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Thursday, March 24th 2016, 5:39pm

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two related suggestions hoping to expand player base by catering to new players that will never invest the time to get a toon endgame but none the less are gamers and might enjoy and be good at end game play.


1) Gear rental ticket item in item shop works like an abl except transfers the item back to original owner after timer expires could come in different durations or different cost for weap vs armor etc.


2) Account rental ticket item in item shop --- this one might be more hard to swallow but might really work for all parties on use it changes the password to a temp value and after it expires it changes the password back to the original password. would work for both primary and secondary password in the interem the pasword can be changed from the temp value to whatever value the renter wants. Currencies might have to be sequestered idk for sure... but they can at least temp sequester currency as they do it in AA.



I'm picturing like 300 dia for a month gear rental tix and like 2999 dia for a month acct rental . So either way someone could try out end game play for a month for 50 bux
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Thursday, March 24th 2016, 5:54pm

this is a really interesting idea.

How would the person loaning out their gear/account benefit from this? Do they receive a portion of those dias that was spent on the rentals?

I like the gear rental idea. I guess finding a person that is willing to loan out their gear would be tough, as the active players are...well...need their gear, and the people who dont get on are long gone

the account rental idea seems, indeed, hard to swallow lol
I can't even imagine what they need to do to implement an account rental O.O
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Thursday, March 24th 2016, 6:02pm

the gear rental thing could work if it was done well. Let's look at this:

1. Item Shoppe item that turns your gear into a card for 3 days - 10 dias
2. Item Shoppe item that turns your gear into a card for 7 days - 15 dias
3. Item Shoppe Item that turns your gear into a card for 30 days - 20 dias

Once your item is a card, it can be traded or auctioned.

When someone right clicks on the card, it'll have a 3 day, 7 day or 30 day duration. After that duration expires, the item is mailed back to the original owner.

Any item that comes from a card is "frozen" ie cannot be changed in any fashion.

Once an item is returned to the original owner, the "frozen" status is removed.

It think it'd be a wonderful way of loaning stuff out to people to help them, but not allow someone to run off with your gear.

The account thing? eh... I'd have to say no.

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Thursday, March 24th 2016, 6:48pm

I'd quickly jump at the chance to rent end game gear, just to see how well my character does and to help me assess what gear I would want to work on getting. I think it's a neat idea but not sure how well and risk free it would be to implement.

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Thursday, March 24th 2016, 7:46pm

Both suggestions strike me as being stuff that would be nice to have but almost impossible to implement.

"Account Rental" is basically one-step-away from password sharing, which violates the ToS.

"Gear Rental" sounds nice, but I suspect the possibility of duping becomes ever near. Plus, why should I run around without my Shoulders whilst you use them? Maybe if I was going on holiday for a week...?
You know what? I think Runewaker should implement this feature but that Gameforge should sell it for 150 diamonds at least.

Being serious, I really don't think either is technically possible. Passwords most likely aren't actually stored by Gameforge, Amazon, your Bank, or whatever-site-you-like. Changing them isn't possible because they are not there.


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Friday, March 25th 2016, 5:34pm

Tbh the better idea would be to use dias to customize gear in a rental shop and check out the best combonation for your class. But some might say it would take away from runs but i dont think so because its rental.

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Friday, March 25th 2016, 6:41pm

That is actually an interesting idea. Could be implemented sort of like the Chaos Vortex weapons, except, of course, better since the vortex weapons are typically worse than what you are carrying.
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Friday, March 25th 2016, 7:56pm

Right along those lines, but without having to rent someone else's equipment, have a gear rental NPC (or function in diamond shop), where for a price, you could rent ( for 3 or 7 days) gear. In the rental option, you get to configure it to your liking, within what current endgame looks like. Make it cost enough that people wouldn't (consistently) use rented gear full time, but cheap enough to entice players to rent gear to discover their own potential.

For instance, in the rental function, allow dirty tiering up to +12. Allow all current stats to be available, and plussing to 20. For tier of statted gear, maybe limit it to t9? All these options for renting would be included in the rental cost. Sure, renting a full set of gear would be expensive, but it would allow players try "try" gear and weapons to see what return they get and determine if it would be worth it to farm/buy, and plus/stat/tier the item.

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Friday, March 25th 2016, 8:09pm

great idea.

except perhaps either do not permit these gear in sw or limit the amount of ppl that can have rental gear in sw and hard mode instances (if they go the route of complete customization instead of renting other ppl's gear).
reason being that if everyone in the party gets all the best gear possible to the highest possible +ing and tiering than everyone would just be looking to burn instances even more.

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Friday, March 25th 2016, 11:16pm

No bil it can still be 3 ppl with rental and the rest regular endgamers so no difference and it's not like the rental is going to be free or cheap

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