suggestions

Open for thoughts, but might make training slightly more interesting. Could drop something along the lines of "smooth stones" and "weight stones" that can be added on to weapons for minor short term damage increases. Thinking smooth for sharp weapons and weight for blunt.

The other option here is to make this a permanent increase. One stone allowed per weapon. This could make the progression through the weapons a little less linear as you may not want to replace earlier weapons with small upgrades.

These stones would have to sit in your stash until applied, and depending on rarity could be worth some reasonable value should you wish to sell them.

This also opens up ideas along the lines of health stealing and small stat buffs on weapons should we ever decide to go down that route.

Stat boosting weapons used to be in Bots2 but was removed. I don't remember why, it was before my time.

That aside, I like the idea of adding some more variety to weapons and subsequently builds.

yes, i like this also, certainly would open up some tasty opportunities

Those "special" weapons were taken out soon after they were made.

2002-01-26 -- Implemented special attack with unique weapons. I will add unique weapons once in a while. This is going to be soooo cool ;-)

2002-01-27 -- - fixed a bug which permitted someone to buy 2 of the same unique weapon.

2002-01-29 -- Slightly increased the costs of unique weapons to make it more realistic. If you have a problem with that, kill Kidda - it was his idea.

2002-02-04 -- Changed the effect DEX has on defense rating; made it more effective. - Fixed a cheat that would allow fighting against a lower level. - Changed some special attacks and uniques to make them less bullshit.

2002-02-09 -- Added 94 new weapons, of which 42 uniques.

2002-02-14 -- Decreased the special attack of a few uniques.

And that's it. They were just to strong.

well i want one! put me down for 8!

Fine...I guess we can just settle for unique shields sighs

Yes. If we must settle for just one thing, I wote for shields too.

I don't think even having unique shields will level the playing field between pure dex and pure strength. It will give those that are balanced a hell of chance, but i think pure dex bots are going to need dex armors to have a fighting chance.