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Account bound Artefacts.
I think it would be cool for Artefacts to be able be used by all characters tied to your email address, since you can't play them at the same time anyways. I would definitely give me more incentive to buy the more expensive artefacts.
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A big part of why shrubbing hurts so much is because if you're addicted enough to come back, you have to outfit another char. Once multi-class comes out, a lot of people will probably have even more invested in a single character. That said, if you're tying the artifact to multiple accounts, accountability shouldn't be a problem.
Then people will argue that it would hit IRE in the pocketbook, and they might be right, but I'm not entirely sure that's how something like this would play out. So instead of just saying "no way" (which I predict you will hear a lot in this thread), I actually think you might have a point. I will probably NEVER buy a veil, despite having a huge amount of artifacts, but you know what, if I could use it across a couple characters, I'd consider it. I'm also just never going to outfit another character to the extent I have Jules, period. Something that could work for a player like me, would be to allow me to pay a fee (some percentage of the original purchase price of each artifact) to be able to use that artifact on a second character. It's a model where you actually might get more money out of people, and they'd feel like that money spent was worthwhile.
Seriously.
(Cause I really want my level 2 belt, not my level 1...)
Really awesome because I could start a new character with all of my artefacts.
Crappy because Jhui could do the same and he has more than me.
Side note, this has been brought up a handful of times before and has always been met with a resounding 'No'.
I can see lots of pros for the owners of the artefacts, but also issues of balance - a new character straight out of the Portals with a full complement of artefacts. I'm sure it already happens, but would happen with far greater frequency if the artefacts were "borrowed" from an already established character.
Ivy-covered archway to Minia (road).
A smattering of clouds fills the sky, lacing it with spiderwebs of grey. Vellis, the butterfly collector potters about nearby. A small wooden sign is nailed crookedly to a post here. An heraldic pennon flies here, bearing the house arms of The Sect of the Black Lotus. A flame-charred chariot pulled by demonic goats stands here. Natri is seated here. Daryl is here. He wields a butterfly net in his left hand. Tribal Tler'en is here. He wields a hunter's spear in his left hand and a throwing axe in his right. Cooperella is here. Jhuina is here. She wields a butterfly net in her right hand.
You see exits leading northeast, east, southeast, and south.
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She is a Mhun and is suave. She is wearing a canvas backpack, 8 earrings of Sinope through her left ear, 7 earring of Sinope through her left ear, a luxurious black top hat, a quiver, Girdle of the Titans, an Aldar Diadem, a buckawn's amulet, a pair of Logosian Gauntlets, spiked knuckles, a Sash of Wisdom, a Collar of Agatheis, a Stygian pendant, a Ceylonese bracelet, a pair of Atavian Wings, a Logosian ring, a Mayan ring, a Veil of the Sphinx, Robes of the Magi, a Torc of Telepathy a Circlet of the Will, [Type MORE if you wish to continue reading. (53% shown)]
Eta: number was completely arbitrary.
Like Santar says, multiclass does give you a good dose of this (getting to play around with several classes if you like and not have to get additional artifacts). As far as Jhuina, I mean, I kid, of course, and it does look odd to us, but... it would probably just mean she'd get out of the newbie areas that much faster, and that's probably best for everyone. Of course the earrings would be silly/wrong to include as something you could ever share between chars.
IF this was considered, I would prefer it be in the form of an artefact vault in Delos that you can withdraw from or add to, for those of us who truly like fleshing out a characters growth from A to B. Disallow all unique arties such as auction items and earrings. Earrings, as much as we all pretend they don't, are fed off of the love between two individuals. It makes no sense to allow anyone but those two characters to use the same earrings.
It would effectively be cutting deeply into IRE profits margins if people were only buying one of each item instead of outfitting each character separately.
I doubt they thoroughly tracked whether any given artefact was bought solely via OOC means or via IG means somehow, so that means most likely any existing artefacts wouldn't benefit at all.
Furthermore, it means that you'd only be able to benefit from artefacts you buy directly. This isn't such a bad thing, though - since it'd be so controlled, they could charge some markup to ideally cover up the profit loss issue people are mentioning.
For someone like you, they could, in addition to selling access to the artefact power, sell you a new "shell" for it for a small fee (that part really should be small).
Rangor you are speaking my language, and this is why I think IRE could come out ahead on this. What they could do is, look at a bunch of characters like you (and even me) and get an idea of how much people are actually spending on alts when you look at the average. I have a feeling they might find it worth it to consider the variations we've discussed here. Everyone wins. They keep players happy (and playing) and we spend money and feel good about it. As the OP noted, they'd also have a good chance of selling more big ticket items period. Only they can really know because they know how much we've all spent and what we've spent it on. If it's worthwhile - make it IRE wide as a matter of fact (after reviewing player purchase behavior in the other games).
EDIT: and as noted, they're already down this road somewhat with multiclass, which is going to be all win.
HOUSE SHOPS WHERE YOU CAN RENT ARTEFACTS.
So, much like a library where you can checkout books (sometimes for a fee) to use, why not allow Houses to purchase artefacts -for the house vault- or something. They can't be stolen or anything stupid like that, but the House can use their credits if they choose to purchase a lvl 1 con belt, or rings of endurance or what-have-you. They purchase them for the house as a whole, and they are able to be rented for a period of 24 hours for a fee.
This puts gold back into the House coffers, involves the House credits to be used rather than just hoarded over years with nothing much else to do with them except build new rooms in the House Hall that can be broken into or so on. It allows younger members a taste of what artefact life is like without worrying about the reset timers to friends at the same time
Penwize has cowardly forfeited the challenge to mortal combat issued by Atalkez.
Rather than 24 hours, make it hourly (or a block of like 3 hours) and that you can rent for a set time in advance with a cooldown inbetween rentings. This prevents squabbling amongst house members who want to use it. I can see one disgruntled person purposely logging in after they reset to rent them and prevent anyone else from using them. This would make it so that more people can use them for hunting/fighting without anyone "hogging all the artes"
Yea, that one!
Personally I think temporary arties like the ethereal shrouds but applied to temporary stat boosters would work, just don't let them stack beyond level 3 or what not since that could be game breaking.