You can read all about the bugs in my thread. As for this suggestion the extra coding, I'm sure would be a massive addition; there is plenty of starter gear already, just not higher tiers; some of you wouldn't even play with noobs with crap gear and you know it (at least not without crying the whole climb); highly doubt paul would go for this, nor do I even think he should focus on it until 'other' things are fixed; how many other games give you several levels worth of gear for free.. even temporary?, I could go on... so many reasons.

you want free starter gear..shit I'll give it to these people if they would just play! (not joking)

You have all the good intention, as we all do. It would be nice to have something that draws in newer players.. but how long have we've been doing this dance for now?? Someone gots to be the pessimistic one and light a fire under 'someones' ass if we truly want a good outcome.

Really had something going about 10 years ago... I really can't believe it hasn't grown more after this long.. it's devastating.. and there is only ONE person that can help it.

This post was edited by kaspir on Sep 24 2020 09:36pm

I can really dig this idea. Even just trying to solo and not climb its hard to persuade someone into the game sometimes knowing that to really get through the game without having to reroll/grind hard you have to spend some FG.

10/10 idea boss, nice.

I still disagree even after reading all the above comments. I dunno maybe I’m old school. I remember starting out with 0 fg and only playing LS. I worked my way up the old school way: beg, borrow, barter, find shit sell shit but more shit sell previously used shit. 1 year later (or however long I’ve been here) and it’s still pretty much the same strategy.

I think the game was generous enough to give you a stick to start out with. You want hand me downs or freebies then beg the regulars and hopefully one of us is nice enough to give you something. =)

Likewise, back in 2006 when I started playing, mobs were significantly more difficult, there was no running away, shrining, and continuing the fight, either you beat the mob or you didn't. Starting with 0 fg, it was a question of just selling random stuff for 1-5fg each, and keeping on and keeping on until I found some good stuff, bought some (mostly bad) stuff, and keep grinding.

I'm still more interested in a market place listing time reversion. List an item? It stays listed and purchasable until the season resets. Can easily limit the number of listings per account to whatever number seems reasonable, and due to limited slots, makes competitive pricing for faster sales a thing.

I suspect most "starter gear" issues would go away, for less than 100fg even, with such a solution. This suggestion is far more unwieldy, requires a completely new addition to the game, and really doesn't fit into the character of the game itself.

Absolutely not.. the game is literally 100% based on how good your gear is. With drops still turning out mostly sub 100ee items this would even further reduce the chances of the players to find LS through making fg by playing LS instead of another game.

Read (red) all the posts and replies.

It seems that your idea is to try and help new players out. Now, I would suggest that those people who wants to help out new players with gear, should contact the moderators and ask them to add their name to this link;

LS Starter Gear Community Directory *EDIT: re-activate it to be accessible to all or make a new page that is bumped automatically every month.

Then I would say that people direct new players to that area to post and then they can make arrangements via PMs.

This way, new players will have help in getting starting gear that they can keep using, and if after a few climbs not interested in playing, they can put them up on MP to make some fg back.

Your idea is nice. I could abuse it with ease. Also noticed that your idea is only based on like Barb / Fighter / Rogue feeder classes, or does it alternate the items with the feeder you choose... like myself, I would go Guardian Tank, what changes for the charms? EE or Stat? or can I choose Healer and get better healing gear to use that I currently use @ 55+

This post was edited by izParagonzi on Sep 25 2020 03:35am

Just make the gear unsellable (trade locked?)
Maybe?

This post was edited by MommysMilk on Sep 25 2020 03:44am

I really like the idea

Some really good thoughts here.

It would def let people try the game for minimal fg and see if they want to actually invest.

Solid yes from me chum

No,
If you want to make a change find that gear and put it up on the MP.
I see low ee stuff all the time...

put it up then? level 35+ stuff in particular is generally difficult to get hold of, even with 30-70 ee it's pretty useful. I often search for items like that and give it to new players.
Level 0-25 i generally have my own stockpile: https://forums.d2jsp.org/user.php?c=3&i=193561&p=527077 https://forums.d2jsp.org/user.php?c=3&i=193561&p=29618



If anything i'd like to see a simple item store which allows you to buy any tier of item with 40ee for like 5 fg, these items can't be traded/muted etc.
voted yes with changes