In the SF-MMO WildStar, players are now discovering a trend: Shareconomy. Normally, you share a car; in WildStar, you share resources in your own house.
Shareconomy – this is a reaction of our society to increasingly smaller households and the breakdown of traditional family structures. According to the theory, 8 parties in an apartment building could share two cars and a whole range of other things: three bicycles, two washing machines, and cleaning services for the stairwell.
But what does this have to do with WildStar? Quite simply. Players can plant a garden in their houses above the stars and – depending on their profession – own resource fields, either for arcane relics, ores, or wood. The plants and resources grow and can be harvested after some time. The tricky part: They also grow when the player is not logged in, at work, or just sleeping. This means the player misses out on resource cycles because no new ore is generated in the mine until the old one is mined out.
On US servers (and it is rumored on some European ones), clever players have now founded so-called 50/50 circles. Here, a player teams up with others and makes them “neighbors.” Neighbors can maintain the houses of friends and also harvest resources. In the housing menu, you can now set that resources are shared equally between the owner and the “harvesting helper,” fifty-fifty.
A neighbor who has a different daily and gaming rhythm can scout the houses of sleeping or working partners, harvest the fields, clear the resources (if he has the corresponding profession), and keep half of the yield for himself. The actual owner of the property logs in the next day, after work or school, and receives his share of the resources, in addition to what is still growing.
Such fifty-fifty circles are specifically designed by WildStar’s game system and can enhance the community of players.
Perhaps after reading this article, you will start your own fifty-fifty circle? You will surely find like-minded people in the official forums.
It is a clever idea, after all.
