Had a brainwave from reading the constructive critique thread in regards to fixing the cash economy in this game currently.
My idea is simple in nature and hopefully simple to implement also. I have tried desperately to look at ways it could possibly go bad and in keeping with the traditional story line and other rp aspects of the game as well as being beneficial to the game I wanted to make the suggestion of implementing a new kind of vendor.
A Tech Part Vendor. More importantly a Researched Tech Part Vendor. Smuggler would be the most appropiate in some ways but I have also considered the idea of potentially adding them to faction HQs. Tangent being the most obvious but would need something to balance this on the non TT friendly side of things so possibly TG and another to make sure all factions have some access or simply add one to each faction.
This could be a nightmare so for now at least I think stick with smugglers. Divide them in to the categories of Rare parts Rifle, Pistol, HC, MC, PPU, APU and Drone. Maybe one for Misc also for cpus like the marine. Please note i would suggest keeping mc5 out of this list. just "Normal" rares.
Have each vendor sell ALL parts for that category and let people select the part they want to buy. Here comes the cash drain part. Price the parts at 1 million creds and above.
I see a benefit two ways. One it allows people who have lots of cash to buy parts they need to complete sets and then complete the weapon sets. It also drains money out of the economy if someone is desperate to get a weapon part they need to complete a set and they have the credits they can simply buy it.
It might help collectors with millions of creds finish off rare sets. Yes i think it could ultimately affect the price of a weapon should someone then wish to sell it on having paid 1m creds for one part they might make a 1 or 0 slot weapon and want to try and sell it for a rediculous amount to cover the costs but thats entirely up to a player driven economy to support that or not.
The idea itself is not without flaw and would only be an alternative to the idea of physically going out and grinding techs for yourself which is of course still one of the most fun aspects of neocron and pve but it could serve a purpose as it would provide those people with billions of creds a way to spend some and potentially drain some of that surplus from the economy.
Any thoughts?