Decrease cash flow by adding ridiculously expensive very cool looking items

[Torben]

I am talking about awesome looking pieces of armors or weapons.  Not better in stats than others,  but increadably cool or unique.

people can show off they got gold,  tournaments can buy them as trophies, etc etc..

thanks to ganner for this epic idea

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http://forum.c-rpg.net/index.php/topic,30294.msg445172.html#msg445172

here a few possibilities:

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THE 'MOUSTACHE MASKED' HELMET
Dates from about 1525
mustache and gnjus nose?  2million!
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the horned helmet.
Made by Konrad Seusenhofer. Part of an armour presented by the Holy Roman Emperor, Maximilian I, to Henry VIII.
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i´d say thats worth 4 million.

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/mharrsch/808248835/
Armor of Infante Luis Prince of Asturias Steel blued and gilt gilt brass silk cotton metallic yard paper French dated 1712 
8 million : )

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500k

you get my point : )

[Leshma]

They will probably introduce respec for gold feature, can't imagine better gold sink than that.

[Herkkutatti]

Yes please, but only if the upkeep is only 1% or 0,5%
With normal upkeep i would only use it in EU 3

[Gurnisson]

Already suggested this, but I only mentioned the Boulder on Stick and the Looney Tunes Axe

[Leshma]

Adding unbalanced items isn't solution.

[Torben]

Adding unbalanced items isn't solution.

I am talking about awesome looking pieces of armors or weapons. Not better in stats than others,  but increadably cool or unique.

people can show off they got gold,  tournaments can buy them as trophies, etc etc..

[Elindor]

like the idea!
but  yeah upkeep % would have to be significantly lowered because otherwise they would be unusable

buying respecs is a good money sink too...and less work for the devs

[Gurnisson]

Adding unbalanced items isn't solution.

They never were unbalanced, just quite silly

[Vkvkvk]

They never were unbalanced, just quite silly

Hehhh, I don't know, the looney toon axe with if I remember right, 190 reach and 50 cut damage with sideswings and a speed of like 86 or something like that was kind of overpowered.

[Bulzur]

Hehhh, I don't know, the looney toon axe with if I remember right, 190 reach and 50 cut damage with sideswings and a speed of like 86 or something like that was kind of overpowered.

It was kinda before. But it disapeared before the early hit detection.
Seeing it nowadays will only result in addition teamhitting. Or glancing on your allies.
So a pretty bad weapon, all in all.

To OP : Why not. More money sink is definitely what we need. But i always prefered the "personalisation" of our items. "Trading" one +3, to make an already existant +3 item to a "name" item, with the same stats. Who would not want to pick up "Retribution", George's fine flamberge ?