Idea for gemming?

[blackfang]

Originally Posted by Ryuzaki

It's been a while...

OK, I read the thing about 4 gemming items, and I thought there are better alternatives to the gemming system CoP has, and had this idea to maybe fix it. Views appreciated.

I think that gems, rather than being a thing that you buy for points directly, should instead be a world drop item. So for example, you can set a 1/1000 chance of getting a gem token drop off normal mobs, and a 1/100 chance of getting them from bosses, making it more accessible to the free to play players, as well as providing them with an opportunity to earn points for point store stuff by selling these gem tokens (which can obviously be traded in for gems, so trade with 1 gem token for first, second, third and then fourth)...
Now I know that seems like a horrific idea profit wise, but then maybe you could do this... sell something in the point store, that will greatly enhance the drop chance of these gems. So people will still have to work for them, but say there is an item like... 'Elixer of gemming' or something as a point store item, which will give you a say 2.5% chance of gem drops, and for each gem found the chance goes down by 1%, so like in an hour if someone is horribly lucky, the most gems they can get by this method would still be just 10 (3 items), for an hour, stackable to 4, or something of that nature...
That way you make a tidy amount, as people who buy these will pay AS much for the first gem as the fourth, and more points will still be bought by people who can't be bothered to farm gems, and just want to buy them from those who farm... and you aren't closing off the game totally to F2P players. Oh also, dungeons like CP etc. have a use again.

I would agree on this because alot of players DON'T buy points.
And if someone was in a rush to gem an item, they'd buy the pts and gem the item, instead of farm.
But what they should do is to add 1-4 gem tokens.
Not just 1, so you can sit at gor'ok for a couple of days and get 4 of the same token and get 4 gems on the item you want to gem.
You could get a drop, lets say ex.

You kill gor'ok, he drops "Token of third gem", and you can't gem the item that you want to gem, because you don't have "Token of first gem" and "Token of second gem" (unless you allready purchased the first 2 gems).

My guess is that IF this was to be put in action, they would be LORE tokens.
You could have different zones dropping the different tokens.

CP = Token of first gem - drop rate 5% (just ex.)
PON = Token of second gem - drop rate 3.5%
CC = Token of third gem - drop rate 2.25%
DT = Token of fourth gem - drop rate 0.85%

Anyways, Rampid wont lose any income on adding this, because most people
DO buy pts, but not everyone is able to get a credit card to buy pts.
So far I have to say since 2008 I've spent 630 USD on Rampid (17,700 pts) and I have got most of my moneys worth,
but it would be fun to see some changes that accturally helps those that don't have the finance to buy points.