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enigma@zebedee · 04-04-2003, 04:54 AM

EQ Saving has been a bit of a thorny issue on Zeb for at least 5 years now.

We have limitted saving in the form of:
1. Special items - these stay with you when you quit (and in some cases when you die) - even over a reboot.
2. Lockers - You can stash basic items (but no uniques/etc) in lockers which are hired for a certain time (lockers work over a reboot too).
3. Stashing - Find a good place to hide stuff (and some classes like thieves have abilities to help with this). Obviously this doesn't work if someone find's the stash or if the mud reboots (but reboots are only every few weeks).
4. Obviously you keep money too.

We have looked at this many times, because it does turn quite a few people off the game, but we always end up leaving it as it is for a number of reasons (listed in no particular order - and just off the top of my head, so I probably missed some):

1. Game Balance
If we allowed EQ saving then everyone would always have the best possible equipment for their class/level. Part of the balance of classes is the relative amount of time they need to spend kitting up. (For example mages and necromancers are quite capable of playing with no equipment at all).

2. Unique Items
We have large numbers of items there is only one of each on the game at a time. How would that work with equipment saving?

3. Challenge
As has been mentioned one of the things seperating our experienced players from the others is the ability to find their own equipment. It is also an incentive to explore and find new items.

4. Money
One of the problems we are working on is sorting out our economy, generally high levels (and especially legends) have too much money at the moment. If they never have to spend money kitting up then that will grow even worse.

Our experienced players (myself included) are all generally in favour of the current situation over equipment saving when polled...and while all of the above problems could be solved we have far more interesting things to spend our time on at the moment.

So in conclusion, we haven't written off the idea of equipment saving - but we also have no plans to implement it any time soon.

04-04-2003, 04:54 AM	#15
enigma@zebedee Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 70	EQ Saving has been a bit of a thorny issue on Zeb for at least 5 years now. We have limitted saving in the form of: 1. Special items - these stay with you when you quit (and in some cases when you die) - even over a reboot. 2. Lockers - You can stash basic items (but no uniques/etc) in lockers which are hired for a certain time (lockers work over a reboot too). 3. Stashing - Find a good place to hide stuff (and some classes like thieves have abilities to help with this). Obviously this doesn't work if someone find's the stash or if the mud reboots (but reboots are only every few weeks). 4. Obviously you keep money too. We have looked at this many times, because it does turn quite a few people off the game, but we always end up leaving it as it is for a number of reasons (listed in no particular order - and just off the top of my head, so I probably missed some): 1. Game Balance If we allowed EQ saving then everyone would always have the best possible equipment for their class/level. Part of the balance of classes is the relative amount of time they need to spend kitting up. (For example mages and necromancers are quite capable of playing with no equipment at all). 2. Unique Items We have large numbers of items there is only one of each on the game at a time. How would that work with equipment saving? 3. Challenge As has been mentioned one of the things seperating our experienced players from the others is the ability to find their own equipment. It is also an incentive to explore and find new items. 4. Money One of the problems we are working on is sorting out our economy, generally high levels (and especially legends) have too much money at the moment. If they never have to spend money kitting up then that will grow even worse. Our experienced players (myself included) are all generally in favour of the current situation over equipment saving when polled...and while all of the above problems could be solved we have far more interesting things to spend our time on at the moment. So in conclusion, we haven't written off the idea of equipment saving - but we also have no plans to implement it any time soon.