World Market Quest/tutorial [13 Supporters | 1 Against]

I'm not sure if people will like this concept, but hear me out.

In people's first playthroughs they're not likely to use the forum market or trade much, especially at first. This can lead to players finding potentially very valuable lower level items, like 2/4 willpowers/concentrations, or almuj walkers, etc, and simply selling them to the Item Buyer NPC since they don't know their potential worth.

(At least for me, I look back at those bunches of 2/4 willpowers/lapis's that I sold to the item Buyer and regret it now, knowing their actual worth. And I'm sure there are hundreds if not 1000's of new and/or casual players that still don't use the Market at all)

So to the actual point, this would be a quest/tutorial which introduces players to the Market.

There's a couple ways this could work:

Option #1. The quest would begin with an NPC giving you a random item from a selection of 10 or 15 different items. They would then ask you to use that to transform that into one of the other items (The item given to you, and the item the NPC wants back would be different each time, and always asks for a different item than the one they gave you). They would go on to talk about how other people might be able to assist you in your quest. He would then say a link to the Trade Market for you to click.

The link would be a tutorial thread about the market, listing lots of useful info, like how market prices change over time; what the current most popular items' prices are; saying to check the price thread to see other items' pricings, and even post your own items to have their prices checked. At the end of the thread would be a large font saying "Try using the market now to trade your quest item, for the one you need!" with a link to a subforum in the Trade Market for this quest/tutorial specifically.

In that sub-forum people would list the quest item they have and the one they want. At the end of the quest, when they give the new quest item back to the NPC, they would be rewarded with a quest token currency, which can be spent at another NPC next to the first one. The second NPC would have 4 pieces of equipment- 1 for each class, and it would be good enough to entice people to do the quest. The bought equipment would also be Untradeable to prevent people from bypassing the quest entirely to get it.

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Option #2. An NPC could give you a written book, and inside it would contain a lot of useful information about the Market. On certain pages there would also be hints as to how to complete the quest (e.g. there could be 8 buttons or something, and among all the pages would tell you the order to press them in, to ensure people read the entire guidebook.

Of course, this would require written books to be added in, but I think they'd be a great idea ( Currently proposed by @Eldrex : thread link )

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If it was added, I'd say it should be around Lv.10 to give players some time to get used to the game mechanics first before introducing them to the Market.

I think it would help introduce a lot more players to the forums and the Market specifically, allowing more items to be brought in, and for those new players to be able to get much more money, and buy the items they want.

It's a pretty radical idea, but I think it has some promise.

Thoughts?

 

Add a poll mate! Cool idea, thanks for the thread plug :)

 

Thanks^^ and no problem for the plug :P

Added a poll

 

Huh seems nice! +1

 

Up next we will make a quest about wynns fucked up economy and EULA

 

How does one select both.
This is a good idea, they should do this with all forums.

 

I made the poll single choice for simplicity's sake, and also to denote how many people support the idea, or reject it. With multiple selection, it wouldn't be clear as to exactly how many people voted.