Small Ideas - AIN'T NO COMBAT THREAD

Kerryn

Haven said:

Can we expand Delos to include NPC shops that sell player essentials at a much higher price?

Panties, thongs, and dresses in variety can be nice but sometimes I'm just looking for a tinderbox or an enchantment to be stocked too, ya know?

You have gold to spend?

Haven

Kerryn said:

Haven said:

Can we expand Delos to include NPC shops that sell player essentials at a much higher price?

Panties, thongs, and dresses in variety can be nice but sometimes I'm just looking for a tinderbox or an enchantment to be stocked too, ya know?

You have gold to spend?

As a matter of fact I do!

The ball finally settles down on 12 (red).

Akhmeed, the Wheel Master exclaims to you, "We have a winner! You've won 24000 gold!" He returns the stakes for your winning bets, and hands you your winnings.

Moirean

I would honestly pay 5x as much to buy enchants from an NPC if they were sold as simple silver rings. Every single enchanter thinks they have to be cute and make custom rings for each enchant type and spam up my examine. I sat around for days without resist rings while I waited for someone who would do a custom order.

Serrice

Eleanor sells enchanted thin black bands in Delos. Very sleek, very subdued. My preference for rings. 

Haven

Seasone near North of Trees and that swamp hag need to move to Delos and open up a potions shop charging ridiculous prices for concoctions like the old days! Bring in some of those trolls from Hashan for tinderboxes and pipes and stuff! Get some Ayhesa mage for enchantments!

I'd be happy for when player's run out of stock or are unavailable or whatever that my needs can still be met even if it means I pay a lot extra. Plus gold sink! That's always good, no?

Xavin

Enchantments are usually for sale in the ascendril shop there, unless you're looking for something weird.

Ciarelle

Actually, we also do the weird stuff. Yay scented baubles!

(Edit - And we also still have the tinderboxes, a lot of fairly basic lustrous obsidian rings amidst the more decorative ones and tons of herbs and stuff. I like managing that shop more than I care to admit >.>)

Arbre

BAUBLES ARE NOT WEIRD.  THEY ARE VERY USEFUL.

stupid leper woman

Moirean

All of these require players to stock, is what Haven is getting out. Sometimes stuff runs out of stock or you're in a fight/war/hawt mudsex and don't have time to run around finding where has what. Having the generic stuff at high high prices isn't going to cut into player profits, but it would be a nice backup option just in case.

Arbre

I'm not sure what kind of mudsex requires resistance rings, but I'm willing to find out.

Rivas

I'm on my way, and I'm bringing the fire resists.

Ciarelle

You too should come forth and get my baubles, then

In all seriousness, I'm under the impression that the cities (not Duiran) actually have basic supplies of curatives etc. that could be considered critical at much higher than usual prices. Beyond that, though, I feel like it comes down to consequences of player actions and really sorting things out yourself. Be organised and pay attention to the state of your supplies or, if you've run out of enchantments or certain curatives during a war (… or epic mudsex?), then perhaps you do have to remember which shops are most reliable to get to in a hurry and go to them, or risk the massive searching through shops.

Ciarelle

Another note regarding resistance rings: I'm also not a huge fan of the OTT pretty decorative ones and use a set of plain obsidian ones myself for Ciarelle. I remember someone on the old forums suggested that Trans enchanters should be able to put all four resistances on one ring. I loved that idea then and I still do now.

Aldric

My personal problem with resistance rings is the vast difference in decay times. Instead of asking to get those same rings re-enchanted, I (and I'm sure most others) just buy new ones. This leaves you with a crazy number of rings after enchantments fade from them that otherwise have no use.

EDIT: There's also the whole RP concept of wearing a ring for each resistance. 

Well uh, this one's for fire, this one's magic, this one's my engagement ring, this one protects from cold damage, this one floods, this one parts..

Eleanor

there's an auction arti that's all resists on one ring, so I don't see that becoming a player-made thing.

And yeah, I made the black bands because I was sick of looking like I'd fallen backward through a jewelry case. I use 'a red glass ring' for my personal ones.

re: 9001 leftover rings, I tend to have a chest in my shops- people dump their empty rings in my shop when they buy new ones, and I either re-use them (if they're one of mine) or leave 'em in there for newbies to play with/other enchanters to use if they want.

Areka

I use the same design for my rings too (a thin silver nesting ring), so I can pretend they neatly stack on one finger. 

Makes me again wish we had cask equivalents for enchantments like this though. 

Calipso

im just gonna toss this out there, but are our player suggestions even being considered? I've seen several very nice ideas on the threads in recent times and it seems none of them have received acclaim.

Xavin

The admin may or may not look at these suggestions. Most likely they do but the policy on this thread on the old forums was 'do not expect admin feedback or action'.

Toz

what if you could gain the benefit from just having the rings in your inventory? Seems simplest to me.

Calipso

Xavin said:

The admin may or may not look at these suggestions. Most likely they do but the policy on this thread on the old forums was 'do not expect admin feedback or action'.

Right I understand that, but I mean that some of the ideas suggested are very easy little changes that wouldnt take much to install. Somewhat feels like they are just generally being ignored.

Daskalos

How do you know what is easy or not? Have you seen the code?

Erzsebet

Mine are all slender serpentine whatsits that RPwise stack on one finger too. Otherwise, it's like, oh, I've 7 or so of those, a couple year 300/whateverpermpromotion rings, a couple RP rings--marriage, engagement, signet, and any artifact ones on top of it--vigor/parting/whatever. And....ten fingers?

Clearly they're meant to go on the dozen hands we have holding all of our vials and feeding us cures during combat while we wield two-handed weapons.

Ezalor

I just pretend anything worn for mechanical benefits isn't actually there or is invisible or something. Otherwise I'm wearing like...20 rings, a few amulets, a bunch of earrings, a crown over my hat, an eyeglass on one eye and an eyepatch on the other.

I'd be like...a super blinged out man who's confused as to whether he wants to be a scholar or a pirate. Yarrr.

Xavin

I thought there was a limit of 10 worn rings? That would mean that you could have 4 resistances, an icewall, a firewall, a firelash, an aquatic (you can have your parting and flood rings merged) and have room for two more. But I really wish they would make that special auction ring a regularly purchasable artifact, just to eliminated the 4 resistance rings, at the least.

Ezalor

Xavin said:

I thought there was a limit of 10 worn rings? That would mean that you could have 4 resistances, an icewall, a firewall, a firelash, an aquatic (you can have your parting and flood rings merged) and have room for two more. But I really wish they would make that special auction ring a regularly purchasable artifact, just to eliminated the 4 resistance rings, at the least.

If you put on all your regular rings before your arti rings you can bypass that limit. Arti rings will be able to be worn regardless of how many you have on but do count towards the limit too, so put on all your normal stuff and then your artis.

Erzsebet

I tend to desc my mechanical stuff--artifacts and all, around my/as rp stuff. It's at least a small part of why the descriptions on everything Erz owns are so long, because they're designed in such a way, so as to be logically wearable with other stuff. My headdress is designed to fit around and frame my artifacted diadem, as an example.

The decay thing is annoying though. Maybe make a new crafting item type 'resistring' that has a shorter lifespan than your normal ones, and have the enchant last as long as the ring does?

Ezalor

Erzsebet said:

I tend to desc my mechanical stuff--artifacts and all, around my/as rp stuff. It's at least a small part of why the descriptions on everything Erz owns are so long, because they're designed in such a way, so as to be logically wearable with other stuff. My headdress is designed to fit around and frame my artifacted diadem, as an example.

The decay thing is annoying though. Maybe make a new crafting item type 'resistring' that has a shorter lifespan than your normal ones, and have the enchant last as long as the ring does?

Right, some artifacts are easy workarounds but I don't really see how you can cohesively work with a clarion eyeglass and a luminous eyepatch, for example. Or @Daskalos's wearable barrel.

Arbre

Daskalos shouldn't be working around his barrel.  He should be flaunting it.

Daskalos

Daskalos has hide_artifacts so he doesn't look ridiculous wearing a barrel.

Arbre

Disapprove.