Xicor on 08/08/2012, 03:23 PM
The problem is, this hypothetical situation hasn't happened and will not happen, so it proves nothing. The random chance of success on enchanting and all the other RNG means you don't know how much gold you are going to need, so therefore it is worth more to the individual. Once you have your items where you want them, then your gold value starts to lessen, until then, it remains high.
RNG doesnt provide a stable gold sink... what would happen to the economy if everyone started getting lucky and succeeding on enchanting and masterworking on the first attempt? inflation would go crazy... this proves that RNG doesnt work for a gold sink... in this case it would be worse than a system that either scales your luck depending on how much u fail, or isnt based on rng at all.
The problem is, this hypothetical situation hasn't happened and will not happen, so it proves nothing. The random chance of success on enchanting and all the other RNG means you don't know how much gold you are going to need, so therefore it is worth more to the individual. Once you have your items where you want them, then your gold value starts to lessen, until then, it remains high.