right. and once you buy that waino sword (example) you'll do what with it? use
it till hell freezes. as you play the char and it's eq improves along with
it's totals (or should :p). The process is fun, but it makes the "present eq"
obsolete to the "eq you will get". Now guess what happens to that eq.

... your permaclaim just postpones the present situation by 1 unless you want
to persuade us that you'll only permaclaim best_items(TM) and it's hard enough
to define what best items are and weather in 6 months (it's long time but
permaclaim is eternal so...) you'll consider same eq to be best_items(TM)...

++b

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Blux

nah, its not important how long it actually lasts without a name, the most
important thing is the image in people's mind, and right now it is : eq
without name will break, get stolen or otherwise buttfucked.
(I do use unnamed eq

\o/

maybe i was not clear enough so here goes again

1) you perma_claim eq A
2) you buy eq A' that is same as eq A only has better stats
3) you are now selling eq A ... it is (as you said): ...eq without name will
break, get stolen or otherwise buttfucked ... since it was permaclimed by you
4) you postponed for 1 stage... not the eqmaker but the permaclaimer gets ...
(now eqmaker acts as permaclaimer... 1 stage down)

this is bs

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Blux

Why do you whine about nonnamed eq getting permadamage, since named eq takes
it too.
I see my hours spent making eq go down the drain.

I can see that unnamed eq is somewhat of an issue. still I used and use a lot
of eq w/o my name on it (shame on me! ). none of it broke, got stolen or
"otherwise buttfucked". i use prots, repairs etc. it has been this way for the
last year or so. sure someday something might break, get stolen or "otherwise
buttfucked", but in the (long) period of time I already got new EQ either by
some eq party (finally) or soloing cash (which goes well these days ...) and
buying.

yeah, unnamed is perfectly okay but its the image, do you want Lada or BMW ?

\o/

Isnt it more a question of do you want a Lada that someone else made for you,
or did you make it yourself? Or thirdly, do you wanna pay double for a Lada
just so you can say you made it yourself.

Remove all stupid names, remove all stupid claims, remove all stupid
protspells and reduce damage to EQ (1 eception: ungettable (as in
no-longer-in-game) artifacts). Nothing lasts forever, if your torsomaker
breaks just go kill GMT again or buy one from your local merchant/sales
group/shop *shrug*

I'll second that. Current name system is too uber fucking up sales etc etc.
Reduce eqdam to what it used to be, like 2-3 years ago, and remove the name
system altogether.
-- Somebody pissed off about his eq getting more and more worthless by the
hour.