Posted by Knight Rider on August 5, 2000 at 17:56:41:

In Reply to: Since I am at work, and bored to all hell, I think this would be perfect time to spout out my idea about merchant classes posted by Daishan(VIP) on August 5, 2000 at 16:58:17:

> I have often thought about in the big picture of the mud
> how useless gold is. Even when people auction items
> no one wants gold, it seems to be all about trading.

> So here are my ideas:

> Blacksmith

> A blacksmith would have to travel around Thera
> looking for raw materials to to create and kind of weapon
> or piece of body armor. A blacksmith would not rank in
> the same way as the other classes, he would rank soley on his
> history of bartering. Therefore, they would also not have
> the same ranking system. Maybe, they would have a total
> of 10 ranks and each rank would take them a considerable
> amount of time to achieve.

Wonderfull Idea but, if they only have 10 ranks that means they never are in PK? If that is what you are trying to achieve that is fine, but have you ever seen how easy it is to steal from a rank 10 mob.
(>And as always Thieves can steal.)

> But Drows and Elves would be better at the more deft with things like, hinging, ringmaking,
> and encrusting.

You would think Dwarfs and Duergar would be the best at this, 10 times better than elfs or drow

> Also since blacksmiths do not go out ranking in the normal fasion they will not
> be trading these items. The way a Blacksmith would sell these items would be as follows.

> 1. they can sell for gold. This is the way that a blacksmith were earn the most
> points on his way to the next rank.

This would be extreemly east to cheat at, unless each item had a set value you could sell it for. Have your friend pay 1,000,000 for that crap piece you made at level 1

> 2. They can trade for items that are of equal value.

> A blacksmith who gives away items would lose points towards his next rank.

Have you any coding experiance? I have tried to think of how you would code this and it is giving me headaches just tring to think of a plan. The only thing I could think of was making something similar to a familiar or merc have both parties give it to that creature, then it can compare the two and make the trade. You would have to also make the blacksmith unable to drop or pick up or give anything.

> Of course the imms would have to implement a paying method (simmilar to centurions)

PS Ideas are allways good, and they take some time before they could be used. Keep thinking up new ones.

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• Well of course there would be set limits, and also rank limits as well n/t Daishan 01:49:17 8/6/2000 (0)

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