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Alpha Two Phase III testing has begun! During this phase, our realms will be open every day, and we'll only have downtime for updates and maintenance. We'll keep everyone up-to-date about downtimes in Discord.
If you have Alpha Two, you can download the game launcher here, and we encourage you to join us on our Official Discord Server for the most up to date testing news.
I am really not enjoying Gathering, and I think the map could be a solution to that
skid321
Member, Alpha Two
Right now, whenever I log in for what little amount of time I have to play in a day, I generally want to do some gathering to further explore the crafting system. Currently, I think I spend more time trying to FIND the thing I need to gather than I am actually doing anything else. As a new player who doesn't log in regularly, it's really frustrating that a large chunk of the time I have is spent trying to locate something that I have no idea where it exists.
I think everyone is generally on the same page that they wouldn't be interested in the world map just telling them where gatherables are. It's against the spirit of discovery and exploration in a sandbox. Instead, I'd like to see account-wide or character specific map pins added to the World Map, where we can place our own pins and put notes down about different areas we have explored ourselves. Like if I have found a good place that a particular resource is located that isn't right outside of town, I'd love a way to pin the map myself and know where to come back to later if I need it.
Let me fill up that empty map myself full of points of interest, gathering spots, names of enemy spawns, just generally let me play at being an explorer. Right now the map is really only good for getting to node to node, but I could fill in so much information on just the 1-10 leveling experience myself if I had been given the tools to do so in-game.
It could take a problem I am having and give me a gameplay element that actually resolves it. I could fill up the map with different colored pins with different symbols and share it among my characters. Possibly tie it to the guild even as a possible toggle to show guild notes. Give me a reason to want to go to every nook and cranny and note where I have found things of importance or usefulness.
Right now, the map is just... I guess it's just a map. It could be so much more useful without giving away the entire game.
I think everyone is generally on the same page that they wouldn't be interested in the world map just telling them where gatherables are. It's against the spirit of discovery and exploration in a sandbox. Instead, I'd like to see account-wide or character specific map pins added to the World Map, where we can place our own pins and put notes down about different areas we have explored ourselves. Like if I have found a good place that a particular resource is located that isn't right outside of town, I'd love a way to pin the map myself and know where to come back to later if I need it.
Let me fill up that empty map myself full of points of interest, gathering spots, names of enemy spawns, just generally let me play at being an explorer. Right now the map is really only good for getting to node to node, but I could fill in so much information on just the 1-10 leveling experience myself if I had been given the tools to do so in-game.
It could take a problem I am having and give me a gameplay element that actually resolves it. I could fill up the map with different colored pins with different symbols and share it among my characters. Possibly tie it to the guild even as a possible toggle to show guild notes. Give me a reason to want to go to every nook and cranny and note where I have found things of importance or usefulness.
Right now, the map is just... I guess it's just a map. It could be so much more useful without giving away the entire game.
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May help idk
That and the rarity on top of the mining proc system I don't feel like a gatherer but like a soulless deforestation robot. I just hit everything that I see and might get what I want. No real choice of progress for growing as a gatherer either. Every gatherer feels the same and every biome only the view is different. There is no ecosystem in right now.