Consider to allow currency exchange for SSF

Hi there,

I was so happy when I read, that there's finally a currency exchange for PoE. I never did trading and as SSF Player, it's pretty hard to get your stuff together, because the whole game is balanced around trading. However, I just found out, that SSF doesn't participate in the currency exchange thingy.

I'd kindly ask to reconsider this:
If you think of "crafting your own stuff" in this game, items like Regal orbs or or exalted orbs should be pretty common for crafting (as in find a good magic item base, regal it and if you were lucky, exalt the thing, otherwise try again, and again, and again...). From my feeling, they should be a maybe 2-3 times more seldom than chaos orbs, but still pretty common.

However because their price is dependent on the drop rate and balanced for trade league, they are not. So it would be awesome, if SSF had the possibility to also (and only) use the currency exchange, but with fixed rates (or with average market rates from trade or something), so that SSF players can actually be happy to find a divine and trade it for useful crafting currency.

Cheers

The currency exchange is player-to-player - the in-game system is just providing asynchronous mediation of those exchanges. So, the currency exchange really can't be available in SSF.

What SSF should get instead is a way to buy all the currencies from a vendor. Faustus can be that vendor, but there should be some way to buy e.g. glassblower's baubles again. I can see what that option would be removed in trade league with the currency exchange filling that cap, but there was no reason to remove those options from the vendors in SSF. If anything, they should have added more options of this type to one of the vendors, and that vendor should be accessible in our hideouts.

I had the same thought, and was a little disappointed that it wasn't available in SSF in PoE 2.
So I chose to play "in SSF mode", but as standard, and I only use this feature. I don't use the market or exchanges, only the currency exchange.

In Last Epoch SSF has boosted drop rates

It would be awesome if GGG would transfer their minds into 2025
instead of staying in 2012

So I hope that Last Epoch will get more success, even its not my game, I prefer playing Path of Exile.

But if LE gets more success, GGG will more likely improve the game for good and start give players what they want.

SSF in PoE is just a hard mode, nothing more, its punishing and huge time investment.

SSF in POE should be a Single Player experience also enjoyable for normal players and not only for streamers and other No-Lifer.

If SSF would get boosted rarity by default and NPCs with fix exchange rates for all currency that would make the majority of SSF players happy.

SSF in POE is that you see others in town, and you can merge you char any time into trade league. Both should be disabled, SSF should not interfer with others and you should not be able to transfer your char/items into trade league.

For years SSF is played because trading is so garbage and not because everyone wants to play in hard mode.

Its just, that some players want to have the single player experience with no market to compete with, no trading, no hideout switches, no loading times...

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Aijendo#3781 wrote:

For years SSF is played because trading is so garbage and not because everyone wants to play in hard mode.

Which is an interesting thing to consider when SSF started with and got implemented for people who wanted to play in hard mode.

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Jadian#0111 wrote:

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Aijendo#3781 wrote:

For years SSF is played because trading is so garbage and not because everyone wants to play in hard mode.

Which is an interesting thing to consider when SSF started with and got implemented for people who wanted to play in hard mode.

For streamers yes, but I talk a about the normal players.
GGG is focusing too much on streamers and 1% of players.