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*clings to the economy ideas*
ITS ALL SO BEAUTIFUL!
If the ability to enchant an item is added, I would amend that it be once a year, not once a season. I rather like the rarity/awesomeness of enchanted items and I think it would be a shame to lessen their value by increasing the number of them floating around so vastly.
Snow, suggest a point system for your herd lands/outcast bands! I know that the AB one greatly increased the number of people welcoming and working the threshold when I was last here (which I saw a comment thread for), and I think most everyone who participated (because I won't say everyone did, lol - it does require manually logging things on a player's behalf) has a good time and thinks its fair. We usually only had the seasonal event items and, like Jen said, the occasional player donated item, and of course art, but who doesn't like a items, foal stats, or pretty pictures? :D
Also, I would love to see an NPC "grab bin" - somewhere the NPC writers hop on to record their NPC for generic use by others on the game. I know I've seen quite a few of these characters that I really enjoyed but that have never come back, and I think it would be neat to sort of have a resource drop area for the NPC's that people don't mind other people enjoying. I see it being very similar to applying for a new character, except these applications go to a "review team" who select the best and brightest characters for public use.
It would also be a good way to have "side characters" in herd lands that are not necessarily very active socially, but do occasionally make appearances, and have roles within the herd, as we've discussed on site before. I also see this as being an alternative for adoptable characters, where popular or well known characters who are no longer being played can be put for other people to enjoy, or for characters who aren't quite interesting enough to make full time characters or adoptables.
Of course, they would require about the same as a regular character, in so far as a profile, perhaps a little more in depth - detailed physical and personality descriptors, ect., but they would also have to include their favorite locations, and I think that they should also include a personal posting code, just to ensure the proper amount of consideration and care is put into designing and posting these characters (otherwise there is the possibility to have like... 498738947387 NPCs. o_o). Character design would have to conform to overall game rules.
I'm not sure how you would want to go about the creative rights, though I think they should remain with the original creator of the character, who has the right to remove them from the list of public NPCs but is also ultimately responsible for insuring that their NPC is being properly portrayed.
It may also lessen the number of characters being created and deleted.
Over all I think it has a lot of benefits and would be fun.
ITS ALL SO BEAUTIFUL!
If the ability to enchant an item is added, I would amend that it be once a year, not once a season. I rather like the rarity/awesomeness of enchanted items and I think it would be a shame to lessen their value by increasing the number of them floating around so vastly.
Snow, suggest a point system for your herd lands/outcast bands! I know that the AB one greatly increased the number of people welcoming and working the threshold when I was last here (which I saw a comment thread for), and I think most everyone who participated (because I won't say everyone did, lol - it does require manually logging things on a player's behalf) has a good time and thinks its fair. We usually only had the seasonal event items and, like Jen said, the occasional player donated item, and of course art, but who doesn't like a items, foal stats, or pretty pictures? :D
Also, I would love to see an NPC "grab bin" - somewhere the NPC writers hop on to record their NPC for generic use by others on the game. I know I've seen quite a few of these characters that I really enjoyed but that have never come back, and I think it would be neat to sort of have a resource drop area for the NPC's that people don't mind other people enjoying. I see it being very similar to applying for a new character, except these applications go to a "review team" who select the best and brightest characters for public use.
It would also be a good way to have "side characters" in herd lands that are not necessarily very active socially, but do occasionally make appearances, and have roles within the herd, as we've discussed on site before. I also see this as being an alternative for adoptable characters, where popular or well known characters who are no longer being played can be put for other people to enjoy, or for characters who aren't quite interesting enough to make full time characters or adoptables.
Of course, they would require about the same as a regular character, in so far as a profile, perhaps a little more in depth - detailed physical and personality descriptors, ect., but they would also have to include their favorite locations, and I think that they should also include a personal posting code, just to ensure the proper amount of consideration and care is put into designing and posting these characters (otherwise there is the possibility to have like... 498738947387 NPCs. o_o). Character design would have to conform to overall game rules.
I'm not sure how you would want to go about the creative rights, though I think they should remain with the original creator of the character, who has the right to remove them from the list of public NPCs but is also ultimately responsible for insuring that their NPC is being properly portrayed.
It may also lessen the number of characters being created and deleted.
Over all I think it has a lot of benefits and would be fun.
