Guild Wars 2

I have always wondered why games that have a setting where resources would in great demand, always have merchants that have unlimited gold to buy endless streams of junk.

Surely a better system would be to reward people for gathering and donating to the war effort?

AoEO has a great mechanic for this. You join an alliance and can donate items/crafting materials to this Alliance, and score points, which are used to by faction/alliance items and gear.

This could be easilly replicated in GW2. Instead of dropping all your unwated items at the nearest merchant for a handful of copper, you could give them to a faction (Vigil/Whispers/etc) and gain points to spend on unique items.

I didn’t like the idea till I read the last bit. I think it is a really great idea. Adding achievement points and a title to the number of points collected would be awesome.