UO Check Book?

[Theo_GL]

If some folks are overburdened by having to handle so many "tiny" million in gold Checks, then what you are suggesting would be going in the WRONG direction. Instead eliminate million in gold checks and replace them with max amounts of 100,000 in gold Checks. Maybe then the filthy rich, and GREEDY among us will help deflate our economy back into one far more reasonable.

Your suggestion would only serve to nudge even more inflation into our economy.

I cannot and do not support such actions.

Respectfully,

Elladan of Baja

It is amazing how many people don't understand basic economics. Making transactions even more difficult will not LOWER prices.

The economy is the economy. Prices rise because gold is more plentiful than ever. I mean you get even more for tmaps now. You can make 100k an hour or more by doing tmaps.

To the folks here that don't have money - bummer. There are so many ways to make gold FAST in this game it is not funny. Its not dupers, scammers, etc only that are rich - it is anyone who spends time gathering gold. The PVPers who spend 15mil per piece on gear and nothing but running around Yew gate - yup, you are probably poor. However, the rest of us that spend time gathering gold - it is overflowing.

Making it harder to have transactions will not lower prices - it will make people stop selling things. Price controls do not work. Ask the communists.

 

[Serafi]

No - two solutions:

2 - Longer/Better Fix - No checks at all. Money is deposited in bank. You have running balance in your bank across the account in simply a number. You pay for things out of your bank or by typing a number in the trade window for gold. The money is direclty moved. No storage limit for gold.

Why not make it an item, a vault, mixing the tithing- and vendorcode. Clicking it you get a menu asking how much you want to deposit drawing that amount in your bankbox. If you want to withdraw you do the same as you do when you draw gold off a vendor. It would still be checks in the end, but you could store much more. Maybe it could be a vet reward, useable by all. It could be moved, and you could even have it locked down in your house. Clicking it would give a visitor the amount of gold it was holding, if you were the gloating kind.

I also am in favour of Trevs idea of reducing everything to 10%. But that is probably a lot of work.

 

[Theo_GL]

Got it in one. Its that simple.

No its not.

A gold reduction does not work. Lets say everyone's gold is cut by a factor of 100.

Well, what if I have 10 million ingots. Normally those are 10-15gp so assume 15million. Lets assume you have 15 million in gold.

After the change I still have 10 million ingots. You have 150,000 gold. Well, the ingots will still be 10-15gp and the lowest you can drop them is 1gp on an NPC.

So I can sell them and make at a minimum 10 million gold.

Now, do you think the cut gold by 99% is a good idea?

You can circumvent this by storing up resources or things that stack that are too low of a value to cut by 99%.

And before you say 'well, lets cut all stackables by 100' it is not pratical. Do not take my 100 ecru down to 1 that i mined up. It still takes 10 to make a ring. This would NOT be fair and I'd be pissed at losing all the work.

 

[Travis82]

So 10m gold checks is a good idea.

 

[the 4th man]

Lame idea, as are most of the alternative concepts as well. If you have too much gold, too bad, no one told you to be that way.

I say cap the amount you can have per account, that'll fix the greedy pixel junkies.

 

[Valerin]

Lame idea, as are most of the alternative concepts as well. If you have too much gold, too bad, no one told you to be that way.

I say cap the amount you can have per account, that'll fix the greedy pixel junkies.

worst idea yet suggested on this thread.

(or just a troll, one of the two)

 

[Travis82]

Good idea to save storage space and to not have so many checks.. OR make them stack-able?

 

[lucitus]

Yeah a good idea! It is like everywhere, you are also not saving your movies on 3.5 floppys

 

[Korik Bloodguard]

Reducing the total gold amount by a factor of 10 or 100 or whatever is an interesting idea and sure it works mathematically for the most part, however one way it doesn't work is cognitively. UO is a game in which people collect things, while reducing by a factor of 10 is mathematically sound it feels as if something is being taken away. Everyone also assumes that people's willingness to pay a given price is also automatically brought in line with the overall reduction, but it's not quite that simple.

Any change they make to an economy has coincidental effects in the social realm which can be far more harmful than a non-existent problem born out of a perceived inequality.

 

[Valerin]

Reducing the total gold amount by a factor of 10 or 100 or whatever is an interesting idea and sure it works mathematically for the most part, however one way it doesn't work is cognitively. UO is a game in which people collect things, while reducing by a factor of 10 is mathematically sound it feels as if something is being taken away. Everyone also assumes that people's willingness to pay a given price is also automatically brought in line with the overall reduction, but it's not quite that simple.

Any change they make to an economy has coincidental effects in the social realm which can be far more harmful than a non-existent problem born out of a perceived inequality.

reducing gold by factor of X just doesn't make sense considering all the other, more easily implemented, suggestions that have been made. It'd be easier to bring in 10mil checks, have a checkbook, or have a single bank account where all your money is store, and do away with checks altogether. Any of those three would be better than the reduction option.

 

[MonkeyDLuffy]

I agreed with Theo_GL. This is a game play issue.

I favored the second solution, but I would add...
I think we should have a UO piggy bank house deco which can used by co-ower/friends.

 

[Travis82]

13th year vet reward anyone can use UO piggy bank?

 

[Travis82]

Bumping to keep this up top until a dev can give us an answer about the check upgrade.

 

[Myna]

remove checks and make bank account to bank account transfers between players possible... gold in bank should be just a number like when you say balance .....

problems of duping gold and wasted space solved ... wow

 

[FishinFool]

Whole idea is unneccesary.

Just take a page from practically every MMO in existance and remove Money as an Item. It only promotes the desire to dupe to the unscrupulous.

 

[Simon]

So, someone tell me, why is a reduction of 90% of UO's gold not a good idea?

If you would change it like that, you gotta reduce all looted gold from monsters, etc. by 90% as well... or better 99% to be sure the work wasn't a dog's breakfast.

And when you guys are done with that, I would like to have Shard-Gates where you can xfer to every shard from every moongate. I requested that already a year before the xfers came to UO... If it would cost gold, it would be a nice permanent gold sink... but I doubt they will do that cause of money...

 

[Llewen]

Some one once told me that the best way to make a small fortune in UO was to start with a large one

Ok, I got a good chuckle out of that. And people say UO is just a fantasy with no reality in it...