Bring gold back

Here we go again, i still refuse to accept that we cannot use gold for building and normal crafting. Here is the idea/hope about how to have gold back in game:

1. Vault plugin in Mining World takes Gold Ore only, and leaves Gold Ingots, Gold Blocks and Gold Nuggets in player inventory.

2. Vault plugin in Main World is removed completely, because there is no need for it: Gold Ore stays in Vault and it cannot be transfered to Main World, other gold-based items are no longer paid for.

3. Vault page on portal remains the same without any changes, buying Gold Ore for 25 Dei per piece. Deity Shop sells Gold Ingot for 25 Dei per piece (or heck, 26 Dei to pay 1 dei for smelting that stuff). Special crafting recipes for gold-based stuff can then be removed.

To answer concerns about possible abuse of the system: There would be no changes in how Gold Ore is exchanged for Dei, therefore there would be no new possible ways of abuse. And because other gold items (e.g. ingots, nuggets, blocks) would become the same kind of stuff as glowstone, any issues that would happen to gold items can already happen to glowstone.

 

Seconded. I have been spitting feathers since gold was removed, and as stated in countless conversations with Barry, there is simply no need to prevent building with gold.

 

The entire reason that the ability to be able to use gold for building and crafting in the first place was taken away was because numerous people found numerous ways to dupe gold ingots and gold blocks. Having gold as an item that can be held and used by the player will only further enable this, and while there may not be a known method of duping now, one may arise in the future and it could potentially wreck the economy like it did when this was initially implemented. I'm against having this go through, honestly. A few bad apples ruined the bunch for me. It's not so significant of a building material that it needs to be put back in place, and if it is for you, you may be able to talk to Deity or smc to worldedit it in with protection.

 

Once again:

Gold ore is handled the same way as now = safe.

Other gold stuff is no longer paid for by the server = same as glowstone. I havent seen any issues with glowstone in past 2 years, being active on the server for all the time.

Any specific concerns?

 

Even if a gold block or ingot was duped it would change nothing, the gold should still have technically zero value, although you know we will all end up paying through the nose for it lol.
If it had zero value in Dei then it wouldn't make a blind bit of difference to the server.

 

If people were going to dupe anything, why just gold and not glowstone as Barry said?

If gold had value then why can we not buy it Seph? Gold ore has value, but is locked into the vault.

 

I see no reason for all the hypothetical nonsense the just convolutes things. It doesn't make any difference whether somebody can duplicate gold or glowstone.

 

My point is can someone duplicate right now no matter the block? I just want to know the facts, duplicating gold will make no change as the block itself cannot be converted into cash if the right measures are taken. Do you live your lives hypothetically?

 

Ah okay, I think I misread/misinterpreted something in your original post. My mistake.

Now that I've more carefully looked over this, this definitely seems like something we'd benefit from, as long as the whole duplication issue doesn't arise again.

 

Remove vault entirely - people duplicate - they're banned. They don't - they're not banned. Qazz is worried about the economy and I'd say there's not a structured enough economy to worry about, and it's not like you have to go to college to get a degree to be able to obtain your own supplies (if the 'economy' fails). I say let it rain and let the era of ugly gold-blocked buildings begin.

(Edited irrelevant banned player name out - take issue with this up with SaintThunder)

 

Whilst there has been no reply on this thread for over half a year, I feel this suggestion is highly achievable and would require little effort to implement. The idea of using the current vault and then purchasing from /go shop is simple yet effective, and would be a great addition to the Kingdoms. The threat of duping is cleared and there is no reason as to why this cannot be implemented.

Haydo

 

It isn't easy to catch the dupers, if they are smart they could just dupe little at a time. although I do love the idea of bringing gold back, just banning the dupers wouldn't cut it. Plus people have multiple accounts to store gold on so we would never know.