Weapon Crafting/Parts/Materials/Quality!

[Valakai]

I've been playing Mortal Online and a friend of mine has been doing a bunch of armor/weapon crafting, I was wondering what everyone would think about the ability to craft weapons using different materials, like stone, iron, steel, etc. and base the damage and speed on the quality and types of materials used.
I also like the idea of making or buying parts with different stats and weights (Kinda like Way of The Samurai) Imagine, different types blades, handles, counter-weights made from different materials with different levels of quality. Also adds a need for an expert armorer or armorers to equip your faction, just like farmers and cooks to feed them

[Santaissick]

There's gonna be armor and weapon crafting and I'm pretty sure that we will need materials in order to do it. Like metal from the mines we are about to get in near future update.

I also like the idea of making or buying parts with different stats and weights (Kinda like Way of The Samurai) Imagine, different types blades, handles, counter-weights made from different materials with different levels of quality. Also adds a need for an expert armorer or armorers to equip your faction, just like farmers and cooks to feed them

Do you mean like getting different parts, like blade and handle and other stuff, and mixing them into one item? So that in order to craft a blade you need 3-5 different parts and if one is missing it's impossible?
I think it gets too complicated that way. Too much micromanagement. We are gonna get big factions and have maybe even hundreds of units. If I have to build their equipment from scrap individually it would make me crazy.


I do like the idea on some level though. Maybe there could be 5 ,or so, "ultimate weapons" or at least very good ones, that are in pieces. Maybe on the start of the game, every leader of a big factions has a one piece of one of the legendary weapons and to use the weapon you need all 3-5 pieces. Getting the ultimate weapon(s) could be one of the "goals" for player since they hold great power.

Of course getting them won't be easy. You have to listen to rumors of towns men and other people to locate the pieces of the weapon you want. You need to know who has them. When you find the piece, you have to start negotiating to do the trade but that's expensive as hell. You can try to take it with force but since they are very expensive, they are mostly well guarded.

Even if you manage to get hold of one of the pieces, you have to find the others as well. In the meantime, other NPCs who have the other pieces, of course try to hunt you down because every one desires the mighty weapons just as much as you. And probably there's a whole faction against you when their leader tries to get hold of your piece.