Talk:PoE sink

I removed the line listing winning Skellies as PoE sinks, as thier winnings just get thrown into the pot are are given to the players who eventually beat them. As they usually don't hang arround for more then a few hours of combat, they arn't much more then a short term escrow, just the the tournament pots.--Mercano 15:41, 16 August 2005 (PDT)

Nitpickery
Technically, items dusting are a commodity sink, not a poe sink. The poe is sunk in the form of taxes at the time of ordering. Do we care to draw that thin a line? --AtteSmythe 16:39, 17 August 2005 (PDT)
 * I'd say yes. Just as buying from merchants are a poe sink and a commodity fountain, dusting is a commodity sink. Behindcurtai

Is buying items from Merchant Brigands really a poe sink? It involves trading cash for something of value so it seems like sort of a wash in terms of the economy because the merchants create goods out of nothing to trade, and then the poe you give them vanishes. Of course the whole concept of things depreciating as they decay is itself a poe sink but this is a little hard to easily articulate in a wiki page. -- KE1LR / "Daedalus" - 18 Nov 2005 11:43AM EST
 * IMO, yes, they are. Merchants are both a poe sink and a commodity fountain. That you receive something in exchange is irrelevant; the PoE are still removed from the economy. The commods can then be changed into goods or resold for poe, but in either case, the poe received is recycled, not new. --AtteSmythe 10:38, 18 November 2005 (PST)

Potions
"More recently, the newest potions that edit one's appearance, take large amounts of PoE for something that has no real effect on gameplay."

The money goes to the shoppe owner, not sunk, so is not actually a PoE sink. I'm rolling it back. --Nickster (t/c) 14:22, 15 November 2005 (PST)

Players leaving the game.
Wondering if the poe lost to players leaving the game should be included. Whilst in terms of game mechanics, its not a true PoE sink, however when people think of PoE sinks, people think of places where PoE leaves the economy. Should players leaving the game be added, perhaps with a qualification that that its not part of the game mechanics but instead a side effect of the social puzzle?


 * It's only a PoE sink if they delete the character holding the PoE. Otherwise, they could always log back in months later and use the PoE.  That being said, is there some reason to enumerate every single possible PoE sink?  I think the list is getting unwieldy.  --Barrister 10:39, 24 November 2005 (PST)

Losing to brigands is a PoE sink?
Don't brigand losses just slip into the ethereal brigand pool? (and therefore they aren't sunk, they're just taken out of direct circulation until won back by another player.) --Teeg 16:13, 1 March 2006 (PST)
 * That is definitely true with commodities, they are slipped into the communal brigand pool. However, since brigands also generate PoE it's hard to keep track. "Did that piece of eight come from thin air or another player?" is a hard question to answer.  Unless the Ringers feel like answering, you could say both (just like Schroedinger's Cat.)--Fiddler 19:27, 1 March 2006 (PST)

PoE lost from NPP win in Hearts
I haven't experienced it but, just for the sake of specifying it on the page, if one of the players is replaced by a whitey in a Hearts game and by great luck (or misfortune of the others) won the game, I assume the pot will be sunk...right? --Estam


 * I'm not entirely certain what would happen in a "winner takes all" game, because I don't ever play those. But I know that in a proportionate take game that the poe is simply divvied between the other two non-last place people. So in your scenario, second and third place would get all the poes. --Fannon 15:16, 28 July 2008 (UTC)