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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 5002810" data-attributes="member: 12731">Let me start by saying I really agree with your goals! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I really think the presentation would improve by giving an example thou'.Especially the "ei" bits come across as heavily theoretical. A picture tells more than a thousand words!---That said, I'm not convinced the 20% sales rate is at fault here. What are you supposed to do with the extra money? You say yourself the extra gold is all but irrelevant when it comes to buying useful stuff. (Even if you got 100% when selling stuff, as per your example).Theoretically, nothing you can buy will compare to the things that "drop". Not as long as you don't change the curve, that is how every five levels also fivefold the price.Sure, in practice, there are quite a few items of your level or lower that are desirable. But they are almost all mistakes, pure and simple. Anytime your epic character picks up a bunch of heroic stuff because it is useful, a mistake has (almost by definition) occurred.So why change the 20% sales percentage? Why not change the exponential price hike? (If your goal is to allow players to use money to custom-buy what they don't get through drops).In fact, why not keep the system as-is and simply <s>fivefold the amount of random loot</s> in the game?Edit: I meant "why not increase the amount of loot fivefold when you make it random?"Your math should quickly tell you that this will amount to a very small increase in player power, because 1) the junk loot remains worthless and 5xworthless=worthless, 2) there's a limited number of slots anyway, very soon any increase will be incremental at best.And of course 3) by increasing the rate of loot by five, the importance of getting something useful just dropped by 4/5 - essentially you get five tickets to the lottery each level instead of just one**) one magic item for each PC except one, who gets gold instead. Except in all those groups where gold is always split equally.I guess I'm using your own argument that the system is inherently fail-safe (as long as you keep the x5/5 levels price hike) to argue your math is probably way too involved and detailed than necessary... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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