Hello, this is my first topic I've made so I hope you enjoy.

In the most recent editorial (#25) it talked about the 4X's. It also talked about research in Mechscape. My idea; however, is centered around research.

Now one way they could do it is you may have a personnel scientist that will constantly research for you, so the longer you play the more you get. To a lazy gamer that likes to sit around and get everything this would be ideal, but I'm not that kind of person. My idea is much more exciting. I thought of an example; however, probably won't be used because it's a bow. Now this is my way of doing it. First you would need materials to make the bow. First you would go get wood. Then you could open a "research" screen and carve the wood into a frame. Then you would need a string, so you could get a vine for that. Then you open the "research" screen and attach it. Then you test it. It could give you a number that shows its power. Now say you want more power. You could go get a different wood or several kinds to test at once. Then you find the best wood for the bow. Now if you have the best wood but still want more power you can change the string. Perhaps you could get a different kind of vine or try spinning plant fibers (like flax from runescape) to make a bow. Lastly you find the best string to make a powerful bow.

I hope you enjoyed my topic. I look forward to your comments. Since this is my first topic I'm open to any suggestions from more experienced writers.

I don't think Jagex would exactly like to promote "no lifing", as thats what it is. To be successful, you'd need to play lots.

I kinda understand, but that sounds a bit too much like RuneScape...

This would add a nice layer of coustomizeability. Would the items turn out in different ways each time? Would people have to keep trying to make the best possible item out of the required materials?

I don`t think it sounds like Runescape really....

Perhaps sometimes it doesn`t work, or is better or weaker. It would make things intresting, And I don`t think it would promote no lifing.

What? This is the complete opposite of Runescape. UNless you mean the whole 'bow' idea.
This'd be a great thing for the game. We've been told the character customization will be really good but we haven't heard anything about anything else (as far as I know). But this kind of thing would make it different from any other MMO, like Jagex want it to be and it could be very fun, as long as you never get the same outcome twice.
Otherwise people will write guides on how to get the best weapon which would really fail because people wanting to play the game themselves wouldn't be able to properly (as in inside a PVP battle, you have a cool weapon you designed and made but the guy you are up against used a guide to get the best weapon possible).

It doesnt sound like rs to me. But instead of a bow maybe a ray gun or somthing.

also i hope that characters are completely customizeable, so you could make the face shapes, body structure, so no two characters of each race are alike.