there is already anti-cheeze for not allowing trading in first 5 floors. So devs tried to prevent cheezing. And its right. Now its time to make everything really _clean_ and _fair_
Why IDDC called IDDC?
IronMan - it has to be hard, without right on mistake. At the same time it has to be equal for everyone; main thing has to be your game skill, you experience and knowledge; not just the time which you spend in shops.
Deep Dive - It has to be diving. Deep - with minimal time for cheezing something somewhere. Dive! Not to sit in city for some days. Of course you could do - but its _not right_ to get advantages for time which you spend in shops.
Challenge - it whas to be competition. Fair. So everyone would have equal options and possibilites to get into ladder.
There is no way to ignore cheezing, especially if there is a competition. And we got it
http://www.tomenet.eu/legends-iddc.php . You don't cheeze - you have little chances to compete with people who do. Example:
I've just gave ~50k (25k gold + 33k iron crown) from one char to another @ -1000 town. I could repeat it more times; do it in 2k also. Cover all resistances. Its easy to do. And its boring. It makes me stop playing IDDC - I don't have desire to grind to get certain advantages. Its like using cheats in the game - game become boring. But IDDC design has such possibilities in mechanics right now. If there is a ladder and competition - people would use 'holes' in game design. It has to be fixed. Again: there is already anti-cheeze for not allowing trading in first 5 floors. So devs started this anti-cheezing trend long time ago. With this 3 steps it could be almost completely finished and without too much efforts ('o' function, 'player stores', 'stealing restrictions' - already implemented.. need to customize it).
Again, there is most obvious cheezing 'hole'; an algorythm:
1) create "A" character (for example, batty with stealing), go till -1000. It would be your "bank" character.
2) create "B" second IDDC character (batty rogue again - cause of speed bonus) and go like a hurricane to -1000
3) take all stuff from "B" to "A". Your bank character would get ~20-25k gold, useful items and equipment (some arts&egos could cost _a lot_, so its much more then just 25k)
4) delete "B" character and go paragraph 2
5) when you get enough gold for top equip - create your "main" char and play. Do it till you get to -2000 & repeat there.
Its ok to have cheezing in 'non-IDDC' gameplay. But in IDDC it has to be RESTRICTED.
IronMan.
Deep Dive.
Challenge.
So I still trust in initial 3 steps (please check 1st message in the topic):
1) order anything - so you don't need to sit shops for months to cheeze sales and certain items for months.
Right now, IDDC = shopping grind.
2) 'player stores' - so you can't transfer money or items without anything in return,
no cheeze in IDDC
3) stealing restrictions. Its forbidden to sell stolen goods at via 'player store'. To make previous 1 and 2 points work well.
Also I like Pondos idea:
allow trading freely only with those players wich did enter in a same party.
But I'll add to it - allow it only for
'Iron Team'-type parties
It would make game IDDC more dynamic and fair - all players would be equal, no matter how hours you stayed in the shop
Only you _playing_ skill (and of course luck
) would matter.
p.s.
I hope its undestandable despite of my bad English that this '3 steps' would make gameplay _harder_, not easier. People wouldn't be able to buy items on 'sales' or cheeze with alts. They have to fight to get items, not to sit in towns. 1 hour in the dungeon is equal to week sitting in shop, but shops are safe. I don't understand why some people protect current IDDC gameplay holes so vigorously... Are you fans of sitting shops for months? Damm you could do it anyway, stay in town as much as you want, even with this'3 steps'. You wouldn't get any advantages from it though... And its right. Wanna make character more powerful - go and fight. Town sitting has to do nothing to your character power _in IDDC_.
IronMan.
Deep Dive.
Challenge. its not
Grindfest Shopping Cheezing Townsitting.