Money could be made valuable again. The merchant in solA that sells
tinkerers bags for 5kilo plat needs to do a couple things.
1. reduce the cost of the bag 3kilo plat seems more reasonable. (see
below why you would want to reduce the cost)
2. start selling Rubicite, make it fairly expensive I guess around
150-200pp per ac would be fair.
Verdant armour should be for sale in erudin (at the moment the merchant
will only sell to GM's as I understand it).
Black iron for sale in kaladim.
Add some more store bought armour types.
Add some more smithed & taylored armours (ie. add a vial of some sought
of mana from an enchanter, and some component and get some magic/bonus)
eg. imagine a ruby encrusted silvered/cromed/guilded/shiny breastplate
AC17 +?str/wis (sure it would probably cost alot in components and
would very hard to smith, ie failures so even more expensive) ie. U
might combine a ruby, the vial, 2 sheets of steel, a mold, a flask of
water, a bar of enchanted silver/gold/electrum/platnium and a file.
Maybe introduce a spell "Bless water" make it so you need to get a flask
of "holy water" (that way no single class can singly corner the market
eg. enchanters).
Or maybe make it a 2 step process make first step might be to make gem
encrusted sheets
Now as far as magic weapons go.
Add some pirate merchants in OOT, or the dwarven merchant in OOT or DE
in Neriak or a few all over the place. Lets add some more store bought
Magic weapons at the mo there is Combine and well balanced. Now if there
was more variety in store bought magic weapons, people wouldn't feel the
need to camp for a magic item. Item drops might become more the by
product of going into a dungeon, not the reason for going there.
Also the price of steel plate needs to be reduced.
Basically if something is too expensive people will not buy it, think
about it if a twinker can spend a few hours and get a really decent
item, or spend a few hours to get enuf cash to buy an inferior item
which will they do. Chain is also too expensive. (imo chain should be
twice to 3 times the price of leather, and plate 2 to 4 times the price
of chain).
ouch, I ranted ... sorry
Chris Drew wrote:
>
> From: Chris Drew <xcdrewx@...>
>
> WARNING KINDA OFF TOPIC:
> ************************
>
> I play a fantasy/medievel LARP <NERO> and this seems
> to be the way with all the magic items in our game.
> At lower levels, dagger, potions, etc.. are worth alot
> to you, coin is very valuable. As you progress you
> are going on small quests and getting abundunce of
> coin to gain levels, and few items. As you progress
> to higher level the magic items are whats the most
> wanted. Your sword can only be so good unless its
> magical, the shield and armor is the same unless its
> magical. Everyone wants magic items, and cause you
> have been adventuring so long, and are killing larger
> creatures now you have an abundance of coin.
> Items can only be traded for itmes, cause coin is a
> common thing. The way this can only be solved is that
> the coin is used for something, to gain levels, its
> turned in for exp. In EQ the coin is worthless in
> only regards to buying items. Maybe if it was used to
> buy entertainment, or to buy house, estates, etc..
> than it would be needed. They must make coin valuable
> at all stages in level progression.
>
> Later
> Chris
>
> Dharkness
> Cleric of Innouurk
> Vallon Zek
>
> --- Jeff Portwine <jdport@...> wrote:
> > I didn't really camp until the last 5 levels or so
> > when I started wanting some of the items that I was
> > finally getting high enough level to get. After a
> > while you find that the higher level you get the
> > less value platinum has and everything that you want
> > to have is either A) No-Drop, B) costs just an
> > outrageous amount of platinum (because plat is so
> > easy to come by at high levels) or C) the person who
> > has the item wants to trade it instead of selling it
> > (again because plat isn't worth that much compared
> > to the time spent getting items). In the case of
> > C, you need to camp to get the items that the person
> > is willing to trade the item you want for... so you
> > either camp for that or you camp for the item you
> > actually want.. either way you are going to camp.
> > In the case of A, you have no choice because it's
> > No-Drop so nobody else can get it for you, and in
> > the case of B.. well you will be saving your pennies
> > a long long time. So, I think that you will find
> > yourself camping in levels to come and you will
> > realize pretty quickly why people are complaining
> > about it =)
> >
> > -Eachann Bronzeleaf
> > -Cleric of Tunare, Tarew Marr
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Chris Wheeler <wheelech@...>
> > To: <EQ-Clerics@onelist.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 1999 1:21 PM
> > Subject: RE: [EQ-Clerics] Cleric Sit-in
> >
> >
> > > From: Chris Wheeler <wheelech@...>
> > >
> > > I hope you are all successful. Personally, I am
> > too impatient to camp for
> > > items, even if it it only takes an hour. So if
> > your protest helps in that
> > > regard, I am sure it will benfit me as well. My
> > approach is to just play
> > > the game, amass experience and wealth, and hope
> > that I can buy what I need.
> > > Mind you , I'm only 16th level now, so in the
> > future, I may need to camp for
> > > stuff. But so far, I have not camped for a single
> > thing, I am happy with
> > > what my character can and can't do, and have no
> > complaints about world
> > > called Norrath. The only complaints I have I can
> > live with, and they mostly
> > > have to do with the UI of the game and with GM
> > conduct.
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Jeff Portwine [mailto:jdport@...]
> > > Sent: 1999/11/30 11:43 AM
> > > To: EQ-Clerics@onelist.com
> > > Subject: Re: [EQ-Clerics] Cleric Sit-in
> > >
> > >
> > > From: "Jeff Portwine" <jdport@...>
> > >
> > > Aye, but looking at it from your perspective you
> > could consider that if the
> > > sit-in is successful, it's possible that the 8
> > hour camps could be reduced
> > > which would give you LESS time to sit around on
> > purpose (camping for
> > > items)... =)
> > >
> > > It all depends on how you look at it...
> > >
> > > Eachann Bronzeleaf
> > > Cleric of Tunare, Tarew Marr
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Chris Wheeler <wheelech@...>
> > > To: <EQ-Clerics@onelist.com>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 1999 11:39 AM
> > > Subject: RE: [EQ-Clerics] Cleric Sit-in
> > >
> > >
> > > > From: Chris Wheeler <wheelech@...>
> > > >
> > > > Well, I'm taking this sit in from a different
> > perspective. I only get a
> > > few
> > > > hours of play time a week, and I think that I'd
> > rather use it playing the
> > > > game as opposed to sitting around. I do enough
> > sitting around, what with
> > > > trying to find a group and all to play in. I
> > sure don't want to do it on
> > > > purpose.
> > > >
> > > > Just my thought.
> > > >
> > > > Brytewing. the Rathe.
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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