I never ment jap as a racal slur, i use it as short hand, i have nothing against the japanese. the first poster wanted katanas, which are a japanese sword. as i stated, this is an rpg, set in a different world. i only see japanese weapons or anyother specific cultural items to be in the game if the devs work it into the story of the setting of the game. Since i havent seen any mention of japanese related things in the backround story, i doubt there will be katanas, that was my point.
2nd, how do you propose you make the weapon your self? download gmax and make some uber model and send it in? they still have to code it in and write the rules, not only taking time and work on their part, but bloating the game\'s code
i used 300 tria as an example, in daoc it was 300 gold for a guild to make a cloak, and usually it took a bit of time and effort to get that sum. the point of the fee is so that some newb who is \"level 1\" cant make their own cloak. you want unique weapons that only the prestegious can get, then you might appreciate the price tag. its only one measurement that could be taken. Modifying a weapon isnt as easy as it might seem, first a model would have to be made and properties assigned to it, and then rules coded in to make sure its used properly and only people from guild xyz can use it etc. again not only does this take time and work from the devs which could be spent fixing bugs and stuff, it bloats the code. even if each specilized weapon only takes a meg of space, immagine how many guilds there will be. 500 times 1 meg is half a gig, most likely more that the actual game is. not to mention the code used to implement a gui to customize said weapon if the process were to be automated. if you dont understand what i\'m talking about, spend 3 years learning how to program and get to basic 3d applications, and you\'ll see. what you want isnt feasible in the sense of effecincy.
its a great idea, but not likely to be implemented, atleast not exactally to the effect you are talking about
