No it would require a total overhaul of how players view things. What's the risk in the game if you can't loose anything? For all I hear the PvPers and what not call those who PvM care bears and trammies their utter reliance on Insurance makes them just as bad...they fight and die or fight and win with no risk either way. It's all a mindset.
I'd like to say one more thing to those who don't want to lose their items.
You have a valid point of limiting the life span of high end items. In fact, UO dev now has the opportunity to undo the damage caused by valorite runic hammer dupe and scripted barbed kits through imbuing and SA. Of course we don't know much details yet but now it is the time for us to give the input on the overall design.
This would be so awesome, I wouldnt care if my crafted armor could break then (rare or no longer available arties I would have a problem with). Most of the problems I have with building suits is finding the right distrubution of resists.
helping new players get over the hump, and get this Prices go DOWN. Gold gets distributed across the player base instead of a handful with the largest portion. If the system was like that you wouldn't need insurance because you could effectively replace or possibly find better gear because there would be a larger market for items. The only hard to get things would be the Pixel Crack items that are limited in nature to start with like Doom Arties, Library Collection items, ToT items ect. But hey if there are items that can compete with those in quality what's the point.I say that if a circulation of items took place once again, it would increase the demand for crafting, which would make crafting itself vivid and lead to making the whole game more vibrant. You may play with your craftscharacter(s) as well as now and it doesn't conflict with increase of the demand for crafting. However, I don't think you would play with your craftscharacter(s) so often as now, since you would become busier in your PvPing because of the activation of the whole world, and you would have less time to spend to craft by yourself. I think you would prefer relying on other craftspeople to crafting by yourself.
Yeah, many ppl just look at the problems on the surface - items last forever so no one needs stuff from crafters. They don't see the real problem: the item system is over-complicated - from organizing the items (no jewlry box, armor chest, etc.) to calculate all the numbers (the increments of each mods should be larger, e.g. 5% in DI, HCI, DCI, HLD, HLA, etc instead of 1%; even the increment in resists should be 5%).
How about 3-5 hours of playtime (gold farming, resource gathering and crafting, playing the market, [other money-making playstyle of your choice]) to replace a full suit of items that should last a minimum of 100 hours of playtime (repairing it before it hits 0, but always losing 1 max durability during repair [meaning you were unlucky with repairs]; giving up when it drops below 25 max durability), with prior knowledge that it will eventually break ("Unfortifiable" item property), and an easy way to know when the breaking point was coming (durability)?
No, because then the game turns into some of my gametime doing something I "HAVE" to do, instead of doing things I "WANT" to do. That becomes too much like work and less of having fun.
Oh my... have we really become so hooked on items that it's too harsh that something breaks and needs replacing?
This might hold true if it wasn't for the fact that most people already have their own crafters.
Part of the reason I'm staying out of the back/ forth on this one is due to what we do not know. Much depends on the details of imbuing. My guess is that it "may" impact runics, aside from the periferral impact, their effects may need to be completely adjusted. Runics and BOD rewards such as PoFs these days are central to the dedicated crafter. Any cool item needs PoF to be useful, and crafters generate these. For Pete's sake, CBDs on my shard now sell for close to a million! So I don't see crafters "going out of business," regardless of what happens with imbuing. For the skill and byproducts to be useful and desireable, let us fortify them.
Surely, regardless of what character you're playing, you want some fun? Some satisfaction even. Maybe even someone asking if you can make a specific item to order while you're at the bank? Assuming your crafter leaves the cellar PoF has nothing to do with the lack of game-life for crafters. My first character ever was a miner, then a smith, then a tailor...
We shouldn't have the cheats that are present already. Nor should we refuse all the benefits to crafters simply because it might lead to cheating. I see your point, but I don't want my crafters held back by a herd of robots I wasn't suggesting that the increase in scripting was a reason not to remove PoF and insurance.As for insurance or PoF removal causing more cheats, I'm not sure I even care about that LOL. Going from too many cheats to even more cheats is like saying do you prefer a puncture in one tyre or two? Either way it's crap!
Wenchy
*Poof* you got exactly what you want, a reason to steadily supply something.Although details of Imbuing are not opened to public, but I think we can guess that introducing of the skill has a similar effect of selling barbed kits on NPCs. I guess that it works as a kind of enhancing:
