Item recharging is an exploit of game mechanics

[M.Bison]

Originally Posted by Brinkman [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The people abusing these things are not exactly sending tells to gms explaining it.

Lol who are these people? If this is as big as of a problem as you make it out to be, it would be very apparent by now.

As far as the tank spamming prayers clicks. it would work a little better, but its just not as efficient as clicking a midnight mallet for threat. A few clerics w/ complete heal and the resists to resist dragon roar should be able to heal anything in the game atm. Plus u dont even need to recharge a mallet u can just do the quest again.

[skorge]

Samoht, how do you feel about the spellbook here? In classic your only option was to stare at your spellbook until you hit level 30. This was classic EQ. This feature defined the game for casters/priests. Why is this feature not in P99? Is it game-breaking...oh wait, it's actually the opposite, this non-feature has affected P99 like no other. What am I saying?

No starring at spellbook > fixing rechargeable items. Surely if one of the most defined features in the game has been removed from P99, they can make a small adjustment and fix rechargeable items.

[Samoht]

Originally Posted by skorge [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Surely if one of the most defined features in the game has been removed from P99

You don't know how this works, do you? Do you know how to force a client to use a certain UI? Yeah? Join the dev team then and help them to implement it. They did NOT remove the classic UI. Their chosen version of the game (Titanium) had the Luclin UI (among other things like target rings and maps in starting cities - both of which have been removed). There have been requests to force the classic UI and spell book mediating, but the problem is that both will eventually be disabled on P99, so it's hard to allocate development time to that.

So to correct you: they did NOT remove the classic UI and spell book mediating from the game.

[Glitch]

I like this thread because I can almost feel the tears welling up in OP's eyes every time an item is recharged.

[pickled_heretic]

Originally Posted by Glitch [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I like this thread because I can almost feel the tears welling up in OP's eyes every time an item is recharged.

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[Waffen]

Originally Posted by pickled_heretic [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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y u post pics of facials and not tag NSFW? just got me in trouble at the office, bro.

[Atmas]

It amazes me that anyone could think recharging isn't an unintentional exploit. If Devs didnt fix it for a while just means that it wasn't high on their list due to difficulty to fix and player knowledge of it. If people had been knocking down Trakanon by spamming earrings back in the day it would have been addressed then.

Also the class XP penalties were obviously a bad idea but intended design. They have nothing to do with recharing. The XP penalties required extra coding to work where as recharging was possible due to a lack of coding.

[Rushmore]

Recharging items is a bad idea on a PVP server!!!!!!!!!! Please do something about this!

[YendorLootmonkey]

Originally Posted by Atmas [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

If Devs didnt fix it for a while just means that it wasn't high on their list due to difficulty to fix and player knowledge of it.

Speculation.

Originally Posted by Atmas [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

If people had been knocking down Trakanon by spamming earrings back in the day it would have been addressed then.

You're right. Also:

Moss-covered twig in the primary hand - addressed back in the day, within several months after enough entered the game.

Binding in firepots - addressed back in the day, within two weeks.

Item recharging - not addressed for YEARS when the simple fix was to make the buyback costs billions of platinum, until presumably rechargeable items entering the game that could be recharged in this fashion in later expansions were truly OP, THEN addressed.

Follow the classic timeline, unless it's an exploit. No one here has proven rechargeable items is an exploit -- it is just people's opinions. It was an acceptable mechanic in classic. You don't think Verant had logs as to what was going on with every transaction on every vendor in the game? Pretty sure they knew what was going down. In fact, it was probably a Verant developer who knew how the data structures worked that was the first one to teach everyone in his play guild how to recharge items.

[Palemoon]

I would kind of like recharging to go away. The game dosent have item decay, items with charges should at least decay.