Excelsior

Well where to go with this.
First I want to say that I'm very impressed with what I have seen thus far.
But as I've wandered around and asked around I've noticed some simple things that may be beneficial script wise.
I'm pretty familiar with scripting, I've been the dev at another shard for two years up until I joined here.

What I've noticed from there, that could be implemented here are minor things that would possibly make a world of difference to players.

First one being a Bard's Stand, its like one of the tool houses you use, but for bards to store musical instruments in, both normal, exceptional, and slayer types. The system you use is what daat99's owltr? (or so it would seem) and I thought it came standard in that, but I may be mistaken. If needed I do have a copy that's made for ruo 2.0 rc1/2 That I have compiling fine in my test shard, and on my svn. I wouldn't mind loading it up for you to test out and use. I wouldn't believe it would cause a negative impact in the shard, but a positive one, and with a few script malefactions you could even set it as craft-able.

The second script I find rather amusing, is something for players to use mainly as bragging rights. (per say)
That is a mannequin, be it male or female. Its like a barkeep in a way except it doesn't sell things but stands there naked. At that point players can open its paper doll and place gear on it, on the shard I worked on many found them as amusing decorations to set up and call them "House guards" or what not, let alone to dress in complete sets of gear. One such player spent months gathering every set of items he could, and crafting items in every ore, and leather and displaying them in his home as a spot for the new players to come in and check out some of what the shard had to offer. On the shard it provided no loss of balance or any negativity.

These are just a few thoughts of what I have sen in the past few days I've been on here. I don't mind doing coding work also if you need some items / mobles or even quests created. I believe I can even help generate some decorations if those would be welcomed, although I'm not the best at using pandora to make them. Feel free to contact me in game, or via a reply here or in my in box, and I'll do my best to return a response as quick as I can.


Thank you,

-Lee-

The mannequins are cool but for the most part you can do the same thing with player vendors.
An empty vendor costs 60 gold a day to maintain, just dump 22k in it and you're set for a whole year.
You may need to equip some +Strength jewelry on the vendor to enable him to wear a few of the higher str-req pieces of gear (lower requirements also works).



I'd love a Bard's Stand though.

Kaervas wrote:The mannequins are cool but for the most part you can do the same thing with player vendors.
An empty vendor costs 60 gold a day to maintain, just dump 22k in it and you're set for a whole year.
You may need to equip some +Strength jewelry on the vendor to enable him to wear a few of the higher str-req pieces of gear (lower requirements also works).



I'd love a Bard's Stand though.

I know the feeling on vendors but alas there is a problem with them for those who redecorate often.
Unlike vendors who get ejected from a house you work on mannequins can be commanded to move to locations and can literally be walked up flights of stairs and moved at your whim, where as vendors you have to page a gm to help move them back.

I like the idea of having mannequins to dress up without having to have your house public to place or using gold to upkeep even if it is a small amount of gold. Just one less thing to have to keep track of.

Good points both, Velius and Calan. I see the distinct advantages now, and am starting to want those mannequins as well.