Special Repair

[Provectus]

There's a few different ways we can go about playing with this, in any scenario I want to reduce the ability to special repair items with no real effort or cost.

The main one that I like (and would work together with the second idea) is that all "normal" items can't be special repaired, Mir Items and above CAN be, possibly adding Heaven/Hell to that list too, I'm unsure which I like the most, if we added Heaven/Hell, it'd mean they stay pretty damn rare and we wouldn't need to work super hard to balance their stats above single-class items, as they'd have the massive advantage of being spec repairable.

The second idea, which would work well to bring money in for the server, without ruining the balance between donaters and non-donaters (which is important, as we NEED donations for the server to run, but we don't want people to feel they HAVE to donate to be able to play): Donate for a special repair! I was thinking 10p per item (full repair) at an npc and maybe add a special-repair-oil for 20p, maybe 30p, that you could carry around with you (wgo, but works for all items), giving you the ability to repair it from 0 dura?

Just ideas off the top of my head, so don't panic that they're going to happen, lol. In either case (we may ignore both those ideas) I personally dislike how easy it is to special repair items, it takes away from the value of them, as once everyone has a specific item or better, lower ones are then next to useless.

[Lone]

Personally i think you should get back to the Original Method of only Weapons being special repairable, but have the GG Special repair idea available aswell, that way you will get a small income for those that have the higher level/rare items that they want to keep nice.

(infact i quite like that GG repair idea, if you also created GGVouchers like the LR had, so that those that cant donate can hunt for items that donators want and that way they can trade game gold for them meaning everyone has access to gamegold if they work for it ingame meaning everyone can Special repair but you still get an income )

[Provectus]

The main thing I was thinking of, which obviously won't matter for a good few months, is when people have Mir Items (and better), they won't want to use them on normal mobs as it means dura loss and ultimately the loss of the item.

I wouldn't mind adding GGVouchers (or as they're known on Extreme, GGTokens), it'd mean strict control on them though, as I'd much rather we didn't have to resort to people feeling as though they HAVE to donate to stand a chance in keeping up with donaters, which the Spec Repair for 10p would massively help cut out.

I'll have a further think while more views come in, glad to see you like my current ones, as I'm confident they'll be a good bonus for the server that'll help keep it fair (remember, the oils are only 30p, they could easily get TM'd by donaters, so non-donaters can easily buy them still ).

[Silver]

if it is changed so that you can only special repair some items, then what about making an npc that can harden your items for you so they still lose dura but at a slower rate.

[Provectus]

Sounds like an excellent idea, when Sek is about I'll ask him how we'd go about that, at the very worst we can implement a way to increase the dura on the item (for example, give 2 of the same item and it gains both of their max dura's on to 1, so you can orb/gem the crap out of it and it'll last twice as long).

[Dave123456789]

Scrap special repair altogether ffs. No economy can ever form with it in place.

[Provectus]

Hmmm, maybe opening special repair once a month might be a way to go, I honestly don't want it removed entirely, but I do want it given a real value that would either cost people irl money, or (possibly in addition to r/l money) would only be accessible once in a while. You're right that special repair ****s up economies, but without it Mir Items and above are going to be weak as hell as you can't special repair them... Though with plenty of dura orbs ingame, that wouldn't be such an issue, it would even give them a real value.

Damn you Advent, giving me more things to think about! Can't wait until Ren's back and he can do this thinking for me, it makes my face hurt.

[MrMyagi]

On mir3 Special Repair was only open for a certain amount of time per day i think. So once a week or once every few days at insane prices would mean people would only spec repair there special items. Also have a special item ingame that can drop and you can buy from GG that allows you access to a shop to special repair your items. Once you close the shop its gone so really you can only special repair once when you use the item but could spec repair all your items.

[Provectus]

I love that idea, just need to give it some heavy testing to make sure it's exploit free... Though we don't really need to do it that much, as we can easily check it every now and then to make sure no-one has used it when it was meant to be closed.

To clarify, you mean there's two ways to use the shop, right? One at the time that we set it to open, the other when people pay GG (or have dropped) an item that will grant them access to the shop, like a teleport scroll, yeah? If so, excellent, if not, well I'll probably use that variation of it anyway, sounds quality.

[MrMyagi]

Yeah i would set it up so that when you "use" the item. Pretty much the same way you use a tele scroll or exp token at the moment instead of it running the command to give exp or tele you it would open a shop window. The show would then be the Special repair shop that would allow you to repair your items. Once you "use" the scroll it dissapears and then when you close the shop window its closed untill u "use" another scroll.

But to compliment this you can have the special repair shop situated somewhere like bw storage but it only appears once a week but this one would charge insane amounts of cash to repair so people would only "save" there special items for these repairs.