User:GS4ALASTIR/Proposal:Loot Cap

Generation

1.  Reduce the selling price at the pawnshop/gemshop/furrier.
    Silvers generated reduced by 90%.  
    A 10000 silver diamond now sells for 1000 silvers.

    Rationale:  The idea is to compress the numbers to something smaller and more manageable.  
    For any system that relies on value (chrisms), it stays the same only silvers generated is affected.

2.  As you progress further and further towards the loot cap, the selling value of items is reduced.  
    Every 1% towards loot cap reduces selling values by 1%.  
    The (now) 1000 diamond sells for 990,980,970, etc.

    Rationale:  The idea is to spread out the silver generation over the entire month.

3.  Remove the reduction in gem quality from soft/hard loot cap.

    Rationale:  You should still be able to find high quality/value gems if you're hunting harder/riskier content.
    The selling value/silver generation will be reduced by the progressive loot cap reduction in #2.

4.  Reduce the loot cap from 35m to 10m.

    Rationale:  Smaller numbers, smaller spreads of silver generation between playstyles.

5.  During your weekly Lumnis Bonus, you receive a Major Loot Boost while the Lumnis Bonus is active.

    Rationale:  Helps the casual user.  Helps to equalize playstyles/times.

6.  Standardize loot generation. 
    Up to level 10 finds gem value/qualities of up to 100 silvers in value.
    Every 10 levels you unlock higher quality/value gems. (+100 silvers per 10 levels)

    Skins now have a set value of 10 silvers per level.

    Rationale:  Adds value to progression.

7.  Remove silvers from boxes.

    Rationale:  Silvers are part of the "boring" treasure.  Replace them with gems.

Drain

1. Orb Purchases

   Allow daily purchase of an account bound green orb for 100k silvers
   Allow weekly purchase of an account bound Blue orb for 2.5m
   Allow weekly purchase of an account bound violet orb for 15m

2. Enhancive Recharging

3. Enhancive Reroll

   But only if we can choose which specific enhancive line to reroll.  
   If there are 4 enhancives, let me reroll the 2nd line, or 3rd line, but I choose!

4. FixPots

   Sell FixSkills (5m), FixStats (20m, FixProfession (75m), FixRace (75m) and FixName (5m) for silvers.

5. Bounty Pawnshop

   Allow us to sell enhancives to a "Bounty Pawnshop" for bounty points.

6. Automated Services

   Sell lightening for 1m per service.
   Sell deepening for 1m per service.

   Sell greater than epic deepening for more.
   Up to 300lbs deepening for yuge amounts of silver. 
   (But make it incremental spend/add)
   (50m per +10 lbs - above 200lbs)

7. Customizations

   Sell alteration scrolls for 10m.  
   Sell feature alteration scrolls for 20m.

8. Community Silver Sink

   Introduce a monthly contest where the entire game community donates toward a funding goal.
   Every X amount of silvers donated provides a monthly % increase of XP.

   On the 1st of the month, the community silver sink resets.
   For every 100 million silvers donated, there is a global XP boost of 1%.

Bounties

Issue

Bounty tasks in places like the Hinterwilds, Atoll, Orcswold, and Old Ta'Faendryl, where there are large areas of overlapping/mixed creature generation, can lead to a frustrating player experience.

Cull Tasks:

* Current Messaging:
The <task person> says, "Ah, so you're from the Adventurer's Guild?  Yes, we do have a task for you.  We've noted a troubling increase in <creature> activity in the <area> near <town>.  We'd like you to cull their numbers a bit for us.  Killing 18 of them should do nicely.  Report back to me when you are done."

* Proposed Messaging:
The <task person> says, "Ah, so you're from the Adventurer's Guild?  Yes, we do have a task for you.  We've noted a troubling increase in monster activity in the <area> near <town>.  We'd like you to thin the number of monsters a bit for us.  Killing 18 monsters should do nicely, killing <creature> will count as double as they have been particularly troublesome.  Report back to me when you are done."

**Instead of being required to track down a specific creature, all creatures in the assigned area are acceptable targets.

Dangerous Creature:

* Current Messaging
The <task person> says, "Ah, so you're from the Adventurer's Guild?  Yes, we do have a task for you.  A particularly dangerous <creature> has been attacking hunters based out of this town.  It has racked up quite a few kills and is beginning to worry us.  Most of the attacks have occurred in <area>, which it probably considers its territory.  Hunt it down, kill it, and report back to me.  It doesn't always attack hunters, but you can probably get its attention by killing other creatures of the same type in its territory."

* Proposed Messaging
The <task person> says, "Ah, so you're from the Adventurer's Guild?  Yes, we do have a task for you.  A particularly dangerous unknown creature has been attacking hunters based out of this town.  It has racked up quite a few kills and is beginning to worry us.  Most of the attacks have occurred in <area>, which it probably considers its territory.  Hunt it down, kill it, and report back to me.  It doesn't always attack hunters, but you can probably get its attention by killing other creatures in its territory."

**Instead of being required to track down a specific creature which will spawn an ancient/grizzled version, all creatures in the assigned area are acceptable targets and may spawn an ancient/grizzled version.

Skinning Tasks:

* Current Messaging
<Task person> says, "Ah, so you're from the Adventurer's Guild?  Yes, I do have a task for you. I've recently received an order for <#> <skins>.  I'll need them all to be of at least <quality>.  I'd like you to go out and collect enough of these to fill my order.  You can SKIN them off the corpse of <creature> or purchase them from another adventurer.  You can SELL the skins to me as you collect them."

* Proposed Messaging
<Task person> says, "Ah, so you're from the Adventurer's Guild?  Yes, I do have a task for you. I've recently received an order for <#> <skins>.  I'd like you to go out and collect enough of these to fill my order.  You can SKIN them off the corpse of <creature> or purchase them from another adventurer.  You can SELL the skins to me as you collect them."

**Remove quality as a component of the task.
**Success rate for skinning is modified to always provide a skin, except for fumbles.
**Ranks in Survival and First aid still determine the value and quality of the skin, and higher qualities still provide more bounty points.

* Allow skinning tasks to be shared with group members.  Group members will have a cull # bounty.

Sharing Bounties

When a bounty is shared, bandits for example, a random number is assigned to each person the bounty is shared with.  Instead of assigning a random number, assign the same number to each person the bounty is shared with.