It's because now they give you materials for completing daily's and weekly etc. It would break the economy to keep mats for marks
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how would it break the game economy there is no trading system
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Make the ones we buy or are given to us "synthetic" and can not be traded for marks. Can only be consumed. Have the "organic" ones we farm for able to be traded for marks and xp.
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As it is/was, yeah it would, you can go back and forth and spend little overall, but get extra experience/rep and glimmer. To bring it back, they would need to tweak some things.
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Keeping the Marks for Materials & returning the Materials for Mark exchange (without rep or glimmer) would give you: 1:2 marks for materials + 10:1 materials for marks = 5:1 Mark for Mark Since each mark you gain adds to your 100 weekly cap, yet the ones you spend do not subtract from it, you would have to earn the weekly max of one mark for just 20 of the other. Which would leave you unable to gain anymore of the maxed type for the rest of the week. That's a pretty steep cost. Especially once you concider that marks aren't shared across an account like glimmer & they can't be traded between characters like materials.