First off, hi, I'm Xenolord. First time here.
On to Business: Weapon customization, to me, is pointless. Sure you get the plus twenty percent to damage, but to me, that doesn't make it customized. Now, this thought has been milling around in my head for a while, but I've never gotten around to voicing it. What if you could name customized weapons? Like, turn the Fiery Dragon Sword of Defense into Trogdor the Burninator(R), Or, in my case, my Ebon Mursaat Hammer of Fortitude into The Hammer of Justice.
The ability to name weapons (For a minimal fee, of course, and only once.) Would make weapon customizations a whole lot more... interesting. Right, well, that's the idea.
If It's Customized, Make it Customized!
Xenolord
lioka pelenoria
Well, id accept this, except people will name their fiery gladius swords "Lightsaber" and then ctrl-click spam all the time. Of course, it would be cool to rename my weapon, and this will probably happen anyway, considering how anet works.
Xenolord
Yea, well that's the risk you run. Where ever there are intelligent people, I always say, there's bound to be the noob-spammer.
Besides, if all-else fails, that's what the ignore list is for! (Mine grows daily)
Besides, if all-else fails, that's what the ignore list is for! (Mine grows daily)
Riesz
I like this idea. I'd also love for a little panel (similar to Asheron's Call) where you can write a little note on the weapon. Would be really nice, especially if it was to be given as a gift.
The Pointless
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Well, id accept this, except people will name their fiery gladius swords "Lightsaber" and then ctrl-click spam all the time.
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I'm all for it, just as long as there's a similar reporting system for offensive weap names as the system for reporting character names...
Xenolord
I agree. We should have a pre-determined list of unallowed names. Such as:
Lightsaber
The Scwartz
1337 Longsword of Pwnage +1337
Hammer Rin the Ladies (Shiver)
Your Momma (After all, who wants to see "I'm wielding Your Momma...")
That's all I can think of...
Lightsaber
The Scwartz
1337 Longsword of Pwnage +1337
Hammer Rin the Ladies (Shiver)
Your Momma (After all, who wants to see "I'm wielding Your Momma...")
That's all I can think of...
The Hand Of Death
This was mentioned before, and people rose some good points. People will name their weapons are horribly stupid names like "THE SWORD OF PWNAZORING!!!" and then just spam it.
Someones suggestion was make it so only you could see it, but then that makes it pointless to name it.
Someones suggestion was make it so only you could see it, but then that makes it pointless to name it.
Cjlr
Aw, come on? Who hasn't secretly always wanted to be able to say to someone, "I see your Schwartz is as big as mine" ?
And then you could counter it by swapping in your Shiro and Varesh mini-pets. "No! I didn't see you playing with your dolls again, SIR!"
And then you could counter it by swapping in your Shiro and Varesh mini-pets. "No! I didn't see you playing with your dolls again, SIR!"
Bryant Again
Huh...Well that's an awesome little idea...I like this, hah.
Jesse
Mabey a problem to solve al of these is to limit spamming. They have it in town so why not have the option or have the enitre game only allow you to spam something 3 or 4 times before it says "Please wait and try again" or whatever it says in town if you spam something or have a conversation with someone and you just happen to type fast (>.<) Dont you just hate that when you can type fast and it blocks you when your trying to buy something or tell someone something. Anyway I digress
Terra Xin
Welcome to the forums.
This has been suggested many times before. Read stickies^^.
Anyway, bad idea for custom weapon naming. If you spam out what weapon it is you're holding, theres a good chance someone's going to ask you "where did you get that green from?"
This has been suggested many times before. Read stickies^^.
Anyway, bad idea for custom weapon naming. If you spam out what weapon it is you're holding, theres a good chance someone's going to ask you "where did you get that green from?"
Phoenix Arrows
I think this is a good idea, but it would cause the servers to have to hold more data. Dunno if that accounts to lag.
Priest Of Sin
OMG i want to name my 15^50 glowing maul "Chuck Norris". And my necro death staff? It will be named... "Sally".
Tide to Go
I wouldl ove that I love naming stuff in the game and the weapon names would express the character
Thallandor
Welcome to the forums,
btw
Sword of a Thousand Truths
It all depends on how much of the code needs to be changed to make this worthwhile. If this is popular in the first place to warrant a change.
btw
Sword of a Thousand Truths
It all depends on how much of the code needs to be changed to make this worthwhile. If this is popular in the first place to warrant a change.
GrandCharm~
OK diablo2 kk thx ?
kang
Everyone in my guild knows the names of my weapons anyway.
they fear the wrath of "ROCK ON A STICK", which is my ruinic hammer
used to be something other than rock, but I changed it
my sword and shield are greens anyway
and I dont need to rename an iteam to get a humourous call, I just pull out my banana sythe
they fear the wrath of "ROCK ON A STICK", which is my ruinic hammer
used to be something other than rock, but I changed it
my sword and shield are greens anyway
and I dont need to rename an iteam to get a humourous call, I just pull out my banana sythe
ll Templar ll
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Yea, well that's the risk you run. Where ever there are intelligent people, I always say, there's bound to be the noob-spammer.
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=HT=Ingram
I actually always wanted customization to allow for a bit of style design to it... But the current game model really is not equipt to handle that...
Even better to me is requiring some materials to make the weapon amped up more. Lets say you have a Axe with a Prefix, suffix, and Inscription on it, and for a fee you can customize that weapon into a special unique green based on your Character name. However it would STILL be customized so not for sale. But if you took the time to craft a high quality weapon from all your drops and upgrades, The blacksmith should make it a permanent weapon for your use.
well Its just a thought... Alternatively I wanted to make the customization process based on account rather then character. But that was pretty much dismissed as not going to happen... I guess its lucky the heroes can used our customized stuff in the end. So we do have that to be thankful for. I just wish the blacksmith actually did something blacksmith like. Or had more purpose in the game. Like selling upgrades is need be... Though I am not really too interested in that, Its another idea that always seems to pop up for them.
Even better to me is requiring some materials to make the weapon amped up more. Lets say you have a Axe with a Prefix, suffix, and Inscription on it, and for a fee you can customize that weapon into a special unique green based on your Character name. However it would STILL be customized so not for sale. But if you took the time to craft a high quality weapon from all your drops and upgrades, The blacksmith should make it a permanent weapon for your use.
well Its just a thought... Alternatively I wanted to make the customization process based on account rather then character. But that was pretty much dismissed as not going to happen... I guess its lucky the heroes can used our customized stuff in the end. So we do have that to be thankful for. I just wish the blacksmith actually did something blacksmith like. Or had more purpose in the game. Like selling upgrades is need be... Though I am not really too interested in that, Its another idea that always seems to pop up for them.
Some Guru Named Kai
I like the idea, anything that means more customizing, is always fun.
But people have to look at pros and cons. Might be a bad idea since it'll increase the dreadful ctrl click "Look at me,me,me 100 times!"
But people have to look at pros and cons. Might be a bad idea since it'll increase the dreadful ctrl click "Look at me,me,me 100 times!"
The Silver Star
All you would get is little boys runnign around saying "Im wieling Your Mum".. great....
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Dark Helmet
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Originally Posted by Cjlr
Aw, come on? Who hasn't secretly always wanted to be able to say to someone, "I see your Schwartz is as big as mine" ?
And then you could counter it by swapping in your Shiro and Varesh mini-pets. "No! I didn't see you playing with your dolls again, SIR!" |
Gosh!
PanGammon
Personally I think you need to look at this thing objectively which is what everyone else here is doing. You get people who take it seriously and you get the I'm wielding a Fiery LEETZOR HAXZORIOXZOR of Fortitude people.
IMO customization should make a Furious Gladius of Fortitude into Pan Gammon's Gladius etc.........
IMO customization should make a Furious Gladius of Fortitude into Pan Gammon's Gladius etc.........
TEX Cougar
I could name my reefclaw's refuge michelle! (me shell?) haha aha ha...
EDIT: yea its a shield, i know.
It'd be nice to be able to customize them too
EDIT: yea its a shield, i know.
It'd be nice to be able to customize them too
Sophitia Leafblade
I would love to be able to Rename my bow: "The Bow of Justice" or my axe "Heidi's ThunderAxe of Hate"
i do agree it would be an ace idea, but i also agree you will get those annoying spammers, perhaps they could add an anti spam thing for weopons, like u can only say its equiped 1 every 30 seconds or so, they would reduce it quite a bit but it wouldnt stop the problem, banning some preset names or parts of names would but i dont know its thats something Anet could do.
i do agree it would be an ace idea, but i also agree you will get those annoying spammers, perhaps they could add an anti spam thing for weopons, like u can only say its equiped 1 every 30 seconds or so, they would reduce it quite a bit but it wouldnt stop the problem, banning some preset names or parts of names would but i dont know its thats something Anet could do.
MDeshame
No thanks.
Lets not give the jack @sses in the game something else to spam the crap out of while in game.
It's bad enough that everyone spams their weapon set in game, can you imagine the heathens naming their weapons "Up in Ya", "I put my Schwartz", "You Suxxors", "My 1337 Longsword of Pwnage" and then having the children draw genitilia on the minimap while spaming their weapon sets and getting something like You suxxors, my l337 londsword or pwnage, while I put my schwartz up in ya!
Lets not give the jack @sses in the game something else to spam the crap out of while in game.
It's bad enough that everyone spams their weapon set in game, can you imagine the heathens naming their weapons "Up in Ya", "I put my Schwartz", "You Suxxors", "My 1337 Longsword of Pwnage" and then having the children draw genitilia on the minimap while spaming their weapon sets and getting something like You suxxors, my l337 londsword or pwnage, while I put my schwartz up in ya!
Sophitia Leafblade
what if they got rid of the call my weopon ability since now taht u can call builds its of no real use cause u can tell a persons weopon type generally by there build the only thing the call my weopon feature does is allow people to show off there green weopons, speaking highly generalised there ofc. But that would allow this interesting feature to work nicly wouldnt it?
Thom Bangalter
All my weapons are getting named "your mom". Because as someone else noted, then I'd be wielding your mom.
Xenolord
This has been stated above:
But, as a kind of trade off for naming your weapon, the game disables Weapon Calling. That way you can't spam "I'm wielding <Insert Weapon Name Here>" Fifty million times, or:
Or you could put a heavy limit on how many times you can call it. (Like once every two hours.) That way you can still call out your weapon if someone wanted to know what you had. Or:
Or, you could always do what they did with names. Have a list of words which cannot be included. Just make it ring an alarm whenever certain key words (I E "Mom", "1337", Pwnzorzingness") And it tells you "Hey, stupid. Can't do that." Or:
You could always do a combination of options Three and Two.
But, as a kind of trade off for naming your weapon, the game disables Weapon Calling. That way you can't spam "I'm wielding <Insert Weapon Name Here>" Fifty million times, or:
Or you could put a heavy limit on how many times you can call it. (Like once every two hours.) That way you can still call out your weapon if someone wanted to know what you had. Or:
Or, you could always do what they did with names. Have a list of words which cannot be included. Just make it ring an alarm whenever certain key words (I E "Mom", "1337", Pwnzorzingness") And it tells you "Hey, stupid. Can't do that." Or:
You could always do a combination of options Three and Two.
The Pointless
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(Like once every two hours.)
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t3hmeperson
Why not instead of allowing people to completely name their weapons themselves, allow them to choose from a list of words and prefixes and stuff. So someone could name their sword like "Corrupted Spatha of Justice." Maybe also allow people to put their name in front of the weapon, giving something like "X Sparticus X's Corrupted Spatha of Justice."
The Pointless
I was thinking the same, but my idea was more complicated. I think yours might be too limiting. If the wordset is small then people could still have weapons with the same name...
Lexar
I'm wielding a toothbrush and a spoon!
yeah it takes away even more from the rpg immersion in guildwars.. /unsigned
yeah it takes away even more from the rpg immersion in guildwars.. /unsigned
shardfenix
I think Anet's gonna stick with the strrefs for now. They can't have items use strrefs, then switch to a local variable when you customize it. It's a programming headache.
LuckyGiant
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Sorry, the only reason I can see someone wanting this implemented is so they can ctrl click the damn stupid name they came up with all the time...pointless.
Sorry, the only reason I can see someone wanting this implemented is so they can ctrl click the damn stupid name they came up with all the time...pointless.
FelixCarter
Lol. I suggested a "Personalization Shop" ealier sometime ago. Same idea. Yet somehow different.
I always wanted a sword named "Deepercut" or a healing staff named "The Inner Light"
I always wanted a sword named "Deepercut" or a healing staff named "The Inner Light"
Smokindan
I think personal names are a bad idea myself. But a better trade off for customization would be different mods such as energy gains, health or some such.
Feme Assassin
hmm i would name my fire staff cheese sandwich or meatball
kang
Simple way of getting rid of the calling problem.
I'm wielding a customised fellblade.
only show the name in the inventory and in the trade menu
I'm wielding a customised fellblade.
only show the name in the inventory and in the trade menu
Quid Pro Quo
/Signed
People spam their current weapons anyway. If you try to idiot-proof everything you'll drive yourself mad.
People spam their current weapons anyway. If you try to idiot-proof everything you'll drive yourself mad.