Just curious.

I think it can be great, if they actually do it right.
Not that they are incapable, I just fear they would take the easy way to do it.

Economies are usually pretty hard to get right. But if they do, it offers so much more to do in game...
And its something that will offer an exploit for people to complain about later.

Definitely worthy. Should there be a poll for this?

Worthy.

However, I think voice acting is a waste of time; Just imagine all the money/time/space voice acting takes up in a game. Take it all out, and I bet Skyrim would be far more detailed (Open cities on consoles perhaps?)

Sorry, I derailed the thread there a bit, so yeah, I think the whole new economy in Skyrim is worth it.

Will make it a poll.

never mind I got it

I think it's going to be gimmicky, so a waste of time. I never buy food, there's plenty of food to be found everywhere if I ever needed it, so crops being destroyed and raising the price of corn is a gimmick. The other example of destroying the saw mill is gimmicky too. Besides arrows, and maybe low level wooden shields, what else would I ever buy that depends on the sawmill? My house!? It's all a waste of their time, and any other things they come up with will be one off quests where we have to choose to blow up a mine or some such nonsense and then steal and iron in a nearby town will be expensive. Unless money is hard to come by, non of these price hikes will matter. Plus I find everything I ever need adventuring, and shops are only good for selling stuff.

Now if they added in a better overall economy, where if I try to sell a bunch of crap and the store only buys 1/5 of it and refuses to buy anymore, that would be cool. I'd like to see a better overall economy, then some gimmicky "arrows and corn" cost more economy.

It may be a bit gimmicky, but I still think it's neat. It could be (if it works right) amazing for rolepaying.

Unless it has some profound impact on the shopkeepers and interactions with other cities, I don't see the point. Seems like a bit of a one-time "PRESS E TO DESTROY THE LUMBERMILL AND NOT BE ABLE TO BUY ARROWS TEE-HEE" gimmick for me.

I don't think they're trying to implement an advanced economic model haha.

Basic supply and demand principles should be easy enough to implement.

Yeah I agree they probably aren't going to make an accurate economy, and it will probably a couple of items connected to item prices, as suggested above.
Which is why I don't expect it to be anything worth while.

But I still have to say, if done right it would be awesome.

I think its great. More tangible gameplay elements and world changes the better. Adds to the living world and RP aspect.

I just don't think shops/buying is important enough in to make any of this worth doing. I never bought from stores on a regular basis after the first few hours of gameplay. They were only a place for me to unload my loot. By mid game everything I had was worth more than any shop owner could pay. Money becomes a joke, shops are a joke, this "economy" was a joke.

That is what I want them to work on. Making a few items cost more through some dynamic manner isn't the solution, if past games are anything to go by. If they keep the economy and loot system close to how it's been in past games, then it doesn't matter how much shops charge for things. I'll never be in there buying! That's why this isn't a solution to the economy, but if they've worked out the major flaws and everything has changed it's still gimmicky. They would need to incorporate everything sold somehow, make price changes dramatic, make supply dramatic etc. Plus, if arrows cost 20 gold an arrow what's stopping anyone from fast traveling to the next city where they are only 10.

So again, the corn and sawmill examples are neat and different, but after my first playthrough are just a gimmick. Fixing the broken ass economy is where they need to focus, leave this stuff for later(or never)...

Edit:fixed iPhone Changing my words

Nobody can opine here because NOBODY KNOWS what the system is gonna be. The thing about damaging the mill is just an idea they have thrown into the air, and dont know how to implement it as a game mechanic. Therefore, asking people's opinions on things nobody knows is dumb.

If done right, it would be one of the greatest additions to the game, and give it incredible credibility, and breathed life into the events, and gives them believable consequences.

Have you seen every thread in this forum? What we've been told about the economy is equal to everything else we've been told, meaning next to nothing. That's why we speculate and talk about the little stuff, cause there is no big stuff that we know.

Edited out Dunwich, weird iPhone yet again.

Waste of time, much like...ah nevermind.

It's far too early to tell.

Can you explain what you mean by "dynamic economy"?

Are you referring to new info from a specific article?

Meh. I probably won't use it unless it's really well done. So far, it sounds gimmicky, but obviously we'll have to wait and see.

Given the OP, most likely old info- Todd's "you can destroy the [sawmill, was it?] and the local economy will be affected" quote.

Is that what I think it means...

Wether this is done in great detail or wether this is going to have some profound effect on each and every player of the game, is NOT the point of it.

This is just part of a puzzle which this games company is trying to put together, to get the game world to be more believable.

I'm all for it.

Towns should have a constant circulation of trade between them. Perhaps an alchemist receives her ingredients from a nearby village, and if that supply is cut off she will be unable to brew any new potions for you to buy. So far from what we've heard, the economies seem to be self-contained from within each town, which makes it kind of pointless if you ask me.

Apart from the fact it's yet another thing we know indeed next to nothing about, I can't see how this part of the game will ever amaze me. I think there are better things to invest valuable development time in.