04-26-2007, 06:18 PM
I think the "word would get around" comment would be that if you made examples of people doing obvious exploits, they would tell their friends and everybody would be too scared to take advantage of the next obvious exploit.
As far as discoveries go, the Shadow -> Water is not the problem. While it's a nice transmute that I would love to have... it only really saves me 3-4g per day and it's not going to kill me if I never get it. If trivial stuff like that were the only thing in the discovery system, I'd be OK with it.
The game breaker here is the flasks. They are -necessary- for a lot of encounters. Spastically creating huge amounts of potions is no way to handle such an important part of the game. Especially since the way the game works, it could easily take somebody 10,000 pots to discover a flask, and then he gets shadow fortification.
If there was an alternative (but still very difficult) way to force the flasks, I'd be OK with it. Off the top of my head, I'd say exulted with scryer/aldor, and then 100 high level marks and 10 shoulder tokens per recepie sounds about right. Random casuals could get lucky every now and again, but a guild that NEEDED that flask to progress could make a concerted drive for it.
As far as discoveries go, the Shadow -> Water is not the problem. While it's a nice transmute that I would love to have... it only really saves me 3-4g per day and it's not going to kill me if I never get it. If trivial stuff like that were the only thing in the discovery system, I'd be OK with it.
The game breaker here is the flasks. They are -necessary- for a lot of encounters. Spastically creating huge amounts of potions is no way to handle such an important part of the game. Especially since the way the game works, it could easily take somebody 10,000 pots to discover a flask, and then he gets shadow fortification.
If there was an alternative (but still very difficult) way to force the flasks, I'd be OK with it. Off the top of my head, I'd say exulted with scryer/aldor, and then 100 high level marks and 10 shoulder tokens per recepie sounds about right. Random casuals could get lucky every now and again, but a guild that NEEDED that flask to progress could make a concerted drive for it.