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Thread: Membership has Its Rewards!
Message Edited by Starcasmd on 02-04-2005 02:19 PM
- Will it stop decay indefinitely (battle damage & death decay)
- Will it work on looted weapons
- Will it work in conjunction with a powerup
I appreciate the answers given so far. I'd love to be able to run around everywhere with my 1150 damage DXR-6b rifle 
Message Edited by Mogro on 02-04-2005 02:10 PM
Message Edited by CommanderRyalis on 02-04-2005 12:06 AM
Starcasmd wrote:
Calandryll_SOE wrote:
BHM wrote:
Can we have a clarification about weapons?
-They can't be insured but you said that we can use the no decay item on weapons
-If that is the case, will it stop battle decay? Because they don't decay upon cloning.
In my opinion the rewards should be non-tradable but it makes no sense that you only get 1 per account. If they aren't tradable (like mark of hero ring) there's no cross-server trade problem.. yet it allows those who play on more than one server to actually enjoy the rewards.
Anyway, they should really be non-tradable: everyone is worrying about no decay items used to save the condition of exceptional weapons, but in the other hand if they are tradable one could keep a BE suit with skill mods forever.. which would once again raise the price of CAs.
-Correct. The anti-decay kit can be used on weapons.
-Yes, it stops battle decay.
As far as the items being tradable, remember you'd have to actually find people willing to part with their rewards. While there will be some people willing to do that, I don't think it will be the norm. Especially for the 6 and 12 month rewards.
Sorry to say it won't be that uncommon. Especially for veterans. A new player won't get 3-4 accounts to start off. But most veterans I would say are managing at least 2 accounts by now and have access or the ability to gain a few more. I played with a few that had about 8 accounts at one time. Not everyone quit SWG in my PA when WoW or EQ2 came out. They put their accounts up for adoption. Now that SWG is on the Station Access those guildies are coming back meanwhile all of those accounts were accruing time towards veteran awards because they remained active.
The whole purpose of a PA is to pool resources and work as a team. If many are going to pick the anti-decay device, a community effort will be in place to ensure maximum result. And because these are tradeable, well need I say more? ThePA's that have the most accounts and that have been around since launch will benefit most from this. I'm not sayingPA's will have 30 anti-decay armor suits at their disposal. But gathering 2-3 suits with a few anti-decay krayt weapons is definately achievable without lots of credits or cross server trades (which were diminished when you made them "by account"). And those accounts that aren't at the 12 month milestone... will be eventually. So there's a few more devices. Keep adding these devices and the economy of the WS and AS will be affected. People do drop their professions and trade their weaponry and armor.
My suggestion would be to remove this item. The decay on items forces a demand for new armor and weaponry. Take that away then it's just EQ in space no matter what milestone its set at.
I love it.. how about no? how about make it non-tradable AND you cannot trade the item/weapon/shirt if there's an anti-decay kit applied?
If it's one item per person, it isn't game breaking. I love it how people worry about everything... for the same reason we could say that one with more accounts can have a lot of self-powered harvesters.. and thiswould be ashame because architects won't sell harvesters anymore 
Errik