After running this system for several months and gathering feedback from both players and staff, we have discussed and identified areas for improvement in the weapons custom crafting system. As a result, we have made some changes to enhance the overall experience. The following outline highlights the changes and the above has also been edited to reflect them:
'Type' means any similar style weapon, so all spears are a type, all swords are a type, etc.
Non-amazing (very good) weapons:- The PC must first have mastered the weapon type before they can attempt to craft up to very good quality.
- Once a PC has successfully CC'd a very good weapon by working up to it over 3 CCs, they can continue to CC recipes for additional very good weapons of that type with no more pre-requisite crafts.
Amazing weapons (Salarr, tribal specialty):- The PC must first have mastered the weapon type before they can attempt to craft up to very good quality.
- Amazing weapons will all be one-off items and non-craftable.
- Once a PC has successfully CC'd an amazing weapon by working up to it over 3 CCs, they can continue to CC recipes for additional amazing weapons of that type with no more pre-requisite crafts.
- Each crafter PC can make up to 4 of these per RL year, across all weapon types, and must wait 2 RL months between them (so every 3rd month).
The initial 3 step process is still required for both 'very good' and 'amazing' (dependent on clan status) where a PC must work their way up, but this only needs to be done once per weapon type.
Consider this as a crafter going beyond mastering a particular weapon type and becoming a specialist of sorts, once they have achieved that status they then retain it.
Submitting Custom Crafts GenerallyWe are also going to once again start enforcing our written rule that ALL custom crafts require a log (see help custom crafting, point 7, last sentence). We have stopped enforcing that for a while, but have decided for the sake roleplaying quality to once again require this.
7. You must fill out the entire form provided in the request. Depending on the item type, you may have to provide
additional details as well (for example, a taste and scent message for food). There will be certain code aspects that
staff will determine, but everything else is in your hands. A log showing the craft process or 1-2 paragraphs explaining
what your character's design process is and why your character is making the item is required.
https://www.armageddon.org/help/view/Custom%20Crafting