Black Market Collectors.

So the concept of this is basicly 7 collectors be placed around the city, these collectors would be from the black market and would only stay put for 1 week, when the servers are reset or updated they would be moved to different areas in the city, making them hard to find. These collectors would be unique due to their items and their requests for said items. First before these are implemented, every collector item in the game should be able to be turned in at their respective collector for a box of the collector items, making it easier to hold onto them for the black market collectors.

Now to put alittle more detail on the collectors, each collector would have a list of 5 items, that are rare and very hard to get. Each of the 7 collectors has a different list of items and all are very good items. I've come up with a list for 1 of the collectors with buffs and all.

Black Market Headgear: Basicly a Black shiny Patchers headgear.

Min charactor lvl 50.

Melee Resistance 33pts

Balistic Resistance 33pts

Thrown Resistance 33pts

Max health 400pts

IS Cost Reduction 15%

IS regain rate 20%

The collector will ask for a box of 20 of every single collector item from accross the simulation aswell as 500 million info. (Due to it being from the black market, of course it will be a very high price and grind for such a rare item.)

Next item.

Black Market Shoes: These shoes are black with a slight black smoke FX coming from them.

Min Charactor lvl 50.

Melee Accuracy 5pts

Balistic Defense 20%

Balistic Resistance 33pts

Melee Resistance 33pts

Max Movement speed 20%

Viral Defense 5%

To get this item the collector will ask you for The lvl 50 ninja Gear, a pink gi and 250million info.

Next item.

Black Market FM-1600 (A knock off of the agent gun, with slightly more damage. And  downgrades. Golden Color.

Min Charactor lvl 50

Base Damage 16-16

Range 20

Downgrades

5% chance Powerless 10 seconds

5% chance stun 10 seconds

5% chance confused 10 seconds

5% chance rooted 10 seconds

10% chance to slow.

The collector will ask for 50 System Tie Clips Aswell as 500million info. (The items you get from the lvl 100 Agents that attack zions only.)

Next item

Unlimited Silver Bullet/Wooden Stake (You get 2 items a silver bullet and a Wooden Stake that can be reused untill they run out of purity.)

 Min charactor lvl 1

The Collector will ask for 100 wooden Stakes and 100 Silver Bullets aswell as 100million info.

Next item

Black Market System Hack. (This item is very good for pvp and anyone would want it, basicly it's a tool that while equiped gives you a red GM fire around your RSI and a chance to heal you when you take damage.)

Min Charactor lvl 50

Upgrades

50% Chance to heal 500-750pts (This means that it gives you a 50% chance when you are hit to be healed from the item instantly for 500-750 health points.) This is a item everyone would want and those that get it would really be uber but hey if they work hard for it why not?

The collector will ask for 1 Male or Female Patchers Bandana, 1 Male or Female Patchers Headgear, every collector box of items for the collectors in the simulation, 1 Male or female Ninja GI, 1 male or female pair of Sleepwalker Pants and 500million info.

The collector will tell you once you have gained the item. "You didn't get that item from me, it's a banned item and the machines might not like you wearing it/using it." After recieving the item, you will regaurdless of if you have the node or your org, will recieve a system message that Agents are homming in on your location.(Note this is for all items that all of the black market collectors have. A lvl 255 Agent will begin to spawn and hunt you down.)

Now I know some of these items are extreamly uber, however, the collector that has these will be moved once a week making it harder to find this one, players will spend hours searching the matrix for this collector, and I will have items and their buffs for the other 6 collectors when I think of them. But for now, tell me what you think of this idea and don't say it's impossible because this is a very plausable idea and could be implemented to give players a reason to leave richland and search the game for these uber collectors. Giving people a reason to explore again and a reason to keep farming the old content.

The Black Market is a team of highly powerful exiles, that have learned to break the rules of the simulation and create items of untold power. They have been in hiding since the truce first started, and were the ones that supplied the merv with all his high tech weapons for his exiles. Now they have returned, during war times they aren't at the top of the machines list of things to be taken care of.

There are 7 of these exiles located in secret areas of the simulation, they move to a different area each week, never the same as the one before it. They themselves cannot be found just by looking randomly, you have to go in search for them. The items they carry are very powerful in the hands of redpills and exile alike. And these are pros, so they mask their locations well, dispite the code within their items. But be warned, these items do not come cheap, and they are very powerful so once the item is in your hands the machines will instantly track you down and kill you. Due to the nature of these items, untill it becomes apart of your RSI permanently, the machines will seek you out and attempt to destroy the item you will have to work so hard to obtain.

Another one of the collectors will have 5 more items.

Black Market Sniper Rifle

Min charactor level 50.

Base Damage 16-16

Range 30

States:

5% chance root

5% chance slow

20% chance to stun

The collector wants every gun collector item in the simulation and 100million info

Next item

Black Market T shirt. (A white T shirt that has in black letters accross the front "Black Market"

Min charactor level 50

33pts melee resistance

33pts ballistic resistance

33pts viral resistance

33pts thrown resistance

Initative bonus 5pts

The collector will want every collector shirt in the simulation and 100million.

Next item

Black Market Earpiece( This item is basicly a white earpiece like the agents have only to wear it you put it in the tool slot and it appears on your RSI.)

Min charactor lvl 1

25% health regain rate

25% IS regain rate

Max Health 200pts

The Collector will want 25 system tie clips and 50 Raedor's Earpieces + 100million info

Next item

Instant Kill code. (Ever wondered what would happen if a player was suddenly able to kill a Live Event Charactor in one hit, making them reconstruct instantly afterwards? Well now you can, with the Instant, 1 time only use kill code)

Min charactor lvl 1.

Range 1

Damage 99,999

Kills the player using it aswell.

(Uses a dev field and then meatwadd effect on the dev charactor and the player using said kill code.)

The collector would want 1billion info.

(I know everyone is gonna tell me no this one can't and will never be put into the game, however, it would be funny if I could run up to the merv and use it on him, kills him and we never see em on Recursion again only on syntax and vector, gawd that would be funny.)

Next item

Black Fire FX item( basicly it's fire only black and it's permanent.)

Min charactor lvl 1

Upgrades Health Regain rate 10%

IS regain rate 10%

IS cost reduction 50%

The collector would want 500million info.

Now mind you, I haven't really thought these through that much, just came up with them in my head, stuff I'd really love to see in the mega city to make me want to explore it and make others do the same. It will also give people a reason to farm old content and with 5 more collectors the possiblities are endless! I'll take suggestions for other items the other black market collectors could have aswell, and be creative! There might be limits to the game but this is just an idea and ideas don't have limits unless you put limits on them, then they become boring.

Instant Kill code. (Ever wondered what would happen if a player was suddenly able to kill Temporarily Disable a Live Event Charactor in one hit, making them reconstruct Jackout instantly afterwards? Well now you can, with the Instant, 1 time only use kill code)

Min charactor lvl 1. 50

Range 1

Damage 99,999

Kills the player using it aswell. Deletes Character PERMANENTLY
(Uses a dev field and then meatwadd effect on the dev charactor and the player using said kill code.)

The collector would want 1billion info.
Prison Mastery Device
Patchers Headgear
Full Black lvl50 Ninja outfit,
Full Sleepwalker Gear
FM 1500

(I know everyone is gonna tell me no this one can't and will never be put into the game, however, it would be funny if I could run up to the merv and use it on him, kills Disables him and we never dont see em on Recursion again only on syntax and vector, For a week gawd that would be funny.)

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Org items only:

Zion key: access to Metacortex building Heart O' The City Hotel
Mero key: access to Hell club
Machine key: access to white room Metacoretex

Eh, nah I really don't think someone is going to level to 50 farm all those items, be lucky enough to get the FM 1500 pay 1billion info just to ruin a live event and have their charactor deleted. That's not so much in the realm of possiblity but good try.

Here's a few more items that these venders might give/trade.

RPing Perma Disguises. (These are Disguises that you can use 5 times per disguise, they work like a pill that changes your RSI untill you jackout or wear another disguise.)

Commandos, Agents, Lupine, Blood Noble, Tactical Security, Sleep Walker, Ninja, Blue Pill.

Min charactor level. 1

Details for items.

These Disguises that you can only find on the black market and are extreamly rare. They change your RSI into a npc RSI untill you jackout or wear another disguise this will be yours.

Requires all 7 black market tokens and 100 million for the set.

Orginizational Hack.

Min charactor level 50.

This item works much in the same way that a runtime program works, only when used it spawns npcs from your org to fight any hostiles.(5 uses)

7 Black Market Tokens + 100 million

Black Market Cloaking Device.

Min Charactor Level 50

Details, when Used this item will give a slight bubble around the player, NPCs such as Agents and those that are spawned on the player will be unable to see the player. For a long period of time. (5 uses)

7 black market tokens and 50 million info.

Cannot think of that many more for now these will do.

Although most of the suggested items are 'unique' albeit overpowered, the concept of hidden vendors throughout the city selling interesting or bizzare things is actually quite ingenious - not only would it add an element of mystery and surprise in the sense of adventuring and exploring but it might actually give the players something to do with all their bloody money.

It's not even that hard, the next piece of crap recycled content clothing that's just changed it's color- lets just make it for sale aswell as farmable - that way i don't need to waste 3 days getting more money which i've now started using to insulate the walls of my ship.

~Darminian

This is what I was going for. Something that would really make people want to go in search parties around the matrix.

This is a concept I really think should be put in place due to the fact that it will be nearly impossible for people to find them very quickly and since they move once a week, it would really be a challenge to even get one of the collector items.