Afterlife Overhaul?

[Jarka]

Karma Points replace Life and Death Currency. Karma Points would be a single point system that would become positive or negative depending on where you quest (Heaven or Hell). Players could use these points in the shops in each location to buy items of varying degree's as well as their ressurection.

A weigh station to fix the possible scenario of wanting to switch locations in the Afterlife, but being too far into the opposite realms currency. (You have 400 Karma Points, but want to earn -1000. You now need to overcome that 400 you don't have).

Buff/Debuff system. It was mentioned various times among the first couple of pages. The prospect of making them purchasable was brought up later on. Trafford made a few example ones (boosting your CA by 5% for two battles).

Rambling thoughts about the way station:

Would the way station be a place to zero out your karma or would it negate the karma you had (ie, 400 to -400)? I'm personally in favor of it zeroing the karma, but I can see how people would complain that it makes all their work for naught.

In regards to negation, if items unique to both Heaven and Hell are going to be introduced into the shops (to which I say hell yes), it definitely shouldn't be a 1:1 conversion, since it wouldn't make sense that a person with -800 karma would suddenly be able to purchase a holy buff worth 800 (dead baby soup kitchen argument). However, it would be less objectionable if it were to negate and knock a percentage off if we were leaning in that direction (ie 400 to -200).

Also, would the shops deduct karma or is the karma just a benchmark? That is, you want the sweet demon wing debuff at Hells Bells that costs -300 karma; you currently have -350. After the purchase, would you have -50 karma or would you just unlock the debuff and remain at -350? If it's the former, then why need the way station to fix karma if we have enough shop items of varying prices? People could just buy buffs until they're close to zero. Or, would the items only be usable in the afterlife location in which they were purchased?

My opinion remains to zero the karma at the way station, especially if the items in the shop are purchasable and deduct from karma anyway.