Weaponsmith Archive
Thread: Considering boycott of 1-use schematics...
You are referring to the manufacture monkey phenomena. That turns weaponsmiths into cheap whores, and I salute your intent not to participate. Good for you. I have been asked about doing a couple of these things, and I politely say I am sorry I do not participate in loot schematic custom orders of one use. Beleive it or not you are affecting players by doing this. Remember you are not alone in refuseing this nonsense. I have talked to numerous other weaponsmiths. Many of them quite good that say they themselves do not do this. In the end you do have an impact you force fewer smiths to do more. This causes them to charge premium prices. Really jacking the player. The end result is they will start to get sick of it, and maybe the devs will take the hint. I could care less if they just make these uber weapons pure loots.
Asfor the twelve point thing. It is a rude question. Makes you feal like a slave getting his teeth examined on a block in the middle of charleston south carolina. When someone asks me this I just stop talking to them or ignore them completely.
I agree. 1 failureand you've aPO'd player reporting you for screwing him out of his loot.
I dont need the hassle.
Stone
LordMaxx wrote:
Well some smiths enjoy this type of business. So I guess you would rather they just drop ultra weapons instead...of course then you would have to post that people are just getting their weapons from loot drops and not you.
As for the part about players bringing you components and we just get the schematics...I thought thats what Krayt tissue, acklay bones, and Nightsister motors were for...Hm maybe I was mistaken.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the limited stuff, within reason. I like making scythes, as when you do it right you get to make 4.
Even stuff like the tenloss and the sonic blaster are ok, simply because while they're limited, they are not ridiculouly so.
However the DE10, and the Hack (if not done right) are one time item. We've also seen the AV21 come along: same deal.
TBH while I don't like to see completed weapons dropping either, it's preferable to the annoyance we all get in the days preceding and directly after "content" like this makes it to live servers. It adds insult to injury that we can't even ask reasonably to have a set of the barrel and schematic handed over in payment.
And yes you are mistaken on krayt tissue, acklay bones etc.: those are optional enhancements, and not required components. The system I'm suggesting is some sort of quest which can be done only by master crafters (or possibly not yet master) which grants unlimited uses of schematics. A reasonably tough quest with a little thought behind it would be nice but not essential. The twist is that the schematic granted requires a loot drop (make this as rare or as common as you like to suit) to make and cannot be factory run at all. This gives us the opportunity to buy the components and also gives the combat people things to sell, if they don't necessarily want them for themselves. Either way, we're still required, but on our terms and not the terms of the devs,or the player whom the loot belongs to...
Is that really so much to ask?
Fantastic Idea, I would love to do some kind of weaponsmithing quest, something along the lines of the RIS quests for Armorsmith.
Alamar Radoki
Master Weaponsmith
I'd like to see over time schematics that originally were limited use to eventually become just a part of the weaponsmith's available schematics in the datapad. The bottleneck is in the loot components anyway, I don't know why they are making the schematic a loot item when the build already requires a loot ingredient. So over time it would phase in as perhaps it becomes reverse engineered technology but still requiring that mysterious looted component.
Or even better, make it so that should a weaponsmith make enough of a given item from these limited use schematics, eventually that weaponsmith has done it so many times he/she 'learns' it for keeps. So if you make 100 DXR6b Disruptor rifles, hey presto, you now have it permanently added to your stable of data.
