Still plugin away at concepts to make BotB more RPG-esque...

Items will have their own Hit Points or Break Index. Every time the item is used it looses these Hit Points until finally they reach 0 and the item breaks/crumbles. The item's degradation would be noted to it's owner with messages a few times in it's lifespan. Different varieties of each item will be available and the boon value will be decided by a combination of the items' base value and amount of Hit Points.

Non-Player-Characters (or Non-BotBr-Characters) will be who you buy/sell items from. We've already seen the potential in this with the random messages. Perhaps you might also be able to find them in an NPC Barn. I'd like to make the NPC's a little complex. For instance, if you wake them up in the NPC Barn and don't buy anything, they will get annoyed with you and deny their services a couple times in the future.

In the works are a few item types --

Humility Helmet - Keeps BotBrs' entries from auto-favoriting, also allows unfavoriting own entries.

Totem Cloak - Someday a user account will be able to manage multiple BotBr accounts. This item hides login/logout info from the IRC chat room for BotBrs with the cloak while shifting between BotBrs.

Tally Goggles - Allows BotBrs to view tally sheets for Major Battles.

Slide Gauntlet - Protects a BotBr from negative votes on their entries. For every vote under 3 the vote is replaced by a 3. The Criticist will see their vote has been altered and may thusly continue to recast their vote until the item breaks.

am i to assume that you are also hinting at custom auras? because my dull boring greyness is getting on my nerves.

as for item suggestions: maybe a cloak of lurking which masks your online status, or the battle horn that lets users create major battles

There should be a Staff of the Sawtooth that fires a magical bolt dealing 3d6 sonic damage and has ten charges.

Staff of Sawtooth is hilarious. Maybe it replaces 1d6 samples with saw tooth waveforms in a major remix battle bitpack. xD

Jajajajajajaja xDDDDD, yer all silly!

Recycling Bin - Recycles tin cans to pay BotBr 50 nubs each.

Novice Staff of Swift Retribution - Item available to levels 1-5 purchased for 1500 boons that zaps 200 XP away from a voter that votes 1s in 3 or more voting categories. Levels may not be lost from its effects. Its use is only good once equipped and disintegrates after the battle; either OHC or standard compo. Staff is cloaked from all BotBrs when equipped. Staff may only be purchased twice during levels 1-5.

Hippo "The Hypocrite" Doll - Given (not awarded) to those caught voting three or more 7s per entry 10 times or more without favoriting the same compo entries. Hippo doll has no effects. The doll disappears after the BotBr is caught favoriting 20 or more entries that he/she has given more than three 7s on in future compos.

Ball gag - Given (not awarded) to those caught not tagging 20 or more entries they've favorited. Ball gag has no effects. The ball gag disappears when the BotBr is caught tagging 40 or more entries in future compos.

epic items b00d
*fez of hate - disables autofavs
*false idol - doll awarded for being idle in irc for 10+ hours
*dunce cone - given to botbers lvl 15+ who havent added a lyceum article
*the golden waffle - award given out at teh boscars
*fake beard - item has no use except to help the beard challenged with their self esteem
*botb art colij digree - given to botbr if 5 or more users set one of said botbrs pallets as default
*pedaphile registration - given to botbrs who create 10 or more lyceum articles
*novelty famicom tshirt - 1 time use, botbr get double chipist points bonus if they win an nsf ohd
*wardrobe - allows botbr to have more than 1 "clothing" item (hat, shirt, short-shorts,ect..)

Pleasant Surprise — When acquired for 10b (will items cost boons?), one is able to do one of three things (they get to choose):
• Receive 300b to host OHCs.
• Receive 100b to make palettes.
• Receive 128 Schizo points (if puke7 implements them; etc. points).
• Moar??!???!!!?!?!1/

For the first two, if the boons are not used after two days they go away.

For the last one, I think the amount should depend on how many points a BotBr has? 128pts would help me a lot, but for people in the top 10 128's pretty much nothin'! At least I think...

Obviously, this item should be extremely rare, with chance of a BotBr feeing it being once in 1.5 or 2 years.

:O

That Pleasant Surprise sounds like a pretty good bargain. Of course, if you wait too long, the bargain is soiled.

r0d of influence - doubles your influence while voting in the next battle but any sevens your entries receive count as ones :D

Just my 2 cents: i don't like the idea of a song scoring better or worse than it should have because of quirky items. I like the idea of items, though.

I likez SoiledBargain's idea, but instead of awarding b00ns, how about...
OHB vouchers, palette vouchers, etc.?


Moar suggestions... ITEM SETS?! additional effects if you collect all of one set. Each set has teh name of one fellow botbr and its items have effects somehow related to this botbr.

E.g.
UI's Mighty Cookie Cutter - can be forged from 25 tincans, allows botbr to cancel an OHB and get back their b00ns if it doesn't seem to be getting more than 2 entries
Chipchop's Turing Complete Stopwatch - allow to host OHBs that are (slightly?) longer or shorter than one hour
B-kn0x's Beard - Click on (=stroke) it once a day to receive extra b00nz

Also, get yer source file analyzer workingz...
B00daw's Favor - awarded after having submitted more than 10 tunes for obscure platforms
Strobe's Poop Waffles - awarded when botbr submits an nsf that is larger than 200kb
Lunar's Gold Shower - obtain 1 b00n for each maj7 chord used in yer tunes

Okay, this is getting silly!!1

Silly is right! Are we supposed to name items after our own kin?!

Teh Anvil of Hate — Choose a BotBr, and for the next three OHCs they participate in their score will be deducted by 7. This can be acquired when you win two OHCs in a row.

In depth, how will this really work? Will the NPCs give us random messages? Will they're be some sort of interactive ui-pixeled-powered market out in a forest?

If so, that'd be kind of cool...

miau -- I like the pokemon ideology of certain "collector sets". There could be certain items if collected together form an power or disadvantage. That's something to think about more. :)

Some of your items are impossible, but others seem like fun promo or ultra-rare, random-encounter items. :)

champ -- "*novelty famicom tshirt - 1 time use, botbr get double chipist points bonus if they win an nsf ohd"

I love this idea, but I think it could be pushed further for example:

"The Famibomb T-shirt". The Famibomb T-shirt has infinite uses. When worn during an NSF or NSF+ OH*, the BotBr wearing said shirt obtains x3 points for a gold, x2 for a silver and x1 for bronze. If a shirt wearer does not make the top 3 during that compo, the shirt explodes, subtracting (vote points x 10) from BotBr's XP. BotBr can drop levels from the explosion. Famibomb shirt's effects are nullified if OH* has less than 4 participants.

SoiledBargains -- That Pleasant Surprise thing could be pretty neat. :D Vouchers like miau said too. :)

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Jack -- A jack (from the game jacks, signifying Jack of all trades) is awarded to BotBrs over level 10 who are evenly matched within 250 points between Chipist, Mixist, etc... If a BotBr possesses the jack, the BotBr does not pay for OH*s, or bumping or creating threads. When the jack is lost, such privileges are lost with it.

Alcohol -- Purchased (or stolen) by BotBtown Drunk. When alcohol is consumed, BotBr's view of BotB.org is distorted. For example: Themes, spelling, link order, pictures are distorted until BotBr logs out and logs back in to BotB.org.

Lots of nice ideas. Seems like you guys got a B00Ner? Dunno where to begin for feedback.

Woah, more ideas here than I can shake a stick at! :O

I've come up with two additional items --

Flag Mask - change your country or invent one!

Aura Scarf - custom aura tile (aura color used for borders and other things remains natural)

One of the major concerns about items is when they have an effect on Battle results. Helping a BotBr out when they are getting slammed with negative votes is one thing but hindering BotBrs is another. The goal of items is to increase the fun in using BotB. This RPG idea has the problem in that we use real world skills to battle rather than arbitrary character stats.

At any rate, it'll be a while before any items are implemented.

NPCs will actually be BotBr accounts. Sometimes they will roam the site and other times they will be dormant in the NPC Barn. If you land on a page they are visiting they will greet you, otherwise clicking on their name in the 'Whos On' box will take you to them. The NPC Barn will be guarded and require a bribe for entrance. NPCs in the Barn will be sleeping (or something) so, if you wake them, their prices may be inflated. If you don't do business after waking them they will remember you and deny services for a while in the future.


Another item idea --

Bit Sack - stores a bit/sample that can be used in a Pit Fight (duel)

Alcohol is a great idea. BotB could do meta redirects every few seconds with a randomly chosen palette. And maybe javascript could randomly click links that are being hovered!! xD

lol 6 pack of space viking bear

DICE

could be boon leeching item, or a selectable item, it'd roll the dices and multiple the results by the number of b00ns to be handed/shared/pooled in a remix deallie.

If selectable, it'd be cool. If leeching, the botber would need to find a way to get rid of it since the item would continue to roll dices in ohbs potentially making him lose (or gain!) extra boons.

specially considered for the +b3000 users ;D

Hey, luck could balance positively...or negatively...;D/

Flopswitch - reverses 2 votes on your song in a battle. the votes that are reversed are chosen at random, so it could be for better or for worse.

Hostist's Discount- cuts the prices of starting a battle in half. awarded to those who have hosted 50+ OHBs.

Hat of Knowledge - awarded after submitting 10+ Lyceum articles.

Good ideas, arlen! =o

I have one thing to say regarding some of the item suggestions posted in this thread: it looks like we're treating items as trophies? Take False Idol, for example (don't mean to pick on you personally, chippie X)). There isn't any described use for it, it's just given to a BotBr after, in this case, being idle in #botb for 10 hours.

:?/

Got an addition to Alcohol:

Depending on how long the person sleeps and if they acquired water and vitamins to take before logging out, the BotBr will wake up with the Hangover Theme for two log-ins. xD

For example: To avoid getting a hang over, buy/trade/find/steal water and vitamins to take before BotBr passes out. As long as BotBr's slept one hour -- stayed logged out for an hour; or logged in two times since waking up, BotBr will avoid the hangover and go back to BotBr's default theme. :)

i am already drunk