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Originally posted by Velk
Braen - would *you* take in game currency to escort tradesfolk around for extensive periods of time if you had no critical reason to do so ?
I'll even widen it up a bit - would *anyone at all* reading this board do this by choice ?
Even if it was your best friends, isn't this going to lead to painful level imbalances as the guards get experience protecting the craftsmen ? Or do craftsmen get to leech exp off their friends while they are mining ? |
I had a friend offered 10 G just to use his level 55 Priest to escort his low level group to Uldaman to see the Enchanter there. So yeah people do offer money to get their low level toons or whatever to different places.
Now, again, we are discussing a feature that isn't even been released nor has all the information about it been fleshed out. But how about this for a thought.
How about the "random encounters" on this journey along the silk road actually effect your cargo? How about if you don't defentd it, the bandit mobs can actualy steal your stuff you are shipping? And you need adventurers to protect you.
How about if they get away some of your stuff you can either come back as yoru adventurer self and get it back or hire PCs to do it for you.
I know many people who play EQ2 and basically only tradeskill because it is a deep and "advanced" system. I can see people being true merchant/crafters in Vanguard if the economy and players/devs imagination can support it.
Again my purpose here is not to convince people that don't like features of Vanguard that "OMG HOWZ COME J00 DON'T LEKI TI!", I just want to put information (which in alpha and pre E3 is hard to find) on these boards for most intelligent discussion. If you choose to base yoru opinion that this game is a long, hard grind, with massive timesinks and only for the hardest of the hardcore from the little information that has been put out, that is up to you. If just one person appreciates the information I am posting, then cool.
I am by no means an expert on all the different systems in Vanguard. I would love to be truely in the loop, be invited to alpha/beta (cheep plea for beta) and play the game at release cause I really enjoyed Brad and friends last outing with EQ. It took a good 5 + years of my gaming life. I can only imagine what he could come up with next.
As Fammaden said in another thread, Vanguard may not be for everyone and Sigil might not want it to be. WoW is THE game to most people and that is cool. He wants to make his world. He wants people to come enjoy it, if it is 300,000 people or 2 million.
Microsoft stuck with Turbine and AC1 and 2 for years and they were always the "other" MMO. They gave up on them and their own homegrown MMO "Mythica" to put all their support behind Sigil and that tells me something. One: MS sees money. Two: I know Vanguard has staying power and Three: Sigil will have the finanical backing to do things that others might not be able to.