Research Tech Trader

[rincarsarff]

Hi,

I can pile regular research books like it's no ones business compared to ancient books, eng. books, ai cores.

Could you implement 1-3 NPCs in the whole entire map that you could bring books to and for a set amount they will offer to sell you one 1-tier higher item.
Example - Tech trader has option: Offer Research books. I have to have 25 research books to give him at that time, plus 5000 credits to get 1 ancient research book. I have to give him 15 A.R.B.s plus 15000c to get 1 eng. research, and I have to give him 10 eng. research plus 100,000c to get 1 ai core.

These NPCs could be put behind a counter you could not get behind no matter how much you try so that you could not rob them... or simply make the transaction items you gave him disappear after the fact so no one ruins this mechanism.

Feature request for another day, but someday I pray.

[Hatsune_Neko]

only part i disagree with is the locking them away from the players whose life is stealing.

[rincarsarff]

I understand it can hurt that game aspect, but the only other option I see if giving him enough bodyguards that a player cannot win in an open confrontation.

OOOOO, or that trying to steal and getting caught will be a huge dangerous undertaking.
-The npcs guarding and him could probably be skeletons/iron spiders. If there was a skill that allowed people to better catch thieves they would be the cream of the crop in anti-theft-detection. They are also incredibly strong/fast.
- The Room is well lit, since they are sklele/iron spiders they never sleep (just like the armor king). It'd be near impossible to not get caught.
- If you do get caught and fight them then they have a 'cannibal abilitiy' like the red spiders/fogmen/cannibals. They aren't eating your corpse though really, they are just shredding the intruder's body.
----This way there is a cost to you trying to rob them, if they take you down you are dead because they don't leave enemies unconscious, they kill them. NO MERCY.
---- I'd then also ask to take the tack that if you knock unconscious one of them they 'explode' so you cannot capture them (strong aoe dmg too), creating a double edged sword for a person running their 256 man army into that place to overpower them. ****and now i decided to add on that the explosions (fire) don't hurt the other skele/iron spiders****.
- I also kind of want the door to close and lock in this place when you come to visit so it's not quick grab and run. You are either a top thief(s) or you are probably dead.

These 1-3 R.T.T.s are seen as godsends in my eyes since you can only loot research locations once per import.
I don't want them getting robbed, but if they must be robbable I want death to come in that wake.
Also since they might become their own faction, I'd like there to be an easy mechanism to reset relations after a botched theft attempt where they hate your now. 1 guy outside the building is willing to talk to you even if the faction hates you to accept 'gift's of repentance. It has diplomatic status so doing anything to him fucks you over in this aspect.
- OOOO, until you 'apologize' [and if a system is ever implemented] they occassionally send groups of mercs at you for revenge.

[Hatsune_Neko]

you don't wanna stack the deck to much in the favor of the NPC's. there has to be a chance, even a slim one that the player can get to it.
so in my eyes that rules out the exploding bodies thing. well i don't really agree with that option in the first place.

some of this could be modded into the game as well. just some aspects of it can't currently due to lack of options to even add it.
though i think you would have a better chance of it being more acceptable if you toned it down a bit and worked with what's already in the game and is possible. as an idea has to be really good to add it into the game at this stage. and if it works with elements already in place with no big coding required, you will have a better chance too.

but the base part with the library shop is a good idea. but i personally think there is too much extra fluff/filler with the rest. because right now all the empty books are worthless to even try and pick up so there needs to be something to make it worthwhile to use them for something.

[rincarsarff]

Understood. You are friends with the game creator/dev, right?

And he reads these feature requests. He can think about implementing it or not in a way that would be the spirit of my request without the filler.

And I can groan/cry about it if it was implemented in a way I don't like.
But it's all up to him and this amazing game he created so far.

[Hatsune_Neko]

The devs do indeed read all the forums. so everyone's ideas are given least a once over by them.
though the chances of anyone's ideas being added is slim. and at this point anything that requires a ton of programing the chances go even farther down.

but yea over all they read everything we talk about.