Player driven economy

Have potions, armor, etc be craftable and sellable for money.

Would help the game feel more involved. I'll build on to when i get home but feel free to spam ideas til then.

Edit:

So basically brawl wanted to bring in an RPG element into the game by adding a leveling system. We could easily keep this and add a requirement for crafting certain things or being able to do special things when gaining these levels.

Best Examples I can bring out is when having a processing ability, it will allow you to brew potions and if you get the highest level (Should be REALLY hard) you can make an upgraded version of the potions. Could be just extended timer, will brainstorm on that later.

Now, the main economy we seem to have is a fixed economy where you gain X amount of money for doing X task for X amount of time. Basic and straight to the point, the main issue with it is that the best way to make money and IMO the only way to get money to pvp is drugs, which can be hard due to bigger teams (Let's try to get rid of this problem or band aid it with this idea).

To make it more complex, The economy doesn't really have a supply and demand. You can see decent examples of it by head trading for unique items.

So what am I proposing with the craftable items? What is it supposed to solve?

Allowing players to direct their play style like mining, doing drugs, or maybe even as simple as killing Indians, you should be able to gain more experience doing that task.

Mining could allow players to craft certain armor and depending on the level is the % of health it will have.

Processing could be potion making

Stuff like that. Just think it would give new players hope to actually get good gear without having to do the same things over and over. Or if they so desired to do it over and over could get gear that some people can't make and need to buy.