A Ban on interaction of goods and gold between c-rpg and strategus

[Magikarp]

I think we've all seen it: people trading c-rpg gold for strategus troops or gold. Or people selling strategus stuff the vice versa.

It's like paying for items on c-rpg with dollars/euros/whatever real life currency, it should be banned.

People who got a lot of gold on c-rpg, can now slack off and have advantages against others in strategus. Not to mention that if every clan will start doing this, than the richest clan will obviously be able to field more troops with better equipment.

And it's not like I'm biased, I got a lot of gold to spend and enough masterwork items to get an even bigger amount. This kind of behaviour just annoys me, strategus and c-rpg need to be seperated as much as possible, as their only link should be the character's stats and name that you bring to the battlefield.

[Skurcey]

trading is fun, and encourage friendship ! It s a fun way to have something other to do

[Garem]

Better suggestion: homogenize both systems. They were split before because cRPG gold was far less valuable. I don't think that's the case anymore.

Plus, the easy balance to this if gear gets too cheap in Strategus is to increase the cost of Strategus gear.

[Magikarp]

Better suggestion: homogenize both systems. They were split before because cRPG gold was far less valuable. I don't think that's the case anymore.

Plus, the easy balance to this if gear gets too cheap in Strategus is to increase the cost of Strategus gear.

Good suggestion as an alternative, added to poll.

@Skurcey: I don't understand a thing of what you are saying. I can only make of your post that you are making money out of this, or at least utilising this system.

Please if you vote for the poll, leave a reply why you voted that way.

[Matey]

i have mixed feelings. but overall, i think it is good to have such trade exist... it encourages players who otherwise would not participate in strategus to get involved... they may at some point decide they care about strat enough to join a faction instead of just selling their stuff for crpg gold.

[Lordark]

how do you sell Crpg gold for Strat gold ? I dont get it..

[Tears of Destiny]

how do you sell Crpg gold for Strat gold ? I dont get it..

Get near each other in Strat' map.
PM each other, work out a deal. Player 1 uses the market to offer a rock for two hundred bajillion gold. Player 2 buys the rock for two hundred bajillion gold, then on strat map transfers 1 bajillion fake Strat gold as well as a quarter bajillion troops to Player 1.

[Lordark]

O gee I think I get it now...


Peoples who have been playing this game alot and saving up a ton of money will be big money ballin on strategus by selling stuff now on the marketplaces since those transactions also
add to ur Strategus characters gold vault??

[[ptx]]

chadz had once said that strategus and crpg gold will be the one and the same. I think that might just apply in some future version of strategus (maybe the next?). So, if people feel like wasting their gold on this, temporary version (i don't believe it will last that long, lol), why not let them?

[Magikarp]

chadz had once said that strategus and crpg gold will be the one and the same. I think that might just apply in some future version of strategus (maybe the next?). So, if people feel like wasting their gold on this, temporary version (i don't believe it will last that long, lol), why not let them?

True, but still, I'd like some sort of dev answer on this. Both for this old and the future version.

Even a guarentee that this will be fixed in the future 'new' strategus is enough.

[Blondin]

IMO this add some things to do for clanless ppl, don't know if you participate in last Strategus but there was nothing to do for lonewolf except hired merc in battles.
Gathering gold in strat was useless as only thing you can do was buying equip for your troops, equip for what? once you reach 200/300 troops you were a threat for clans and so they eradicated your little army.

Now ppl can do something with there troops and gold strat, they could sell all for some gold to pay upkeep. Honestly i don't need myself gold, but i'm sure that for new players it could be interesting.
Don't know if Apsod and Polobow make a lot of money but they have a goal in strat (find the best spot!)

[PhantomZero]

IMO this add some things to do for clanless ppl, don't know if you participate in last Strategus but there was nothing to do for lonewolf except hired merc in battles.
Gathering gold in strat was useless as only thing you can do was buying equip for your troops, equip for what? once you reach 200/300 troops you were a threat for clans and so they eradicated your little army.

Now ppl can do something with there troops and gold strat, they could sell all for some gold to pay upkeep. Honestly i don't need myself gold, but i'm sure that for new players it could be interesting.
Don't know if Apsod and Polobow make a lot of money but they have a goal in strat (find the best spot!)

I agree, there is a lot of risk involved for all parties trading. Never know when you hand over your 500,000 cRPG gold and then the guy just attacks you with the 500 troops he was going to give you. Not to mention the effort of trying to meet up on the map. Or you get attacked transporting your Strategus Gold trying to get back to wherever you came from.

[Magikarp]

IMO this add some things to do for clanless ppl, don't know if you participate in last Strategus but there was nothing to do for lonewolf except hired merc in battles.
Gathering gold in strat was useless as only thing you can do was buying equip for your troops, equip for what? once you reach 200/300 troops you were a threat for clans and so they eradicated your little army.

Now ppl can do something with there troops and gold strat, they could sell all for some gold to pay upkeep. Honestly i don't need myself gold, but i'm sure that for new players it could be interesting.
Don't know if Apsod and Polobow make a lot of money but they have a goal in strat (find the best spot!)

OR you could just join a clan in strategus only, I think I've heard of people doing that. Having contracts with clans without having to join etc.

@Phantom: Not if your clan organises a neat and clean fast trading route.

[CoWorm]

I agree with both PTX and Blondin. Especially since chadz has been talking of making gold interchangable in future versions anyway. And also think about the possibility of a whipe with this early Strategus version, sucks to be the guys that traded all that gold then.

[Corwin]

I think that, as a principle, it should be prohibited.

First of all, some nolifers have already accumulated incredible amounts of gold in crpg, and this would give them unfair advantage over new players, or over others that didn't grind as much. For example, the biggest crpg nolifer, Kesh, offered crpg gold as a reward to mercenaries against Mercs. Well, that didn't help him much, but as a principle it is unfair, because he is in possession of millions, while others may not have that much to spare. Off course, reward last night was only 10 000, but what's to stop him (and others) from offering 100 000? Now that would be tempting to some, wouldn't it?

Second, I would strongly advise against any solutions that would encourage grinding fest on battle and siege servers. No need to explain why, I hope.