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I'm pissed and I want to break things. Recommend me worlds that I can destroy please!!!

It seems to me that the real joy of such an article would not be the actual article itself, but the reaction of people who first encounter the subject material, go "WTF??" and start making assumptions about it.

Or, set up humans to always siege, and make cave dragons mountable.

HEEHEEHEE

I want to do this.

I generally find that I can have excessive amounts of scrap given two factors: scrap recovery arm early, and teleporters. I regularly fight the final boss with 4 shields, 50% evade, and weapons to spare.

I've played quite a few video games without a true formal currency. Even without such a currency, the natural behaviors of human beings in a barter economy would lead to the creation of a de facto currency.

In a barter economy, you judge how much an item is worth by how much you want it, how much other people want it, and how easily you could find a buyer for it. Assuming there exists some universally demanded item that moves quickly, that would quickly assume the role of currency.

If you look at trading card games for the iOS such as Rage of Bahamut, trade value is measured in small discrete units like healing items that restore stamina or battle power. Even though the economy may contain such disparate items such as cards, items, and other resources, something in nearly universal demand like the aforementioned healing items naturally becomes a standard unit of value against which all goods can be compared.

A video game economy generally avoids a lot of problems that real world economies have that facilitate barter, like the difficulty of enforcing contracts, trade goods that expire, or difficulties in transport. I daresay these factors would lead to the development of an in-game monetary economy along the lines I described above.

I'd be done with being annexed by New York. Connecticut and New Jersey are basically colonial satellites at this point.

I'm in paradise right now, and it's pretty nice. Totally worth the suffering of going through the world ending. They did tell me, though, that for most people who ended up in purgatory, the world won't SEEM to have ended, but life as they know it will be just a little bit crappier.

It's really just a question of morals, how would you honor someone that helped you and everyone around you, say, a soldier in the army of whatever country you reside in.  He's old, and withering away.  Would you let him die a peaceful death, or one in glorious combat?

Since you are opposed to the idea of letting a pathetic goblin have the pleasure of killing him, perhaps you should take the third option mentioned by pisskop and go with the (live) magma funeral, with a memorial to his name erected in a hall somewhere. You could always wait till the next forgotten beast and let him challenge it as well.