Here's a fun and exciting tradeskill, which add some excitement into the game.
Create the ability for fixers to make Blackmarket pills
Give fixers the ability to hack some popular buffing/PvP nano programs.
Hacking the Nano could require 6x QL of Breaking & Entering and would make something like Unstable Released Nanobots (Superior First Aid).
Combining it with a pharmaceutical capsule (sold from the fixer shop) could then result in a stack of 5 or 10 of Pill with Superior First Aid... this step could require Nano Programming and Pharmatech (to bring in other tradeskillers).
The fixer could then hack the new pill, requiring 10x QL of Breaking & Entering and creating Hacked Pill with Superior First Aid, which could be bought, sold, and used by all.
- This could be useful to all professions for blackmarket buffs
- This doesn't make any profession useless since it would require a Nano Crystal to be converted to pill form...
- This would further help reduce the money in game by requiring the purchase of pills and any unblitzed nano crystals from shops...
- This would increase the convenience in-game by not having to bug people for buffs, or frantically finding one more buff before others run out, to equip something...
As for ideas about nanos that could become blackmarket pills?
maybe ability buffs, reflect shields, absorbs, ACs, HoTs, humidities, wrangles, runspeed/evades, morphs.... pretty much anything that can be cast on another target and isn't hostile...
I do realize that the downside is reduced social interaction, but in this case, I have to wonder if it's a bad thing, considering many people find buff beggars annoying and at certain times it can be hard to get necessary buffs...
In addition, when it comes to low level base defense, the attackers are the only ones whom can truly prepare for battle, since it can take a long time to get all necessary buffs.