Heya guys.
Just had another moment of light bulbs, so let me write it up and get dat reaction.
Idea name: Phantom Stall.
Aim: Create a stall for characters without even being logged in, the real character can still play around normally. A fake "Phantom" character that does not exist will appear and stall your items FOR you.
Reason: We had waaay too many players last time. 4.5k was the peak, it was way too much and we did have a few lags when it went over 4k.
So we thought, why not remove all the stall players right? But consignment really sucks. So does the web stall and auctionhouse. This is a MMORPG, your not suppose to go to some website to buy items or shit. That's not what a MMORPG is about.
So while having a good smoke the following idea came to my mind.
Example:
Character name: Akasch
- Akasch has 10 items he likes to stall.
- He goes to DW Storage, creates a stall, puts the items into the stall.
- Inside the stall he writes: "Save stall".
- Akasch gets disconnected. (Temporary solution, I'll find a better way instead of DC-ing)
- A new char appears: "Akasch's Phantom" (This is the charname).
- Akasch's Phantom has a stall. Exactly where Akasch was standing.
- When Akasch gets disconnected, his stalled items will be removed.
- Akasch can relog again and do whatever the heck he wants to do, jobbing, dungeons, fapping et cetera.
- If he doesn't want to login, he can stay offline while his Phantom is still stalling. Mr. Phantom will stand there for 48 hours at least, we can make this longer maybe. For example, you buy a silk something for Max phantom stall time of 1 week. (We will sell you optional shit that doesnt affect the real gameplay, we earn money to pay shit, you dont feel like its pay2win. win-win situation.)
- People can buy things from Akasch's Phantom, you will get the gold added to your storage directly.
Want a bite of this?
EDIT: Max limit of 2 Phantom stalls per char should be fine.