Inevitable collapse of the 'Economy'

yeah, making money was easy if you had the right statues

 

I would like a real economy system, like a government in some planets that had taxes and all that.
I don't think the game's going to have the same problem because like you said it's the same person making the game, thus not making the same mistakes he did in the past

 

Wuuuut?? In terraria reforge muramasa cost many gold, and other endgame items too. So u need many hours to gold farm, ore use server clon many times. Thats all economy in terraria. First of all this is craft, for economy go to anno 2070

 

Metric pixels? I like it.

 

I'm guessing, just guessing, that the main source we'll get our money from will be quests and rare treasure. That way theres some more balance and "farming" for pixels won't be worth it.

 

Perhaps there will be things that act as a continual or long-term drain on our pixels. i.e Paying hired crew members on a regular basis.

 

Space pirates could raid the ship, thus resulting in them taking some of our pixels - with the amount depending on how well the player fought them off?

 

MMH!
I like it.

 

Maybe it'll be like real economy? In which you can't have more than a certain amount of money unless it is backed by some sort of material?

 

Well, I'd think that'd be our only source of money. I doubt that mobs will drop money, but maybe.

Also, if the economy was like real life, than I'd never play this game.

 

Meh, it was worth discussing.

 

I'm kind of hoping the money system will be like MMO's but better, mainly the part where, sure you can grind for money, but its much easier to take quests and find rare items to sell, either to another player or an NPC. By better I mean, make it so it makes sense for the money to come from killing something.

 

I wanna be a space pirate! That'd be an awesome way to make pixels... parting folks from their hard-earned loot!

Preferably with a frilly shirt. A lizard-head pirate in a frilly shirt. Imagine that for a moment, if you will

 

Money Sinks.

Edit to explain: Just useless things that cost X amount of money, that serve really no advantage in the game. Maybe buying ship customizing items, maybe NPCs that can change your appearance, frivolous things like that.

So even IF it becomes stupidly easy to make money, people will spend most of it on generally "Useless" things.

 

I don't think there'll be a problem with the economy in this.


As for the joke:

 

I wouldn't hope for that. Isn't it fun to be looking for money, to afford the next item instead of having everything in just 2 hours? It would ruin the game for me :/

 

Maybe have some economy going on that is real-time affected by all the players in Starbound?
Perhaps, no farming possibilities for grinding in Starbound etc. and that should prevent a lot for the economy to collapse.

 

Fuel. Ammo (as in MAC gun ammo and nuclear missiles). Crew. SPACE STATION COMPONENTS.
Pardon me if I seem poor, but those don't strike me as being inexpensive, exactly.
I think there will be things we can't make. For those, we will have to spend. Oh, will we spend....

 

WHAT ARE YOU SAYING???? GAMES ARE NOT REALISTIC????????

 

They're just wondering how monsters on never-before explored prehistoric planets can be carrying modern currency.
It's a good point. It probably won't be considered, and may even be played at for the lulz.