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Tomato 56789
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I didn't make fun of your comment, I was stating how simple ammo molds would be to implement. Misconstruing what others say in a discussion is, however, a great way to lose credibility.
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21-Jul-2023 23:48:59

Sesemaru
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As for the topic; Why don't you just buy them if you don't like to make them? Someone must like the gp per bolt how their time is compensated. They will be worth less if they make them faster so either way you'll be paying for the same amount of time, because if they are faster to make they are going to proportionately be worth the same for what the time is worth. So if they did this, then people who were actually selling them for gp would probably make a lot less per bolt. And then they'd be so cheap, you'd be buying them anyways, because you'd feel your time was being devalued when they are that cheap to buy.
You have to consider the people who are actually trying to sell them for gp, because someone's got to, or no one could buy them. It's like you want to be handed something essentially.
Who is to say what ranged exp you should get per bolt for your gp anyways?
If you have a higher ranged level, your bolt is worth more exp and damage.
That's all there is to it.

22-Jul-2023 02:09:37 - Last edited on 22-Jul-2023 02:11:16 by Sesemaru

Tomato 56789
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Not all bolts can be traded. Dragonbanes being the ones which inspired this thread. I also question how many metal bolts and arrowheads come from smithing vs the extensive list of drop sources.
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22-Jul-2023 03:38:34

Sesemaru
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Fair point. They are probably degraded in value from the drops so people may not be smithing them as much due to that, as they may otherwise. I usually ignore the bolt drops, so I can see why you wouldn't want to smith them I suppose.

23-Jul-2023 00:51:43 - Last edited on 23-Jul-2023 00:52:11 by Sesemaru

Tomato 56789
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Honestly you just pointed out why I don't think my suggestion would go against the smithing rework. Almost all other metal object drops were converted to salvage, yet ammo was left alone lol. I ignore most bolt drops too unless it's like skeletal wyverns which drop them every other kill. I'd be curious to see where the bolts on the Ge come from - if they are being smithed / fletched or just poor noobs like me picking them up for a little extra.
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23-Jul-2023 03:18:54

Sesemaru
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If you are collecting them while using expensive potions, you're wasting the potions, time you could be taking advantage of something worth much more than what you're collecting.
Which is why you either have people smithing them, or people who are selling them for much less than the potions they wasted.

23-Jul-2023 13:01:34

Tomato 56789
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That's why skeletal wyverns are one of the only monsters I collect from, I only use extreme magics and the first 5-6 kills pays for the supplies I use for the whole trip in bone value.
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23-Jul-2023 23:44:03

Sesemaru
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Just because the bones pay for the trip doesn't mean it is compensating the value of what you spent to collect them, I however think there should be an upgrade to the accumulator to collect things that don't come from you as well, then it would be wasting your time not to.
But you can still be spending enough of the potion that you aren't getting what you spent on the potion, reducing the value you could have gotten from the trip as what it could have been. But I suppose when the task is over, then you're going to have to leave either way, unless you stayed just to use up the rest of the potion, so you may be right anyways.

24-Jul-2023 00:55:40 - Last edited on 24-Jul-2023 00:56:50 by Sesemaru

Tomato 56789
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I think they are valuable enough to compensate the half second to pick them up, lol. And again - I'm a very casual player. If I wasn't I wouldn't be one of the only 138 long-time players without a max cape
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24-Jul-2023 16:12:09

Sesemaru
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Neither you or I know what the drop table is going to be for the next drop so neither of us can be wrong. I've seen a guy going through leaving even rare drops behind and said wow, that guy doesn't care what he doesn't collect. From then on I said, I'm not going to waste my time on the lesser drops. Which for the record I used to collect everything, literally everything that was dropped. But you may not get a good drop the next drop , you may collect your low valued bolts and the next drop get a rare item you weren't wrong then, but neither am I if I go through ignoring them and getting a rare drop after the bolts I ignored. Neither one can be determined before it happens. I just feel a sense of being greater than those drops when I ignore them, than if I collected them. As long as you don't feel that about the wrong things, it's a good feeling to have. When you're fighting bosses I'd say you have to wait for the next one to respawn anyways, may as well take it; But when you're doing tasks, you could be missing out on a greater drop, or you could be causing a greater drop to happen. Neither of us can know for certain. So I can't say you're wrong any more than you can say I'm wrong, because we're both going to be proven right at times, and we're both going to be proven wrong at times.

25-Jul-2023 00:36:01

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