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PvP,PK and Thieving /
« on: December 30, 2004, 07:58:47 am »
Disclaimer: I haven\'t actually played PS yet (am downloading as I post). Don\'t be surprised if I sound Naive.
Icefalcon had a good idea, but I\'ve played games with a bank system and it seems to work well too. IMO, a mix of several of the ideas here would serve as an amazingly robust, versatile, and lifelike idea. Create a bank where a person can deposit items and tria. There could be maybe 3 different account types. The first would be totally free but have only a small amount of space for items and a limit set at a relatively small amount of tria, something that would be a decent amount for a low-level player but not so much that after the person establishes a good income, they would want to keep that account. The second account has a larger storage space and a larger limit of tria but carries a nominal, periodical, fee. The third account would be for the established person. It should have the largest item storage area (though not massive by any means) and no limit to the amount of tria a player could store, but with a heftier price tag.
The bank should be in NPC hands simply to engender trust, and a player shouldn\'t, necessarily, be able to go to merchants and shop using the money in the bank. I did like the check idea and I think it would make alot of sense. You pay for the convenience of being able to shop using your bank balance and the checks are \"magically tuned\" so that they can\'t be forged.
That said, chests with a varying quality of lock (read: difficulty to pick) could be sold and even made as a tradeskill item. A person with a high lockpicking skill combined with metalworking could craft really good locks because they know the best ways to open them. You could make the best locks tradeskill only so that a player would have to seek out another player to obtain the best locks in the game. These locks would, in turn, be attached to the doors of a person\'s home and/or the locks on their chest.
This kind of mixed system allows an unlimited amount of storage (in theory) but only some of it is totally safe.
A few notes: The bank should have offices in every major city and through magic, your items can be available in those cities but not out in the wilderness. Also, not every merchant should accept checks, i.e. the less law-abiding types.
Icefalcon had a good idea, but I\'ve played games with a bank system and it seems to work well too. IMO, a mix of several of the ideas here would serve as an amazingly robust, versatile, and lifelike idea. Create a bank where a person can deposit items and tria. There could be maybe 3 different account types. The first would be totally free but have only a small amount of space for items and a limit set at a relatively small amount of tria, something that would be a decent amount for a low-level player but not so much that after the person establishes a good income, they would want to keep that account. The second account has a larger storage space and a larger limit of tria but carries a nominal, periodical, fee. The third account would be for the established person. It should have the largest item storage area (though not massive by any means) and no limit to the amount of tria a player could store, but with a heftier price tag.
The bank should be in NPC hands simply to engender trust, and a player shouldn\'t, necessarily, be able to go to merchants and shop using the money in the bank. I did like the check idea and I think it would make alot of sense. You pay for the convenience of being able to shop using your bank balance and the checks are \"magically tuned\" so that they can\'t be forged.
That said, chests with a varying quality of lock (read: difficulty to pick) could be sold and even made as a tradeskill item. A person with a high lockpicking skill combined with metalworking could craft really good locks because they know the best ways to open them. You could make the best locks tradeskill only so that a player would have to seek out another player to obtain the best locks in the game. These locks would, in turn, be attached to the doors of a person\'s home and/or the locks on their chest.
This kind of mixed system allows an unlimited amount of storage (in theory) but only some of it is totally safe.
A few notes: The bank should have offices in every major city and through magic, your items can be available in those cities but not out in the wilderness. Also, not every merchant should accept checks, i.e. the less law-abiding types.