>From: "Whitmore, Lance" <lwhitmore@...>
>I made a suggestion...
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>As to your rant :) ( of course on my post.. hehe )
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>What solutions do you have? What ideas do you have? I'm sure we would all
>like to listen to a few suggestions. You can't be a lone ranger and submit
>them yourself and expect changes to occur.. We all need to work together,
>unfortunately I here a lot of complaining yet no set forth solutions.
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>Hint us in on a few, we might just agree.
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>(and this is in no way a flame)
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Didn't meant to imply that you were flaming, nor do I take your suggestion
as such.
Here's just a few suggestions (of many) that have been made to Verant:
1.) To spur a "player run" economy, add in item durability on armor, weapons
and such. The appropriate trade skill could repair the items durability - IE
smithing for armor and weapons, tailoring for clothing and tailor made
items, bowyer/fletching to fix bows etc etc. If the player made repairs in a
shop with all the "tools" needed are assume to be handy, then there'd be no
reduction in the items durability. If it was done "out in the field", IE not
in a shop with the proper tools, then there'd be a permanent reduction in
the max durability of the item. Also, have NPC's that you could go to who
could also make these repairs (of course the NPC would charge more). If the
items durability hits zero, then there'd be a chance of it breaking every
time it was used. If the item breaks, it would be permanently and totally
useless.
2.) Have additional modes of transportation in the future add on - IE
Horses, Flying Mounts etc. as an alternative to JBoots. The graphics are
already in the game for them both. It would take some minor adjustments to
add them in, and make them fully functional.
3.) Have NPC's in key locations that you could pay to bind you to an area.
Would have fixed the need to remove the Ring of the Dead (which should have
worked before they put it on the live servers). Instead, they removed the
ring (another band aid patch).
4.) Have rubi as a lore, no drop quest loot for a long, involved and hard
quest. Would have fixed the need to remove it to decrease camping/farming of
the armor. Instead, they removed it.