Board Thread:Suggestions Forum/@comment-26044791-20150219060119/@comment-26044791-20150221192201

116.118.84.20 wrote: James of the iron hills wrote:

Ffets wrote:

James of the iron hills wrote: Now tell me, do you guys think the alignment for swords should be like the old alignment bar It's just an idea, I don't know if it's too complicated: Swords could gather up alignments to different factions the same way players do. So if you kill a Gundabad orc with that sword, it would loose Gundabad/Angmar/Dol Guldur/... alignment and gain Ranger/Elves/Dwarves/... alignment.

The factions to which the sword has positive alignment would be inspired by it, the factions to which it has negative alignment would fear it, both depending of the amount of alignment the sword has gathered up. When such a sword changes hand, it could be slowly but surely turned around. In the beginning it would have the disadvantage, that it encourages your foes and discourages your friends, after a while it would become neutral and then positive for your side.

A second idea to this is, that the alignments of the sword could be simply added to the player's alignments who wields it as long as he has it in his possession (inventory). I find that seems to similar to the alignment bar anyway, i want the weapons to feel independent of the alignment rivalries and simply be an inspiring or dreaded force. What if we stole the sword from another player and I am allied with faction that is scared of the sword? Well, unless we DO go with ffets faction idea it would be impossible for the sword to work against you, it'd simply give you all the boosts the other player had worked oh so hard to get and you wouldn't be in a faction the sword was against.