Hello everyone. Now as a disclaimer I do not agree that trading should be possible between players. It would devalue legendaries as many have already stated. What I propose is a way to trade between our own characters. I will be giving an example on how it might be added using screenshots from another game
Wizard101. I will be explaining what is happening in each screenshot for those who aren't familiar with the trading system. I will then conclude at the end with why I think this variant of trading isn't bad for the game.
So to begin we first need to discuss where we would trade weapons between our own characters. A bank, maybe on Tortuga or Port Royal could be placed inside a building where players would be able to store weapons between their Pirates. Similar to below:
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Upon opening the bank you would find 2 tabs. One for your inventory and one for you shared bank (where you will place what you want to be traded between your pirates). Similar to below:
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(Also for this example we will be using the "Talon of Pestilence" as our weapon we will be trading, so keep an eye on it.)
Upon clicking the "move to shared bank" button the weapon is placed in limbo basically, allowing it to be claimed between any of your other characters. And will then be placed on the "Shared Bank" Tab. See Below:
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And it placed in the shared bank:
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Now the final step, would be to swap to another character and then hit the move to backpack (in our pirates case inventory) button. See below
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And like that your item is now on another one of your characters! And thats how I think it should work inside TLOPO is by some miracle this is ever considered.
But now why I think this is more healthy then some other suggestions.
1. You will still have to loot yourself. You wont be able to cut hours off game time from just easily picking up a duplicate from a guild mate or friend. You still have to do your own looting, and if you happen to come across and extra Lost Sword or Silver Freeze, you can toss it to one of your own pirates.
2. There is no room for foul play or ways for players to get ripped off or cheated, it's just you and you're already looted weapons.
3. It wont reduce the rareness of legendaries. As every player still wont have one, only the people who put in time and effort to get those pesky legendaries.
(To use any cursed blade, you would still need to finish Raven's Cove Story)
Alright so thats it! let me know what you think! (sorry for the crudeness of the pictures xD)
Edit: Title changed to more accurately describe post. Edit 2: Removed first line so to not confuse with trading.