Testing StationCash Point of Need: Equipment Mending
There are a lot of StationCash items in EQ2, and the question on the EQ2 team’s mind is: Are people not buying ‘service’ items because they don’t want them, or because they can’t find them?
To find the answer to that question, next week we’ll see the [eq2u]Forgiveness Potion[/eq2u] disappear from the Marketplace and in its place, a button directly in the Character window and all Menders that allows you to repair your equipment right on the spot for StationCash.
As you can see in the screenshot above, the Point of Need button appears in the lower left corner of your Character window if your equipment is below 50%. It allows you to repair your equipment immediately using StationCash.
From the EQ2 Forums:
Hello once again, travelers,
I thought I’d call out a new system on Test as of today that is our next on-demand service focused on repairing items.
These small interface additions add options to repair all of your damaged equipped items for a flat rate of Station Cash. We have them in two places.
The first place you will see a new on-demand button is in the character sheet, but only if your gear is damaged 50% or more. This button appears as a small icon to the bottom right of where your character’s paperdoll is shown (opposite where the Overflow icon is placed).
Also, on NPCs and objects that provide repair services, you will find a new button to Repair All items for a flat rate of Station Cash.
We decided to offer these Repair options given that we already had a “Forgiveness Potion” on our marketplace that repairs equipped items and removes XP debt, but it is somewhat hidden and not well described. We want to make our current services easier to use if players choose to use them.
That in mind, we expect if these new additions are ready they will go live on Tuesday next week, March 19. At the same time, the Forgiveness Potion will be removed from the marketplace so this is effectively the last week we will sell it. We will be creating a potion for the marketplace that removes XP debt, though.
We encourage players to help us test these new options and appreciate that doing it may cause loss of character life. It’s for a good cause!
Holly Longdale
Producer, EQII
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Chronusxx
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It’s going to have to be stupidly cheap for anybody to bother compared to buying a few kits/getting a bot.
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Taivr
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If I didn’t have 100k+ dungeon marks with which to buy repair kits at any time and place, the only way I could see myself using this is if it only cost 1SC per repair, and even then just to get rid of the useless 17SC I somehow have.
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KuulKuum
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OOO, yes that exactly what I would want to do… DIE just so $OE can test this crap…
Get real SOE there is way enough stuff in game to fix/patch than to waste time doing this sort of stuff to our game.
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Trueflight
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I was against the stupid kronos icon they added to the window, this is just more useless junk they are forcing us to have in the window. At least give us an option to turn the crap off.
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Kruzzen
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all I can say is it is not used because it is not needed. Just one more thing to clutter and slow down my UI.
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Litlbigman
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SoE, stop trying to sell us your stuff in game. This is detestable. When I’m playing, I want to have fun, and not feel like a pigeon about to be plucked!
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Gash
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Damnit SOE, stop beating us over the head with this SC crap!!
I DONT want to see it on every window, you money-grubbing f**ks!
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Dedith
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Wow you guys are bitter. If you don’t wanna use it, ignore it. Frankly, I didn’t even know the forgiveness potions also repaired… not that I don’t already have mender bots, but still.
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Golur
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This may be useful – there may well be occassions when a Groups’ bots are down/timed out, or whatever – but it’s not something that people wil ldo regularly, I wouldn’t imagine.
As for SOE and SC – they are a Company, and they are in the business (and it is indeed a business, not a charity) to make max returns for their stockholders. you can’t really blame them for pushing this – really, my view is that things could be a lot worse, and SOE aren’t really that pushy on SC. Now, if they made it so repairs could ONLY be done through SC, that’s a different matter! Or shouldn’t I be giving them ideas……..
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B. Calhoun
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Oh JOY! Yet another button to accidentally click on, but this one will actually cost you!
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badcat
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Wow repair for sc??? How lazy can you get. I have repair bot, repair kits, we have repair mender in the guild hall and all over the place.
I take exception with the fact they say folks cant find a mender at, how stupid can somebody be.
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skippydippy
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Wow,just wow who on earth is going to buy this? words fail me
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Landiin
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“Menders have gone missing throughout Norath!” Is that the next Norathen Times headline?
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Lempo Of Everfrost
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Well I’ll assure you I won’t use it.
There are issues that need to be addressed primarily the fact that it can be used for an instant in combat repair. This should not be available, period.
Fix that and I couldn’t care less.
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Uberfuzzy
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The repair PoP is a joke for all the reasons already listed, but what I want enabled is the self raise one on the death window. It’s been in the UI code for weeks, but the assets are hidden. There are quite a few times I would have given soe 25cents to stop being dead without reviving across the zone
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tulsare
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hmm sounds ok i just don’t get the icon being on a mender window ? if all it does is repair and your all rdy at the mender,this makes me scratch my head .
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Le Clown
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what the hell? i don’t even..
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Eyedea
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you can instantly repair during combat with a mender bot, I’d imagine repair kits can be used the same way. I’ve never used one tbh…
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Whilhelmina
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One more interface window to change and cut the crap out. With a bit of luck the icon is on one of my old .dds and it won’t show anyway (like SC buttons on merchant windows and all hehe)
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Revekk
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Ah man seems a little odd. What’s next a popup when you only have 25 arrows or hammers left that allows you to buy them for SC? or potions or poisons?
Also unless I’m with a very new player, I don’t think I’d want to group with someone who’d go out without at least one of the items that allows you to repair.
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Dark
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Well I’m done with the game again. I should have figured they wouldn’t stop with the knowledge window, gotta add a big giant SC sign to the Character window too.
It’s a shame after I put so much work into my guild, I should have known better, especially after whatever the hell CoE was supposed to be.
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uberfuzzy
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I just noticed something
WHY? Just remove this ancient mechanic from the game already. Stop giving us forgive wands/potions in the vet packs. I’ve never ever EVER used one, nor could find someone who did. That 0.5% (yes, that HALF of ONE) debt-per-death get burned off so quickly now, (and even faster by NOT playing wtf?), even when solo.
The most debt I’ve ever gotten upto (when not leveling safefall) was around 8%, and that was during a raid, on new content, and most (<1% left) of that was burned off by the time I logged in the next days raid (21 hours later).
I understand the idea of it, and in the early days of finding your 5(?) soul shards lessened the debt from a large amount down to a tiny ammount, yeah, 10%/20%/40% debt would be a annoying, and I would love a wand to wipe that, but 0.5% is a lousy joke of a mechanic, and should just be commented out like coin weight (and later weight entirely).
Sorry to steal the post for a rant (not that I think SOE reads these comments), but it is related.
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Kwill
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I don’t see them ever removing exp debt only because I am sure the philosophy is there has to be some kind of penalty for death … even if it is in effect meaningless at this point. Especially when you still get it at 95, which is especially senseless.
Broken armor is a much more effective check than some red on the bar.
Not everyone has a mender bot available all the time, and the forgiveness potion is handy, tbh. You don’t need it, though, as people have pointed out.
Instant combat repair doesn’t seem all that bad. Is it gamebreaking in some way?
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Whilhelmina
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Hey ! I used the forgive wands in the vet packs ! er… ok… because at that time we still had xp debt and not the tiny slice we have now.
For your knowledge:
The repair button is a flat rate of 150 SC for repairing only (potion of repair+debt removal was 50SC)
It shows up at 50%
It can be used while in combat
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zerigo
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Ya, gold members should get an option to turn this crap off. They already get $15 a month from us, they need to stop trying to nickle and dime us to death.
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Madcat
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goldmember should totaly get rid of those ads/marketplace.
I agree with Zerigo.
I can understand it for the freebee players, but not for the old membership that make this game last so long. More annoying than anything for veteran.
Remove debt and repair kit are very bad joke do they really understand what they talk about ?
They should just add a donation button like on some freeware…. instead of trying to refile useless thing.
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Avianna
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Here is what I read:
We have this handy item in marketplace that repairs equipment and removes debt. We are removing that item so that we can now charge you separately for the repair and the debt removal oh and yes it will be a annoying in your face icon on your character screen rather than a nice item that you can find conveniently in the marketplace should you need it. Happy Hunting!
I Vote AD-BLOCK for EQ2.
OH…. and just an FYI the forgiveness potion that is being removed, you know, the one that repairs equipment AND removes exp debt is .50 on the market place. That is being removed to add a button on my char screen that I don’t want there that charges me three times the amount and does half the job. That’s right! Annoying repair button $1.50 per click. Way to give it to the players up the arse SOE!
Someone was saying something about greed?????
Just sayin’….
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Foodcity
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I have to agree, some kind of Ad-block would be fantastic for EQ2! Either that, or what Zerigo said. Just remove the SC ad’s from the UI entirely for gold members.
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Cyliena
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I’ve never bought things like forgiveness wands (the /claim ones I have are clutter in my bank), rez scrolls, xp potions, health pots, etc. If badly need to repair my equipment I’ll just use the housing directory to hop through a guild hall portal.
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Avianna
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only way to get thru to SOE is with your wallet folks, boycott this before it gets worse. my post on the forums suggesting it was promptly removed because SOE would rather silence people who stand up to them than to hear what their paying customers are saying.
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CustardCar
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not sure i understand the utter cry fest over this, its just 1 icon! perhaps it should be moved from char equip tab to a services tab in char screen but thats it. its a little too huge and perhaps cheapens the game?
anyway, EQ2 is dying and they need money so this is the future! enjoy
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Kruzzen
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It don’t matter now. they have locked the thread. I do appreciate the point they made about having to make money somehow, but I do laugh at the fact that you pay 3 times as much for half the service that was pointed out over and over and never received a response.
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Tkia
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While I appreciate that as a business they need to make money I still think they’d do better at that if they’d stop pissing off all the customers that are prepared to feed them a steady income stream in the form of a subscription account.
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Sam
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Agreed with the others. They’re just being greedy with this. Likewise the deleted my post and I got a reprimand. They’ve annoyed me enough that I’ve stopped my sub and now only pop in time to time to play with housing and chat and sometimes do live events.
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