Up until last week, I had never thought of this concept in endgame shells in regards to DKP. What concept? That of a shared treasure pool for certain drops.
For instance, lets look at a Dynamis shell. Generally, the Shell Leader, or Sponsor, buys the hourglass and takes all Byne/Wootz/etc from the pool, leaving the 1-5k drops and AF for the “cleaning crew”. How the loot get divided depends on who bought the glass.
In the case of the sponsor, haha suckers! (I kid!) The sponsor will take all currency, presumably toward a relic. (Honestly, i’ve never heard of a sponsor that wasn’t a Shell Leader that wasn’t working towards a relic. Then again, what do I know.)
In the case of the shell leader, there are generally 2 options. Option 1, the Shell Leader is just basically a Sponsor, and takes the currency for his/her relic. Option 2, the shell does Monthly/Quarterly/etc payouts, and at his/her discretion sells the loot to distribute payments. Of course, an alternate to that is when someone in the shell gets close to relics, the shell gives out the currency in bundles to help with the relic.
In the case of option 2, shouldn’t the DKP have a way to track what the pool currently is, and maybe the status of the pool? Enter the Treasure Pool. You’d need to be able to track what is in the pool, of course. Perhaps some kind of history about the pool, say “Sold 100 whiteshells at 13k each”, would also be necessary.
You could do some extra things with this. Maybe a Banking system, where the shell usually sells 80% of currency to pay members, but holds back 10% towards the next Hourglass, and 10% to help members fund relics. Loaning wouldn’t be entirely out of the question. You could also have a “Points for X” option, say in Limbus shells where you can exchange 25 points for 75 coins. I know several shells, and am in a shell, which offer a trade system for items.
Going along these lines, you could tie a Bazaar into the Pool/Bank system. Almost every endgame shell sells loot from Gods/Kings, for instance Black Belt items. You can list your bazaar, have histories, “referral bonuses” in Points, Cash, Items, whichever.
I feel like all of this would be an enormous help in running a shell off a pure DKP system, and actually I’m suprised that nobody mentioned me not talking about it. Thoughts?
Then again who is to say the leader wont use dyna for other reason…
Well right, but if they’re doing it for something else, they probably wouldn’t post the bank in the first place.
Unless you’re suggesting something that I’m missing.
I’m suggesting we start it up!