First, I'd like to plug my post on the Santa Zulg forum regarding making cabalwars more interesting. This idea is just an extension of that.

http://forums.carrionfields.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=58&topic_id=12

Problem: Lowbies are useless in cabalwars.

Reason: They can't kill the guardians that hold the items.

Solution: Make more items. Voltron had five lions and Captain Planet's teenage posse had five rings, so why not have five "items" per cabal? Adding to that further, why not have three (or even four) of those items be usable by any cabal?

I should add, and the imms are probably aware, one of the aforementioned CF spinoffs implemented such a system, although in their case all "items of power" were generalized. It was just a question of how many each cabal had at any one time.

I think the idea can be taken further by having these generalized items being a subset of the "cabal items" group, which would still include the unique items we have today. In addition, these generalized items should be able to be transfered by pking cabal members - and anybody should be able to do it.

So I kill level 18 rager X, perform some ritual over his corpse, and receive *special item* as a result. This would obviously be modified so that multikilling wouldn't yield more of these items (if the cabal had more to give). Also, you might even throw a bone to the pkilled by having the ritual destroy his corpse and return the eq a la areas explore.

The poseession of these generic cabal items would equate with the levels of cabal powers I discussed in the Santa Zulg post.

Now as for where and how these items might pop up, I'm open to suggestion.

Thoughts? We need to give lowbies something to do in cabal wars. If they can help out the team by pking members of other cabals, that would be a great start. In addition, it plays into the rp elements that I was suggesting in the other post. A lowbie imperial is happy to let lowbie tribs live because hey, we're all orderly here. What if the imperial could gank down a lowbie trib and pull an item of power (admittedly less power than the Scales, but hey, it's something) from the corpse of the trib? Alliances suddenly mean a lot more, and roles become much more important.

Glad that you're thinking about this, Nep. I think a big change to the system could really make things more interesting for players of all levels. And as an even more interesting side-effect, could allow further decentralization of cabal wars (read: more cabals) without diluting the fun.

T