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Economic systems require scarcity. And in a game, all scarcity is artificially created in an attempt to simulate supply/demand structures or as we would call them points of player friction. You may progress within your processing profession by being a member of a guild or family of a person who owns a freehold and has setup the infrastructure necessary for t4-5 processing. With the intent that players will be able through effort to find a way of progressing and accessing late game processing. If that is not the case through testing then we will adjust the designs as necessary in order to achieve the systems.[1] – Steven Sharif

The economy in Ashes of Creation is regionalized.[2][3][4]

Economic regions

We want our players to have a reason to explore the wilderness, to travel with purpose, and much of that will be driven by our resource system. Transporting these goods might just be more difficult than gathering them. Our regional market system allows players to participate in creating pocket economies that will reinforce the stability of goods in particular regions. Players will be able to move resources and set up shop in other areas to take advantage of the varied markets. With resources spawning dynamically, certain regions will naturally become important trading hubs for the transportation of goods throughout the world.[23]

Economic regions are static areas defined by geographic points of interest.[2][3][4]

  • Castle regions are larger and encompass multiple economic regions.[2]
  • Nodes are the glue that hold castle and economic regions together in potential synergy or chaos.[24]
    • Node ZOIs are fluid and change their area based on the progression of the node and its neighbors.[2]
  • Castle regions, Economic regions, and Node ZOI (Zones of Influence) can overlap.[25]

The whole map would be under the influence of 1 of 5 castle regions. However, castle regions aren't the only TYPE of region - there are also economic regions, among other things.[3] – Sarah Flanagan

Buying and selling

Player stalls, personal shops, and auction houses enable buying from and selling to other players.[26]

Player stalls Personal shops Auction houses
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Location
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  • An attendant NPC is assigned to the stall. Character does not need to be online or at the stall.[36][28][29]
  • Player must be online and present at the shop.[36][29]
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Storage
Advertising
PvP
  • Players may be killed while occupying their personal shop and are subject to material loss due to normal death penalties.[37]
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Player stalls

Player stalls are scheduled for release in Alpha-2 phase-2.[43][44]

One of the key components of a functional economy is the ability to trade and not having that predicated just on chat. So, player stalls we prioritized to make it in by the 20th. These will be in a functional state to begin with. There will be an NPC within the market area that you will be able to list your goods at and other players will be able to interact with that NPC take a look at the different player shops that are listed and make purchases at those locations. So, this is something I think is very necessary. It's not quite an auction house and the reason it's not an auction house is because you basically have a little bit of a storefront: You go through this list of other players' stores and you can click into that store and you can see a number of different items that they have and you can make transactional purchases on a buy order basis for what they've listed.[43] – Steven Sharif

Player stalls (also called Kiosks and rental stalls) are rentable locations near the unique building in an Economic node[33], in Marketplaces (the constructible building available for placement by mayors of any Town (stage 4) node or higher), or as business buildings on freehold plots.[45][46][34]

All nodes do have the ability to spawn player stalls. If you're not an economic node and you don't have a market- that's essentially your unique building- then you can construct essentially what is I guess would be called a... marketplace; and that marketplace will then come with certain services and it will come with a certain number of stalls. The economic node as I recall has the ability to construct an auction house and the auction house serves through the economic means the ability to list and sell items and that comes with additional stalls as well for the players.[34] – Steven Sharif
  • Players list items for sale at a NPC within the node's market area. Other players can interact with this NPC browse and purchase from player stalls in that node.[47][43][37][28] Player stalls do not require the attendance of the character or for that character to be online.[29]
Intended to be part of the stall system where your shop can be set up for purchase by quantity, by amount, and value; but also to sell stacks and individual purchases as well.[47] – Steven Sharif
  • Player stalls are rentable by node citizens.[29]
    • The number of player stalls available are dependent on service building upgrades chosen within the node.[45]
    • Player stalls may be utilized for a period of time based on the price paid to rent the stall.[28]
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  • Player stall NPCs may be an "image" of the seller.[39]
  • Renting a player stall enables players to provide repair and enchanting services, even when they are not online.[28]
    • Players are able to input required items for repair and also purchase required materials for that repair.[49]
  • Players are not able to be attacked or robbed while occupying their player stall inside the limits of a node.[31]
  • Bulletin boards that list the items available in player stalls can be accessed from anywhere in the region.[39]
    • These give the location of the stall so players can travel there and purchase the items.[39]

Personal shops

Certificates to place Personal shops (player-owned shops) may be purchased by citizens and non-citizens from Markets in Economic nodes or Marketplaces in non-economic nodes.[45][30][31][32]

A player shop is where you have a certificate to essentially create a shop with your character and a little billboard will pop up above you as you sit down for that shop and advertise a custom message that you want say that has to sell things and/or services that are on your person. So players can then come up to you and they can interact with you. So you reside yourself to that shop.[36] – Steven Sharif
  • When a character creates a personal shop, a billboard pops up above them with a custom advertisement message for items or services available on that character's person. Purchasers can interact directly with the character to purchase these items or services (as if they were a Vendor NPC).[45][36]
Once you have a certificate, you can then place your player shop within the vicinity of a node's market- any nodes market. So, basically what that means is you will take that certificate and your character will sit down in place and they will spawn a UI billboard above them where you get to make a brief advertisement of what your shop is, and any player can come up to you and they can interact with your character and see your shop that you have listed goods for and make purchases as if you were a vendor from your shop. So, that's the difference between player stalls and the player shop system.[45] – Steven Sharif
The benefit that economic node's markets have over non-economic node markets is that their player shop certificates, when sold from a metropolis economic note, I believe, can be placed anywhere in the world independent of market proximity. So, you could be at a dungeon and set up your player shop there and it's like, "Hey you want to buy some health pots? Grab your health pots." And you could set up there.[45] – Steven Sharif

Auction house

Alpha-1 Auctioneer NPC.[50]

If a Node is the Vassal Node of an Economic Node, an Auctioneer NPC appears in that Vassal Node. The Auctioneer allows players to list non-resource/processed materials in the Parent Node’s Auction House, but players cannot bid on items from this Auctioneer. These resources and processed materials must be stored within an Economic Node in order to be listed in that Node’s Auction House. In order to bid, they must still travel to the Auction House in the Parent Node.[35]

Auction houses are node buildings in Economic nodes.[45][33]

Auction houses allow items and resources to be listed for sale at a specific node location.[10] – Steven Sharif
  • A listing fee will be charged to list items in the auction house.[33]
  • Vassal nodes of the auction house node will be able to view items that are listed on that auction house, regardless of node type of the vassal node.[33]
    • This will be possible through an auctioneer emissary NPC in that node.[33]
    • Items cannot be listed in non-economic vassal nodes.[33]
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That's probably how it's going to be surfaced... Your your mayor is going to have to build it for you.[52] – Jeffrey Bard

Bulletin boards

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Bulletin board concept art by Michael Bacon.[53].

Bulletin boards are available within nodes[54] and player taverns.[55]

Merchant NPCs

Alpha-2 Vendor NPC work-in-progress UI.[59]

Merchant NPCs (also called Vendors) are present from the first stage of node development (Expedition).[60]

  • Merchant NPCs are identified by a golden shimmer on their nameplates.[61]
  • Merchant NPCs will in general be able to buy items from players.[62]

Currencies

Currency may refer to:

Gold

Gold concept art.[67]

Money will play a big part in the in-game. However, with that being said, there are organizational specific currencies that can't be traded. So there is like a general gold that will be very important end-game, but then there's also your progression within certain religions, societies, or nodes will also have... there will be progression-based currencies as well.[20] – Steven Sharif

Gold is the general in-game currency in Ashes of Creation.[63][20][21]

Bound currencies

Bound currencies are specific progression-based currencies that cannot be traded. Bound currencies are utilized by various systems.[63][64][20]

There are bound currencies that exist within the game; and then there is the general currencies that's usually achieved through certificates and the ability to trade those certificates in to get gold that we've talked about in the past. But some of those bound currencies are like favor: these are points that you achieve doing some divine questlines, participating in divine story-arcs; or honor, which is like PvP-oriented unique currency stuff like that.[63] – Steven Sharif
A bound currency that's used to purchase a number of different types of vendorable items that exist within nodes. It is not player-to-player currency. It is not intended to be traded between players, but instead it interacts with these unique vendors that supply a large segment of necessary components for a number of different things: whether it be crafting, enchantments, a lot of different things that exist within the node. This is the reason why you would want to acquire that currency so you have access to those types of items.[79] – Steven Sharif
  • Node currencies stay bound to the player, even if their node is destroyed or they drop citizenship. They will be able to use their node currency once they are a citizen of a new node (of the same type).[80][63]
Node currency stays with the player even if their node is destroyed or they drop citizenship. This is something that you have available to you and you carry forward to your next location. But you may only spend your node currency at nodes that you're a citizen of.[80] – Steven Sharif
  • Players must have enough node reputation in order to purchase certain items with node currency.[80]
You have to have enough node rep to be able to buy certain tiers of things from the node with your node currency. Even though the currency is generic, you still need the rep with the node to unlock better purchases.[80] – John Collins

Player to player trading

Alpha-2 player trading UI.[81]
Alpha-2 trade request UI.[82]

There is player-to-player trading in Ashes of Creation.[81][82][83][14][15]

Q: Will Ashes of Creation have player-to-player trading? Will there be anything stopping me from gifting a friend that's fresh to the game a bunch of in-game money to help them get on their feet quickly?
A: There won't be anything to stop you from doing that.[14] – Steven Sharif
The nature of player to player trading already introduces that in an open economy game... that is why we have measures to attempt and heat flag suspicious transactions, active gms and other honeypot systems/agents that will be active in discovering those types of cheaters.[83] – Steven Sharif

Escrow system

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We're going to have a UI... you're gonna put the resources in or they're gonna put the resources in. It'll be like an escrow system and then once [the job] is complete you'll get the item they'll get the money.[91]

Caravan insurance

Caravan insurance will not be an in-game system in Ashes of Creation.[92] Previously it was stated that insurance was able to be purchased from a caravansary prior to the launch of a caravan.[93][94]

There's nothing to say that that can't be player organized. If some particular guild wanted to go and create a caravan mercenary corp that helped aid in the defense and transit of caravans, they could employ some type of insurance system.[92] – Steven Sharif

Mailing items

Alpha-2 mailbox user interface in the Lionhold starting area.[95]
From an item standpoint obviously we can't allow mailing to include any type of resource material or raw gatherable because those are central to the gameplay and transiting through the caravan system and economic regions. But it may be possible to send completed crafted items like gear, equipment, stuff like that. But it's something we're still discussing.[96] – Steven Sharif

Gear binding

There may be some gear binding (BoE or BoP) but it will be an exception rather than the rule, as this doesn't facilitate the objectives for the economy.[100][101][102][103]

Q: Right now, there's no soulbinding on any of the gear. Is that intended game design or is that something that'll be addressed later?
A: No, it is intended game design... Very little to no things are intended to be soulbound. They're all a part of an open economy, which are missing a few features in phase one. As we know phase one is about stability and performance, and as we enter into phase two and phase three, some of those additional features and systems will come online: one of which is deconstruction, tempering, over enchantments. Those are are expected to sink open economy items out of the economy to help reach that balance between the faucets and the sinks.[100] – Steven Sharif
A lot of what we experienced in games that usually come before us is that many things are account bound and they're soulbound to your character... Instead very little here is character bound. Very very little. The vast majority of gear- yes you will get quest related gear as rewards- but it won't be let's say one set in one dungeon and you must run the dungeon over and over. Instead we want to really emphasize the reliance on the economy and crafters and gatherers and processors to support a majority of the gear structure in-game, combined with that of world raid bosses and dungeon bosses; not a repetitive quest line through a single dungeon.[102] – Steven Sharif
Q: If items are intended to not have soul-binding, how is your team going to effectively plan to fight RMT?
A: We are going to be investing heavily in our GMS and in our CS teams, which we have a plan and we have some rudimentary elements of that plan currently in Alpha that relate to player heat-mapping, action heat-mapping, and RMT flags that will then cause some investigative things to occur on our side. This is something that I think has to be done in order to preserve the integrity of the economy of the game. RNT is obviously, even in a game where you had 100% soulbound, can still be done. Whether that be through things like power leveling, purchasing accounts, whatever it might be: a soulbound approach to the economy doesn't solve that per-se. You still have to, as a company, choose to invest in combating those things. And I think many players who played in this genre know that at some point the lights get turned off for many publishers around making those investments. However, that's not our mandate. Our mandate is to ensure that in order to provide a environment where integrity matters, we have to be willing to invest, not just in the tools that discover these types of things, but also in the CS response that includes the GM's availability.[104] – Steven Sharif

Theft

There will not be a theft (stealing/pickpocketing) mechanic in Ashes of Creation in regards to living players.[107][108]

  • There may be quest related actions that involve some form of stealing, but not of actual items from a player's inventory, where the player is identified as the quest's target via a title or some other means.[107][109]
That emergent gameplay is obviously the objective behind how can we accommodate a non-static quest-line; and the way you do that is you can apply a flag to a title and whoever holds that title becomes the target of that quest segment. And this can change too because that title can change- different people might rise up in the ranks of different societies and organizations.[109] – Steven Sharif
  • Players are not able to be robbed while occupying their player stall inside the limits of a node.[31]
There is not a theft mechanic for you to walk up to a player that's alive and steal something.[108] – Steven Sharif

Storage

Storage chest in an Alpha-2 freehold.[110]

Storage points exist at warehouses within nodes and in chests (storage containers) that can be placed in freeholds and static in-node housing.[110][111][112]

Warehouses

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Player housing storage

Alpha-1 chest concept art.[128]
Alpha-1 chest 3D renders.[128]

Chests are a type of furniture that provides localized storage within a specific house.[129][130][131][132]

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Banking

There is a roadmap with the guild warehouse having been moved up a little bit. It was planned to be a little bit later- I think it was like March or April, but we have moved that up slightly.[137] – Steven Sharif

Caravans

Alpha-2 caravan being escorted to the Miraleth node.[142]

The Caravan System is a major aspect of the economy in Ashes of Creation. While the rewards can be great for moving massive amounts of Commodities and other materials across the world of Verra, players can choose to be Caravan attackers or defenders, making these hotspots for PvP battles.[143]

Caravan PvP in Alpha-2.[144]

Caravans are vehicles that facilitate the transfer of cargo across Verra. They are key to supplying nodes with needed materials, and for transporting commodities over long distances for increased profits.[145][146][16][147][148][93][94][149][150][23]

Caravans are one of the primary methods of ensuring that nodes have the supplies they need to build the buildings they need to build so that they can specialize. They're also the primary method by which players can multiply their wealth, because wealth in our game is acquired through glint, which gets traded in for commodities that can then be either sold directly to the vendor at the node you're at, or can be transported through the caravan system to other nodes for a multiple return; and that I think is going to separate the mice from men in the game with regards to the economic gameplay. Those who can successfully trade those caravans across long distances are going to see obviously a significant amount of wealth more so than their counterparts and be able to control certain markets.[145] – Steven Sharif

Caravan types

Tier 5 personal caravan on route from Winstead to Miraleth in Alpha-2. 3D model by Hal Anderson.[167]

Caravan types in Ashes of Creation include.[148][168]

Raft caravans

Alpha-2 raft caravan in the Riverlands biome.[172]

Caravans are capable of transitioning from land to raft caravans. So if you start out as a land-based Caravan and you move to the coast and you want to move into the water there's gonna be a little transition period there; it's gonna be a little construction site: You're not gonna have to do anything it's just gonna be a timer right so that you can't quickly move between land and water. It's gonna be probably in the matter of a minute to two minutes. There's a little bit of vulnerability in that regard.[171] – Steven Sharif

Raft caravans (also referred to as Naval caravans) allow the transportation of cargo over the water.[173][174][93][175]

Artisan classes

Artisan classes and their professions.
Gathering professions Processing professions Crafting professions

Artisan classes (also referred to as Artisan branches) allow a player to specialize in one or more of the three artisan skill trees: Gathering, Processing, and Crafting.[179]

We want players to interact with each other. We want the professions to make stuff for the other professions that are useful. I am influenced quite a bit by the Star Wars Galaxies style crafting; and just having people in your network that could supply the metal that you need to make your armor, and the flowers that you need to make your potions, and maybe the potions that you need to make your enchantments. That to me was really interesting; and part of the economic gameplay of being a good crafter, being a good gatherer, is having that system; and it really plays into the economic field of a particular server. You can come in and be like, I want to be the the potion mogul here; and having good sources and having a guild that supports you is just really interesting. And without narrowing down what you have access to yourself, it takes away from the ability to achieve that.[180] – Kory Rice

Within each of the three artisan classes lies different professions.[181]

Q: How do you feel about players creating alts that allow them to cover every profession?
A: I think that's fine and I think that when we design the game, we design with that in mind as well; and that's why we have certain restrictions on the number of Grandmaster professions that one particular character can do.[182] – Steven Sharif
  • There are profession-specific quests.[184]
  • Professions will be balanced based on testing.[185]
  • Race likely won't affect the artisan system.[190][191] Certain influences may instead be housed in a background selection that isn't intrinsically tied to race.[190]
When it comes to balancing a system that's something that we do during testing phases. When it comes to architecting the system itself and identifying the areas in which certain certain professions excel, where they interact with ancillary systems, their interconnectivity across the artisanship system as a whole, the important part there is to identify how that the interconnectivity lives with the other professions in the artisanship system. And what type of reliance you have on particular professions to complete the path of crafting or introduction of new items into the economy.[185] – Steven Sharif

Gathering professions

Processing professions

Crafting professions

Artisan supply chain

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Artisans within Ashes of Creation must choose a path in their artisan skill tree. This inter-dependency establishes a supply chain from raw materials to finished product.[194][195] Each stage of the chain may require caravans to transport goods from one artisan to another.[196]

  1. Obtaining raw materials:[197]
  2. Refining the raw materials with a processing profession.[195]
  3. Crafting the finished product using its crafting recipe.[195]
As a crafter you're going to want to know where certain recipes can be fulfilled; which nodes have the capability of creating what you've processed material that you've gathered for; and then you're going to want to plan out your route to either transit the goods there or make sure that you're situated in the area so that you can go out collect and build in that area as well. So there's a lot of planning that's going to be necessary.[203] – Steven Sharif

Taxes

Node taxes

Alpha-2 Node treasury work-in-progress advanced node taxes UI.[204]

As the node levels up, you're gonna get access to deeper controls on the taxes, so that you as a Mayor can incentivize players to come to your node to do certain things. If you're a node that loves smithing, you're probably going to want to lower your taxes on artisanship to incentivize players to be here. But then you might want to drive up taxes on other avenues that players aren't necessarily coming to your node for, but are using out of convenience.[204] – Chris Justo

Mayors are able to set a generalized node tax rate as well as overrides for different activities within their node. Mayors gain additional taxation controls as their node advances.[204][205]

Regent nodes take a cut of taxes from various activities that occur within their vassal node structure.[216][217]

  • This tax doesn't necessarily impact the individual citizen, because citizen's tax levels are determined by their node, but the node's finances are affected by the taxation levied by its parent nodes.[217]

Housing taxes

When a node reaches stage 3 (Village) and a player run government has formed, all player housing will pay taxes.[218]

Maintaining businesses requires licensing and payments to the node your Freehold is associated with. This permitting system allows for a certain number of buildings to be constructed on a Freehold. Permits can be obtained from the same node the Freehold was certified from, and buildings that require permits will have an additional upkeep cost.[219]
Housing foreclosures

Housing foreclosures result from failing to pay property taxes or other fees.[221][219]

  • Non-payment of taxes will put the housing into a default status. The player will have a period of time to settle the debt before the housing is foreclosed.[221]
  • The developers are considering allowing pre-payment of housing taxes and/or allowing auto deduction of tax from a designated location, such as their personal inventory or warehouse.[222]
If you don’t pay taxes and other fines, your Freehold property will be foreclosed. When a Freehold is foreclosed on, stored and placed props like furniture are returned to the previous owner. Materials that were stored on a Freehold will be included in the auction for the Deed to that Freehold.[219]

Castle taxes

Castles have direct power over the Nodes that belong to it, but also have soft power across the entire region it belongs to. All Nodes belonging to that region pay fealty to the Castle in the form of taxes paid directly to the Castle. The Monarch sets the rate, and can use those proceeds to upgrade defenses, maintain the Castle’s direct Nodes, or provide buffs and benefits to the citizens of that region, as the magnanimous ruler that you are.[224]

Guild castles impose a tax on all revenue for the nodes within its region.[225][226]

Castles have the ability to allocate taxes collected from nodes under them toward certain benefits that go back to the node. Or they can be more selfishly governed that treasury more towards the guild that owns it and that obviously is going to have some political implications, because it could- if you're not using it for the benefit of the people in the region they might rise up and help take you out from that that position of owning that castle.[225] – Steven Sharif

Item sinks

It's important for a healthy economy to have item sinks, so that anything that can be crafted can also be destroyed:[13]

  1. Over-enchanting carries the risk of destroying that item[197], rendering it useless for use temporarily.[234]
  2. Players gain craftable items and recipes from deconstructing (salvaging) completed items.[197]
  3. A portion of resources and materials are lost when caravans or nodes are destroyed.[235]
  4. Corrupted players who die can lose gear.[236]
  5. Item durability (item decay) does not destroy items, but it acts as a materials sink.[236][237][238] Zero percent durability will unequip an item, increasing its repair costs.[239]

An important aspect of a healthy economy is having some item sinks available... There are three kinds of item sinks: You can gain craftable items from deconstructing completed items; You can have decay... and if you want to over-enchant that item there will be a potential to destroy it as well. It's important for an economy to experience those types of emphasis on what can be crafted as well as seeing those items that are crafted be destroyed as well..[238]

The concept there is this is part of the engine that is supply and demand. So the server is constantly generating these materials on tick as they propagate throughout the world and get repopulated, players are going out there and collecting these things. We want to make sure that there is a driving force and factor behind what crafters and gatherers are out there doing: There's constantly going to be a demand for them to supply these things. Whether that death is from PvP or from PvE these are going to be necessities for players to constantly provide.[237] – Steven Sharif

Item durability

The decay system is not going to be some worthless "Oh I'm just going to throw some gold into this and it's a simple gold sink". It's actually going to require some base materials in order to repair decayed items; and decay occurs from death and also the destruction and disable system. For the weapons over the over-enchanting will require those materials as well. So creating that dependency I think is healthy for the crafting economy.[240] – Steven Sharif

There is item durability (item decay) in Ashes of Creation.[238]

If you allow it to get to certain stages, or to get to a destructed stage then it requires a lot of material components in order to return back to its former glory.[242] – Steven Sharif
There is durability in the game... It's not going to be a trivial durability. There is a potential to destroy gear (weapons and armor), but there is also an ability to reforge that destroyed gear using a portion of the materials necessary as well as finding an item creator who can reforge it.[238] – Steven Sharif

Item deconstruction

Players gain crafting materials and recipes from deconstructing (salvaging, dismantling, disenchanting) completed items.[197]

There's salvaging where you can deconstruct an item to get components only capable of retrieving from salvaging an item that can be used in crafting other types of items.[13] – Steven Sharif
Specific crafting components yielded by gear deconstruction, and some of these components can be only be obtained from gear of certain enchantment levels and type of equipment. These components are needed for certain recipes for gear and other ancillary crafting professions. But the itemization team is still ironing out some of these flows.[246] – Steven Sharif
  • Item deconstruction will not be a meaningful way of circumventing restrictions on transit of resources and materials.[248]

Power creep

The developers intend to limit power creep via item sinks, the lack of gear binding, and the absence of pay-to-win or pay-to-convenience in Ashes of Creation.[249]

Security systems

What matters most in any MMO... is that you protect the integrity of the player activity. The player activity is what should be driving the in-game market, is what should be driving the in-game economy. These things are are paramount in making sure that players feel comfortable logging in each day and exerting effort to achieve whatever they're achieving.[250] – Steven Sharif

Security systems are in place to combat cheating, exploiting, botting, gold selling, real money transactions (RMT), item duplication and other things that affect the economy.[104][105][106][83][87][88][89][90]

  • A broad spectrum of approaches are going to be utilized in order to try to protect the integrity of the game once it launches. Testing of these systems will begin leading up towards Alpha-2.[250][106]
Security is always at the top of any concern when you have a closed system like an MMO is... We've seen a lot of MMO is launch without security in place and the economy gets ruined as a result thereafter. And every band-aid that's slapped on top of that wound is just making things worse. And so part of why you take the time in order to ensure that things are done correctly is also the security component of things; and that's where testing with a live audience is a bit different also than testing with a Q&A audience as well, because you're going to get those bad actors- and we call them bad actors because ultimately they're attempting to destroy the fun for others... So what we've done is we've hired some security experts who've worked on massive other MMOs like World of Warcraft and other games, and they bring with them lot of experience; and we're going to be testing that in leading up towards Alpha-2. It's a very important part of Alpha-2. It's not something that we really addressed with Alpha-1 because again, that was a much more barebones functional testing experience. We did see some issues during Alpha-1 and we made it important for Alpha-2 to test those systems. We have a broad spectrum of approaches that we're going to be utilizing in order to try to protect the integrity of the game once it launches.[106] – Steven Sharif
  • These systems collect user data and flag abnormal activities for investigation. This combined with player reporting functions generates a live "heat map" that draws attention to unusual behavior.[251][104][250][105][83][87][90]
We do have already built into the game on the outset is essentially behavioral metrics. So in the game, as a player does normal things and they acquire normal gold, that's all good and well, but if there starts to be item IDs that appear on the player account that are out of the norm, like either a large amount of gold, or significant legendary items, what it does in the back-end it flags the account for view so that we can take a look at where did this item come from. Is it coming from a known gold seller or a flagged bot, or whatever; and then we investigate. So we're going to be pretty hard on the ability for players to subvert the natural economy systems by RMT or botting.[87] – Steven Sharif
  • Botters, cheaters, gold sellers, and RMTers, will face severe penalties from the active GM/community team.[104][105][252][253][90]
It's important to note that there is a sanctity that must be protected within the game from RMTing; and let me just go into a little diatribe about this: But in games that I've played where the company or the publisher does not enforce rules, it becomes the standard that you buy gold if you want to be competitive. If you want to compete at the top tier levels in certain games, and everyone's buying gold, you almost either have to buy the gold or you're just not going to be able to compete with those people and that's a really shitty feeling to have. Excuse my French, I apologize. That is sucky; and in order for that not to be the case it is the responsibility of the publisher or the developers both to make sure that we have stringent practices from a CS- from a customer customer service perspective- to enforce our rules and to make sure that players are aware if they partake in this there is a huge risk in doing so. It's not going to be a slap on the hand. It's not going to be a "we told you once, we told you twice, we told you three, four, five six times okay. We're just taking some gold away", that thing. We have got to ensure that it is feared to do those things because that ashes has active GMS, it has active customer service, it has an active community team.[253] – Steven Sharif
Q: Is trading in game gold for non tangible resources like information allowed? And if so, how will the system distinguish between that and RMT?
A: We take into account behavioral metrics as well, right. So, can you sell information in game? Yes, you can. Where it becomes a problem is if that information you're selling is consistently being sold to gold that is generated fraudulently or through exploits or through botting. Then that becomes a pattern, that becomes a heat map. We identify those heats and we take action against them.[251] – Steven Sharif

Game masters

Game masters (GMs) will be present and active in Ashes of Creation server realms.[83][254][253][255]

On the customer service side, we do plan to have in game GMs. We do plan to service people in the best way possible. And we will grow our service team as much as we need as our player base grows.[254] – Margaret Krohn
  • Game masters are expected to be in-game at live launch. Some in-game support is expected to be present during Alpha-2 to handle a limited range of issues.[256]
I get it. It's a sweaty environment. It's a competitive environment. We're a PvX game that's going to obviously attract certain types of player groups. But if there is confidence that it's going to be a level playing field and that those sweaty players can invest meaningful and honest contribution towards their progression, and the company's going to have their back in that regard, then ultimately I think the experience is going to be improved as a result.[257] – Steven Sharif
  • There will be a standard escalation system, where different actions are taken based on the seriousness of each infraction. Actions could range anywhere from being stripped (of the illegitimate items or currency) to being banned for a period of time, or being permanently banned.[255]
Following a standard approach to an escalation system where certain infractions are immediate and automatic bans and some infractions provide a path forward where action is taken that might ban the account or strip the account or provide some chat bans or the ability to play over a week or so... If you buy gold and depending on the seriousness of the infraction you could go anywhere from being stripped and to being banned for a period of time to being permanently banned.[255] – Steven Sharif
  • Botters, cheaters, gold sellers, and RMTers, will face harsh penalties from the GM and community teams.[253][90]
When a player takes their play experience to the point of harassing another player, and doing so on a repetitive basis, in order to diminish their play experience, it is a ticketable offense. If you are following around a streamer or you're following around a player and your intent is to keep them from playing the game or to force them to quit, that is a dirty player mindset. It's a bad player mindset. It's a griefer's mindset. It's not something that's desired in the ecosphere in the community of Ashes of Creation. And as a result, it is a serviceable customer service situation. That is where warnings are given and actions can be taken against the account holder of an individual whose sole purpose is to disrupt and affect negatively the gameplay experience of the game.[254] – Steven Sharif
I believe that so far in development we have demonstrated the level of customer service and community engagement that will be on display after our live launch. You are right however in saying that many of these problems that can arise on the fringe of certain systems will require an active GM support team available to address problems that the user base encounters[261]
  • Using known bugs to work outside of intended game mechanics is considered exploiting. The developers use detailed logs that enable them to track every in-game transaction back to the source. Enforcement actions will be applied accordingly regardless of backer package.[262]
Everything that's in the game, whether it be a single copper- any singular material or item has a unique ID and is tracked from its creation off of the system, and any trade log that it goes through as well. So, we have very very granular inspection level events when it comes to anything that happens in the game. Now as it relates to how enforcement actions occur, the teams are instructed as part of a regular basis to go through and inspect those analytics and metrics that we have and identify fraudulently created gold through either a exploit that the CS team has been part of identifying, or through player reports that we receive as it relates to individual player behavior, or any actions that might be existing within the community. There are thresholds that then get set and anybody who, through the metrics report, falls within that level of a threshold is actioned upon by the CS team. There are no individual nitpickers. There are no individual removals of somebody that might be related to any purchase price or whatever. That's a bit of nonsense. Now, there might be instances where the logs don't clearly show what some trades might have been for. This can be particularly difficult to identify as part of individuals who might have some social elasticity within the community. They might be guild leaders. They might be collocating efforts or materials or whatnot. In that case, again we inspect the generation of the material or asset and sometimes there needs to be calls that get made about whether or not somebody falls within the line of plausible deniability or otherwise. That's just that's natural- that's part of enforcement, whether it's us as a game company or any other game company, but there's no favoritism shown there.[262] – Steven Sharif
  • The volunteer moderator program will continue (post-launch).[263]

Two-factor authentication

Token-based two-factor authentication (2FA) is present in Alpha-2.[264] This was expected to be in place for Alpha-1.[265]

World manager

The World manager is an algorithm in Ashes of Creation that controls dynamic world elements. It acts as both a throttle and an incentive system for various activities to ensure certain parameters are within acceptable thresholds.[266]

A world manager is a technical term to define a server process that lives alongside the game server; and when the game server needs to do things- communicating with other game servers within that grid- it tells that manager and that manager sends it down to the appropriate server.[267] – Steven Sharif
For example if you know iron is being used as a raw resource for a specific crafting path that might drive up the price of mithril or silver; and that will incentivize the market to course correct a little bit. The idea is to provide soft incentives that help to alleviate the demand and also to prop up the supply that might not be present from the economic systems.[268] – Steven Sharif

Loot tables

Alpha-2 Looting UI.[273]

It's anywhere from 2 to 4% chance on an individual mob kill that it might drop a completed item. But, the majority of those cases are going to be basic white low quality items that get dropped essentially and you don't have control over some of the stats that relate to that item.[274] – Steven Sharif

Q: Are Alpha-2 bosses dropping full items instead of recipes and mats placeholder?
A: The reward tables are very much in a functional state right now. So, I wouldn't look at these reward tables and say oh this is long-term intended. This is for A2 purposes. However, it is going to be a combination of both. You're going to have full loot drops that are going to occur with world bosses. That is an expectation that should be kept. But, in addition, you will have recipes, you will have unique material components that are used to create those items as well; and you'll also have the ability to deconstruct those items to recoup some of those more unique materials to potentially create more.[278] – Steven Sharif
  • Party size does not directly affect loot drops, but since loot in Ashes of Creation encounters is finite (there is no individual loot system), it must be distributed between all party members. This essentially acts to balance the lowered risk in large numbers against lower chances of gaining rewards.[288][289]
  • The greater level disparity between a character (or average level of the party) and the mob being looted, the lower the drop percentages will be from that mob. The ideal range is within 5 levels of the mob. Any player or party member with greater than 9 levels difference will stop drops and experience gains.[288][290][274]
You are most ideal if you're within I believe five levels of the monster that you're killing- party average. However, if anybody in your party is over 9 levels higher than the monster, then the drops and the experience do not occur.[288] – Steven Sharif
Q: Can only one gathering artisan harvest resources from a single boss, or can multiple different artisans harvest different parts from a boss for different resources? For example, a lumberjack gets a special wood from Tumock's tree weapon, while a herbalist gathers the flowers from that same tree.
A: We don't have the concept of harvesting from bosses. NPCs follow a reward table format, where those reward tables are global. They're not unique to particular players. So, once the NPC is vanquished, you have access to the loot container that is its corpse; and it has a static value of either materials or items that get dropped; and whatever the party loot settings are that you might be a part of, or if you're a solo player you will be able to recover those things.[294] – Steven Sharif

Glint

Glint in a player's inventory in Alpha-2.[296]

You're hovering over an item we call Glint. [It] comes in a few different rarities. It was formerly known as the monster certificates but we have rebranded them.[296] – Chris Justo

Glint rarities in Alpha-2.[296]

Glint (previously known as Hunting certificates and Monster certificates) is a bound currency that drops from mobs and players, and is offered as a reward for completing certain quests, events, and achievements. Glint is intended to be the primary method for generating gold in the Ashes of Creation economy.[16][17][18][19][20][21]

Glint serves a very integral role in the economy within Ashes of Creation. It is a material substance that is acquired through various means, but primarily hunting different antagonists within the world; and it is the physical form of Essence within the beasts of Verra. So when you acquire this it is bound to your character, and that is a very important component of the economic systems here because glint will be used to pay for certain services, such as taxation for buildings that you have, or citizenship dues that are necessary.[297] – Steven Sharif
  • Glint may be traded with commodities vendors for player commodities. These commodities can then be transported to other nodes (via caravan or merchant ship) where they can be traded for gold.[18][268][20][298][21] The gold value is based on the demand for the commodity at the destination node (over the last seven days) as well as its distance from the originating node.[300][18]

Population based scaling

Dynamic World populations and reward tables is those monster settings within the playable space changing based off of those world state predicates, so keeping in mind that that system being up and running is a very important part to feeling like the world is different.[304] – Steven Sharif
  • Prices that NPCs sell items for will scale based on the economic activity on a server realm. Prices will rise to combat inflation and fall as a population diminishes.[305]
Things that NPCs buy and sell scale based on the economic activity that exists on that server... As inflation rises, prices rise and everything ends up being equal, even though there might be a couple of extra zeros. So that can go up and it can also go down so as a population leaves, things become less expensive and players don't have to do as much to earn that. On the other side of things we look at the node system and the node system is set up in this really flexible way that allows us to scale the experience needed to level a node and the attrition that delevels a node to scale based on activity too. So it's just a matter of adjusting a couple of constants and that goes up and down and the server can watch it and change those on the fly as it needs to.[305] – Jeffrey Bard

Trade agreements

Trade agreements are established by Mayors to trade node commodities between nodes via mayoral caravans.[155][156][147][306][148][157][307]

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Mercenary guilds will be a viable way forward for different organizations. I think there will be a lot of business to be had with that; and one of the systems in our trade agreements is creating an escrow for those particular type of arrangements that we're looking into.[310] – Steven Sharif

Trade routes

Mayoral caravan launched by a mayor to establish a trade route with another node.[148]

For example: this node over here might have access to cotton as a resource and when that node processes that cotton it might be some very nice type of linen that only that node, or very rarely nodes would have access to. So when you initiate a trade route, you're bringing its supplies that the mayor has requested because they're trying to build, let's say a specific type of service building, or they're trying to unlock a blueprint that they have access to now to build up their node.[306] – Steven Sharif

Trade routes in Ashes of Creation refer to.

From a diplomatic standpoint the ability for the mayor or citizens to set up NPC routed trade routes between nodes as a trade agreement or as a diplomatic process.[306] – Steven Sharif
You might have a mountain pass and during winter that mountain pass is always closed and so the trade routes on land change with caravans and that's something that can not only exist on a cyclical level but also dynamically based on player activity.[311]

Sharemarket

Stock exchanges (also called Stock markets and Share markets) enable players to buy and sell shares in Nodes, Guilds, Social organizations, and Religions.[317][318][319][320][321] The stock exchange system is still in a 'paper design' phase and is subject to change.[318]

There's a number of different things where you can have success/failure points that then inform the metric that the stock price is predicated on; and players can purchase in at a certain price. That's the intent behind the stock market system.[318] – Steven Sharif
Q: Is it possible that as an outside actor you could influence the performance of a particular organization across one of those events?
A: The answer is yes. So, if you wanted to, as an adverse party, engage a particular organization, you could do that. You could engage with, let's say, a guild that you don't like when they're running a trade run, or when they're engaged in a node war, or when they're attempting to complete a raid boss. There is the PvX component of being able to interrupt or engage with them in those events and turn the outcome towards a negative, driving the potential stock value of that organization down.[318] – Steven Sharif
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  • There is no regulatory commission to restrict the purchase and sale of stocks.[322]

Real estate

Players buy the deeds for housing from the node itself, or may buy and sell properties from other players.[323][324][325][326][327]

  • The developers are considering an auction-based method for listing new properties that become available for purchase when a node advances.[328] Currently freeholds may be acquired via auction.[219][329][330][331][332][333]
    • A grace period will occur before the housing becomes available for auction.[328]
    • Bids will then be accepted starting at a minimum reserve value that is based on the number of citizens in that node.[328]
    • At the end of the auction, the highest bidder will win the house.[328]
  • Housing will have a base price that scales with the number of citizens in the node.[334]
    • There is no cap on the price of player-originated housing sales.[335]
    • In-node housing will be at a premium, and is expected to be hotly contested.[327]
    • The more apartments that have been purchased in a node, the higher the price scales.[336]
We're establishing a real estate market that players can invest in and then sell within the in-game economy, but also they are a resource that's subject to removal through the sieging system as well, so there's a bit of risk implied there but the idea is that this is something for players to strive for.[338] – Steven Sharif
  • Housing ownership can default back to the node if the owner fails to pay their property taxes. A balance and penalties will be charged to the new purchaser of the home in the manner of a "foreclosure process".[334]
  • Players will not be able to exceed their allotment of housing in the game.[344]
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  • Rental and leasing concepts are under consideration.[344]

Visuals

See also

References

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  148. ↑ 148.0 148.1 148.2 148.3 148.4 148.5 148.6 148.7 148.8 Video, July 15, 2019 (2:12).
  149. ↑ 149.0 149.1 Interview, May 11, 2018 (28:21).
  150. ↑ Livestream, May 15, 2017 (45:20).
  151. ↑ 151.0 151.1 Video, October 31, 2023 (10:13).
  152. ↑ Livestream, May 29, 2020 (46:36).
  153. ↑ Livestream, July 28, 2017 (20:56).
  154. ↑ Livestream, September 27, 2024 (43:24).
  155. ↑ 155.0 155.1 155.2 155.3 Interview, January 19, 2025 (43:43).
  156. ↑ 156.0 156.1 156.2 156.3 Video, September 29, 2023 (2:59).
  157. ↑ 157.0 157.1 157.2 157.3 Livestream, June 30, 2017 (53:57).
  158. ↑ Interview, March 27, 2020 (16:19).
  159. ↑ caravan UI.png
  160. ↑ Livestream, May 22, 2017 (40:40).
  161. ↑ caravan zone.png
  162. ↑ Video, October 31, 2023 (34:12).
  163. ↑ Podcast, April 11, 2021 (23:36).
  164. ↑ 164.0 164.1 Livestream, January 31, 2024 (1:15:05).
  165. ↑ Video, October 31, 2023 (29:36).
  166. ↑ Livestream, January 29, 2021 (1:25:14).
  167. ↑ Video, October 31, 2023 (27:40).
  168. ↑ 168.0 168.1 Livestream, July 28, 2017 (19:43).
  169. ↑ Video, October 31, 2023 (13:32).
  170. ↑ caravan-driver.png
  171. ↑ 171.0 171.1 171.2 171.3 171.4 Livestream, April 30, 2020 (58:05).
  172. ↑ Video, January 31, 2024 (15:35).
  173. ↑ Video, January 31, 2024 (15:27).
  174. ↑ 174.0 174.1 Video, October 31, 2023 (28:06).
  175. ↑ 175.0 175.1 Livestream, 2018-04-8 (AM) (15:46).
  176. ↑ Livestream, May 29, 2020 (1:28:38).
  177. ↑ Livestream, January 31, 2024 (1:07:587).
  178. ↑ Livestream, January 31, 2024 (1:08:47).
  179. ↑ artisan classes.png
  180. ↑ Video, November 30, 2023 (38:08).
  181. ↑ artisan mastery1.png
  182. ↑ 182.0 182.1 Livestream, November 30, 2023 (1:34:25).
  183. ↑ 183.0 183.1 Livestream, May 24, 2017 (32:07).
  184. ↑ Podcast, April 11, 2021 (44:29).
  185. ↑ 185.0 185.1 185.2 Livestream, April 29, 2022 (1:13:00).
  186. ↑ steven-mastery-cap.png
  187. ↑ Livestream, July 26, 2019 (1:09:46).
  188. ↑ Interview, October 14, 2024 (8:49).
  189. ↑ Livestream, July 18, 2017 (37:25).
  190. ↑ 190.0 190.1 190.2 Livestream, February 24, 2023 (1:18:05).
  191. ↑ 191.0 191.1 Livestream, August 28, 2020 (2:05:21).
  192. ↑ Livestream, September 27, 2024 (2:11:55).
  193. ↑ Podcast, December 3, 2023 (16:06).
  194. ↑ Interview, July 20, 2020 (20:17).
  195. ↑ 195.0 195.1 195.2 Livestream, May 10, 2017 (8:22).
  196. ↑ Livestream, May 10, 2017 (6:12).
  197. ↑ 197.0 197.1 197.2 197.3 197.4 197.5 197.6 197.7 Livestream, May 8, 2017 (20:41).
  198. ↑ Livestream, July 18, 2017 (38:30).
  199. ↑ Video, November 30, 2023 (3:49).
  200. ↑ Livestream, January 28, 2022 (1:19:48).
  201. ↑ Livestream, 2018-04-8 (PM) (28:38).
  202. ↑ Livestream, May 26, 2017 (26:00).
  203. ↑ Interview, May 11, 2018 (24:18).
  204. ↑ 204.0 204.1 204.2 204.3 204.4 204.5 204.6 Video, August 31, 2023 (28:04).
  205. ↑ Livestream, March 28, 2020 (1:03:38).
  206. ↑ steven-tavern-games-1.png
  207. ↑ steven-tavern-games-2.png
  208. ↑ 208.0 208.1 Interview, July 9, 2023 (54:46).
  209. ↑ 209.0 209.1 209.2 Livestream, June 30, 2023 (1:45:22).
  210. ↑ 210.0 210.1 210.2 210.3 Tax spending.png
  211. ↑ Livestream, August 31, 2023 (15:51).
  212. ↑ 212.0 212.1 Interview, July 9, 2023 (38:14).
  213. ↑ 213.0 213.1 Interview, March 27, 2020 (0:30).
  214. ↑ Video, April 5, 2018 (41:48).
  215. ↑ Livestream, September 29, 2023 (1:11:22).
  216. ↑ 216.0 216.1 Livestream, August 26, 2022 (1:10:16).
  217. ↑ 217.0 217.1 Interview, May 11, 2018 (57:02).
  218. ↑ House Tax.png
  219. ↑ 219.0 219.1 219.2 219.3 219.4 219.5 219.6 219.7 219.8 Blog: Exploring the Boundless Opportunities of Freeholds.
  220. ↑ steven-freehold-building-permits.png
  221. ↑ 221.0 221.1 Livestream, August 31, 2023 (24:13).
  222. ↑ Livestream, July 28, 2023 (1:29:07).
  223. ↑ Livestream, May 24, 2017 (42:22).
  224. ↑ 224.0 224.1 Blog: 10 facts about castle sieges in the MMORPG.
  225. ↑ 225.0 225.1 225.2 Livestream, April 30, 2021 (1:02:10).
  226. ↑ castle-taxes.png
  227. ↑ Livestream, August 28, 2020 (1:39:02).
  228. ↑ castle-power.png
  229. ↑ castle-resources.png
  230. ↑ castle-taxes3.png
  231. ↑ Livestream, April 30, 2021 (1:02:18).
  232. ↑ castle-taxes4.png
  233. ↑ castle-taxes5.png
  234. ↑ Interview, July 30, 2020 (16:17).
  235. ↑ Interview, July 18, 2020 (55:01).
  236. ↑ 236.0 236.1 236.2 Livestream, May 28, 2021 (1:53:04).
  237. ↑ 237.0 237.1 237.2 237.3 237.4 Interview, February 7, 2021 (13:14).
  238. ↑ 238.0 238.1 238.2 238.3 238.4 Podcast, 2017-05-13 (25:55).
  239. ↑ 239.0 239.1 Durability.jpg
  240. ↑ 240.0 240.1 240.2 240.3 Interview, July 29, 2020 (16:46).
  241. ↑ Livestream, August 28, 2020 (2:05:07).
  242. ↑ 242.0 242.1 Podcast, September 29, 2021 (32:35).
  243. ↑ Interview, July 19, 2020 (51:11).
  244. ↑ Interview, July 29, 2020 (15:04).
  245. ↑ Livestream, May 5, 2017 (20:41).
  246. ↑ 246.0 246.1 steven-enchanting1.png
  247. ↑ Livestream, July 30, 2021 (1:16:05).
  248. ↑ steven-deconstruction-transit.png
  249. ↑ Interview, October 20, 2018 (2:53:52).
  250. ↑ 250.0 250.1 250.2 Podcast, October 12, 2024 (53:37).
  251. ↑ 251.0 251.1 Livestream, January 31, 2025 (47:19).
  252. ↑ steven-penalties.png
  253. ↑ 253.0 253.1 253.2 253.3 Livestream, August 26, 2022 (1:32:45).
  254. ↑ 254.0 254.1 254.2 Livestream, October 28, 2022 (29:32).
  255. ↑ 255.0 255.1 255.2 Interview, July 8, 2020 (48:30).
  256. ↑ Livestream, August 16, 2024 (1:56:35).
  257. ↑ 257.0 257.1 Interview, January 24, 2025 (9:43).
  258. ↑ steven-griefing-ban.png
  259. ↑ Livestream, October 28, 2022 (13:53).
  260. ↑ steven-aggro-griefing.png
  261. ↑ steven-gm-tickets.png
  262. ↑ 262.0 262.1 Interview, January 24, 2025 (12:09).
  263. ↑ Forums - Livestream Q&A 2022-08-26.
  264. ↑ Alpha-2 Discord post by Vaknar.
  265. ↑ Interview, August 21, 2018 (40:44).
  266. ↑ Interview, July 19, 2020 (1:10:55).
  267. ↑ Livestream, October 14, 2022 (57:22).
  268. ↑ 268.0 268.1 268.2 268.3 268.4 268.5 Interview, July 19, 2020 (1:08:22).
  269. ↑ Interview, July 18, 2020 (10:04).
  270. ↑ Podcast, October 12, 2024 (25:55).
  271. ↑ Interview, July 8, 2020 (1:00:15).
  272. ↑ Livestream, May 19, 2017 (37:03).
  273. ↑ Video, January 27, 2023 (16:44).
  274. ↑ 274.0 274.1 274.2 274.3 Interview, October 14, 2024 (6:29).
  275. ↑ 275.0 275.1 steven-glint-rarity-level.png
  276. ↑ Livestream, May 3, 2017 (35:25).
  277. ↑ Ashes of Creation Forums - Former Lineage 2 PvP'er wanting to discuss PvP loopholes.
  278. ↑ 278.0 278.1 278.2 Livestream, August 30, 2024 (1:03:38).
  279. ↑ 279.0 279.1 Livestream, September 27, 2024 (1:45:22).
  280. ↑ 280.0 280.1 Interview, July 19, 2020 (8:43).
  281. ↑ February 8, 2019 - Questions and Answers.
  282. ↑ Interview, July 20, 2020 (21:57).
  283. ↑ Livestream, 2018-04-8 (PM) (55:49).
  284. ↑ Livestream, July 25, 2020 (46:08).
  285. ↑ Interview, July 18, 2020 (1:00:15).
  286. ↑ Livestream, April 30, 2024 (1:03:57).
  287. ↑ Livestream, December 22, 2020 (1:15:01).
  288. ↑ 288.0 288.1 288.2 288.3 Livestream, January 3, 2025 (23:11).
  289. ↑ Podcast, May 10, 2024 (50:37).
  290. ↑ steven-loot-level-disparity.png
  291. ↑ Livestream, May 27, 2022 (1:14:46).
  292. ↑ Video, May 27, 2022 (2:21).
  293. ↑ Livestream, August 30, 2024 (1:12:52).
  294. ↑ 294.0 294.1 Livestream, February 29, 2024 (1:22:09).
  295. ↑ Podcast, August 4, 2018 (1:44:54).
  296. ↑ 296.0 296.1 296.2 Video, October 31, 2023 (4:45).
  297. ↑ 297.0 297.1 297.2 Video, October 31, 2023 (5:06).
  298. ↑ 298.0 298.1 Interview, April 17, 2019 (49:55).
  299. ↑ Video, October 31, 2023 (6:07).
  300. ↑ Video, October 31, 2023 (8:05).
  301. ↑ steven-stolen-glint.png
  302. ↑ Livestream, September 27, 2024 (2:09:45).
  303. ↑ Podcast, October 12, 2024 (27:49).
  304. ↑ 304.0 304.1 Livestream, August 16, 2024 (50:55).
  305. ↑ 305.0 305.1 305.2 Livestream, June 4, 2018 (39:15).
  306. ↑ 306.0 306.1 306.2 306.3 306.4 Podcast, September 29, 2021 (8:38).
  307. ↑ 307.0 307.1 City hall.
  308. ↑ Livestream, August 31, 2023 (44:21).
  309. ↑ Livestream, January 11, 2019 (1:04:32).
  310. ↑ Livestream, 2018-04-8 (AM) (18:59).
  311. ↑ 311.0 311.1 Video, May 27, 2022 (17:15).
  312. ↑ Livestream, August 26, 2022 (1:26:58).
  313. ↑ Livestream, 2018-04-8 (PM) (1:20:03).
  314. ↑ Livestream, August 23, 2017 (28:22).
  315. ↑ Livestream, May 17, 2017 (30:53).
  316. ↑ Kickstarter - We Just Broke $1,500,000!
  317. ↑ Livestream, January 11, 2025 (1:45:25).
  318. ↑ 318.0 318.1 318.2 318.3 318.4 Interview, October 16, 2024 (51:24).
  319. ↑ 319.0 319.1 steven-stock-markets.png
  320. ↑ 320.0 320.1 Livestream, May 17, 2017 (11:27).
  321. ↑ 321.0 321.1 321.2 Stock Exchange.jpg
  322. ↑ 322.0 322.1 Interview, October 20, 2018 (5:51).
  323. ↑ 323.0 323.1 steven-selling-freeholds.png
  324. ↑ 324.0 324.1 Livestream, June 26, 2020 (47:32).
  325. ↑ Livestream, June 26, 2020 (54:03).
  326. ↑ MMOGames interview, January 2017
  327. ↑ 327.0 327.1 Node series part II – the Metropolis.
  328. ↑ 328.0 328.1 328.2 328.3 Livestream, May 12, 2017 (55:01).
  329. ↑ 329.0 329.1 Livestream, June 30, 2023 (1:12:07).
  330. ↑ 330.0 330.1 Livestream, June 30, 2023 (14:09).
  331. ↑ 331.0 331.1 Livestream, June 30, 2023 (13:10).
  332. ↑ 332.0 332.1 Development Update with Freehold Preview.
  333. ↑ 333.0 333.1 Video, June 30, 2023 (21:22).
  334. ↑ 334.0 334.1 Livestream, June 26, 2020 (53:41).
  335. ↑ Interview, July 8, 2020 (33:34).
  336. ↑ Livestream, May 12, 2017 (52:01).
  337. ↑ Livestream, June 26, 2020 (1:02:12).
  338. ↑ 338.0 338.1 Livestream, June 30, 2023 (1:15:34).
  339. ↑ stevenclarification.png
  340. ↑ Livestream, May 19, 2017 (32:23).
  341. ↑ steven-freehold-sales.png
  342. ↑ Livestream, June 26, 2020 (56:08).
  343. ↑ Livestream, June 30, 2023 (1:20:20).
  344. ↑ 344.0 344.1 Livestream, May 30, 2019 (1:23:41).
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