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Currency: What do you deposit/withdraw form bank?

Magpieman

Magpieman

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I would like to know honestly and in as much detail as possible what everyone withdraws and deposits in banks and gens. What item do you use to run your gen the most? (e.g. iron) What item you withdraw the most of from the bank? etc. I require this information so we can balance the economy as we are going to adjust bank prices slightly as well as gen costs. The more feedback the better. Also any opinions on any over or under priced ores is appreciated.
 
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There is an average of 84 Iron ore per chunk, 7.5 Gold, 3.4 Lapis, 3.1 Diamond.

Iron is very obviously the most common ore. Gold is about twice as common as Lapis and Diamond but cannot be fortuned. Fortune III will normally double the amount of Diamonds you collect but tripling them is not uncommon. Lapis is rather unique as without Fortune it produces 4-8 chunks but with Fortune III it can produce up to 80 chunks per ore which is almost 9 blocks.

So if you were to base it completely off of these facts the bank would look something like...

Iron: 1
Gold: 10
Diamond: 15
Lapis block: 8

But of course you must also consider that collecting diamonds is much more dangerous than any other ore and not everyone has Fortune III, so it's really down to opinion.
 
I also want the currency to take in the usefulness of each ore so that boosts up diamonds value and irons a bit.
 
Cryptite said:
Generators functioning as banks I think was an unintended functionality.
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Well it works well. A bank to store all your ores in as well as an Ender Chest is a bit much.
 
Yes i guess seeing as we have ender chests, providing we leave them as they are we could remove the bank entirely and post values of the ores at spawn with the rest of the gen information. If we did this we would need to give players a couple of weeks notice to remove what they own from the bank. What are peoples views on this? Are banks still useful?
 
I'd like to suggest that if the bank is removed then remove the tax during its final weeks so everyone doesn't lose 10%, but that would likely be abused. Kind of funny too.

"And so it was decreed, that each year the twelve cities of Loka shall offer up in tribute a tithe from their bank account, to fund training in the art of survival, and to prepare them to fight to the death."
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Can i have some more feedback on the proposed currency changes i posted and the idea of removing the bank.
 
I dislike the idea of removing the bank, I do however support removing the feature of adding anything other than emeralds to top up generators
 
The bank is essentially an ore storage, and if you have only emeralds being depo'd into gens, you'd just be wasting time- you'd have to walk to spawn, deposit the ores, withdraw emeralds, and then walk back.

Atm I have 200 diamonds worth of emeralds in my bank. 200 diamonds could keep me alive for a looooong time, and, if I can store an infinite amount of ores in my bank, then I just store the rest of my nonsense in my ender chest. Simple as that.
 
So you think the bank should stay nou? What your saying sounds like it is very bad for thieves which i thought we were trying to make thieving at least some what rewarding.
 
I am personally against it, ender chests are good enough, they can only store a limited number of items.
 
Well, if you remove the bank, expect some more iron armor, and rarely diamond. You can't easily get diamond armor, unless you have a good mine. Soo... Enjoy less diamonds. :P (or tools)
 
Even though I'm a thief I am strongly in favor of keeping the bank. If there is a problem with people storing stuff in the bank, then it might help to add a maximum bank balance that you see fitting.
 
Psychedelic98 said:
Even though I'm a thief I am strongly in favor of keeping the bank. If there is a problem with people storing stuff in the bank, then it might help to add a maximum bank balance that you see fitting.
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He has a reasonable point there, though what the maximum would be I haven't got a clue
 
mopb3 said:
Psychedelic98 said:
Even though I'm a thief I am strongly in favor of keeping the bank. If there is a problem with people storing stuff in the bank, then it might help to add a maximum bank balance that you see fitting.
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He has a reasonable point there, though what the maximum would be I haven't got a clue
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What else is the bank used for besides storage?
 
Zor95 said:
mopb3 said:
Psychedelic98 said:
Even though I'm a thief I am strongly in favor of keeping the bank. If there is a problem with people storing stuff in the bank, then it might help to add a maximum bank balance that you see fitting.
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He has a reasonable point there, though what the maximum would be I haven't got a clue
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What else is the bank used for besides storage?
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Currency exchange
 
Currency exchange to run generators which is no longer necessary, and currency exchange to get more diamonds which was not the intended use.
 
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