Lifewaster
05-02-04, 09:37
I used to play Meridian59 and in many ways it is still the best PvP mmorpg.It just had a superb balance for PK/item loss/soullight/factions/clans/wars etc despite its age.
In meridian, if you died, you dropped everything and it was usually looted.However, items were not that hard to obtain.And you could PvP to a good degree with store bought weapons/armor.
There were "rare" dropped weapons that had extra bonuses such as extra damage, extra aiming , bane type damage...and finally a certain bonus was "glows with a soft light" which meant the item was soulbound and respawned with you if you died, kinda like the current epic gun is a safe item.
Anyway, I'm suggesting neocron gets rid of slot one protection and implements this kind of system. Instead make items protectable like the epic gun by having a new rare mod that imparts this to the item.
For example :
Rifle epic mod :
damage -12%
freq -7 %
epic item +1
Do you see what this would do ? It would require collecting as a rare mod, and would take up a free slot plus nerf damage and freq , yet would bestow epic status to the gun rendering it unable to drop in a belt.
Now balance wise, the malus would have to be enough that even a 5 slot rare wouldn't end up over 100% damage or so, instead ending with similar damage ability to the current epic guns.
So I'm thinking either the mod would take more than one slot to use, or its malus would be applied post cap (ie: even with 4 other mods bringing damage to 132 before cap, the net damage ends up at cap 120 minus 12% = 108%)
Anyway, just an idea to replace the current slot system which noone seems happy with.
In meridian, if you died, you dropped everything and it was usually looted.However, items were not that hard to obtain.And you could PvP to a good degree with store bought weapons/armor.
There were "rare" dropped weapons that had extra bonuses such as extra damage, extra aiming , bane type damage...and finally a certain bonus was "glows with a soft light" which meant the item was soulbound and respawned with you if you died, kinda like the current epic gun is a safe item.
Anyway, I'm suggesting neocron gets rid of slot one protection and implements this kind of system. Instead make items protectable like the epic gun by having a new rare mod that imparts this to the item.
For example :
Rifle epic mod :
damage -12%
freq -7 %
epic item +1
Do you see what this would do ? It would require collecting as a rare mod, and would take up a free slot plus nerf damage and freq , yet would bestow epic status to the gun rendering it unable to drop in a belt.
Now balance wise, the malus would have to be enough that even a 5 slot rare wouldn't end up over 100% damage or so, instead ending with similar damage ability to the current epic guns.
So I'm thinking either the mod would take more than one slot to use, or its malus would be applied post cap (ie: even with 4 other mods bringing damage to 132 before cap, the net damage ends up at cap 120 minus 12% = 108%)
Anyway, just an idea to replace the current slot system which noone seems happy with.