In-game cosmetics suggestion to celebrate new decade
Jun 11, 2020 22:59:46 GMT
Paradoom, thomascovenant, and 1 more like this
Post by woqued on Jun 11, 2020 22:59:46 GMT
Introducing another moneysink: vendor that allows from a set of wing/tail options, price for it being in the billions.
Add Pharlan wings: 5B.
Add Pharlan Tail: gain 200 million money from the vendor.
Some other wings: 2B.
Remove Tail: 2B.
Remove Wings: 2B.
Something like that, you get the point - sky is the limit. Allowing customization to increase our attachment and personality of the characters we play the most (and don't intend to reincarnate for a while, unless really strapped $$-wise). If Sabre goes wild, could also implement some new features once the vendor exists for dopplegangerish transformations (to help some things like Dracotaurs, Giants, etc with size issues for those who can't manage them - for a large price of course).
Potential specific creature appearances:
Slaad (of some sort), 5-20B depending on the awesomeness of models (so something like green slaad is pocket change, something cooler like death/black/white/mud big bucks).
Undeads of varying sorts: 500M-10B depending on the awesomeness of the model - zombie/skeleton/ghasts/ghouls/bodaks cheap, vampires/horrors/wraiths/liches expensive - or something.
Rhakshasa: 500M
Troll: 5B (FREEDOM FOR DANKY)
Cow: 10B
Chicken: 20B
Dragon: char deleted for attempting to PK parties
Deliberately high prices to have chase targets and more money sinks in the game. These might be a bit over the top, kinda like the Thieves Picks pricing in Stygia (way too high, damnit, thats highway robbery) but since it's optional... Better be high.
I know it's been suggested before, but it never hurts to test the waters once again! Especially since XRs have less variance (per class/race: quite a few of them are hyperspecific for the build they wanna be used for - like RDD? Dracotaur, no contest: and suffer the appearance) and less race options than BURs did, they have this sort of onedimensional feel to them. Though I love my Neraphims Slaad appearance, I'll miss it dearly cuz the sub sucks forcing my hand to reinc to better things.
Since the Secret/UR subs have gotten so outdated, I'm feeling a significant lack of variance in the cool appearances available. Doppleganger so cool! But man, so one-dimensional and quite frankly super turd. Same for Pharlan / Fallen Angel / Gnoll / Minotaur / Pixie / Hound Archon / Kobold etc etc. It is a part of the charm to have the appearances tied to the subs, but you pay such a steep price now for it and since Limbo sets quite the high bar for character performance, you can no longer really run those weaker subs in there. They just don't land the required breakpoints for save/dc/stat checks and so on. It would be less problematic if upgrading didn't also cost extra books, but since it does well yeah complete and definite and utter NOPE from using fun appearance races for leveling (where they may perform adequately).
Add Pharlan wings: 5B.
Add Pharlan Tail: gain 200 million money from the vendor.
Some other wings: 2B.
Remove Tail: 2B.
Remove Wings: 2B.
Something like that, you get the point - sky is the limit. Allowing customization to increase our attachment and personality of the characters we play the most (and don't intend to reincarnate for a while, unless really strapped $$-wise). If Sabre goes wild, could also implement some new features once the vendor exists for dopplegangerish transformations (to help some things like Dracotaurs, Giants, etc with size issues for those who can't manage them - for a large price of course).
Potential specific creature appearances:
Slaad (of some sort), 5-20B depending on the awesomeness of models (so something like green slaad is pocket change, something cooler like death/black/white/mud big bucks).
Undeads of varying sorts: 500M-10B depending on the awesomeness of the model - zombie/skeleton/ghasts/ghouls/bodaks cheap, vampires/horrors/wraiths/liches expensive - or something.
Rhakshasa: 500M
Troll: 5B (FREEDOM FOR DANKY)
Cow: 10B
Chicken: 20B
Dragon: char deleted for attempting to PK parties
Deliberately high prices to have chase targets and more money sinks in the game. These might be a bit over the top, kinda like the Thieves Picks pricing in Stygia (way too high, damnit, thats highway robbery) but since it's optional... Better be high.
I know it's been suggested before, but it never hurts to test the waters once again! Especially since XRs have less variance (per class/race: quite a few of them are hyperspecific for the build they wanna be used for - like RDD? Dracotaur, no contest: and suffer the appearance) and less race options than BURs did, they have this sort of onedimensional feel to them. Though I love my Neraphims Slaad appearance, I'll miss it dearly cuz the sub sucks forcing my hand to reinc to better things.
Since the Secret/UR subs have gotten so outdated, I'm feeling a significant lack of variance in the cool appearances available. Doppleganger so cool! But man, so one-dimensional and quite frankly super turd. Same for Pharlan / Fallen Angel / Gnoll / Minotaur / Pixie / Hound Archon / Kobold etc etc. It is a part of the charm to have the appearances tied to the subs, but you pay such a steep price now for it and since Limbo sets quite the high bar for character performance, you can no longer really run those weaker subs in there. They just don't land the required breakpoints for save/dc/stat checks and so on. It would be less problematic if upgrading didn't also cost extra books, but since it does well yeah complete and definite and utter NOPE from using fun appearance races for leveling (where they may perform adequately).