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God, I'd love to have spice experimentation. Two lines to work on, purity and strength. Yes God, I'm talking to you. I know you sniff my packets your voyeuristic deity you. Make the sony people listen.

Strength affects duration and actual % adjustments. In short the higher the strength the higher all the positive effects. Purity affects downer duration, negative % adjustments, and overdose chances. Basically all negative aspects of spice.

This would give some difference between smugglers pimping their wares. You could go to the guy who's pixie will give you real ultimate power, but you're probably gunna die. Or you can go with the more respectable street doc who's booster blue still does the trick, but won't take you out for the count.

mmMMMmMMMmm instant death...

I like the overdose idea. There will be nerf to spice stacking coming, and I'd rather see this idea than just go back to the old way where it was 1 spice and that's it.

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Jaguarrr wrote:
*runs back to his factorys to complete the all spices available collection*

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I beat you to that!

Anyway, I like the "Overdose" idea, but instead of all spices raising your Overdose chance equally, have spices raise your Overdose probably based on how strong the spice is. Basicly put, you'll be more likely to overdose if you take Neutron Pixie, Muon Gold, and Booster Blue simultaniously than you would if you'd taken Scramjet, ShadowPaw, and Grey Gabaki all at once.

It could be similar to your stomach meters, except instead of how full you are, it'd measure how high you are, lets call this your "Toxcicity". Reaching 100% Toxcicity in your bloodstream means you're in for a potentially fatal Overdose very shortly.

So, if you reach that 100% Toxcicity mark, you instantly Overdose, but anything below it simply shows how *likely* you are to Overdose.

Another thing which might be interesting would be to make it so that when you get over 50-65% Toxcicity, you're more likely to recieve diseases, poisons, harder to counter state effects(sorta like saying you're so high you're already a little dazed, and that last blow to your head didn't help much; or saying that its harder to counter "Blind" because you're already seeing weird shapes and colors, that you're not even sure are really there).

It's over already. Testers saying it's back to the 1 spice rule in the next publish.

I doubt they'd put overdosing in. Spices themselves are already a wee bit controversial with the whole "doing drugs" thing, I really doubt SOE wants a bunch of publicity from people doing a bunch of drugs in game and dying in droves for a laugh.
Because you know people will do it.

Stacking needs to go, though I'd suggest that during the "downer" time, you should then be allowed to take another "hit" to keep the buzz flowing. Any time remaining on the downer gets added to the end of the current buzz. So if you're habitually popping pixies for hours on end, you're going to be well stuffed for a long time when you're done... Or you can let some of the downer timer tick down, then take some more to get back to it the next day, etc.

No stacking, no need to panic if your spice runs out mid-combat, and those smugglers who sell spice will be able to sell plenty still, as people will be more inclined to pop them a bit more regularly, because they don't have to put up with downers right away.

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Mythor wrote:
I doubt they'd put overdosing in. Spices themselves are already a wee bit controversial with the whole "doing drugs" thing, I really doubt SOE wants a bunch of publicity from people doing a bunch of drugs in game and dying in droves for a laugh.
Because you know people will do it.

Stacking needs to go, though I'd suggest that during the "downer" time, you should then be allowed to take another "hit" to keep the buzz flowing. Any time remaining on the downer gets added to the end of the current buzz. So if you're habitually popping pixies for hours on end, you're going to be well stuffed for a long time when you're done... Or you can let some of the downer timer tick down, then take some more to get back to it the next day, etc.

No stacking, no need to panic if your spice runs out mid-combat, and those smugglers who sell spice will be able to sell plenty still, as people will be more inclined to pop them a bit more regularly, because they don't have to put up with downers right away.

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You know, I would have thought the same thing about overdosing, until SOE released an expansion about slavery and poaching in an environment

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MsNiL wrote:

Hillarious!

I see the potential abuse of "safe overdosing" away from battle.

So it should be death (not incap) so all current buffs are instantly removed when overdose happens.
Also a longweaken (15-30min?) is important to avoid having a doctor next to you, reviving until you are sucessful.

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