Enchantments; The Photon Strikes Back

[blue_photon 8]

But anyways, how does the process become more difficult.

Well, gems have a split point, lower quality gems are harder to find said split point on, higher quality gems are easier to find the split point on and contain more magical essence.

[bsb23 303]

So its easier to make harder enchantments, that doesn't seem very well balanced to me why would anyone even bother using the lower levels unless they were extremely desperate. Also I did research on this, the tool that was used to drill into to make the hole was a bradawl and hand brace although i don't think it would be necessary to put in the bradawl as it just makes a small indent for the hand brace. I can't find how they would make the shape better fitting for oddly shaped gems, I suppose a chisel-like tool was used but i still don't find this necessary the hand brace should be all we need to add.

[Peffern 94]

Sorry guys I'm back. I had an extremely busy week and will be for the next 7. Hopefully I can still post a little though. As for eternal and lumi, two things: first I will help you guys troll a little more. You said creeper behavior can be justified: Creepers are sentient plant-based organisms. They grow as subtle clusters in the grass, however, when there is little light they can metamorphose (quite quickly) into the being that is currently outside your house. They explode because they have a symbiotic relationship with a certain species of fly. When the creepers explode, their seeds fall on the ground. However, the creeper fly (as it is known) eats dead and rotten flesh. So if a creeper kills with its explosion, its seeds get scattered via the creeper flies.

second, I think this is enough...

[blue_photon 8]

*photonderp - post not useful - deleting*

[EternalUndeath 1,208]

oh christ, this thread again?

[dunkleosteus 2,425]

A lot of you are assuming that we're going to use this system.

[blue_photon 8]

A lot of you are assuming that we're going to use this system.

O.o they are?

It was just a suggestion that I whipped up in a few hours... .-.

[dunkleosteus 2,425]

O.o they are?

It was just a suggestion that I whipped up in a few hours... .-.

we prefer to be given suggestions than be handed an idea on a silver platter. There's not enough room to expand and develop an idea when you do it for us

[blue_photon 8]

we prefer to be given suggestions than be handed an idea on a silver platter. There's not enough room to expand and develop an idea when you do it for us

It can be easily modified, I just made a GUI picture and explained a system that could work pretty nicely...

Don't hate me for this .-.

--blue

[Jed1314 420]

Hey, Eternal is a bit eccentric sometimes, but that's a good thing. He offers unique perspectives, and has some interesting insights. Instead of calling him stupid (If that is, in fact, what you're doing, your metaphor is slightly lost on me...) you could have just asserted your belief that not everything in the game needs to be justified. Or whatever. Geez.

As far as me seeming trollish, that's partly due to this being about gems and enchantment, and I'm a little worn on that subject. As a matter of fact, I was going to post a thread titled "Screw Enchantments," where I intended to suggest we scrap traditional enchantments entirely and move them all to more sensible areas of gameplay. For instance, speed enchantments could be replaced with sharpening, and durability ones with reforging. These could stack up to a certain limit, making it so that a given tool would become more valuable with enough care. Supernatural ones, like smite could be passed over to silvered daggers, and so on. Fire ones could be related to hell. (Forged from a mythical hell ore, or simply forged in hell?) I haven't given it a lot of thought, and those are just examples other people have gone over at length in other threads, so I didn't bother posting.

I'd just need to find something to do with gems so that they're useful for something besides glamming up your junk. :U

Oh, also, when I use :U that generally means I'm not taking myself serious because I think I sound ridiculous.

+1 to screw enchanting. It sounds interesting

[blue_photon 8]

*sprinkles some rebirthing dust on his topic after patching some holes in it*

o3o

Yes, I am back, fear my gem enchanting system!

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