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Spice Level 4

Yarrock
+250 mind +200 Focus +200 Willpower Duration 600
Special: Defense vs Kinetic

Zylopene Droid Lube
+250 Health +250 Stength +250 Constitution Duration 600
Special: Defense vs Heat

Jade Bantha
+350 Action +200 Quickness +200 Stamina Duration 500
Special 500
Special: Defense vs Acid
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Spice Master Smuggler

Muon Gold
+500 Mind +500 Focus +500 Willpower Duration 600
Special: Defense Energy

Neutron Pixie
+1000 Health +200 Strength +500 Action +50 Quickness +50 Stamina Duration 800
Special Defense vs Cold

Glitterstim
(as determined by the devs)

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How I'd make shorter downers , great bonuses and longer durations available
(and thereby make spices less cooki cutter)

As to Downer reduction I'd do the following

I'd change the ingredients on a few spices so that there are at least 2 levels of
specificity from the base level spice components

Lets take our favorite grind spice Shadowpaw for example: It takes
25 Organic and 5 metal to craft a unit of Shadowpaw
But what if you get closer to the "actual" recipe of Shadowpaw
Which say is , say

25 Avian Meat & 5 Copper

or you even get closer to the exact recipe which is , say

25 Corellian Avian Meat & 5 Polysteel Copper

and with each level of specificity that you go up on each component
you recieve 25% reduction on the length of the downer.

I don't care if it's uber polysteel or utter shyte... just using the right ingredients
gets you the bonus , and doesn't turn us into mining fanatics
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As to extending the sTrength of the Effect , the strength of the special, and / or
the Duration of the "high"

We have those lovely spice experimentation points ,
let us use them for a Maximum doubling of the effect
or Doubling of the Duration or doubling of the "special effect"
if you throw it all into one column at Master Smuggler.

Again I advocate that ingredient quality should NOT factor into the
experimentation roll. Perhaps the quality of the Food and chemical crafting Tool
And perhaps require a Food and Chemical Crafting Station for the "level of specificity"
downer reduction explained above

And I apologized for the lack of imagination on the "specials" for the spices.
I appropriated wholesale from Caylins proposal and did all I could to avoid duplicate
Chef items.

Very nice The special bonuses the spices have give all of the spices a use from novice up. I'ld be happy with those though, if the devs make glitterstim a jedi spice, you'll never find a dose of it with me as the object creator. Jeez, making jedi druggies... drugs are for those withOUT special powers lol Anyway, I'm getting off topic. The point is, I like it. Now if we can get the devs to add spice addiction, spices would be an incredibly cool part of the game even if it is virtual drug pushing

Oh, one thing though. On the specificity of the resources thing, I really like the idea but it would serve no real purpose if spice addiction is implemented. Rather, I would say replace expirimentation with specificity of resources as per your idea. It would be a unique system we smugglers could have all to ourselves

I had more to say but I've got to get some stuff taken care of before I take my parents to the airport. Damn real life getting in the way of gaming... what's this world coming to?

Message Edited by Raanan on 05-13-2004 08:46 PM