The ability for players to give quests to other players.

[bilbous]

True enough but what ensures that the quest giver follows through with the reward? Some people might abuse this to make gullible players jump through hoops just to in the end say no you did it wrong I'm not rewarding you. By having the reward put aside the quest giver stands to lose if he is just pulling a stunt.

[eldoth_terevan]

Then that becomes a GM situation. All I am saying is that it is easier to repurpose what is already in the game. Adding more systems means more testing and fixing time. They have many right now, and I would simply like to give a quest to another player and have it show on their quest pane. So, until they could implement a full system for this, then I would advocate the simplest route.

[bilbous]

Fair enough. I was talking ideally of course. My instinct is that if a system can be abused, someone will abuse it. Also I do not think that extra work should be handed to the game masters (GMs) that could be taken into consideration by game mechanics (would that be gms?) under ideal circumstances.

[zanzibar]

True enough but what ensures that the quest giver follows through with the reward?

Haven't you done the Thorian's shield quest?

Do we really need a system for it though? I mean that just means that its logged. If you really want to log it grad a pen and paper and put it next to your computer. We don't really need game mechanics for this at all. It would probably make it a little bit easier but there are so many other things that come before this in priority.

I think it would encourage more player to player interaction, so yes I think PS would benefit from it.

[eldoth_terevan]

lmao thorian shield quest! Of course. But in an ideal situation we would have no griefers to begin with. It becomes a situation like giving someone weapons to repair or anything else, if they are not a trusted player than you are taking your own chances. Additionally, if we give this ability for rewards and experience to be handed out automatically... there will be problems with it, which will create more work for GMs. I do think that this would encourage more player to player interaction, and it would be a good thing all around even if there were exceptions, as there always are.

[bilbous]

True enough but what ensures that the quest giver follows through with the reward?

Haven't you done the Thorian's shield quest?

Yes and failed but that result is hard coded. I also started it once and ended up deleting it which was a different situation. The point I was trying (however poorly) to make is that if it is left ambiguous it could be abused. At least if the giver stands to lose he will have an incentive to "play fair."

[Parallo]

I think it would encourage more player to player interaction, so yes I think PS would benefit from it.

There are already people giving quests though.

[eldoth_terevan]

Right, Parallo. This way would give a visible achievement in the quest log, which is why I think Zanzi was asking for it. Also, if a player has a quest from another player that is unfufilled, then that is a sort of documentation on the quest giver.

[Parallo]

True I suppose. It would be nice to have in guilds. Have each rank have a place where they can check what needs to be done so as not to have something too important for lesser members and save leaders spending too much time distributing points and such.

[zanzibar]

There are at least two ways to solve the Thorian's shield quest, that I know of.  Both involved getting ripped off in the end, but the point is that there are crooks out there and I think it's ok to cheat people if you do it in a legitimate, in character fashion.  That means that you have to make some room for getting caught, among other things.

There are already people giving quests though.

Yes.  I think that adding this log to the game would help those players be more effective.