I am with whemy on this, and I will explain myself. I somewhat recently played a game caled runesc***(you know waht I mean
), I\'m sure you all heard of it. Well, in that game anyone, and I mean anyone can get top notch weapons just by asking(of course it\'s easier if you have a friend). almost everyone is a smith and makes very good weapons. They are all loaded with money and resources so it\'s nothing to them to make you a sword. I LIKE REALISM. I don\'t like working my ass off for a month to get gold, just to see a newb walking around with same sword I worked for. The same goes for all smithing jobs. Things have to be hard to find/make and expensive to buy.
I agree with all of you that initial items are necessary, they help out in the start. There should be plenty of iron swords around for everyone. But not the same goes for good weapons and armor.
In ancient japan there used to be 1 single smith that could make best swords in the whole smithing community. Obviously only richest samurai could afford one of those. Single sword took years to make.
Now, let\'s examine Runesc***(you know waht I mean
), and I\'m sure other mmorpgs are same in this. The sword takes 5 minutes top to put together(if you have all resources). Now, that\'s lame. I propose that good swords should take a week to make(even when you found all the resources needed).
By the way, same goes for armor, shields, magic items, etc.
Yes, I think there should be players that walk around with best swords/items while others do not. The others can only drool looking at it. I think it takes away the fun for the nondedicated players, but adds fun to dedicated players. So in reality there should be a ratio of people who have top notch, unique swords to those who don\'t.
1 to 500 players should be able to obtain a sword/item like that. That could take them years, but hey, we are talking about the best weapons here, not everyday weapons.
As for creeps dropping weapons, now that takes away all realism. As for weapons lying around everywhere, same thing, it\'s just unheard of. This IS mmorpg, and i\'m not saying CHANGE it\'s meaning. I\'m just saying look at the ancient times of japan, europe and make some conclusions to yourself, this is rping after all. I don\'t want to RP in a game that doesn\'t even resemble the ancient REAL world, but shows some unreal wonderland where items are all on floor, anyone can grab