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Maybe a tie in with the smuggled organs helping with your clone?You could'bank' an organ with the local med center, the next time you are cloned, you only have half the normal wounds, only health/action wounds instead of both, or no mind wounds if you banked a brain. lol. Love it!

JWalker Black

I dunno guys, it sounds cool but it doesn't really seem to havea purpose, I'm an MD what do i need John_Doe BH_Mark_#44572's liver for?

To clarify, when I say that doctors may prefer to buy the organs outright, I mean that they may have their own smuggler contacts to sell them to (a sort of black market set up by players). The doctors don't need the organs themselves.

I like it, as it gives a job to the smugglers.

Please, let me smuggle.

I want ears to put in a house as trophies, since I don't get loot.

The real point of what I'm trying to do here is to come up with ways to help our profession while helping other professions at the same time--much better than professions bickering at each other and asking to have what the other professions have (then end result is Samesville, with all classes having the same "good" abilities).

To take it a step further, forget the idea of BHs harvesting the organs themselves (it's unrealistic anyway).

Suppose that after a BH killed a mark, he could use a special tool (crafted by a weaponsmith) that could encase the corpse in carbonite and preserve it. This tool only works when the mark is dead or restrained, because otherwise a mark could just jump up and walk out of the carbonite (we don't want this to be a new combat weapon).

Suppose further that this tool required a component that only bioengineers could make, which is needed to make the carbonite perserve the body.

The BH could then freeze the dead mark's body, put it in his/her inventory, and then look for a doctor to extract the organs. The more skilled the doctor the better the results--but it would be done for the BH for a fee (like slicing). The BH could thensell the organs to smugglers for a profit. Smugglers could then smuggle them to med centers for a profit over what they paid to the BH.

That's a total of five professions involved in this, and all profit from it. Imagine--we BHs could do our solo investigation missions while interacting with other PCs at the same time.

This may not be the best idea, but I think that it's important to look for ways to improve our profession that also allows us to work with other professions at the same time. In the real world, professions are inter-dependent and need each other, not rivals who envy what each other can do.

Enhancing professions can best be done by integrating them, not by battling it out over who gets what "uber" ability.

What if the 'customer' at the end of the line wants a sex-change operation? Would ya do it then?

You have to incorporate that if a player uses lightning canon, the heart is no longer in any sort of decent condition.

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Rentaboy wrote:
You have to incorporate that if a player uses lightning canon, the heart is no longer in any sort of decent condition.

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Hearts aren't necessarily destroyed by electrocution, they just stop beating normally while current is passed through the bodyand so the victim dies. The tissue itself can still be intact.

It's a moot issue anyway; I've havested a lot of skins from mobs that I burned to a crisp with my mage in EQ. It doesn't have to be perfectly logical--gameplay is the main issue.

Didnt anyone here Play Ultima Online???

Human Jerky..mmmmmmmm

Then again ...in that game you could carve a corpse to pieces...right down to its heart...brain..entrails...

Take away the gross factor...the origional idea in this post is awsome and it touches many different professions in very positive ways......if your squeemish...get over it, your quite possibly the same self important jackass...well...that thought is for a different forum...N/M

Just a bit ironic isn't it, Humanity?

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Kerxxt wrote:

Didnt anyone here Play Ultima Online???

Human Jerky..mmmmmmmm

Then again ...in that game you could carve a corpse to pieces...right down to its heart...brain..entrails...

Take away the gross factor...the origional idea in this post is awsome and it touches many different professions in very positive ways......if your squeemish...get over it, your quite possibly the same self important jackass...well...that thought is for a different forum...N/M

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Yeah I remember that very clearly. What I loved about Richard Garriot is that he would do things to blatantly offend people. It was possibly one of the most respectable things about him. Since he didn't care for peoples opinions therefore made some of the best games instead of money farming like many other game designers.

Of course you got some nasty Karma carving up peoples corpses. It was still fun having a squishy brain sitting on the table in your house while throwing a dinner party.

LOL, great idea Humanity, if only we could snap our fingers and have it magically work. It would probably require a lot of planning and development work (a year to wait)because it would involve altering 3 professions in total, but great idea.