Runes of Magic US / AU

This could bring back the diamond trader and would work as a decent gold/mem sink.

Max trade would be 15 diamonds per day.

GF could have each BOUND Diamond could cost 100k gold & 100 mems.

It would be a win/win... reward players that actively do stuff like running instances and be a decent gold sink w/o destroying the diamond seller biz.

I support Ycavans' concept.

Adding Mems and/or tokens to the cost ensures the player is active to some degree. Active players are what the game needs to survive. You don't want a Gold = Diamond exchange because that would just attract the gold sellers back. GF may be worried about losing some income if they deviate from Dollars = Diamonds income stream, but I believe more Players = more Dollars in the end.

The diamond npc should've been brought back as soon as they took diamonds out of the AH... since that was the only reasonable reason for removing it. Add mems to it if necessary but 15 diamonds a day is not going to be that much nobodys stopping buying dias and making good gear with 15 dias/day.

Yeah.. it's not supposed to be much per day.

My suggestion is more of a gateway drug thing... you can earn diamonds with work. & 15 diamonds per day is plenty to save up to get something in a couple of days or a week. Or to just save up for when puris go on sale... I know people that would use them for bp space rentals... Once people get used to playing with diamonds, they might actually spend a little bit of money to make up what they don't currently have.

Heck, if you want, GF could make it 20 dias per day max. Still won't break the diamond seller biz & would still encourage players to run instances. The original 15 dia suggestion was just something that sounded fair-ish for all parties involved.

As long as they can'T be put on AH for selling we could have the NPC back

I like the idea of dias sold by an NPC for mems very much. Would bring some dias to f2p, but only the active players and limited amount.

And should be easy to implement: We have NPCs selling for mems, and the game has a dimond-package item. Just combine the two elements (with maybe a limit per day) and you are done.

The idea that putting diamonds in the Auction house or bringing diamond NPCs back would just cause gold sellers to come back just doesn't hold any water.

There are now far too few players for the sellers to make enough money to survive. Remember they do it for a profit there are many more games with enough players for them to make far greater profits to prevent them from wasting any time on this game. The game has also eliminated farming as a efficient method of getting gold. The way that dailies work now is the best example. So the time that must be spent to acquire gold is prohibitive for gold sellers.

The major players in this game already have far more gold than they will ever need (some of them are quite generous with it, mostly to their own guild members) so there is no reason to go outside and pay real money for gold for any one who is willing to pay real money. The main market of whales who spend the money to keep the game running is already sated.

The last time there was a large population of players in the game diamonds were in the Auction house and a diamond NPC was available on an irregular basis. The population will probably never get back to that stage so there may be a short time when a few gold sellers appear but as soon as they realize there is no money to be made here they will vanish. This game just will not be profitable enough for them to survive.

The old idea of making diamonds sold in the Auction house bound would always work.

We should get the diamond NPC and NO DIAMONDS ON AH!!!!! that would be air to all players. Diamonds in AH will cause the same inflation that got them to 500K per back in the day when they were, just because of those who play Wall Street with the AH. Getting 15 diamonds/day per account would be more than enough and none sell able and for personal use only of that account.

Farming to get gold is very easy to do still, ya botters seems to get caught and sent on vacation quite efficiently these days, if that is what you meant. I personally go farm in the new instance, farm bag stats and everything that drops from the mobs. Sell the bag stats and blue gear that makes T6 and vendor all the rest and i get a lot of gold doing that. But then again that means you gotta go physically to farm your gold by being at your keyboard.

Dont forget to make a T10, it only takes you 83 T6 items and charges to make and you can sell it between 25M to 35M which is still a very good way to make quick gold.