Auction ideas

Sarapis

I'd like to hear what auction items (whether for credits or gold) you've seen/heard of auctioned in the past that were particularly appealing or that you'd like to see auctioned off. As it's the nature of auctions that few or only one of a particular item is sold, there are overpowered concerns, but feel free to propose audacious items. It's fair game though for others to point out that a proposal is too powerful, as you guys understand the details of combat better than I do these days.

Jules

Let someone preserve a set of forged weapons as if they were arties.  Not something I'd even consider trying to win of course - because plenty of people would go nuts for it. 

Sarapis

Are the best forged weapons better than the artefact weapons?

Namino

...Yes.

Nellaundra

@Sarapis Depends on the type of weapon, but in general?  Yeah.  Most people use around level 1 or 2 weapons at this point, a few going to 3 or surpassing it.

Sarapis

Yeah, was kind of a rhetorical question. We don't do it because we don't really want people having permanent weapons more powerful than level 3. Part of me thinks it'd be nice insofar as it'd make forging a level3 + weapon multiple times as cool but I'm not sure if that really balances out the potential for weapon inflation that is to be avoided since we don't like to have to nerf stuff that people paid credits for if we can help it.

Jules

Or just sell a a pair of "level 4 artie weapons" and stack the stats in speed on the verge of, but not quite at, ridiculous speed.  

Triak

Prismatic resistance ring.  Something I suggest a while ago to Maya that was done as an auction later.

Cooper

Sarapis said:

Are the best forged weapons better than the artefact weapons?

Honestly? No (with the exception of like, flails or something). There are, however, special instances when forged weapons can be so good at one specific aspect of a weapon (speed for rapiers, damage for battleaxes), that they overshadow the other positive aspects of artefact weapons (great damage, huge tohit, good speed) in very specific instances. For everything else except those few specific things where a massive damage battleaxe or amazing speed rapier will excel, the artefact weapons are far superior.

Iocun

I'm a bit hesitant with suggesting this, because I'd much rather have this as something that can be bought regularly outside of auctions, but I guess having it as an auction item still beats not having it at all:

The ability to "forget" one currently learned racial language (no matter what degree of proficiency) and get another racial language of ones choosing at the same proficiency level instead.

We had an auction item to learn one additional language completely once already, but something like this would make it more specifically to those of us relevant who "wasted" gold on learning a language that later proved useless to them (e.g. learning a racial language and then reincarnating into that race).

Sohl

- Half karma/devotion/essence items

- Ring of defense (I think that's what it was called), +10/10 armour and permanent resistance rings effects

- Imperian has an awesome auction up currently, an item that can be morphed into any lv3 artie weapon when on balance

- Mindnet item

- Fullsense item

- Portable humgii

- An ink mill that gives a bonus to the mastery ability (chance for more inks when milling)

- A pet with the buyer's choice of add-on

- A set of pipes with 15 puffs per fill

- A one time use item that would allow the buyer to learn all the lessons in a skill (or skillset for a class) in one batch

Achilles

Jules said:

Or just sell a a pair of "level 4 artie weapons" and stack the stats in speed on the verge of, but not quite at, ridiculous speed.  

Rubbish. There needs to be ludicrous speed rapiers.

Ruth

Level 4 crit pendants.

Valden

I like the idea of an artifact that give the bearer Runebinding so that Body Runes sketched on them last a full day. It's more convenience than anything but one I'm sure some people would like.

Jules

I decided not to purchase Soulpiercers in the last sale because:

1)  the top guys seem to prefer forged and put their $$$ accordingly into other arties, and into top quality forged.  With that in mind, I asked here on the forums, and indeed, several conceded that forged are preferred, due to the importance of speed (so long as other stats are "acceptable" they seem to care only for speed).  I honestly think that some people who continue to insist that the arties are "better" (usually while choosing not to buy those arties) may protest so strongly because they're afraid of a forging change?  

2) no one seems to be sure when the overall weapons rework will happen/what it will entail  Otherwise, I'd be about $640 lighter right now (and happy to be).  

Anyway, whether you allowed someone to preserve top notch forged, or whether it was a "level 4" stacked the way these top fighters prefer, it would send people into an absolute frenzy I think.  But maybe it's just not in the cards, for the reasons Sarapis notes.  Not sure if that was an outright "no", or "hmm, got to think about it", but just something I threw out there because it definitely strikes me as something that would be irresistible for a lot of people. 

Horatio

I would love to see an item that allows an adventurer to clear his or her bloodline completely. I would also suggest this item's auction be rigged to only allow me to participate in the bidding.

Iocun

A mount/pet addon that makes it so your pet resets to a specific room of your choosing instead of your inventory.

Achaea used to sell this (that's why several pets still exist that reset to places), but according to admin information, they only allow resets into personal homes now.

Sarapis

Horatio said:

I would love to see an item that allows an adventurer to clear his or her bloodline completely. I would also suggest this item's auction be rigged to only allow me to participate in the bidding.

Sorry man. You know the saying: You can't choose your family.

Disclaimer: In Achaea, you actually can choose your family.

Cooper

Horatio said:

I would love to see an item that allows an adventurer to clear his or her bloodline completely. I would also suggest this item's auction be rigged to only allow me to participate in the bidding.

No way you would outbid me. I bloodlined -one- freaking person in this entire game, and now I am related to 3/4 of Achaea.

Sarapis

Cooper said:

Horatio said:

I would love to see an item that allows an adventurer to clear his or her bloodline completely. I would also suggest this item's auction be rigged to only allow me to participate in the bidding.

No way you would outbid me. I bloodlined -one- freaking person in this entire game, and now I am related to 3/4 of Achaea.

That explains so much. Man. It's all clear now. The ties, the nudity. Everything.

Vaehl

Oh god Sohl. Hirst better not get the new cowl.

Horatio

Cooper said:

Horatio said:

I would love to see an item that allows an adventurer to clear his or her bloodline completely. I would also suggest this item's auction be rigged to only allow me to participate in the bidding.

No way you would outbid me. I bloodlined -one- freaking person in this entire game, and now I am related to 3/4 of Achaea.

That's why I want it rigged in my favour!

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Achilles

Need more enemy slots please

Iocun

I only have one other person on Iocun's bloodline, but she's a Rubber Ducky and has the warcry 'Fear me for I ride the legendary rat steeds!', which is already easily enough to make me regret this choice.

Kyrra

Some day she'll upgrade to camels.

Sena

While I'm unlikely to ever bid on any of them, some of the things I've seen in other games that I would like:

• An item or housing upgrade that tells you (if you're online) when anyone enters a certain room in your house (regardless of phase or any other sneakiness).
  
• Custom movement (enter/exit) messages. Specifically, an item that lets you change the messages as many times as you'd like (with a built-in system for admin approval), not just a one-time change.
  
• An item that prevents your death from costing any essence for your god.
• Imperian auctioned items that gave you the appearance of an angel or demon, in addition to stat bonuses (+1-3 to a single stat, changes randomly each month). I'm not sure of the details, I only saw the announce posts, but something like this (maybe options other than angel/demon) sounds great.
• An item that lets you create a room or rooms pretty much anywhere, temporarily. Imperian had this in the form of a tent that let you create a single indoor room, Aetolia had a gypsy wagon construction kit that basically gave you a portable four-room house.

Mizik

World-emote artefact: once per month. One strike rule on obscene, etc.

Customized Behead with unique Deathsight included. (Penwize Eaglehead not allowed, or I will counter with OzzieOsborneBitehead)

Earring of Synope that resets secondary user once per month. (or a pair of old BRING earrings)

Mizik

Sena said:
Imperian had this in the form of a tent that let you create a single indoor room

OMG this. This is even like a ground rune there, I think.

Kyrra

BRING earrings were so great. I would love to have them in game again.

Iocun

Mizik said:

Sena said:
Imperian had this in the form of a tent that let you create a single indoor room

OMG this. This is even like a ground rune there, I think.

Portable killroom FTW!

Mizik said:

Customized Behead with unique Deathsight included. (Penwize Eaglehead not allowed, or I will counter with OzzieOsborneBitehead)

Do you mean something that is still essentially beheading, just with some unique flavour, or a totally custom instakill that just has the same mechanics as beheading (same duration, hindered by the same things, etc.), but perhaps without requiring a wielded sword? If the latter, that would be utterly awesome.

Only difficulty would be to make it somewhat universally detectable as an instakill, so people don't get killed by it simply because they don't know the messages. But then... it's only going to be a single person who has this, so people will learn quickly. And well, if someone is suddenly standing still, without curing, and ominous room messages come up, that's usually a sign that you'd better get some hindering or fleeing in! 

Oh, one more idea, depending on whether the code of the weather system allows it: an item that allows the owner to modify the weather in the current area to a moderate degree, once per RL day. "Moderate degree" means no sudden blizzard-calling on a sunny summer day in the Mhojave, but perhaps making it rain when it's already cloudy, or turning a blizzard into mere snowfall.

Also: a worm sources artie.

Also: an item that lets you cure all afflictions of another player (not yourself!) once per RL day. Takes two seconds of uninterrupted concentration to go through.

Also: an item that lets you resurrect yourself like with a gem of transmutation, but without changing race.

Sena

While they aren't actual auction items I've seen/heard, here are some other ideas I had that would be interesting:

A unique "mini-class" of sorts. Like dragon, you can change to/from the class at will, and it entirely replaces your normal class. It wouldn't be a full class, it would just have a single skill with a relatively small collection of useful abilities, maybe focussing on a certain theme. Maybe a travel mini-class, with abilities like portals, flying, track, a raido/hermit/pathfinder-like return ability, and a universe-like ability. Maybe a stealth mini-class that gives you abilities like hide, cloak, ghost, shadow, and evade (this would cause a lot of serpent crying, but I don't think it's too bad if it requires giving up your normal class to access the abilities. It could also give abilities that are similar, but not identical, like an "evade" that only hides your movement and doesn't bypass any hindering). Maybe a support mini-class that lets you give various buffs to your allies in the room with you (meaning that if you leave or change back to your normal class, the buffs end). These ideas are pretty powerful, so maybe add some limitation, like only being able to use the class for a limited amount of time, or only being able to change to/from the class once per Achaean month.

A normally unplayable race. Have a chance to become a Vertani, Gnoll, Mingruk, or various other Achaean races, with their own racial trait. This should make the race permanently accessible to you as a reincarnation choice, not just a one-time change.