06-11-2011, 12:33 AM
Well I agree with some of what you said, but i have a few issues with this... For the moment i'll just say that the staff here have said many times that they want skill gain for crafts to be difficult and take a long time and they have their reasons for this (some i agree with, some i do not) You will notice that you cannot turn in nickels for any of the crafting skills and that is the reason for it.
Instead of resources we should be able to use nickels for skills(as we already do but in a wider sense). I think that we should be able to use nickels for most skills.. yes even crafts but with them taking more than other skills. You are right that there are not enough nickels around to make this actually work. Which is why there should be automated events every day or two (both pve and pvp) that give out nickels. Right now the only time we can get them are gm held events and those are far and few between from what i've seen. There should be an automated monster bash every second day at a certain time and an automated pvp match every other day.
I know we have the deathmatch system and its great fun and would work well for this, but I very rarely see anyone in there. Probably because there is no reward and people aren't sure what time its at. This could easily be fixed by putting in a reward of nickels to the top 1-3 players after every deathmatch. And to eliminate abusing this system we could put in a counter system so that if there are under x amount of players entered then no reward is given.
Also, loot bags giving scrolls + pots is a terrible idea, what would be the point of spending 50+ hours macroing alch/inscrip? That market would be completely destroyed. If you want pots, post in my POTS TO ORDER post in the trading section and order some.
Anyway to summarize: I dont like trading resources for skills, but the idea is good and should be put to use for nickels + nickels should be made a bit more common)
~Red
Instead of resources we should be able to use nickels for skills(as we already do but in a wider sense). I think that we should be able to use nickels for most skills.. yes even crafts but with them taking more than other skills. You are right that there are not enough nickels around to make this actually work. Which is why there should be automated events every day or two (both pve and pvp) that give out nickels. Right now the only time we can get them are gm held events and those are far and few between from what i've seen. There should be an automated monster bash every second day at a certain time and an automated pvp match every other day.
I know we have the deathmatch system and its great fun and would work well for this, but I very rarely see anyone in there. Probably because there is no reward and people aren't sure what time its at. This could easily be fixed by putting in a reward of nickels to the top 1-3 players after every deathmatch. And to eliminate abusing this system we could put in a counter system so that if there are under x amount of players entered then no reward is given.
Also, loot bags giving scrolls + pots is a terrible idea, what would be the point of spending 50+ hours macroing alch/inscrip? That market would be completely destroyed. If you want pots, post in my POTS TO ORDER post in the trading section and order some.
Anyway to summarize: I dont like trading resources for skills, but the idea is good and should be put to use for nickels + nickels should be made a bit more common)
~Red