Creating a Good Item Idea

#7

This is what you were talking about on discord, sadly this will probably get buried, we need to find a way to get this visible to more people in the ideas section.

Anyway just want to drop this here, along with a couple of my ideas.

(from the discussion on discord)

####Other things to think about.

  • IAmShurima’s Poison Idea had some really good thought to it, I thought the MP Cost section under the Thought Process section really well thought out. I’m not saying everyone has to make there idea like this, but maybe give it a read or skim over some sections if your looking to get some balancing ideas for abilities.

  • Maybe give a brief mention to drop location, making an item drop from somewhere easily farmable is not a great idea because of something that gets a lot of mention on the forum, risk reward ratio. From example i made on of my ideas drop as a white from the forbidden jungle. Which looking back, even though it would have been a rare drop forbidden jungle would be easily farmed by maxed characters looking to get the item. Creating a Low Risk to a High Reward.

  • Possibly letting people know that you don’t need to fill out Fame/FP or maybe even Drop Location for an Item to be considered complete, but if you do fill it out people will analyse it as well.

Anyway that’s all I really had to say. I think this is a great idea which anyone wanting to make an idea should read.

#8

thanks a lot! good points I will do all above

#9

Ohhhhhhh NOW I see why @Trofimowen’s square necromancer set was such a popular hit!

#10

finally we got dis

#11
#12

@OtherBill you really to sneak edit other’s posts instead of replying to them don’t you? :stuck_out_tongue:

 

[Mmmmmaybe. OB]

#13

congrats on pin, im surprised! wait. imma see if mods will pin the formating guide

#14

Don’t know what you’re talking about, those are my words.

#15

Nice looking guide.

But I find it funny that one of the more complained about aspects of item sprites isn’t mentioned.

“sprite isn’t 8x8 so your whole idea is invalid”

#16

lol, shurima even made me a meme for it.

#17

Wow, what a good meme!

#18

The whole reason nobody wants to make sprites when making ideas, then they get attacked because they didn’t make the sprites…

#19

wait? they cant just make a sprite with 8X8, i just get piggby to make me one.

#20

It’s that an item sprite can’t be 8x8. It just doesn’t really work with the game.
Look at the items for the Gladiator and Rosen skins. They don’t fit very well in an inventory slot.

#21

heh ill add that to sprite help along with the default sprite sizes for the other things

#22

NICE! I couldn’t get around to reading it because phone but huge props to all of you, love ya guys <3

@OtherBill Besides STOP HIJACKING PEOPLE’S POSTS (still haven’t forgotten how you relentlessly bullied me that one time with HG AND ignored me in game), mind pinning to the ideas > Items section?

While it’s a guide, I think it’d he much more useful there than here (also you know how there is pre-formatted text when you create a new item? Put a link to this baby).

#23

Yea i think this should be pinned at the top of #ideas:items

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@OtherBill Besides STOP HIJACKING PEOPLE’S POSTS
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Yea OB likes to sneak in other people’s posts rather than actually replying. idk why/
Why @OtherBill?

#24

Oh, okay.

I don’t remember the HG incident, sorry. And if I ignore you in-game, that probably means I’m busy pew-pew’ing.

Just last night, for example, I hopped into a realm right as it spawned and I was trying to take out all the Red Demons before people from the closed realm killed O1/O2 and came in, so I could find the Lucky Djinn and solo the CDepths in peace. Meanwhile, there were three or four different people /tell’ing me things like

<someone> notice me senpai :frowning:

I feel bad, to be sure, but I happen to be out of Dokus right now and really wanted the CDepths to myself.

Nice thought, but the only option I see is “Pin Topic”. Not sure how to force it to the top. @Doc?

As I’ve said elsewhere, that’s how I interject a side comment without distracting the normal flow of conversation. However, if people really find it that distracting and disruptive, I’ll stop.

#25

You’re such an old fart , don’t have to type an essay every time I make a joke D: don’t be like Stu!

Here’s the HG “incident”, but as I said, don’t feel bad at all or for ignoring me because it is rather annoying when you get a bunch of meaningless PMs when you’re trying to do something.

As for putting the little edits at the bottom of people’s posts, I find that it’s a fun little thing and I get your intention for not interrupting the conversation, but it looks like it’s too exciting that people get off topic even more so up to you to monitor that.

#26

Oh, okay.

[Heh.]

Yeah. It looks like I’ll have to use that schtick a bit less often. Or perhaps way less often.

[Or maybe only in my own posts.]