WoW - What you'd like to see.

[Ted Striker]

NUDE WOMEN!!!!!!!!!

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Blake

Big guild buyers will still dominate the AH and experienced players will snap up the good weapons real quick even if to just give them to mates or alts. The newbies wont really have a more fair chance (the only reason you see good blues/purples at the AH at all is that they are so overpriced that no-one can afford to buy them, all the affordable ones get snapped up real quick)

That doesn't really bother me. The point of the rule is really to reduce inflation, and that is it.

Bind on buy is a big difference. Maybe you've been ripped off but the vast majority of players are quite honest and most players would accept dual-transactions (since that's how it's done for crafting already). The scammers would get booed out of IF and the main AH resellers would get a reputation for being trustworthy. Ofcourse soon only newbies would put blues up at the AH, everyone else would barter or dual-transaction them to get the full value of the item (this IS obvious to you right?).

If it was made clear that doing this was against the rules and not enforced, I doubt that many people would do it. If it wouldn't work, then the game is fundamentally broken. The honor system is broken, and the PvP system is pretty hopeless too.

I guess I could live with bind on buy.

I played a mage (on a seperate server to any other toons) to about 50. I got my mount at 40 with 20g to spare. Got a good pile of cash selling swiftthistle and fadeleaf. Also I barely quested and just grinded mobs because it's better exp and more cash.

And this goes a long way to proving my original point. That the inflationary nature of the game economy reduces the value of playing the original game content.

I didn't sign up for World of Farmcraft. This is my point. If you have to spend hours farming instead of enjoying the game content, what is the point?

Ofcourse I always avoided paying for the rubbish skills, some just aren't worth buying (for example you don't really need higher ranks of frostbolt unless ur a frost mage). So another trap for newbies is spending too much gold on junk skills and talent respecs.

You need frostbolt now. The lower levels get resisted a lot more (at least mine was last time I tried it). They may have fixed this in the last week or so, but there was a hue and cry about it.

I use almost all my spells, even the various forms of shield other than mana shield. Fire and Frost Shield are incredibly useful. Even the ones I use rarely, like Dampen Magic, have proven to be life savers on occasion. You really need all of them, even if you are a Fire/Arcane mage like me. Some mobs just have massive fire resistance, and sometimes you really need to slow things down. You also need both big AoE spells since sometimes you need the smaller area of Flamestrike to avoid hitting sheeped or immobilized mobs. About the only spell I have never used is the feather fall spell. This is because I've never had any feathers handy. I can think of times I'd love to have used it.

I don't consider myself a great mage by any means, but I do know that a lot of mages I have grouped with just spam the same things (polymorph, arcane missiles and fireball) over and over again.

Anyway, it's simply not possible to make a game economy as friendly for the newbies as it is for the advanced players (because advanced players understand the value of things), unless it's completely dumbed down. The only sufficiently dumbed down system I can think of is no trading at all, as even if theres all sorts of retarded restrictions on monetary trading the system would get abandoned and switch over to barter (I suspect the barter commodities would be gems and blues/purples).

Then the economy is fundamentally broken. Farmers of all sorts will introduce inflationary pressures and gold sellers will make it worse. It's a classic race to the bottom and a shame.

As usual the problem is people trying to eke out a statistical advantage instead of enjoying the game against equally matched opponents.

[Zevico]

I will give that Starcraft is the best Blizzard RTS, and arguably the best RTS of all time

Sorry to threadjack, but that title clearly belongs to Total Annihilation. That game was so ahead of its time and yet no one has tried to duplicate its greatest strengths---its terrain model and versatile units. Disappointing, really, because instead we have badly pixellated breasts of female characters (read: Night Elves). You know, because gamers don't games, they want irritatingly fake boobs.