I am not sure why this was removed, but I think that it should be added back. I use a lot of ores, mainly diamond. I don't really wanna spent hours and hours just looking for diamonds, because it gets so boring when I need tens of thousands. I think what would be an interesting idea, is to add them to the point shop. However I would like to know what everyone else thinks.
I wouldn't mind bringing the Ore Shop back; however, the Ore Shop will be revamped so that the ores or materials you're to buy will not be allowed in recipe making.
i like Ky's idea. the dynamic of diamonds being a driver of the economy is a big improvment over just the plane old ore shop,
I don't know exactly if this would work, instead, wouldn't it just be a better idea to bring the prices far above market prices?
Not really. The whole idea of the recipes are to averagely hard and bringing back the ores-shop will only mean that these recipes can be bought rather than actually requiring effort to be put in.
I doubt this would be balanceable, you have two things to consider: diamonds being too expensive to be worth buying, or diamonds being too cheap that people will just craft comp diamonds. Because you either make diamonds expensive enough that the bored billionaires of the server won't spam buy them to make compressed diamonds, in which they would probably be too expensive to be worth using for anything, or you make sure they're reasonably priced, and people DO spam buy them to make comp diamonds. On top of this, people would charge extra after buying diamonds, raising the price of spawners and respawners. Essentially, I don't think you could make diamonds expensive enough that people wouldn't buy them for comp diamonds, without making them too expensive to be useful for anything else.
The way I think this one would work is that you could add a description to the item. Kind of like how you can only comp Organic Potatoes with Organic Potatoes and not auto-farmed potatoes. Make it tagged with something that is like "Purchased from Ore-Shop" to make sure they arent usable in any given recipe. I.E. Comp diamonds, comp iron, etc etc. Have it to where you can only make like... Diamond tools and armor and such. I'm not sure if this particular idea has already been mentioned, but this is an idea I've thought up.
If you are to bring back the ore shop. although you make think the item is not able to be crafted there are bugs with cobble or dirt for example that still make it craftable. So if you are to bring it back I feel like people will find a easy way to get around it.
I think if we do bring it back it should be done in an unlockable fashion so you have to work towards the ability to use it. I also believe ores should be over prices to discourage use and encourage spending of the high rollers.