Purchasing Room Credits with Achaean Credits

Exelethril

For those who would like the convenience of purchasing room credits with credits, I was wondering if reinstating the old option of purchasing rooms/room upgrades would be a good idea.

Trey

This would defeat the entire purpose of moving the cost of player housing to stone and wood as a gold sink.

Mishgul

houses were a good credit sink post artefacts.

Jules

The only way they'll reconsider is if enough people *really* don't like the new system.  Most people do support gold sinks so it's a question of how much of a PITA/expense it makes building houses (or not) and how much people care (possibly not a lot because houses are sort of almost worthless - you can't even really loiter in them, not even with things like no prism upgrades). 

Shirszae

Thats not true. Unless someone is making a conscious effort to get you in particular, a no-prism room and a monolith should allow you to be almost as safe as anywhere. That's been my experience, at least

Jules

Well, if someone is looking to get into a city, and they find someone in a sub, at that point they're trying to get to you in particular.  In my case, someone got in my house.  I was able to leave and lock the person in.  I also made the mistake of immediately informing Cyrene what had just happened (literally the first time someone got into my house in the whole of my Achaean existence) and... it didn't go well.  Talking with other city members, most of them don't really use their houses for that reason - and they specifically mentioned that while no prism certainly helps, it's definitely not foolproof.  I did buy no prism anyway, immediately afterwards (although yes, my home had had the appropriate sigils).  I imagine Mhaldor would be similarly strict, not sure about the other cities.  So, it's partly not a  "mechanical" reason but a cultural/political one.  Also hi!

Tael

You can still buy them with credits - you just have to sell the credits for gold first. And I'm pretty sure the prices are pretty uniformly lower than they used to be, by quite a bit.

Looking at Ashtan's commodity prices right now and CFS, a room costs only ~2.3 credits. Which means no prism costs around 90 credits, which is a lot lower than I remember it being.

Amunet

No one has ever managed to break into my scriptorium as long as the monolith has been up, so I would have to agree with @Shirszae on that one.

EDIT: @Yae informed me that there is an error in one of the HELP files, and that the Delosian property office specifies much smaller amounts of wood and stone. So I did math (and I've been hoarding) for no reason. Ignore me, please!

Exelethril

Tael said:

You can still buy them with credits - you just have to sell the credits for gold first. And I'm pretty sure the prices are pretty uniformly lower than they used to be, by quite a bit.

Looking at Ashtan's commodity prices right now and CFS, a room costs only ~2.3 credits. Which means no prism costs around 90 credits, which is a lot lower than I remember it being.

Just for correction, a room credit costs ~2.3 credits. It takes 10 of them which is still cheaper Thanks for the input, guise.

Jules

It sounds like it's made them much more accessible, which would be great, because it's mostly just a nice little prestige item really (or a place to keep your embarrassing animal collection).   

Jeslyn

I think they mean bound credits. You cannot sell bound credits and a lot of people are getting them from their ire membership. I'm already getting about 150 bound credits a month.

Mishgul

yeah the ire membership lost a little value for me specifically, but I am not the majority I am sure people buy ire membership for other things, liek taht xp bonus.

Exelethril

Mishgul said:

yeah the ire membership lost a little value for me specifically, but I am not the majority I am sure people buy ire membership for other things, liek taht xp bonus.

Can always buy more flowerpots.

Mishgul

Silvarien has out flowerpotted me by a country mile. I am going to have to find a new niche. Like signet rings or something.

Exelethril

Mishgul said:

Silvarien has out flowerpotted me by a country mile. I am going to have to find a new niche. Like signet rings or something.

Is a country mile different than a non-country mile? 

Okay, much derail.

Tharvis

Exelethril said:

Tael said:

You can still buy them with credits - you just have to sell the credits for gold first. And I'm pretty sure the prices are pretty uniformly lower than they used to be, by quite a bit.

Looking at Ashtan's commodity prices right now and CFS, a room costs only ~2.3 credits. Which means no prism costs around 90 credits, which is a lot lower than I remember it being.

Just for correction, a room credit costs ~2.3 credits. It takes 10 of them which is still cheaper Thanks for the input, guise.

so roughly 23 credits per room bought with ashtan comms, roughly 28 credits per room bought with hashan comms (I'm going to change those prices a bit though, so that's a temporary number) and I assume the other city comm stores (when calculated) hang around 25 credits per room (10 room credits - 1000stone/2000wood) aswell.
Which is half the previous cost, isn't it?