[Pudge]

HPT i like your crystals idea. only thing is instead of straight plat (rewarding pve poopsocks with even more pvp power) i'd try to make it more pvp focused. (as you described it, with the plat-to-crystal method, everyone would just buy their crystal-gear immediately after buying their crystals, giving no chance to actually loot ppl's crystals, only the resulting items)

make it so that you initially can buy up to 10 crystals. once you hit 10 crystals, you cannot get any more from the vendor. the rest you have to pvp for. ALSO mke it so you can ONLY buy crystals in a pack of 10. and make 1 or 2 minor pvp items sell for 6 or 7 crystals, so ppl can at least buy a couple things to try and get a leg up.

by leaving the cost at 6 or 7, it means this guy's going to at least have a couple crystals left over that ppl can get from him when they kill him. but he'll probably want to max out again at 10 so he can lewt more of other ppl's crystals (if he can afford the extra cost of topping up, that is).

i'm liking this crystal thing more than item loot. because it is essentially an "opt in" item loot, plat sink for the economy, and only "clickies" or expendable items will be lost if they get lewted. so ppl can't really cry about grief.

only thing is the items can't be too overpowered, and i think most should still be attainable (but rare) in-game. So you could get a conflag wand from Hate (still wiz-only), or you could use PVP POWER CRYSTALS! YEA! (still wiz only). both versions should be lootable imo.. but then the system would not be completely opt-in, so whatev.

hardest part of this crystals thing would be pricing items and coming up with things that were fair to put in-game. which i think is definitely doable.

nilbog, do you like this pseudo item-loot/pvp points system? im thinking it looks pretty good. i know die-hards want "real" item loot, but that is just too griefy.



or we could just make rings and necklace lootable (INCLUDING BAGS), and call it a day :P