Equipment Enhancement Stone for RunUO 2.1+
Version 1.5

This set of scripts provides a stone which players can use (by double clicking on it) to purchase equipment enhancements with hard earned gold.

The purpose of these scripts is to allow an easier means for shards with a smaller playerbase to be able to enhance their equipment to be more able to handle tougher creatures and spawns. For shards with a larger playerbase, these scripts can be used as means to eliminate alot of excess gold from the player economy.

These scripts provide a deed for the Equipment Enhancement Stone. This will allow players to put a stone in their house for easy access and convenience. The deed can be dispensed in whatever means the shard administrators feel is appropriate.

Alternately, shard administrators could simply place the actual Equipment Enhancement Stones within the cities on their shard and eliminate the need to determine how to distribute deeds. This could allow the administrators to promote PVP on their shard by placing only a handful of stones in cities in Felucca (if PVP is a desired goal of the shard).

The script works in such a way that the number of properties that are set the item (Weapon, Armor, Shield, Jewelry and Spellbook) are totaled. The script then determines the cost of the next enhancement. This cost is optionally affected by the total number of properties that have already been assigned a value. When using the scripts as they are provided, the cost to fully enhance a single piece of armor to maximum potential could easily cost millions in gold making it a very effective means to eliminate gold from the player economy.

The EnhancementStoneProcess.cs script contains variables that can be changed to either make enhancements cheaper or more expensive. This script documents the variables to be changed.

Changelog:

•Considering how powerful these scripts can make items, I have decided to add an option in the EnhancementStoneProcess.cs script that will allow administrators to limit the maximum number of enhancements that can be performed on a piece of equipment. Please note that attributes that are already on the item when it is found or crafted count towards the the enhancement count.
•Added coding to the EnhancementStoneProcess.cs script to prevent artifacts from being able to be enhanced by players.
•Minor cleanup of core routines.
•Updated the system to ensure that it works for both RunUO 2.1 and 2.2.
•Revised the appearance of the enhancement gump.
•Reworked the internal processes to use a cleaner coding approach.
•Revised the system to more properly calculate the cost to upgrade an item by comparing the property to a property that would require 20 purchases to fully upgrade. These new calculations make it so that an attribute like 'Mage Armor' which only requires one enhancement will cost the same amount of gold that it would cost a player to fully upgrade a property like 'Lower Requirements' which takes 20 purchases to max out.
Disclaimer:

There are no core changes required to implement these scripts. Simply put the scripts into the Scripts folder (or subfolder), start RunUO and [add EnhancementStoneDeed or [add EnhancementStone and enjoy.
This script has been tested with both RunUO 2.1 and 2.2.
The current version of this script and all prior versions can be downloaded from the project page listed in my signature.

I sincerely hope these scripts will help someone out there.

Dougan Ironfist