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Originally Posted by Ysharros
Anyway, sorry for the ramble.
Here's a question for you guys that I think is related to the debate: does a player crafting system need a player-based economy in order to really shine? As an example, I think SWG with its 100% player-based economy was the best I've seen - sure, there were gougers, but there were also plenty of dedicated, reasonable merchants out there - and the point was, you *couldn't* get most stuff from anyone but other players, as someone mentioned above. One thing that worries me a little about Vanguard is that most gear can be obtained from NPCs as well as from players and loot - in which case, how many people are actually going to bother with player-made stuff, even if it's better? I'm thinking at this stage that the NPC vendors only slightly dilute the economy, since their stuff definitely isn't as good as even basic crafted stuff, but we'll see.
(Honourable mention among crafting systems should also go to poor Horizons, because they really tried to make something new and interesting.)
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No worries for rambling, we all do it.
I am hoping that the crafted economy thrives, the amount of options available to the adventurer through crafted items gives them the ability to really completely spec out any way they want. Want to hit more? Equip your dex gear, want more hp? Equip the con based gear. Healers with nukes can do the same by equiping different focus items that can now be crafted.
I believe in time the players will realize that the low end gear crafted by players is much better than the npc merchant gear. This with the prices wars that are inevitable on low end items will result in the end with cheaper gear than the merchant gear that is better, thus making the npc vendors obsolete.
Horizons did have a pretty good crafting system for its day, I see a lot of the ideas from it mirrored in VG, which is a good thing.