Rebalancing part eleventy: shopfood

[quieter456]

Rebalance all the shopfood armor and weapons (a.k.a. 95% of AO's loot). As volunteer work is the kind most likely to be finished on schedule, use players. Hell even I would do it.

Step 1: Take all pistols that are rollable RK loot, SL mobs loot, Turn spirit weapons, dyna specials, all the crap no one uses or has ever used. Make a list.

Step 2: Find some guy that knows about pistols, what kind of stats are good for damage and what are good for buffing. Like a crat, adventurer, engineer, you get the picture.

Step 3: Let this guy make changes to the mods, damage range, specials cycles and such.

Step 4: Have him submit this to FC, where it will take random FC developer #6 30 minutes to decide if the suggestions are OP or not.

Step 5: Implement immediately, no one will know which changes you accepted or were even proposed, overnight hundreds of new viable equipment options become available, unleashing an orgy of exploration and experimentation (like the 70's for Means).

Step 6: (profit ofc)

Step 7: Maybe make some adjustments according to general input.

Step 8: Repeat for other weapon types, armors, HUDs

[Thecrow91]

Bump, I'd certainly be willing to do all 2he weapons.
I'd have it ready to submit to funcom in a week.

[quieter456]

Bump for changes that could hit within our lifetimes.

[lainbr]

Step 0 - Make all turn spirits less hard/expensive to get.

[Sama]

Step 0 - Make all turn spirits less hard/expensive to get.

bump


turnspirits are a great example of weaps/gear that would be very useful for leveling players, but never get used because they are so hard to get. another example of this is Tier armor.

[Sromp]

Step 5: Implement immediately...

Bump for changes that could hit within our lifetimes.

You know there's something wrong behind the lines when "Immediately" maps to "Multiple years".

[Mostadio]

I approve.

[sultryvoltron]

I approve of this suggestion.

I'll also volunteer to do Rifles, SMGs, Ranged Energy, or Pistols.

[Ophiuchus]

Haha, bump for this. I'd happily do some armours or something.

[Kopecz]

I volunteer to fix the lowbie ma fist template

[delsabre]

Why not make AO the first "open-source"-style MMORPG with 1 or more months of paid game time / credits for contributions that Funcom decides are good enough to go in-game.

Giving player access to view textures, models and database stuff while Funcom keeps the actual engine related work.

Might need some directions like "Currently we're reworking Newland City and need some building textures/models, refer to the concept drawing for style" or so.

[sultryvoltron]

This needs bumped before it dies on page 2.

[jorricane]

Bump.

[Briezee]

Up.

[quieter456]

pl0x

[quieter456]

Bump!

[Redesine]

I like it. There must be lots of willing volunteers, myself included.

But I don't think one person could realistically go through one item type by themselves. There must be in the region of hundreds of individual weapons with their own sub-types at different ql ranges. Xyphos.com lists 1,643 entries under weapons that require pistol.

I imagine FC wouldn't release their dev tools, so someone would also need to write tools and parsers to create valid database entries from an input form and then display the results in an easy-on-the-eye format.

In any case... if we're allowed to add procs from the nano database, I'm in!

[Lazy]

i volunteer to fix the craphander and envy.

[Cyclotol]

freaking awesome idea!!!

changes in our lifetime :P

[-Klod-]

Our chief weapon is bow...bow and double AS cross bow...Our two weapons are bow and crossbow...and two handed staff.... Our *three* weapons are bow, crossbow, and a staff...I'll come in again.