Increase Gold Coin Capacity In Storage

streets101

streets101

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2005

W/E

I couldnt check if this has already been posted because the search button was down.

I have surpassesd the Gold coin capacity on all my characters and in storage many times. This time i started to keep my money in ecto but im in fear that prices may plunge and so will my gold.

My question to Anet was will they be upgrading the storage capacity for charactors or the storage vault box. Anet answered that I should post it on forums to get other users comments and regards if they have the same issue.

Ty for all your comments in advance. Hopfully Anet will upgrade this.

bilateralrope

bilateralrope

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2005

New Zealand

Xen Of Onslaught (Xen of the Pacific division)

One reason I've heard for ANET limiting how much gold you could store was so that it would also limit prices, keeping most of the prices reasonable for those that don't farm. They just weren't expecting people to use ecto as a trade medium once gold alone wasn't enough. So I doubt ANET will change it even if this gets a lot of support.

Also, while I've noticed ecto vary in price over time, black dye has always been between 7.5k - 9k to buy from the trader in the 8 months I've been playing.

/unsigned

Loviatar

Underworld Spelunker

Join Date: Feb 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by streets101
I couldnt check if this has already been posted because the search button was down.

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many times already

TadaceAce

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2005

If you have over 1 million in gold you have 2 options.
1. Buy Ectos
2. Get a hobby and quit farming!

Jeez I farmed flesh golems (which was absolutely rediculous money) for almost a month and was only at like 750k

Oberon Shadowking

Oberon Shadowking

Academy Page

Join Date: Apr 2006

A Midsummer Night (AMND)

W/Mo

/notsigned

Here's why:

The gold limit is designed to level the playing field between those who have WAAAAY too much time to spend on this game and those who do not. It prevents any one person or several persons from acquiring too much share in the GW universe. Essentially, it prevents a "real world" economy... (No Bill Gates' or Donald Trump's). Think about it: if the capacity for more gold farming was there, some people would take advantage of it.

Tarun

Tarun

Technician's Corner Moderator

Join Date: Jan 2006

The TARDIS

http://www.lunarsoft.net/ http://forums.lunarsoft.net/

/signed - either raise the amount in storage or what you can carry on your characters.

Navaros

Forge Runner

Join Date: Apr 2005

Mo/Me

/signed

Obviously with the insane, ludicrous prices of Fissure armor, Anet had every intention of people requiring obscene amounts of money.

Therefore, it is ridiculous to limit the amount of gold you can have in storage.

fiery

fiery

Banned

Join Date: Oct 2005

maryland

InYurFace Gaming [IYF]

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Quote:
Posted By: Oberon Shadowking

The gold limit is designed to level the playing field between those who have WAAAAY too much time to spend on this game and those who do not. It prevents any one person or several persons from acquiring too much share in the GW universe. Essentially, it prevents a "real world" economy... (No Bill Gates' or Donald Trump's). Think about it: if the capacity for more gold farming was there, some people would take advantage of it.
Pure BS, people have multiple accounts. As to this to people having more gold in storage or carrying more on Characters, as said multiple accounts.

Tetram The Troll

Tetram The Troll

Academy Page

Join Date: Feb 2006

Exxxcited French [TriK]

Hey guys, 1M is hard to get, if you wanna keep it instead of spending it, it's your choice but it's useless to store more...

/notsigned

Witchblade

Witchblade

Polar Bear Attendant

Join Date: May 2005

/signed .. most of my chars have 100k on em, stashes are almost all full, and also got ectos .. spend it ? ok, gimme my needs

Acca

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2006

Australia

Pirates of the Searing [YoHo]

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Yeah, let's raise the bar so that greedy/bored people can hoarde more than the already thousands of platinum they already do. Why do you need to be able to hold more? If you've filled the storage and all your characters with money you obviously aren't spending what you have anyway.

/notsigned.

prism2525

prism2525

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2005

Among dead bodies.

The Republic of Sky Pirates

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Tempting, but no.

For the reasons I'm too lazy to list again. Market balance.

Malice Black

Site Legend

Join Date: Oct 2005

/signed

raise to 5mill or something thats reasonable..

1mill can be made in a single trade if u have the knowledge and luck..of course ecto's but ecto is unstable at best

invest in weapons - nah, Anet screwed ppl like me over when they increased the shield stats ect + the increasing amount of greens being added is alarming also

stop farming - nope, not much else to do for non pvp ppl

something needs to be done..cant see it happening tho

this will only split between rich/poor

rich say yes
poor say no

ArTy

ArTy

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: May 2006

Australia

Overclockers Australia [OCAU]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Acca
Yeah, let's raise the bar so that greedy/bored people can hoarde more than the already thousands of platinum they already do. Why do you need to be able to hold more? If you've filled the storage and all your characters with money you obviously aren't spending what you have anyway.

/notsigned.
Acca expressed my feelings exactly. Either spend it or perhaps do something else besides farm? So many games I don't have time to play and these people want more money storage

/notsigned

Stupid Shizno

Stupid Shizno

Banned

Join Date: Jan 2006

Madison, Wisconsin, USA

[eF]

Mo/

1mil can be made in a simple trade? yea, if you ebay your money

dargon

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: May 2005

The Seraphim Knights [TSK]

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Death3D
1mil can be made in a simple trade? yea, if you ebay your money
Or if you find someone incredibly stupid who is willing to pay way beyond what any item should be worth. "oooo, it green, it's got crappy stats, but it's GREEN!!!, I'll give you 200 plat for it"

Stupid Shizno

Stupid Shizno

Banned

Join Date: Jan 2006

Madison, Wisconsin, USA

[eF]

Mo/

nope, ebayed

for the main reason

bots give out price in chat, thats how most of the community goes off prices. if you see Stupid Sword going for 56k, no one will buy it for 500k....he ebayed money

shardfenix

shardfenix

Banned

Join Date: Dec 2005

Il Power Overwhelming Il [HaX]

So you could store more of your ebayed gold?

/notsigned

Nevin

Nevin

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jul 2005

I don't get all the people who say they make trades of one item for over 500k. I've never been able to make a trade like that and even with rare skinned perfect items. o_O

But com'n the rich would just keep getting richer until the economy depended more so on them then anything else. I could just imagine "Finally the black dye prices are dropping from 20k! Apparently theres a new fad with pink combo dyes."

samifly

samifly

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Dec 2005

Girl Power [GP]

Mo/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by dargon
Or if you find someone incredibly stupid who is willing to pay way beyond what any item should be worth. "oooo, it green, it's got crappy stats, but it's GREEN!!!, I'll give you 200 plat for it"
soo...how exactly is that morally superiour to ebaying?

RTSFirebat

RTSFirebat

The Humanoid Typhoon

Join Date: May 2005

UK

Servants of Fortuna [SoF]

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/not signed

I would agree to more space for items, but not gold.

Bane of Worlds

Bane of Worlds

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Mar 2006

Meadow

Rt/

/signed

despite I have never had that amount of gold, it poses a problem for ppl who want to keep their gold and down want it's value go down the hole because ecto's aren't in demand etc...
besides ppl have multiple accounts to hold extra gold so I would rather see the gold limit raised to maybe 2M for now or extra storage space

streets101

streets101

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2005

W/E

For anybody and everybody that said no to more gold capcity in storage because you have never had a trade worth over 500k rethink that plz. One day everyone will have 1M in storage its enividable. Then the econmy would be out of balance which is not going ot help this game. So once everyone has 1M then there is no buying or selling, becuase u cant make more than that now. But if Anet raised the capacity to lets say 5M then there is still a rich and poor side of the game which balances out the econmy. I dont want to just bundle up my money and not spend it. I am waiting for prices on certain things to drop so its a more reasonable trade. So plz dont be discrimnating anyone in this thread. I only posted it to get positive feedback so Anet might change it for us poeple in the game that have alot of money. I believe that i shouldnt have to buy another account to hold items or money because i enjoy playing the game alot.

Hippie Bane

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Feb 2006

California

All the Pros Stay In [Pre]

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So you want more money to have for when prices go down? That is not the best use of logic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation

The cap on the amount of money you are able to hold is not there just to cause some of you personal grief. It is there to help limit inflation. If we could hold 5 million in storage, and trade/hold 300k between players at a time, that poor guy coming from pre-sear with 317 gold will be SOL as he will have to farm and grind for all of his upgrades as even the crappiest +10 hale staff head will sell for 5k as our in-game money will be even more worthless. I have been playing this game for 10 months, about 1400 hours, and the concept of paying or receiving more than about 200k for anything but fissure armor boggles the mind. But then, I spend my money. I buy armor and dyes and mods and skills. If you aren't spending your money now, and you aren't earning interest, what do you need more for?

BTW, Fissure armor is supposed to be impossibly expensive. It is supposed to be near impossible to obtain, EBay notwithstanding of course.

Da Cebuano

Da Cebuano

Desert Nomad

Join Date: May 2005

Virginia born in Cebu

Jelly Toast[jT]

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/signed

I for the life of me can't fathom the minds of these people who think ebay is the only way to make it possible to have too much gold -_- I'm not gonna bother delving into it, as its simply stupid.

Raise the gold capacity in storage to a reasonable sum(2-5mill), I doubt it'll affect the market as messed up as it is now.

streets101

streets101

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2005

W/E

I'm not saying i just want the storage capacity to increase becuase i need it to buy things. There is also the fact of everyone in the course of there time playing "Guild Wars" they will obtain 1M gold. Once everyone has 1M the economy will shater into pieces. If everyone were to have 1M which will happen sooner or later, then the prices of items would continue to rise because more people would have the money, but if someone were to just purchase the game it would be extremely difficult to buy anything. This is why i am proposing that Anet should at least raise the capacity to a reasonable amount

Oh and plz stop complaining about Ebayers they wont stop, and do not accuse anyone of Ebaying in this thread please i just mentoned i would like positive feedback on my last post.

BeowulfKamdas

BeowulfKamdas

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jun 2005

none atm

W/E

i think this matters to very few people

TadaceAce

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2005

no we will not all have 1 mil plat eventually because:
1. We don't spend all our time farming poorly programmed AI.
2. When we do get money, we spend it. You people hoard it to make yourselves feel more important.

Raising the storage capacity is just plain stupid. The rich get richer and in perspective the poor get poorer. There is absolutely no reason to raise the storage capacity. If your trying to buy something thats rediculously expensive its 100k + ectos anyway, so invest in ectos when you can't hold anymore money.

Conquering Lion

Conquering Lion

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2005

P/W

Raise it.

MMSDome

MMSDome

Raged Out

Join Date: Sep 2005

/not signed

saying everyone will have 1 mill gold is just plain ************************

There will always be noobs, there are over 2 million people playing games and a small percentage saves up that much. People are amazed and say they are rich with 2k, so how can you say everyone will have 1 mill?

Yawgmoth

Yawgmoth

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Apr 2005

1 mln limit is here probably to prevent some huge exploits and to make the professional farmers have to buy more and more accounts to store their millions.
I myself also have sometimes problems with not being able to store more gold, which makes trading difficult. What the game needs more than raising this limit is adding something to spend the gold AND adding more storage! I would make a few 15k armor sets for each character if only i had where to store them. Now its impossible.

Nocere Moriari

Nocere Moriari

Academy Page

Join Date: Jun 2005

Bolivia

Ancient of Days

N/R

not signed bad idea

Undivine

Undivine

of Brackenwood

Join Date: Oct 2005

Ontario, Canada

15K and FoW armor and things like that are meant to be gold sinks. In other words, they are to get rid of gold. People who play the game normally will not eventually get 1M. I have 3 characters over a year old, yet my money only amounts to 40K, and I still haven't bought a lot of the new 15K armor. I only made that money with a good sale of a few nice gold items (at reasonable prices). Don't forget that when a new chapter is released, a lot of people start spending like crazy.

There is no sense hoarding your gold. There is no sense in continuing to farm more when you're so damn rich either. If you need something to do but insist on playing Guild Wars, I guess you're out of luck. And by the way, part of the reason you have nothing to do is because you have so much farmed gold and can buy absolutely everything you need right on the release of a new expansion.

CartmanPT

Academy Page

Join Date: Oct 2005

W/Mo

What i want is more nice stuff to spend gold on, then if ppl just want to stay staring at a number instead of enjoying the game its their problem


/notsigned

Conquering Lion

Conquering Lion

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2005

P/W

Quote:
Originally Posted by TadaceAce
no we will not all have 1 mil plat eventually because:
1. We don't spend all our time farming poorly programmed AI.
2. When we do get money, we spend it. You people hoard it to make yourselves feel more important.

Raising the storage capacity is just plain stupid. The rich get richer and in perspective the poor get poorer. There is absolutely no reason to raise the storage capacity. If your trying to buy something thats rediculously expensive its 100k + ectos anyway, so invest in ectos when you can't hold anymore money.
Um, what the hell are you talking about? The rich get richer and the poor get poorer? This isn't real life dude, what the hell are you ranting on about? It's a game, and if someone wants to spend there time getting more gold, they should be allowed to store it. Just because you don't want to spend the time doing it, as most of us don't, doesn't mean others should suffer because you have a job that prevents you from farming all day, or whatever your reason may be.

I probably have less gold than everyone on this board, and I can't understand what it is you all keep babbling about. Here's what I've gathered from the posts that say this is a bad idea...

I don't have that much gold, you don't need it, so you shouldn't be allowed to have it.

I can't follow the logic on that. You guys are bitching about people who have more time to play games than you. I think most of you are upset that you work a dead end 9-5 job and would rather be playing GW, but instead have to make that rent payment, so in your envy, you say this is a bad idea, when it's really not. Just a thought. Now the other thing that you are all bitching about is Ebay. Why? What's the harm? Give me a reasonable answer and I'll shut up, but I haven't seen one yet.

"Oh No! I've spent months getting this, and someone just bought it off ebay, whine whine whine!"

Quote:
What i want is more nice stuff to spend gold on, then if ppl just want to stay staring at a number instead of enjoying the game its their problem
Why did you bring up what you would like to spend your gold on in here, as if it has a purpose. Why would you write /notsigned after writing "If people want to stay staring at a number instead of enjoying the game, that's their problem."? You made a point showing that there's nothing wrong with people having a ton of gold, but then typed /notsigned. You know what you should do about trying to get more "nice stuff" to spend gold on? Start a topic to get just that, not come into another topic that has little to do with it and use it as a reason for not signing.

Quote:
i think this matters to very few people
That seems so, but that doesn't mean it should be ignored.

/signed

golem bigstick

golem bigstick

Academy Page

Join Date: Mar 2006

Elite Rifle Squad Faction

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i think people need to stop thinking of this idea as the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. people with 1mil plus dont want to invest in something as fragile as the ecto market. if the stock market fluxed so much as the ecto market would you invest in it or keep your money? sure ecto prices rise every once and a while but then shortly after they crash agian. with something that really doesnt hold its value its pretty easy to see the need for more gold space in the storage. oh and there are people in this game that have 1mil + and still farm because they have nothing new to buy. i know there are a few people with every set of fissure armor. what do you buy after that?

o yeah, people who say gettting 1mil in a singal trade is impossible, please take a look at some of the actions that go on here. a 15^50 max damage gold crystalline goes for 2,500,000g easy.

so yes, there is a need for a gold increase for the minority of the guild wars population.

/signed

shardfenix

shardfenix

Banned

Join Date: Dec 2005

Il Power Overwhelming Il [HaX]

Can't store more than a million gold? If you cant find things to buy, why do you need more money?

Whiplashr

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jan 2006

As someone who plays casually.. I find the idea that someone who has a full stash of platinum, and chars with the max platinum.. and yet they are still worried that their ectos are going to lower in value.. I dunno, I just find it a bit disturbing. I can't believe how fixated some of you are on wealth.

Like when reading the "what would you do different?" thread, and so many people are like "I would have hoarded ecto's to sell when they were 12K", and many other variations of the same basic thing.. they'd have done whatever they could to be as massivley stinking rich as possible.

I wonder if these people are going to work on Wall Street. They probably should, they are completely fixated on generating more, and MORE, and MORE, and MORE, and MOREMOREMOREMOREMOREMOREMOREMOREMORE!

EDIT: I understand that many people save to buy things, but come on, as others have pointed out, if you aren't spending what you already have, do you really need to have more? I just suspect it's about being the one person who has 1billion platinum first or whatever.

Lady Lozza

Lady Lozza

Forge Runner

Join Date: Dec 2005

Oz

Angel Sharks

Me/N

/not signed
Increase/change storage so those who have the $$$ can spend it on useless stuff like more armour or perfect, rare skinned weapons, without worrying about how little storage space they have.

Keeping ingame money is USELESS. Since the majority of trades above 100k are +ecto/shards/amber, only selling these materials will get the trade value above the 1 mil mark. If you are so rich that you have 1 mil in storage and 100k on each of your six characters and ectos/shards/amber/jade to spare, logic says that you have to find something or someone to spend it on. Go treat a guildie to some spoiling.

art_

art_

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Dec 2005

If you somehow hit the limit just treat your characters or give some away.