Suggestions For Goldsink

[Stranger]

I hear everyone say "We need a gold sink so bad." Well, I figured I would create a thread on it where everyone can post their ideals for goldsinks. I'll start it off with a simple and in my mind very effective gold sink.

Make silver buyable via a vendor. You can still earn it via events, or you can dump endless amounts of gold into it.

[Mikel123]

Problem with this is, how do you set the exchange rate?

[Populus]

No.

I'd rather see empty houses than silver everywhere.

How about we just throw some gold out and let it decay.

[Stranger]

That would be for Derrick to decide. He could base it off current silver value, or, he could make it like, twice the current silver value, which in my opinion would be the better option. Would suck up a lot more gold and there are always going to be people willing to pay it.

[Stranger]

No.

I'd rather see empty houses than silver everywhere.

How about we just throw some gold out and let it decay.

Give us a suggestion then bro. This isnt a "Should silver be buyable" thread. Its a suggestions for goldsink thread.

[Populus]

Hence the "Let's throw some gold out".

Sometimes I wonder about you...

[Hemperor]

When you realise just how easy it is to get gold on this shard, you realise that no gold sink will ever serve it's purpose. 60k in under an hour is eezy peezy.

"Inflation", unfortunately, is part of UO. I think things like multi-clienting and afk macroing only make it act faster, regardless it is always going to happen.

[fooka03]

Here are just a few things I came up with.

• Maintenance costs for blessed clothing (or silver obtained items as a whole)
  Maintenance costs for guild add-ons
  Participation bounty fee (if you won an event recently it costs gold to participate)
  Special (player-run) event prizes fees

[Kelektra]

My suggestion is that all players that are male must give me 100k per month for being so sexy...

This would be a per account goldsink.

[Stranger]

Hence the "Let's throw some gold out".

Sometimes I wonder about you...

Err your suggesting Derrick should take gold from peoples banks and delete it? If so, somehow I dont think that will go over so well.

[Stranger]

My suggestion is that all players that are male must give me 100k per month for being so sexy...

This would be a per account goldsink.

This is UO it only works that way irl.

[Kelektra]

My suggestion is that all players that are male must give me 100k per month for being so sexy...

This would be a per account goldsink.

This is UO it only works that way irl.

Fine.. Btw, I do think the Gold to Silver conversion is a good idea.
Not sure on the rate though. Current rate is good i think.. Double the going rate would be way too extreme and just give the silver sellers even more of a profit.

So buying it from NPC would be 10k per
But if you won it then you may sell it for less then that.

[Mikel123]

My point is less about establishing a number, and more about the fact that the "going rate" for silver is always changing (usually up).

An effective gold sink needs to be something that is not ever able to be turned back into gold. Not from selling to an NPC, not from turning into something else sellable, not from trading to another player for gold. Some silver rewards are good gold sinks - for example, a name change deed. It's only usable once, and then it's gone from the system entirely. A movable unique rare, like a lava tile or a statue, is not a gold sink because it can always be traded back to someone else for gold.

[Hemperor]

First you have to take into account why gold gets out of hand on UO and when it initially started.

I believe it started in T2A, when drops were increased dramatically, yet NPC goods cost the exact same. The cost per living vs the insane drops is the problem, a gold sink is a temporary bandaid at best (and I seriously doubt one would even get that far).

There is no accurate or even proper fix to this.

[Stranger]

My point is less about establishing a number, and more about the fact that the "going rate" for silver is always changing (usually up).

An effective gold sink needs to be something that is not ever able to be turned back into gold. Not from selling to an NPC, not from turning into something else sellable, not from trading to another player for gold. Some silver rewards are good gold sinks - for example, a name change deed. It's only usable once, and then it's gone from the system entirely. A movable unique rare, like a lava tile or a statue, is not a gold sink because it can always be traded back to someone else for gold.

Make ticket items non-transferable?