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Anomaly

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Advanced crafting system.
« on: August 15, 2006, 04:51:09 am »
Well, I always thought it would be cool to have a crafting system with great detail, so that all crafters could be creative with thier item-making. Even though its probably too much to ask for or whatever, here it goes.

When you decide to craft lets say a short sword instead of just tossing in the mats and hoping for the best you could actually make that short sword the way you want. You could make "blueprints" for your sword, which would basically be a new window that gives you the option to name the sword, and also show you the sword's parts in a list like pommel, hilt, cross-guard, blade. Each part would have a list of styles you could choose from based from your weapon-smithing skill, thus making your craft unique. Then when you choose the styles for each part you put down what materials will be used to make each part, so if you use gold to make the pommel, the pommel would look and shine like gold.

When your 'blueprint' is done you would then have to have all the mats that where chosen for the sword before you can go on to crafting it. This could be used for most items, making the world have a high sense of variety when it comes to items. I know this would be a complicated project but you asked for wishes and here is one of mine. :lol:

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Re: Advanced crafting system.
« Reply #1 on: August 15, 2006, 05:09:39 am »
I see a possible problem with the name thing, how would the system protect against those that think they will be funny and give the names of thier items names that aren't appropriate for PS?  As of right now I don't see this possible.

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Re: Advanced crafting system.
« Reply #2 on: August 15, 2006, 05:27:20 am »
Would it be too hard to code a random name generator into the Examine Window or whatever the mechanism that is used as the place where weapon components are assembled?
That way there is some variety created but the content is controlled and only PlaneShift Settings appropriate names get chosen...

...of course quite a lot of lists would have to be created to get this to fly, but lists can be expanded and refined over time as PS grows.
- running PlaneShift Mac OS X Tiger (10.4.11) Client, on an Apple iMac G5 2GHz PowerPC processor, 2GB DDR SDRAM, an ATI Radeon 9600 graphics card with 128MB VRAM, a 20-inch active-matrix LCD widescreen display, and a 250GB Serial ATA hard drive... so what's your excuse, huh?

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Re: Advanced crafting system.
« Reply #3 on: August 15, 2006, 07:24:49 pm »
 :oops: Forgot about those annoying people of all games that ruin common good ideas...you could make the server keep track of what people name thier items and filter out the dumb names but I guess that would be a waste of time since people would go out of thier way to make any stupid name they can possibly get through the filter and also it would be kinda hard to do.  >:(

The ways to keep item names decent are complicated, like sending in your name for devs to accept, so if that would be too hard we dont really need to have custom names in the 'blueprint'.

To get in more detail for the style of each part based on smithing skill. It would work like if your level is 1-3 you would only have two styles per part, but when you reach level 4 it would unlock a series of new styles for each part to choose for your craft, maybe even make it take longer to learn new styles once you are in the higher levels and if your set of styles is a really complicated craft it may require more materials or take longer to craft. You could also learn a socketed style to add gems to your item possibly.

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Re: Advanced crafting system.
« Reply #4 on: August 16, 2006, 11:59:09 pm »
There might already be dumb item names in the game- a friend of mine actually looted a "Sword of Seduction" not too long ago  :sweatdrop:

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Re: Advanced crafting system.
« Reply #5 on: August 17, 2006, 12:09:28 am »
There might already be dumb item names in the game- a friend of mine actually looted a "Sword of Seduction" not too long ago  :sweatdrop:

lol there is actualy a whole colection :)

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