A suggestion to replace special deals and reward new players with greater options

Hi,
First off I want to say that I love gamezbd and have been playing a lot since the COVID-19 outbreak. I see lots of new and returning players ask questions as to why the special deals option is now hindrance instead of an aid. Since the system is now implemented differently and isn't useful anymore, a lot of people are feeling discouraged to grind and are counting waiting for caphras as their new "endgame". Additionally, new players are finding the profitability of lower level engagement pretty much on par with retail right now as the game is bending over backwards to give players amazing rewards for their anniversary events. I would love if we could revitalize the gamezbd loot system so that items dropped from mobs, like Hunter seals for example, could be exchanged for much better rewards than Hunter seals give normally. If there was a tiered system giving silver, advice of valks, jewelry, etc, for grinding and similar exchangable items from gathering for mats, traces, Manos gear, etc, I feel the engagement of the game at all levels could benefit without adding anything gamebreaking or unrealistic.

 

Hi i'm sorry if this is off topic but i was just wondering. speaking as a new player, my wife and i recently started here as older players from retail.
How exactly do we enable special deals because i can't for the life of me see the bag icon.
I have found some relatively ok ways to make money but playing a duo with her for some grinding was something i was looking forward to. i could just premium filter the gear but if we could make at least something off drops that would be great!

 

Special deals is no longer a viable means of money making. You get 30% of the vendor value not the marketplace value. Special deals go to your black spirit bank now as well. I'm not sure how you enable or disable it anymore to be honest.

 

I suggest you don't even waste your time grinding for money until you're 261 ap with kutum. At lower levels with premium you should enhance accessories for money. This weekend is enhancement I believe so your chances are even better.

 

i mean i just want to play with her and maybe make some money off the loot dropped. i don't really care about making tons of money..

 

You can do the Valencia one questline side by side with her and use those fail stacks to make way more money than grinding. You should be focused on money until you're 261ap with kutum. Then you can enjoy those grind sessions with your wife. If you're looking for something to grind with her right away that's not quests, I suggest waragons for to get tons frags and jewelry to melt for your capotia earring and ring.

 

that's what we're doing now actually haha, thanks again and sorry for derailing the thread

 

It's no problem. A community is nothing if it doesn't help its members.

 

I really like the suggestion, although it should have been posted in suggestions and not discussions, but oh well.

I would love to see the revival of the Party-Loot being a viable source of income, however it is in the hands of ALL the players who are using the Central Market at the moment. Just seems to me that if the prices can be forced down so utterly and totally, then it stands to reason that they can also be boosted beyond the moon as well. Just think about it for a moment, if everyone on GamezBD agreed to buy and sell all dropped loot at maximum prices for a month, then the prices would be quite high for all items, HOWEVER the income of doing Party-Looting (Special Deals doesn't exist anymore on the market so a new name is fitting) would then be 30% of 500k silver = 150k per item dropped divided by the number of people in the party.
Heck it could even grow to 1million silver for the items that drop in the highly used grinding areas if the whole community only could cooperate for once

However, I am not a Developer, nor an Administrator, so I have just as much say in this as anyone else on the community, but I do certainly support the suggestion to make partying an really good option for income once again.
Now about the suggestions you have made so far...I do not think that exchanging one type of loot for another is any way to make things better (or easier for the developers for that matter), so what Could be a viable option is to add a bonus for every party member added instead of just having two players doing Party-Loot (PL), as it was/is done, the more players in the party the more you would gain as an income;
2 players = 30% value of items
3 players = 40% value of items
4 players = 50% value of items
5 players = 60% value of items

How does that sound?