So these are the Currencies/Materials that shipped with Vanilla Destiny (4 months ago):
1.Glimmer
2.Strange Coins
3.Motes of Light
4.Crucible Marks
5.Vanguard Marks
6.Spinmetal/Spirit Bloom/Helium/Relic Iron
7.Hunter/Warlock/Titan clothing
8.Weapon Parts
9.Ascendant Energy/Shards
10.4 Glimmer Buffs (Ether Seeds etc.)
11.Tempered (Iron Banner Buff)
12.Weapon XP buffs (Telemetry)
13.Sparrow Buffs
14.Iron Medallion (Lost IB Matches)
The first DLC alone added this stuff:
1.Exotic Shard
2.Radiant Shard/Energy
3.Runed Core (upgrading the Murmur)
4.Crux of Crota (upgrading to Necorchasm)
5.Vanguard Commendations
6.Crucible Commendations
If HoW keeps up this trend and will be introducing Furry Shards/Energy it`s time to consult a brain plumber. Especially for new Players it has become an utter mess.
Out of the new 6 Mats, 2 are there for gimmicky purposes only (Runed Core/Crux of crota), seriously needed each of these wepaons its own material?
Why is there no Hawkstone or Thornblood or Stutter of Crota to upgrade certain Handcannons? (I´m joking, don`t do it)
Please think this through:
you made a good start by letting us buy materials with Marks, now see to it that the other mats/currencies vet players are drowning in get a reasonable use in this game.
Motes of Light and Ascendante Shards/Energy have no use at all for Players playing your Endgame Content. Make your currencies dealable, like you started to do so with the possibility to exchange Shards/Energies at Eris.
Stop bombarding us with useless ships that not even drop 10 Glimmer when I scrap them and take longer than an Exotic to dismantle!
Why is it that I can`t exchange 10 Ascendante for 1 Radiant Shard?
Why can`t I buy Plasteel Plating when the progress on my Titan simply is blocked because I might have already Raid/Exotic Armor pieces, but can`t level him up because I lack Plasteel?
There are so many issues with this Currency-Creep, not the least that our Vaults are bursting, please come up with some exchange rates, that takes maybe the average time a 30+ Player needs to gain stuff and take that as a thumbrule for a Vendor that lets us exchange stuff.
1 Hour Endgamegameplay:= 5 Radiant Materialy := 15 Ascendant Materials:= 5000 Glimmer := 0.5 Commendations := 1 Mote of Light:= 50 PLasteel/Hadronic/Sapphire
Find a way to let us exchange the Materials/Currencies we have in abundance with something that has actually use for us.
I´m not suggesting that you are making everything buyable with Glimmer alone, but atm it`s really not working for some of us, that have no use for the 10th Commendation, and the 150th Mote. I´m not even suggesting that you make these Deals permanent, maybe Shards/Radiants can only be exchanged on Weekends and There could even be a rotation were this Vendor only has 3 options per day, and a special Offer for male or female Exos/Human/Awoken/Titans/Locks/Hunters only each day, a little bit like Xur, if you will.
[b]TLDR; Make a Vendor that exchanges Materials/Currencies[/b]
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The main problem is that there is no exchange rate. A Mark is worth x material, so x material should be worth 1 Mark. The vendors should have the ability to sell material and Marks. Ships need to be added into the Economy. Dismantling a ship should give equivalent rewards to the rarity of the ship. An obvious alternative would be to have Engineering or Shipbuilder ranks in the same manner as the Cryptarch ranks. This would also include Sparrows.