I still don't think that's a bad thing. Besides if you made the best ones extremely rare drop. maybe 1 in 200. you still wouldn't have that much stock.

your right about that, they basically want puppets that move on command rather than people with a will of their own. much easier to do whatever they want that way.

problem resoled by renaming my appdata roaming planeshift folder.

as the topic says i can't target things, the only exception so far is doors, this means no players no furniture no any of that. I have tried a full reinstall, deleting options.cfg and more. The only thing that i can think of that changed is i set some aliases for the first time yesterday in the buddy list. I deleted the file holding them but still no luck. any ideas? I even tried un and reinstalling planeshift and tried a 32 bit version. Hoping you have some ideas cause otherwise i'm gonna be unable to play planeshift.

I'm opposed to it being an npc thing, i think craftsmen who can create something should be able to break it down. there is a way to recycle the parts in smithing at least, just add dismantle of a full weapon with a suitable ql penalty, and if its a ql 50 or so item a chance of outright disintegrating. its low quality to begin with so there's no guarantees it will succeed. If it does give the appropriate pieces, if not lets say half the stocks that would go into it rounded up or in the case of knives and dagger just toss them 2 ingots. the enchant stuff would be nice to have a salvageable gem that could be set in another item but that could be a lot more complex and a bit excessive. and the socket would be lost, lets face it, its trash compared to the enchantment its holding.

its actually reached the point where i have to attack wait and run to get any pp in heavy armor and it barely moves after 3 repeats. My heavy armor is 128 and the only enemy that can train it that i know of is the bandits in outlaw camp. and it barely moves. i get that you had a problem with people afk armor training but i think if your going to make it necessary to fight such powerful enemies you should at least increase the gains for doing so. part of the reason people afked in the first place is because it was boring. If you want to fix this problem at the root, you need to make it more interesting, naturally that's a challenge so until an idea emerges, please increase the pp growth of armor training. I used to train honorably some times in the arena but now even the things that can kill me while i'm watching there don't train it. The one way i know would take hours to even gain a couple skill points. That means for a noticeable improvement in my defenses i might have to train a solid day. This is unbearable, and unless something is done i simply won't be improving my defense period. I'm not even a combat lover in the first place but im ok with enemies i can actually defeat, i cant even beat elite gladiators in the arena and they don't help train.