theory: item degradation/breaking

ArchivedUser

There needs to be a real solid gold sink as long as gold is flowing into the world via monster kills or quest givers for a realistic economy.  I believe that gold sink will be gear maintenance as it is the easiest thing to control.  Has anyone heard or seen any evidence of this? I imagine it will be purchase only components for the repair skills, but I guess it could be apartment rentals or a sales tax.  Either way, gear breaking/repair seems the most likely to me, thoughts?

ArchivedUser

doh, found this link 5 seconds after posting this and I've spent a week or so lurking, derp
https://forums.ashesofcreation.com/discussion/36224/information-economy-and-marketplaces/p1

ArchivedUser

Though you've lurked about for the past 4 months  let me welcome you to the community. I'm happy you decided to join us.   Perhaps one day the search feature will work here.       
Our members are good at sharing what knowledge they have.   I hope you enjoy the Ashes hpye train while getting to know us.

ArchivedUser

There are several resources out there that compile known information. One of the more complete is aocwiki.net, which will give you links to all the relevant quotebins, livestreams, and so on. The forums are due for another upgrade/iteration soon™.
Hopefully that will fix the image signature issue, search function, and the slew of other issues that have taken a backburner to actual game development. (not complaining about that, would rather have the game 6 months earlier than a place for people to wishlist and snipe.)

ArchivedUser

To be honest, the forum doesn't need a upgrade. We need entirely new software. Vanilla Forums are just cheap (actually free, cheap feature wise) and basic. Even phpBB, which is ancient, does a better job as forum software.

As for gold sink, low durability should be quite costly to repair, but I am against any sort of gear breaking (as in *poof*, gone for good).

ArchivedUser

I literally just posted this in response to a question in another thread. There are three principal item sinks planned for Ashes.

1. Deconstructing completed items to gain materials and recipies
2. Item decay through usage
3. Enchanting/upgrading items comes with a risk of destroying the item

"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. That is an important aspect of a healthy economy, is having some item sinks available...
There are three kind 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."

Source: MMORPG Podcast 13-05-2017 (25:55) - direct link to audio