SlimPickins

I only went back to 2008 in my search, so I didn't see that one. Interesting that Radu said in 2007 that he wanted hand grenades and Molotov cocktails but we don't have those.

But then you would need a slingshot. I suggest simply throwing rocks because no item (except rocks) is required. Anyone, even new players, can start throwing rocks at any time. Just pick them up and throw them. If you want something more accurate or that does more damage than a thrown rock, we already have bows and crossbows.

Others have suggested slingshots, potion grenades and throwing nets, but I never saw rock throwing in my search.

I would also like this.

I don't think particular guilds should have any advantages over other guilds. If there were, everyone would leave their guild and join the most powerful guild. Eventually there would be only one guild in the whole game, which is the same as having no guilds at all. Radu has said many times that EL allows for classless characters. He prefers that players be able to excel in any skill they want, not be limited to only a few skills.

The beekeeper hat. Don't take damage or stop harvesting when a bee stings. I like it.

Could it be a random mob, from rat to mare balungia? A large range of mobs? Best idea yet. Let it be a random creature ranging from rat up to yeti. It shouldn't be a monster so powerful that only a handful of fighters in the game can kill it. Remember, people harvest dung on single combat maps.

Having two different results from the same action might confuse people. This would be good only if it were an option that people could turn on or off.

I think cloaks that give 2 perks would be too powerful and give too much advantage. However, this idea could still work if the combo cloaks were to have negative aspects to balance out their positive aspects. Maybe combo cloaks that contain an exc cloak would have a chance to break while harvesting. Maybe combo cloaks that contain an MM cloak would only protect against low level monsters. Maybe combo cloaks that contain any kind of a fighting cloak would have a greater chance to break than regular cloaks.

Excellent idea. Silent NPC Day and Talkative NPC Day. Balance the bad with the good. Actually, neither day would affect me at all.

How about Day of Pick on Someone Your Own Size? Players can only attack creatures with a combat level equal to or higher than their own. PvP is unaffected. I don't think it's a big problem if some people need to delay doing the fighting daily quest by 6 hours.

I always assumed astro changes the chance to get food poisoned by toadstools. It sure seems that way. Toadstools are supposed to carry a 5% chance to cause poisoning. I've been poisoned by them 4 times in a row many times. If my math is correct, .05*.05*.05*.05 = .00000625, or a 1/16,000 chance to get food poisoned 4 times in a row. That seems unlikely unless something changes the probability to get poisoned by toadstools. Anyone out there who is good at math care to correct me?

Training won't help me find skunks in WS any faster.

This would be great. 4 options: keep first row, keep last row, keep first and rows, don't keep any rows.

Diablo had some 2 handed swords. You had to choose between using a 1 handed sword and a shield, and using a 2 handed sword and no shield. I think 2 handed swords could be added without a lot of new code since there are already functions that check to see if a player can wear a certain type of equipment. I like this idea, but I don't think items that are purely Asian should be added to the game. It would go against the theme. Most of the game elements are European style. A claymore or a 2 handed axe would be good. Battle hammers are supposed to be 2 handed weapons, anyway. I think 2 handed weapons should offer high damage, high critical to damage, poor accuracy and poor critical to hit. They may also need to increase defense a bit to make up for not being able to use a shield, but not by as much as an actual shield. Also, people have been arguing for a long time about what the best melee weapon is. We don't need to do that here.

If Radu is in Romania, how do we get the server running again? Can someone else restart the program or do we have to go without EL until Radu comes back?

Maybe make it so the nails recipe produces 4 nails instead of 1. Then nails will be cheaper than bars. It never made sense that it takes 2 bars to make 1 nail, anyway.

Idea 1 would make things a little more interesting, but it probably won't get implemented since skunks can already poison. Idea 2 has already been suggested and rejected. Idea 3 has been suggested a few different ways and all the ways were rejected. By rejected, I mean not implemented, even after much time and debate.

That would essentially be a MM cape with some added features. I don't think radu would allow such a cape to be sold by an NPC, since regular MM capes aren't sold by an NPC. Other than that, I don't think this idea would be a problem, but I don't think radu will implement it.

You can wear an exc cape without a problem. Just remember what Raistlin said, it's the number of harvests that matters, not the quantity in your inventory.

If, as LittleLooter said, the server needs to be restarted to change the pk status of a map, then this suggestion is impossible. Aside from that, I don't like the idea of a map becoming pk while I'm on it.

It would be nice if we could see maps the C1 when we're on C2 and vice versa. Usually, when people ask for help but I'm on the wrong continent to see the map they need help with, I go to the maps folder and open the bitmaps. Even that doesn't show map markers, though, so this would be a good addition.

This seems to be a perfectly reasonable suggestion.

The reason xp books exist is to allow people to level grind without creating a huge amount of useless items. Radu wanted people to stop making 100k leather helms per week, so he gave them manu xp books instead. Magic is different. Training magic doesn't create items, it consumes items. So, no need for a book.

Good idea. I've always hated not knowing whether I'm strong enough to fight something I've never fought before. Right now, the only ways to know if you're strong enough to kill a creature is to look it up on an unofficial web site, or to attack it. I think Cid had this ability in Final Fantasy 2.