Remove banking system,

[The Old Hack]

Is there anything to prevent Dockspeople who want to stash money safely from using a Dominion go-between? Not all supposed Loyalists are incorruptibly true to the Duke; they might be amenable to bribes or willing to believe a story of noble resistance fighters. Have one or two of these stash emergency or main funds in their bank accounts for you, possibly for a small extra fee.

Sure, they might cheat you, but you might also get mugged -- it's a matter of deciding what the lesser risk is. And besides, someone who does cheat you can be subjected to some imaginative vengeance and held up as an example later for anyone who might follow in his tracks. Pour encourager les autres, so to speak.

It's not as simple or convenient as having your own bank account, of course. But a life of crime is not supposed to be simple. Anyway, variations of the scheme above is used everywhere in the real world as well, there might be something to it, I dunno. :)

[GoblinSapper]

Hack had a good idea. I shall raise it.
 
Special high lvl rogue only ability, you can bank at a special underground bank/loanshark/shady guy. At a 15% or 20% cost, mind.

[The Old Hack]

Incidentally, Howland raises a good point when it comes to banker PCs. If you create a solid and reputable character who is well known for not taking stupid risks and you also have a secure base to start from, you are halfway there. Imagine a dwarf banker operating from Fellhammer Hold Loans and Savings Bank, for example. A tough guy with a tough home and tough friends...

Just make sure the banker isn't played by ShadowCharlatan, BoM or RwG. >_>

[Irregular]

Just make sure the banker isn't played by ShadowCharlatan, BoM or RwG. >_>

I'll raise a glass at this truth.

[Craig210]

Incidentally, Howland raises a good point when it comes to banker PCs. If you create a solid and reputable character who is well known for not taking stupid risks and you also have a secure base to start from, you are halfway there. Imagine a dwarf banker operating from Fellhammer Hold Loans and Savings Bank, for example. A tough guy with a tough home and tough friends...

Just make sure the banker isn't played by ShadowCharlatan, BoM or RwG. >_>

If EFU was the real world it would work. However this method has too many limitation to be any form of advantage.

Time zones, Playing time. The person who tried this concept (and many have in the past few months) Would need to be a secretive none combat character, who is able to log in at any time and then not have any RL commitments that would take him or her away for a long period of time.

The problem with this concept is, and the problem with someone being a middle man for the dominion bank as well. Is that it all hinges around this single character. If they die, you lose all your money. If you need your money urgently and they are on holiday, have an RL ermergeny or other commitments. You wont be able to obtain your gold.

Yes, things should not be equal in all regards, it would become more of a Red vs Blue like mort mentioned. However EFU has alot of different aspects all doing different things and allot of them will come up against the dominion at some point.

I think the advantage of the bank is far too under appreciated and should be looked at allot closer. Losing a large amount of gold is not fun, especially since it is becoming harder and harder to obtain such on EFU.

[TheMacPanther]

All I can say on the topic... Docks based PCs, keep your eyes open and you might just find what you are looking for.

[Spiffy Has]

I think the advantage of the bank is far too under appreciated and  should be looked at allot closer. Losing a large amount of gold is not  fun, especially since it is becoming harder and harder to obtain such on  EFU.

I laughed. Gold is only difficult to get if you aren't willing to take the time to sell gear you get.

A bank should be made ICly in the docks. I am not in support of a NPC coming out of no where and suddenly making it safe in a very unsafe environment

[Luke Danger]

Spiffy has it; should be worked on IC for a while before it's made. Now, I don't see why some factions like the Order don't have a treasury or something in Blackhearth, because it'd make sense they'd have some sort of storage over there, sort of like how the Sanc Watch and Colonial Guard had their paychecks deposited in a small account which could be used as a conventional bank if you wanted

[Disco]

We have a bank?

[Drakill Tannan]

I laughed. Gold is only difficult to get if you aren't willing to take the time to sell gear you get.

Time, time, time! Time is valuable and it is a RL resource too! It takes like 30 mins to find a party and chances are one of the PCs has to arrange something "quick", or "gets lost" or something dumb like that, then it takes like 15-20 mins to get to the quest, etc. etc. Then the quest itself and even afterwards you have to invest time in selling the gear?

I used to play 3 hourds dialy at least. It wasn't enough to become rich, although i am in a crappy timezone, even on a good one 2 hours wouldn't be enough, especially if you aren't metagaming the quests or not a NWN god and have to spend potions and items there.

Not all of us have that time to spare, some of us do, but don't want to invest as much. Should it be desirable that one needs to be as dedicated to EFU as one is to say, college, in order to have a lot of fun?

Banking is also for the softcores.

[Random_White_Guy]

This is why I say we need a scripted burying system. Hide corpses of PCs you don't want found during reset, hide loot you stole or want to save, hide piles of gold,

Lets there be banker PCs, promotes treasure hunting, and more!

[12 Hatch]

That's actually a really cool idea, RWG.

It could require a high search to find if you didn't bury it, so you are unlikely to find it randomly (though it's possible), but the more clues you have about its whereabouts, the more likely your searching is to yield a big treasure trove!

[AKMatt]

A burying system would be absolutely incredible.

[ExileStrife]

As monotonous as it would be, I do think someone could have some fun with a burying system.

[Caddies]

I'm skeptical as to whether this is truly leading to some 'imbalance' between the Dominion and the non-Dominion PCs...in fact, I'd wager that the most powerful and successful PCs in the server's history never made use of banks.