Ec Tents
 

This is just an idea i thought up within about 20 seconds lol
Anyways i just was thinking for 1 ec you can craft a tent?
Its like a little tiny 1 manned room, big enough for a chest and a bed.
Lockable and you can pick up and place wherever. However it has con and needs to be repaired with cloth. If it dies it will fall on the floor as an item and anyone basically walking past could grab it.
Tents are repairable even if collapsed.

Reasons this be good?

(1) If quitting graal for a time, put all items inside, then pick up tent and log off. So when u come back u got something to come back to.
Perfect solution to item losage from inactivness.

(2) Nice little house for homeless ppl hehe

(3) People who cannot be bothered to build house.

Its a nice little base for you to use wherever even on main island. However there are restrictions to where you can place and these are also applied in towns. you must place quite a certain distance away form a town in the 'wilderness'.

Maybe you work for mmt and you are a supplier? great place to set your tent is by the fishing lake maybe?

There is quite a lot of potential in these things and they would not flood the landscape. There is a lot of unoccupied land where it is nothing but bomy upon bomy so these tents should not change the landscape much.

Also make it a Gold+ thing to get those trials subscribing!

just a thought in anyways. thanks. :)

hmm.. craftable tents for about 20 cloth...

Well it would almost require something like a boat then.

Main reason i want tents is so if i decide to take a vacation i don't need to worry about my items in my house. i can put everything even furniture into my tent, close it. Put it in inventory (cannot walk fast at all with full tent) and i can log off knowing my items are safe and i will have something to come back to.

When i come back and say all my houses gone? I open tent and go inside, then i can grab my nessasary items for mining ect then leave tent and start to build myself a new house. its certainly a lot better than buying 5 accounts which was suggested X.x

But you dont lose items from not logging on???

Well, yea, a tent would be neat to have. But how would we get this into GK? Staff really don't like to look at open ended ideas too much, usually you almost have to help them along and do the work for them. It's not so bad actually, what you want to do is more so have a portable/packable mini house. My guess would be to use a random level generator like the ships use, and then just have some sort of portable kit to set up your tent. Scripts used for examples would most likely end up being from boats and houses really.

Maybe a bank where you could store up to, oh 500 KG of items (just an example idea) would be more plausible for GK.

He ment from loosing you're house.

I love this idea, It'd be really easy to get the gfx for this (Hey wait a sec, aren't there reasonable looking tents on Zone? Couldnt we use their gfx?)
and we could easily make a funky lil' gani of the player unzipping/zipping the tent to get into it :P Nice idea. ^^

There are two gfxs of the Zone tent, one for when people are inside and one for when they are not... could we not use the same system for our tents? And also is this the tent you meant, Chris?

maybe im a little late for this thread but...


its an awesome idea o.o

I don't agree how that tent is made, but interesting idea nonetheless.

yes pick a better gfx for the tent, and it sounds like a great idea.

sandz (bitterchaos) has a nice tent, atleast i think he made it...

Well get it and post it on this thread. I'm CRAZEH about this :D

This is actually a pretty good idea. I would personally like to be able to store things away in case my house falls.

OMG!!! did you say good idea? I must not be reading this properly... Thats the first time i've ever read you say that. =P

this seems to be quite a good idea. any word on the tent gfx yet?

i know markb gfxed a gk tent before, i can check and see if he has it still..

The problem is that my cynicism often overrides my optimism, so it doesn't really get noticed, and I'd prefer it be kept that way.

that would be nice. this idea could come in real handy if implimented properly.

Probably a bit late for me to post this.. but I would really like this to be done. Don't let this fade like other ideas... come on,, imagine how nice it would be to take a long long break from this game knowing although your house is gone.. your items inside it are safe. A lot of reasons players leave and never return is because they got nothing to return to! no items and friends probably forgot or quit themselves. So I feel this is a must-have for the server. And for some ECs or even cloth with a limited crafting quantity per account.. this is ideal! And due to it's slowing speed when walking... it makes it pointless to use it as a type of super-sack of holding.

I actually like this idea, I would really like to craft a tent! :D

Yes but if you had tents then what is the point of a house? people will not use them anymore they can just use a tent and it will kill the house system.

Yar exactly what I thought :\

Great minds think alike :D

I dont think a...dunno...4*6 tiles big (?) tent would kill the house system O.o

yeah make it so yu can only have 1 at a time. and make them rare. not too rare though. 5-10 ec's maybe

Thats way wrong... Players have houses and buy mansions.. why?
For space thats why. I don't really think tents should be too expensive either as its a way to keep your items from disappearing on house death.

Houses die overtime.... your tent probably will have con but does not need repair as its just a way to get rid of neglected tents and returns to the player's acct? it has an owner system. If this is impossible to do this when account offline ((i dunno how the scripts work)) then it will disappear until player logs on then go in the account.

Personally I cannot see myself coming back if my house fell and i'm pretty sure thats the same for most people. I find graal boring as it is, so if my items are gone when i go on a 4 month holiday abroad...i'd probably not return. I shouldn't have to ask people to keep them alive either! This game is too player dependant!

Wow, this is going well. Cmon you guys get motivated! We have Draenin actually interested :o

Actually, this tent idea won't override the house system - It's portable, but it's smaller and Holds LESS. It isn't purely meant as something to keep items in perminantly, just as more of a bag which you can...lock. And walk into...slightly. Houses are for decorating and holding mass amounts of items.

Thats exactly what i said.. just reworded haha.
Anyways bjorn doesn't agree with allowing players any kind of perminent storage as it seems he likes the fact Gk is dying on its arse.

I mean come on.. You gotta keep returning to the game every 2 months max to repair your house. Can you seriously be bothered with that?
Maybe if this game as amazing but its not. Its basically a game filled with 1 hit kill monsters and a bunch of characters drawn on paint shop pro.

Is it worth bothering my arse to get up in the morning or even logging onto here to repair my house? I'll leave that to you to answer as it is different for everyone.
But is the lack of this perminent storage damaging the server?

That is definately a yes is it not?

You forget some people have other things to do. If i go on holiday i have to rely on other people to repair my house. In my years in interacting with people i realise they are reliable on this game but why should we burden them with a task they hate performing for themselves???

Do they honestly think we enjoy this?
Hell no :p
i'm not saying anymore on this matter though, The staff are too blinded by the layer of bs which is known as GK.