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Nodes Growing Up!
Rayhotep
Member, Alpha One, Adventurer
There should be some indication of a node's growth. I have heard, that nodes will not have any XP gage for level up. I believe some indication should be present. My idea would be to have an NPC give a different greeting/conversation as the node grows closer to the next level. For instance, (4k necessary for level up) at 1k NPC: "Just the other day there were trees all around...now they are cleared out!" at 2k (half way to level up) NPC: "My goodness! There are new people arriving every day!"
The NPC at 3k would say: "Amazing how everyone working together has made this place look so nice!" and then 4k it levels up and repeats.
This could be a slight encouragement that there is actually progress being made.
The NPC at 3k would say: "Amazing how everyone working together has made this place look so nice!" and then 4k it levels up and repeats.
This could be a slight encouragement that there is actually progress being made.
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Also, since housing in a node is first come, first served, Intrepid have stated that they dont want to give an indication of where a node is in terms of progress.
If I had more time, I would write a shorter post.
It may have people form neighboring nodes to rush over, or it could be they will work harder on their node because they want their's leveled up and the other node locked out. I think on the same token the "progress report" does not have to have any set meter. Carrying my example forward, it could be the NPC changes his speech at 1k, 1.5k, 1.6k and 3.5k. completely random. No one actually knows how close it is but is still gives some sense of progress.
It would be very nice to have that feedback. That way it doesn't seem like you are in the middle of nowhere, doing no good towards a node. This would be an excellent addition.
Just watched the Node videos again to get a good understanding of its progression.
That basically meant do stuff to get a nearby Node progress to Stage 1.
It would be nice to be able to gauge that sufficient progress is being made on that quest - if they're actually going to have that kind of quest at launch.
Could be that is just a quest for Alpha and Beta.
I found that quest very annoying because there was no sense of progression. I was tempted to abandon it multiple times to "reduce clutter" and old quests in my quest log.
What happens if you've been pouring a lot of time and energy into its progression and it levels up when you aren't around. I would personally like to be there when it happens. It makes it much more satisfying and fulfilling.
In that case, I think people will already levitate towards nodes that are higher development. If they would leave the "big cities" for resources and aesthetics they would do that regardless.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think there should be a XP bar like the character leveling. But there should be some indication that the Node is making progress.
U.S. East
Oh like a city hall building planner were you can see whats needed to upgrade a city or even just buildings
Yeah. Doesn't only have to do that either. You could just stick all of the information and administrative stuff to do with a town in the hall. So if you ever needed any information that is where you would go.
U.S. East
It's more that we know nodes will have a town hall. So we just suggestioning using them for different things effectively. Also so we don't have to use wiki for anything and keep us in the game.
U.S. East