Basically the idea I'm trying to get at is you have x number of "trash scrolls" taking up space in your inventory. You dump them into this NPC and it gives you 1 random scroll in return, in the hope that you get a more valuable one. The % of getting a "decent/good" scroll increases with the amount of scrolls you"donate". Chaos and White scrolls should not be included in this, but maybe clean slates could be? Maybe even introduce this for etc items, but instead of scrolls you get ores. Pretty vague concept, so if anyone sees a problem with it or some additions to my idea, feel free to post below. Also I know nothing of coding, so not sure how long this would take to implement.
It was hard as is for me to battle my urges to hoard useless items, don't give me justifications after i got over my hoarding issues
Depends on the prize pool, this will inflate the price of ass scrolls like 2h axe(I am an axe warrior so I know the prices are shite), and eventually will make it harder to gain said scrolls. Since royals is heavy about marketing and profiting, despite the idea being great, people will turn it to a money making method, which I think shouldn't be an option. Example - -Smega : B> HP scrolls 300kish -Take said scrolls and do the npc thing -Earn and int scroll, massive profit(not any int scroll but you get the point). -Prices of trash scrolls inflating, making them harder to purchase, could maybe even cause new players a hard time getting scrolls they need(for example any accuracy scroll is great for unfunded newbies). To summarize, I like the idea but I believe it will turn out bad due to the competitiveness of the server.
Maybe we can "Recycle" the trash scrolls periodically every 6 months or once a year, instead of opening the NPC 24/7. That will be more fun!
I'm not a fan of the idea in general, however, it seems making the scrolls untradeable could help maybe?
@Hamburg If we limit the "donatable" scrolls to only 60s/10s (since they're the most farmable), I think that should alleviate some concern behind lower tier scrolls inflating. @onekeystory I like the idea of periodically opening the npc, but 6 months seems a bit extreme. Maybe once a month or 2 months would work. @Tentomon The untradeable suggestion could work, but if they were transferable within the account it would make more sense. (if my first suggestion towards @Hamburg seems better, then there would be no reason for untradeable versions) Thank you for your suggestions and feedback! Also, it would be best to set a min and max amount of scrolls to donate per batch, maybe 10 scrolls could be set as the min, and a max of 100.
I'm against this because it would make scrolls for less popular jobs disappear from the market entirely. Currently scrolls for axes, blunt weapons, staves, knuckles, and xbows are available in the FM for relatively cheap. I reckon that if this NPC existed, people would rather scrap them for the chance to get more valuable scrolls. The same thing goes for STR scrolls, which I use on all my characters.
