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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zappo" data-source="post: 25367" data-attributes="member: 633">It costs 5 yen to build the weakest of items. 5 yen is the whole amount Kerall found in his entire career until now. And I would have used them to make a permanent item, never a one-shot.Yeah, GrayDoom has more than a hundred yen. But he is the exception, not the rule - he probably has more than half of all the yen ever generated in the whole game! And many of them came from the pawn shop. And even him, would never use those yen to make 20 one-shot items. He would probably make a single very powerful permanent item and maybe one or two one-shots.What I'm trying to say is that it is statistically impossible for someone to own more than maybe two or three one-shot items, and even that would be a rare, very rare case. With the rarity of yen, I am sure that most everyone will hold his yen until he can upgrade his signature item, instead of spending them on multiple one-shots. Additionally, one-shots are, well, one-shots - they disappear once used.Considering the yen they cost versus their effectiveness, there is almost no reason to make one of them. 5 yen to make something that will give you a signature style once? 15 to have a dirty trick once? I think only players with IC reasons will make them, maybe once or twice in their career. What's the chance to get a yen, 1 in 20? So, you've got to generate 100 moves before having 5... which means, about 10 matches. And after 10 matches, who on Earth is going to spend those yen on an item which maybe will let him do ONE extra damage ONCE, or maybe will be wasted without effect?In fact, I think that most fighters would only make one as an ultra-elite gift, or as the consequence of retiring and leaving their own signature item to someone. Only sashes might have the yen to actually make them "in mass", but what could that "in mass" mean? 2? 3?Most fighters will be hard-pressed to find the money for their signature item. Certainly they will not waste it in one-shots. The situation I predict is one where most fighters have no items; some have a single one-shot - probably inherited from the player's previous character, a good number have their permanent item (with one or two powers), and only the real veterans have a permanent item and, worst case, one or two one-shot items. The situation is only marginally better for sashes.Once all is taken into account, it seems clear to me that one-shot items will be elite gifts, legacies from retiring fighters, tournament prizes. Rare and precious events. Not something that happens every other day. Not something that one owns 5 of. But still something that I would miss.Ok, I'm done.</blockquote>

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