How unique guns could work

by Pfhrogblast, Finland, Wednesday, March 20, 2013, 01:02 (4266 days ago) @ Mr Daax

How does this sound?

You loot a uniquely named weapon from a dead NPC. Let's call it SPnK Master. At this point the game has just generated it (or maybe added it to the game from a collection Bungie has designed) and it has no previous users (you can see a list of them on SPnK Master's stats page). You use it for a while and realise it's a bit shit, so you discard it.

Now the game can give SPnK Master to someone else somewhere as loot. (The change of scenery can be explained with gun gathering pirates or something.) Only now the gun is slightly upgraded and has the previous owner's name added to the list.

If the new owner now discards it for a better gun he'd rather use, SPnk Master goes back in to the wild and gets upgraded for the next user until someone finally decides to keep it. Gun trading could also boost the stats kinda like how traded Pokémon level up faster.

Gun stats could also have sorts of highscores like the most damage done with SPnK Master and the most loving owner it has had (how much use did it get) and other neat stuff.

Dammit. Now I wanna play this.