For a player-driven economy in an MMORPG, it is necessary that there are as few items as possible created by developers. Therefore, everything in Albion Online revolves around player-created items.
Crafting is extremely important in Albion Online. This way, you can create particularly powerful items. However, not all players have to craft these themselves. The manufactured items circulate in two ways:
On the one hand, through the normal way, by being traded
On the other hand – and this is unusual – defeated mobs can soon drop items created by players in Albion Online.
A player-driven economy
Every item that enters the goods cycle is added to the drop list of the monsters. This means that you can also find the items that other players have crafted and then sold to an NPC merchant as loot from defeated enemies. This way, items remain in circulation and contribute to the economic system.
The explanation for this is that NPC merchants are corrupt and the goods sold to them not only become available in their own inventory but “get lost” and end up on the black market, from where they fall into the hands of enemies.
In this way, the developers ensure that almost all items in the game are crafted by the players themselves. Mobs then receive significantly better equipment, consisting of items made by players that have ended up on the black market.
Additionally, this system allows for offering loot in larger quantities, which could provide collectors with more options. For example, it is possible to remove the obtaining of resources as a reward for Hell Gates and chests. Furthermore, it is likely that the essences will be removed as a necessary ingredient for processing resources, as they will become unnecessary.
Many innovations and changes before release
The development studio is also working on improving the reputation system, which should lead to more PvP in the yellow and red zones, without causing involuntary PvP involvement.
The Hell Gates are to be made fairer, performance will be improved, a stacking function for undamaged items will be introduced, the market interface will be revamped, and the team is also fine-tuning the tutorial. There will also be adjustments to balancing, better open world GvG, and more. These and many other changes and improvements are planned for the near future for the MMORPG Albion Online.
The developers assure players that there will not be a food shortage in the game after the upcoming wipe before release. After the wipe, all mobs will carry food in the first one to two weeks to boost this economic sector. The MMORPG Albion Online will officially launch on July 17.
