Platinum Tokens and Rares

[Banned 42]

The only issue I see with this is there won't be a need to stake rares and create a sink for coins, which is sort of the end game of having a rare shop for coins in the first place. If anything I'd rather disallow staking the tokens and allow exchanging them back to coins.

I think platinum tokens should be added but not for money sink purposes.
To refresh the economy you could add the rare shop to appear at holiday season, christmas as one example. Create custom prices for phats as example, make christmas cracker to be bought with 800m cash and 3 armadyl sets as example.
By having the shop appear only at holiday seasons, it will make them more rare. For me it's not reasonable to have shop for rares available everydays.

Halloween masks for halloween, Santa hats for christmas(?)

[sharingan]

I think platinum tokens should be added but not for money sink purposes.
To refresh the economy you could add the rare shop to appear at holiday season, christmas as one example. Create custom prices for phats as example, make christmas cracker to be bought with 800m cash and 3 armadyl sets as example.
By having the shop appear only at holiday seasons, it will make them more rare. For me it's not reasonable to have shop for rares available everydays.

Halloween masks for halloween, Santa hats for christmas(?)

I agree with this, but the rares are supposed to be rares meaning that if a cracker is 800m it's not really classed as a rare. A rare item means that it's hard to obtain. Rares in my opinion, should be worth at least 3b+ depending on the colour. This means everyone in-game doesn't have a partyhat/hween mask/santa like the black rares which were a complete fail (in my opinion). I say this because at least 50% of the server have at least 1b+. (black rares are like 300m, which makes it just worthless)

[Banned 42]

I agree with this, but the rares are supposed to be rares meaning that if a cracker is 800m it's not really classed as a rare. A rare item means that it's hard to obtain. Rares in my opinion, should be worth at least 3b+ depending on the colour. This means everyone in-game doesn't have a partyhat/hween mask/santa like the black rares which were a complete fail (in my opinion). I say this because at least 50% of the server have at least 1b+. (black rares are like 300m, which makes it just worthless)

Agreed. 3b should me minimum for the cracker atleast.

[Mr Money]

I don't think that the item exchange version should be linked to g.e. prices due to instability. A better option would be to rank items in terms of their usefulness/value and give them a fixed exchange rate. E.g. for the sake of this argument, we will use tokkul as the currency (could be anything)- GWD items exchange for 500 tokkul, spectral ss 1k tokkul, arcane 4k tokkul, tbow 10k tokkul, elysian 15k tokkul. Should be able to exchange these for a cracker which costs 20k tokkul.

If this idea was to be implemented, we can gather opinions from players on what items should be worth.

[Palidino]

I can add platinums for staking, but at that point there's no need for a rare shop. Rares would be better left to continue being introduced in ways like they currently are: voting, clan wars tournament, PK raffle, etc. A shop that sells rares who's only value is to show off while bank standing would just mean that not very many would be bought, because they hold no use for anything including staking (because platinum tokens could be exchanged back to coins, so why would you waste any money on rares to stake?).

[Banned 42]

I can add platinums for staking, but at that point there's no need for a rare shop. Rares would be better left to continue being introduced in ways like they currently are: voting, clan wars tournament, PK raffle, etc. A shop that sells rares who's only value is to show off while bank standing would just mean that not very many would be bought, because they hold no use for anything including staking (because platinum tokens could be exchanged back to coins, so why would you waste any money on rares to stake?).

Don't underestimate power of the fashionscape. I don't understand it, but most of the players do. Many end-game players would definitely buy those rares, no matter what the price is.
I ran pking server around 4 years ago where we decided to not release any rares for awhile. After around 1 year from the release of the server, we decided to add phats on the donation store for very greedy price, around $50 each. Many players bought them and that surprised us...

[SGS]

Why not have different party hats obtainable through different ways like a ton of arma sets for blue and tons of coins for yellow or something similar

[Mr Money]

I can add platinums for staking, but at that point there's no need for a rare shop. Rares would be better left to continue being introduced in ways like they currently are: voting, clan wars tournament, PK raffle, etc. A shop that sells rares who's only value is to show off while bank standing would just mean that not very many would be bought, because they hold no use for anything including staking (because platinum tokens could be exchanged back to coins, so why would you waste any money on rares to stake?).

Platinum tokens for a rare shop can kill three birds with one stone:

1. Adds rares into the game which gives older players something to work towards
2. Cash and Item sink
3. Enables players to trade/stake more than 999m without needing an mm

[Banned 42]

Some people want so that the currency has money sink so it cannot be converted back to coins and some people want platinum tokens like in OSRS, that you can transfer back.

Solution that works for both:
1. Create custom currency for the rare shop that cannot be transferred back to coins.
2. Add platinum tokens which work exactly like in OSRS. Useful for stakers & other richer players.

For the custom currency use reward token as example and rename it to "Rare token" or something.


http://oldschoolrunescape.wikia.com/wiki/Reward_token