More Suggestions...

[That One]

I have a few more suggestions for the IC shop.

First off is Legacy... or Inheritance or some cool sounding name like that…
The concept is pretty simple, basically if your character dies or is killed, you can carry over any extra slots you purchased to a new character or possibly an existing character. That’s it really.

So if you bought a third skill slot, or upgraded a slot on a character that then dies, you start a new character with three skill slots, instead of the usual two, and upgrade one of them right away. I think this will soften the blow of having a character killed, and will promote the idea of letting your characters die, and death certainly adds an interesting element to any story.

Of course, at the same time, death shouldn’t be overused or it loses its meaning.

I also suggest that it be made so that you can use Argent on one account to buy things for a different character on a different account. That would hopefully prevent people from making and killing off characters just to move their slots around.

Another suggestion I have is the idea that multiple purchases cost more. I came up with this idea when I was thinking of making a weapon collector. So basically I would be buying weapon slots over and over. As it stands, it would be pretty easy to get a huge collection right away. The idea I had is, every time you buy an additional slot of the same kind, the cost increases.

A general rule can be used like: +10 for every purchase.
So the first weapon slot I buy would be 150 Argent.
The second would be 160 Argent
The third would be 170 Argent… and so on.

For both of these suggestions, I suppose they would be general rules written in the IC rules section or in the shop itself as a small note. That is of course, if you decide to use them. It’s a great site so far, so I can understand if you want to keep it as is.

[#PI077A "Adia"]

I disagree with both of these main points.

If you die, then you should have to start over, it makes death something to be avoided.

Why should the prices keep increasing? For the sole purpose of making it harder and harder to get things would eventually dead end your character with the next upgrade costing hundreds of posts of argent collecting. I think the abilities and weapon/item slots are good as they are because they're more for storyline usage and aesthetics (like with Adia's variable metamorphasis... that's primarily for looks. The blood lust is primarily for storyline stuff later on.); they have no bearing on whether or not your character is better than any other, so making them cost more each time would ultimately limit what you want to do in rp's.

In addition, it would end up being quicker to make another character that has an ability you want, and people may start making new characters every time they want a new ability.

I really think that any increase in prices at this point would make the rp too much like a video game, and less like a rp. The prices now play a good part to balancing people's OC's, and that's all I think they really should do. I don't think that they should be there to be a constant goal to achieve over and over again.

[LUCIFER AUDITORE DE FIRENZE]

I like the first suggestion. But I think that it should only be carried on to new characters.

Not too fond of the second suggestion, though. I think the prices should remain static, although there could be limits put into place that would prevent people from buying, say, ten weapon slots or powers or upgrading all their abilities to the max all at once. That sort of thing. Ahah, a better way to phrase it would be limits that would prevent people from abusing the shop. -sagely nod-

[#PI077A "Adia"]

I think that limit is that Tears has to accept it... I don't think stuff like that will get past her.