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Ok, I have been given, by a member of this guild, the Idea to have shops in the cities in which you'd buy weapons, potions, supplies, etc. with gaia gold. It sounds complected to keep up with all this and if you have already used the things you bout. So I wanna here your ideas to see if we can figure this out.

Okay, a shop sounds good. But their are many problems. First off, if you use a currency to purchase items, you have to have a source of that currency. A peasant is not going to have near as much access to money as a lord. (new recruit to general). Also, If you can buy a weapon, it totally disregards the current setting of rank to weapon rules we have for combat. It also makes healers pointless if you can carry potions with you. Another problem is raiding. Something my goblins just did in Barton. I didn't have them do it stricly for the item gain (which at this point is purely RP), but more for the developement as to the goblins personality without their leader to control them. However, this act bypasses all need of currency if I can just force goods from peasants.And let's face it without the threat of innocent people being able to be hurt, their is no reason for heroes. I mean, our entire first battle stemmed from that.
I don't think using actual Gaia gold is a good idea. Awarding in-game currency to active players on a participatory basis would problably be most enificial. Like every friday at a specified time award everyone 50 Repu's (Republic currency) or 50 Durre (Imperial currency) for every day of the week they participated. Higher rank would recieve slightly higher pay, but not too much as to atract feeling of unfairness to lower rank players. Award the plaers, not the characters. This whole bit should improve general participation. Posts only count for reward if they were meaningful. just typing that your character walks into town and notes the architecture will not pass as a worthy post. All you need is one good post for the day to get credit. This will be needed to be kept n top of by several Mods so that their are no flops or favoritism concerning "worthy" posts. We might finnally be able to use that crew only room for some thing now.

As far as what you can purchase, this should b HEAVILY discussed as it will drasticly change the way this game is played.

P.S. Dreccas, even though I'm not a teen I've rocked out every, damn day for at least 13 of my 23 years!! twisted

What we can do to keep track of items and currency is keep a topic open in the System Management sub-forum so that we can allot In-game gold (not gaia gold) to the players. This is basicly like a bank statement showing how much you have. Shops will have to be kept a close eye on so that we automaticly deduct cash from their "account". Items held and owned should be kept track of on the character sheets by their respective buyers. Once items are used, stolen, etc. the owner will be given a day's leniency to remove them from the list. If not, a mod will do it and issue a reminder, then a warning. Furthr failure to comply would result in a ban from shops, but not necessarily the game. We will need volunteers that get online on a regular basis to play the part of shop owners.

Well the rank is easy. With my previous stated system of awarding, give a 20 incriment to lower ranks, for every rank add 5 to that incriment.

So say a 1st rank soldier made three significant posts during the week, he would get 150 gold.

If he was a second rank, it would have been 165 gold instead.

I don't know about the bystanders and loners. But they should be considerably lower. We should keep the numbers low for simplicity. Remember, at one time candy bars cost a nickle. lol.

Wow i wasnt payin attention to this at all but ima retract my potion post and put in a supply post!