A totally terrible suggestion.

[JackRoses]

People shouldn't be able to run out of tomes. There should always be more things to do, even if someone is wasting months to get a 1% bonus. Its better then them quitting because they have nothing to do.

This is basically my thinking. I guess I don't see the harm in opening up what I see as essentially more innate stat AA's if the amount of exp/plat required is properly balanced, and the return was marginal enough when contrasted to tomes.

 

[Kedrin]

how about they just make opus 1/2s buyable via retarded amount of platinums like 50k for rank 1 and 100k for rank 2 so then people who have farmed enough money for multiple supremes and then farmed more just to piss away and then farmed more after that cause w/e would have something to do to encourage playing game (this is at least half the server population i assure you) .

If there is really a problem with people running out of things to put exp in; the fix is rather simple. Make rank 3 and 4 general tomes easier to obtain. There opus tomes have a lot of problems with the way they are now dealt with. They are rare and it's hard to get "good" ones to even drop much less fight 17 other people for them. Why not just put in a way to buy "ghetto" opus that are the same as the opus that drop in raid zones today however they take double the amount of exp to fill. That way if you get an opus from the current way they drop there is still a benefit. The new opus need to have more restrictions then the normal ones do now so they actually fix this problem of running out of tomes. Just make it so the person needs to have 50 or so tomes done, or better yet just make it so you can't put exp into them until you have finished every rank 1 and 2 tome you can currently buy.

You could also let us put exp into class tomes that are already in game but not implemented.

I would exp quite a bit to look like Halial the Blind permanently.

It's almost like this Thread has happen before.

 

[Udeni]

I would come back to the game (maybe) if i could exp to look like Halial the Blind. Who cares about any other tomes, I wanna look like that guy.

Basically, illusion tomes are a great idea.

 

[Radaere]

It's almost like this Thread has happen before.

Pretty upset you didn't quote me, among other things

 

[JackRoses]

It's almost like this Thread has happen before.

I said it had

 

[Whopperfoo]

Basically, illusion tomes are a great idea.

+1

 

[Zaela]

Basically, illusion tomes are a great idea.

One that comes up every so often and would be great if you like looking like a naked male human most of the time. Very few of the high-poly models travel well outside of the zones they were made for. And globalizing the few that do travel means longer loading times for everyone, every single time they zone.

 

[Vitali]

One that comes up every so often and would be great if you like looking like a naked male human most of the time. Very few of the high-poly models travel well outside of the zones they were made for. And globalizing the few that do travel means longer loading times for everyone, every single time they zone.

I thought the additional load time was only for initial log into the world. I didn't know it was for every zone/ zoning phase

 

[Zaela]

I guess it might just be the first time you zone into a zone requesting that specific model be loaded. Not sure how long our client hangs on to things after loading them. Definitely loads at zone-in time at some point though.

 

[jumbers]

It's every time you zone.

 

[Udeni]

Couldn't people just modify their own Global_Load.txt file and see whatever models wherever they want? Could set it to read-only if you don't want the patcher interfering with the global load. Then you could put a sticky thread in the tome of knowledge section, saying how to modify the global load file, and to set it to read-only if you want to use illusion tomes.

Unless there's some server specific global load file?

The only downside is doing this drastically increases how much memory each box of SoD would require (like, going from the current 200ish? MB to 1GB of memory used, which is what increases the load times, i think?) I could be terribly, terribly wrong about all of this, in which case, I'll go away and be quiet.

 

[jumbers]

This client has no global load file. If it did, life would be considerably easier for us.

 

[Kedrin]

Just have to wait for sod 3.0

 

[Wealwawn]

What about racial tomes where you could switch your racial traits? Especially for the older players that are min/maxers I am sure there are at least a few people that are frustrated because they started their character around the idea off oh my god look at this racial/class synergy, only to have either the racial or class change drastically. Then maybe split the appearance and traits into 2 different tomes. All the sinks. Then you could have trait tomes be like glyphs.
Just thought I'd add more awfulness into this awful thread.

 

[Vitali]

That would be cool, I would totally make a Gnome Warrior with Ogre or Iksar racials!

 

[fuwok]

What about racial tomes where you could switch your racial traits? Especially for the older players that are min/maxers I am sure there are at least a few people that are frustrated because they started their character around the idea off oh my god look at this racial/class synergy, only to have either the racial or class change drastically. Then maybe split the appearance and traits into 2 different tomes. All the sinks. Then you could have trait tomes be like glyphs.
Just thought I'd add more awfulness into this awful thread.

A cool idea certainly!

 

[Tevinter]

Remove racial effects, make them tomes like a glyph? Tome of Dark Elven Affinity?

 

[Rorne]

What about racial tomes where you could switch your racial traits?

Tome of the Weeaboo

 

[Wealwawn]

I wanna look like an anime girl but keep my movement speed in trees.