental and leasing concepts are under consideration.[112]
Business chains
There's no reason why you couldn't license your name to somebody else who also has a freehold and who also has an Inn and work together.[113] – Jeffrey Bard
See also
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