Greetings, glorious adventurers! If you're joining in our Alpha One spot testing, please follow the steps here to see all the latest test info on our forums and Discord!

Dev Discussion #46 - Materials: Less is More or More is Less?

VaknarVaknar Moderator, Member, Staff
edited January 2023 in General Discussion
dev_discussion_materials-v3.jpg

Glorious Ashes community - it's time for another Dev Discussion! Dev Discussion topics are kind of like a "reverse Q&A" - rather than you asking us questions about Ashes of Creation, we want to ask YOU what your thoughts are.

Our design team has compiled a list of burning questions we'd love to get your feedback on regarding gameplay, your past MMO experiences, and more. Join in on the Dev Discussion and share what makes gaming special to you!

Dev Discussion - Materials: Less is More or More is Less?
Would you like to see a wide variety of materials that can be used for specific things, or fewer materials that can be used for a wide variety of things?

Keep an eye out for our next Dev Discussion topic regarding Tanking!
community_management.gif
«134567

Comments

  • LashingLashing Member
    edited November 2022
    Rare materials and their usage.
    I feel like rare materials should be used in a variety of ways that makes crafting either easier or more interesting. Something like a rare material when used in a craft will automatically enchant the item. Modifying base stats in unpredictable ways or predicable ways depending on the material used. Exclusive effects or procs on the crafted item. Give the crafted item wild stats where one stat is boosted and one is reduced on the final product. Give an item allocation points to increase a specific stat and can be assigned later by someone you sell the item to. Reduced repair costs for a set amount of future repairs. Reduced cost to enchant the item. Reduced level requirements to make twink items.

    I would prefer less generic materials and more specialized E.G. Essence Crystals used for every craft VS. a red dragon scale that reduces fire damage taken when used for crafting. A generic material reduces the impact of changing available content via the node system. I like the idea that you can go to a specific place and get a specific material. One that might not be available on every server due to node layout. This would drive player interactions and world change. Why would you want to go to dungeon X instead of dungeon Y if they both had the same generic drops.

    On a side note I would prefer if a dungeon is dropping a specific material that non-boss mobs always have a chance to get that particular material. With boss mobs dropping a more abundant amount of the specific material. I do not like the idea of "Trash" mobs that are actually trash. They should always have something interesting in their loot table to make them worth the time it takes to kill them.

  • T ElfT Elf Member, Braver of Worlds, Kickstarter, Alpha One
    Guess you would have to put me down for fewer materials that can be used for a wide variety as inventory space is always problematic.
    eZC6mjP.gif
    Formerly T-Elf

  • I'm very much in favor of fewer materials that have a broader use. However, that has to come along with the understanding that fewer materials comes along with a broader potential for market manipulation via bots, so this strategy can only realistically be done if bots are largely a non-issue.
  • GoalidGoalid Member, Alpha One, Adventurer
    I think the question needs more clarity, but I'll give you my interpretation and answer.

    I believe that most crafting in Ashes of Creation should be done from recipes that call for resources. That recipe can sometimes call for a broad range of materials like "metal" or more specific resources like "mythril ingot". And then those metals could also be seasonally specific, or regionally specific. Then have a resource quality feature of those materials just like Star Wars Galaxies, where the resource quality level of the material and expertise of the crafter determine the end product's stat bonuses.

    So, I'd like a wide variety of materials, with recipes that occasionally require specific materials, and then more general recipes that can be used with a larger variety of materials.
    bRVL6TR.png


  • NiKrNiKr Member
    edited November 2022
    I'd prefer several ways to craft the same thing. Ideally mats that come from several corners of the land or just achievable through different means.

    The resulting craft should have the same basic stats, but varying additional effects (within reason).
  • BarabBarab Member, Alpha One, Adventurer
    Too many creates inventory / bank bloat that drives insanity and too few creates a bland experience so a medium must be found. A tiered material system seems to work well with a smaller percentage of materials being unique used as catalyst in some capacity.

    For example have Copper, silver, iron, mithril ore tiers 1 to 6 with diamonds and other gems being catalyst in crafting or buffing etc.
    The Dünir Hold Mithril Warhammers,Thanes of the Keelhaul, Dünir scourge of the oceans, Warhammer First Fleet Command of The Dünzenkell Nation, friends to the Dünir Dwarves of the Dünhold.Hammers High!
  • As a crafter/trader, I definitely prefer larger amounts of resources with the warehouse storage to easily hold massive amounts of those resources
  • A possible point in the favor of fewer materials is that each material is theoretically more valuable.

    This makes a fully laden caravan an even more important target for protection/raiding and plays into the risk vs reward of that system.
  • My experience tells me, that doing leveling, you often don't craft the items that require rare materials, or just materials. People craft what makes them level the crafting faster. Plus, when leveling, you might just find a better item, not long after. It is often not worth it. Or you just don't get enought of the rare material. And buying it, isn't worth it
  • I'd like to see only 5-7 mechanically different generic materials for each gathering profession, but a large number of special rare ones used for augments or high end and rare goods
  • novercalisnovercalis Member, Founder, Kickstarter
    imho in order to address this question, we would need to know how many weapons items ID and Armor items ID are in the game.

    If armor/weaponsmith will have a 20 IDs vs 200 IDs, that will shape the amount of resources needed.

    The larger the catalog of items able to be created, you can expand on rare/uncommon resources requirements.

    If you're making meaningful weapons/armor and the catalog is small - then less is more. Instead of rare/uncommon, you can have unique/legendary/rare mats as requirement.
    {UPK} United Player Killer - All your loot belongs to us.
  • AzheraeAzherae Member, Alpha One, Adventurer
    I think I'm flatly in the middle.

    I view this issue as being connected to open world economy and immersion, and so I always would make my suggestions from that perspective.

    I like having more different materials because it allows developers more tools to mess with the economy, to inspire players to explore, and it seems like it would be a requirement for Ashes just to keep the Node system economies fresh. It's troublesome to have a lot of items to need to store separately, but I just can't see an enjoyable version of this for me with low itemization.

    I also don't think it is necessary to do a lot of very specific items that are only used in one or two things, but how would things like 'Seasonable Gatherables' work across an entire world of Verra if we were so limited?

    I also don't really see what a 'wide variety of things for them to be used FOR' would even be, so I guess I will have to wait for Alpha-2 to understand what that would mean. Other than that, I've got lots of opinions on food and far too many economic opinions that will need to be integrated into testing.

    What I CAN say is that I don't mind if Fish are similar, but as I always say 'not like BDO please' where all Fish are functionally the same, large categories of meat are the same, etc.

    In the end, I just can't imagine what the context of this question is. I don't know what 'fewer' or 'more' is to the Itemization team. I can say that I come from a two games with hundreds of items and that helps me enjoy both the economy (in one of them, anyway) and immersion (sort of). I know I'd be disappointed in 'less than 10 types of ore' and so on.

    But I never know how to imagine what a Fantasy MMO world will be willing to 'leave out' until I see the plans, since so many items seem 'required' (Gemstones, for example, gotta be at least 10, right).
    Sorry, my native language is Erlang.
    
  • MOAR
  • ThangulhadThangulhad Member, Braver of Worlds, Kickstarter, Alpha One
    Having played many MMOs, I prefer a rich crafting system. Systems that are too over simplified cheapen and help make crafting pointless. It's great to have a variety of common materials mixed with some uncommon items that take a bit more time to forage for, but not be a crazy chase item requiring 10s of hours to find or days. Anything that can keep crafting ALWAYS relevant is key. And the key to this relevancy is to ensure "raid gear" needs some measure of crafting instead of just dropping the item itself. For example, some raid level platemail chest plate needs a power stone that drops in dungeon X, or has a chance to. You need to take that power stone to a proficient crafter to get the item made. Possibly with a couple other chase items you can find via landscape gathering. Or even a jeweler getting a ring made should need to make the band, the setting, and have a right proficiently polished/carved gem(s). The ring example shows how being thematic adds to crafting system richness, without being an overly crazy burden. I'd even go so far that crafting specialization might be needed, where you cannot become a jack-of-all-trades and know everything. This specialization could be a skill tree you have to choose one path or another on or limit crafters with recipe points that they need to pick and choose what they can work on. All this helps bolster a possible economy selling/buying/trading in local markets players actually have to go find and shop at instead of a global market, which gets abused and used. It also prevents guilds from completely internalizing all measures of crafting, unless they have a well thought out and planned system to account of ALL needed crafting skills, which could require some major orchestration. It helps also ensure guild cohesiveness, as imagine loosing that skilled heavy armorsmith a lot of your heavy front liners depend on.
  • ive always enjoyed a bit of both. like lots (going to use tier as an example t1 t2 etc) of t1 mats for wide use but some rare like t4 or t5 mats for narrow use. but, like many people have mentioned here already, it turns into an inventory/storage issue. i think if there can be a fun and creative solve to storage/inventory, than it would be really great with either. then the next issues is value over time (vot). for example will vot force me to end up selling old materials regardless of tier or will it make me hoard more and more? vot directly impacts storage/inventory issues, which could completely change behavior of gameplay from early to late. Albion does this really well, i think, but eventually it does become a grind for later players but for new players, keep the value super high. this cycle impacts economy in a real positive way (so longs as player base remains steady with coming and going players)
  • ThangulhadThangulhad Member, Braver of Worlds, Kickstarter, Alpha One
    OH, one major addition on my OpEd. STORAGE. Ensure crafters have it. This can be chests or on workbenches in their homesteads/homes. Setting permissions to specific users or guild ranks would be helpful to chests/workbenches.
  • elcarimelcarim Member, Braver of Worlds, Kickstarter, Alpha One
    Having too many unique resources can be tedious to deal with, as well had hard to maintain space for. While it's nice to see the variety, it can become too much. Finding that happy middle ground is the way to go, unless you're going to provide a LOT of extra storage room for supplies, being too realistic isn't fun.
  • prymortalprymortal Member, Braver of Worlds, Kickstarter, Alpha One
    edited November 2022
    KISS = Keep It Simple Stupid.
    Fewer materials for a wider variety, But fewer materials at say every levels to 10 for example. So level 50 = 5 different types of wood for example. Overall keep your general basic woods/ores & mix it up recipe wise so even though its a lvl1-10 item it still has active use in useful recipes at capped level e.t.c. Then you have your Rare/Legendary low drop rate materials on top, be it capped level Or same deal.
    Fish Is fine to have many but as long as they all do mostly the same job.
    I don't see a point in using more than 3-5 materials per craft. Unless in Rare/Legendary recipes then sure more materials & rare ones on top or to replace if need be depending on system.
    Bag space, storage space, mount storage space & stupid events where you might lose items come into play as factors. As we only know one of these. This is why I lean towards Less materials. To many items has always been a problem in certain mmos, inventory space, then the need to buy more to actually keep up Or worse, you don't buy it or have an option to get that space.
  • namcostnamcost Member, Intrepid Pack
    OH MAN. This is my JAM right here. I am a crafter by heart/soul. I LOVE crafting in games and yet not a single MMO has really gotten it right. Star Wars Galaxies got it pretty good but not good enough.

    """Would you like to see a wide variety of materials that can be used for specific things, or fewer materials that can be used for a wide variety of things?"""

    Well, I would like to see a wide variety of materials that can be used for multiple things. I think when you go to craft a weapon you should be able to select which material to use that matches that part. For example WAND crafting (which I want to do in Ashes of Creation). Lets say as simple wand has two parts, the shaft and handle. You would have various materials that could be used for each. Each material would effect its stats in a specific way. The rarer the material, the better the stats. Maybe you get some "fire birch" which is a birch type wood that is infused with fire magic. You use that for the shaft. Then maybe for the handle you team up with your mining buddy and get some metal. Perhaps titanium (was gonna say mythril but come on, that's kinda basic fantasy). Anyway, the combo would effect its overall stats. This way different wand crafters will use different materials. Maybe a north continent wand crafter has more metallurgical wands thanks to the mountains there, while a southern wand crafter would have more wood based wands due to the vast amounts of trees.

    essentially every type of material should have a quality level AND stats it effects. you could chop a tree and get QL30 (quality level) birch wood. but another birch tree might give you QL50 birch wood. and they would in fact stack differently. and the QL50 birch would give better stats than the QL30 birch. but the "same" stats just higher and lower. while different materials would effect different stats. so birch might give dexterity boost while redwood might get strength boost. for WEAK example. obviously as the development team, you would have to sit down, hash out all the materials you want to have, what stats they effect, and come up with your own tier list. but I want tons of materials to choose from. and having quality levels for materials means their worth can change from place to place. maybe some mountain town has 0 access to wood, so they have to import it. so FOR CRAFTING you might make more money on lower QL wood by selling to that town, than opposed to selling low QL wood at a town full of wood (and higher QL sales).

    I think back to harry potter, wands are generally one or two pieces of wood, and then have a "core" which gives that wand its unique "personality". some wands shoot fire, some bursts of air, etc. maybe you use some magical fire wood and then use a pheonix feather. the combo means boosts to fire damage attack so any spells that use fire will get a small boost. and your auto attack would be a fire attack instead of another type. maybe some water based flower used in alchemy, would also be used as a core for wand, so now that wands auto attack is WATER based and boosts water type magical spells you might cast. there is so much you could do.

    I think about armor crafting and weapon crafting. a basic sword has the blade, the guard, the handle, and the pommel. each part could be any material you want. mythril blade, some kind of gold/titanium alloy for the guard, petrified wood for the handle, and then gold /titanium for the pommel that also has a socketable gem. and then you could put a black onyx gem in. and the combo of things would result in a unique item. this gives crafters WAY MORE variability. crafting is extremely boring if everyone is making the exact same item (cough world of warcraft cough) and thus the only fight would be sale price. that shouldn't be the only factor. if I make the rarest wands in the game, it shouldn't be because im the only person at that high level. it should be because i found a combo that sells like hot cakes.

    Crafting should be very dynamic. materials can stack, but only within the same quality level. if people want basic crafting with a basic tier list and everyone makes the same items, they are NOT crafters and personally i think they should be ignored. living in the world of ashes we should strive to be unique, from the skills and abilities we choose to use, to the armor and gear we wear, to the items we craft. and those that dont craft, will be more on the adventure and raiding side of the game. everyone has their place. basic crafting has no place in a world where everything else is super dynamic (in my opinion obviously).

    of course you will do WHAT YOU WANT to do in terms of intrepid. but you want input. i gave mine.

    Also this type of crafting system would mean you could "twink" new characters like the old days. so you make a level 1 item using highest QL materials and highest Tier materials. Making a noob weapon that does insane damage to make leveling back up easier. Making replaying the game a different way fun. Because the grind isn't as bad yet you can still have fun. the art of dynamic games is lost. no player should be the master of everything there needs to be a strengths/weakness system. a fire mage would be weak to water magic and water based monsters (water temple would be hell for a fire mage). meanwhile, you could equip gear to offset that bias. so instead of wearing fire based gear to boost damage, you will lose out on higher damage bonus with fire for surviving water magic. like having "robes of the water temple" which could give a fire mage some defense against water attacks. skeletons are weak to fire/bludgeon, double damage when using holy, but takes less damage from slashing and zero damage form piercing. and the items you wear, the gear, etc, all effect how you play your character. which is why crafting is so important. MAYBE a player comes to me, and orders a custom set of light armor for the exact reason of buffing a specific magical type defense. I tell them the price and/or materials I need, eventually I craft them, transaction complete.

    custom orders would be really fun too. from taking on custom orders player vs player sense, and maybe the type of node that is for crafting, there would be a bulletin board for players to post crafting orders that other players could fulfill. a less indirect way of getting player vs player interaction. maybe fulfilling bulletin board orders for other players also helps the node XP wise. there is so much we can do for crafters in that sense. the worst thing, is to make crafting boring to where every crafter is the same. because you KNOW people will make alts so they never have to interact with other players. its the long time meme for world of warcraft. hell i have multiple characters in wow classic, each specializing in a crafting type. i never have to talk to other players for crafting. and that's wrong. i should have to buy metal from other players. and to interact.

    I could literally go on for days. I think special "recipes/blueprints" would be for how armor LOOKS. so crafters have basic armor designs but can use any material for each piece. so if a dungeon drops a legendary blueprint, that then could be used to make a one off item. however im guessing legendary items will require specific materials of a specific quality (minimum wise) to make that item. but player items should be able to match stats but not the overall look. so I could make the same stats using the right really high QL materials, but it wont LOOK like the legendary armor 3d model wise. which makes the game extremely FAIR but also allowing players to feel unique because "no one looks like me". some will want that uniqueness. others will come to crafters to make gear with the same stats but look more "basic bish".

    just. YES. tons of crafting items. each with their own level. stats. etc. make crafting dynamic.
  • SmolBeanEmLouSmolBeanEmLou Member
    edited November 2022
    Azherae wrote: »
    I think I'm flatly in the middle.

    I view this issue as being connected to open world economy and immersion, and so I always would make my suggestions from that perspective.

    ...
    ...
    ...

    But I never know how to imagine what a Fantasy MMO world will be willing to 'leave out' until I see the plans, since so many items seem 'required' (Gemstones, for example, gotta be at least 10, right).

    I like this! I think coming from New Worlds, where most of the base is generic - it can be a problem. Especially for gathering and the leveling of gathering those items can be a pain. Then there's bots that go through and collect all the resources and then make it hard for everyone to gather on their own or to buy at a decent price.

    That also being said, I don't want the system to be similar to how NW does materials. I.e. it takes 100 1st level to make 1 2nd level; it takes 10 2nd level to make 1 3rd level and so on. So in that respect, I would like a little bit of diversity or at least recipes that don't require a million of high level materials that can only be crafted with a million low level materials. I'm not asking for one to one, but a balance.

    I think the good middle ground is having basic recipe's that get tailored to the level but have a separate material for specialization (You need tempered steel to make something a strength based thing or something)

    TLDR: In some basic things (1st level/lowest level materials, i.e. animal hide or grass, twigs, etc) a bunch of generic things are fine. But the higher the level, the more specific the recipe (I.e. high level materials or rare materials). If I'm making a basic sword, more generic metal is cool. If I'm making a max level sword or a named sword - specific recipes and resources make sense. This should be separate from the resources or mods to make specific builds to items (str build should require different mods than a magic one).

    EDIT: I would like something that makes it more of a conversation between the artisan classes to add to RP and to have ability for guilds (like the one I'm making with my friends) to make sense (since it mainly focuses on crafting and raids) especially within a player built world
  • bloodymacebloodymace Member
    edited November 2022
    I'm not a huge MMO player but I think the larger the recipes the more frustrating it will be, especially since Ashes wants to introduce a sort of rarity on certain items through seasons, ecology mechanics etc etc. If the recipe involves a lot of items, it better be special.

    Definitely prefer a lot of ingredients vs. low chance of success rates.

    Edit: Now to address the question. I don't mind having a lot of unique items as long as their uniqueness is directly bound to a better crafted item. On the other hand is has to be balanced to allow storage facilities to have some free space.
  • Personally I hope to see hard enemies have a small chance to drop powerful things to tune weapons. Like you have their essence in your weapon and gets small buffs according to what they were
  • MybroViajeroMybroViajero Member
    edited November 2022
    Balance between both

    While it is attractive to have fewer materials to make more things, it is also very interesting to have many materials to make other things.

    Less is more
    In this case it could be said that things would be more "simple and efficient" but on the other hand it could happen that it is very simple, that those "less" materials are so easy to exploit that it would lose sense to look for them, they will simply be there when you need them, the sense of searching for those "less" materials would be lost.

    More is less
    In this case it could be said that variety would help exploration, continuous search, more seasonal diversity, more variability of combinations, and many other things but it could also generate a feeling of accumulation since by needing so many materials to make things it would not feel so good to create a level 1 magic scroll.

    I think the balance between less and more is the right point.
    Giving importance of materials to very important things.
    Give less importance of materials to less important things.
    Give too much material importance to legendary things.

    Things that make the player feel that the materials to be used are less or more important for something and for some purpose, but at the same time make the player feel that the things that are not very important, for something and for some purpose, do not need so many materials.
    EDym4eg.png
  • Individuated SoulIndividuated Soul Member, Alpha One, Adventurer
    A wide variety of materials that can be used for specific things.

    I believe this will create a better interaction with the world and the zones within as knowledge requirements of materials and where they are obtained will create more depth. It will also create a more interesting market due to material diversity.
  • I think a wide variety of materials is good, but i wont travel all over the world to craft one chair.

    But if you can craft the same thing with a variety of materials and this change the style. That would be cool. Like a oakwood table and a table made out of applewood is still a table, but the look is different.
  • lemuletlemulet Member, Alpha One, Adventurer
    I think the most important for crafters is to have those two aspects

    * Incentivize the crafters to socialize with multiple gatherers/processors
    * Creates interesting logistical challenges.

    It is possible to have small recipes provide both social aspects and logistical challenges. Having only 3 or 4 ingredients can still force socialization and logistics by having more complex ingredients.

    Example, you could have a recipe that require a common versatile ingredient (wood), a processed ingredient (nails) and a rarer ingredients to act as a bottleneck (Ivory from a rare elephant drop). Then you would need to socialize with gatherers, processors and PvEers to get your ingredients. Having the bottleneck also would incentivize the crafter to diversify his crafts and grow his empire as time goes.


    sg3TGu4.png
  • My opinion on this is that you need to locate the balance between a wide variety of items without sacrificing the weight of obtaining/looking for those items. If you have 1000 items across the world but they all neatly fit in 5-10 crafting boxes and they are interchangeable it defeats any meaningful crafting. While I typically like having more items, you also need to have sliding scales of "is this a high quality item? and what effect will it have on my crafting if I use a ruby gemstone in this recipe vs. an Arcane Signet and so on".

    There should be enough choice that it isn't just am I using oak or pine, but not flood the market with 700 types of wood that are effectively the same exact thing. There would be value in ideas such as "if I use Steel in crafting my hammer it will do more damage but it is heavy so I attack slower" vs. "I am including X material and it's lightweight so it's less durable and does less damage but quickens my swings". This doesn't have to be taken literally but there should be some amount of variability and based on the wiki I think looking at how SWG handled crafting (it did have flaws for sure) is a good starting point and still holds up 18+ years later.
  • Short Version: Both

    Long Version: Cooking IRL often utilizes the Five Mother Sauces as a base for creating different dishes. Each of these bases consists of 1-3 ingredients and from there each can have things added to differentiate them. I would prefer something like this for cooking and possibly alchemy.

    Carpentry, in my opinion, should utilize a wide variety of wood types that should be better/worse depending upon the item crafted. A prime example in history would be the use of Yew for English longbows.

    Metalworking could include a small number of ingredients that can be combined in different proportions to create different metals, such as using 88% copper and 12% tin to make bronze.

  • SolitonSoliton Member
    edited November 2022
    I err on the side of Less is More. There is a certain point in crafting artisan gear where it becomes more complicated than is fun.

    Having played games where crafting is two clicks and you're done, all the way up to one item requiring bespoke components from multiple other crafting disciplines and gatherables locked behind RNG, I've found found that:
    1. Nothing should require more than 2 professions too build.
    2. Any more than 3 or 4 steps/components bloats the storage needs, since the multiple things you're building likely requires completely different materials.
    3. The more overlap and reusability built into the materials, the more it feels good to harvest. If i know the wood I'm chopping can be used in both low level (now) and high level crafts (later on), the more likely I am to engage in the economy surrounding that material.

    Player crafting should be just as, if not more important as questing/raiding for gear. Finding the balance between the time needed to do either option is vital.

    One recent game made crafting a laborious task AND made losing that gear very quick. It was not a good experience.
  • SongRuneSongRune Member, Alpha One, Adventurer
    Azherae wrote: »
    I think I'm flatly in the middle.

    I view this issue as being connected to open world economy and immersion, and so I always would make my suggestions from that perspective.

    I like having more different materials because it allows developers more tools to mess with the economy, to inspire players to explore, and it seems like it would be a requirement for Ashes just to keep the Node system economies fresh. It's troublesome to have a lot of items to need to store separately, but I just can't see an enjoyable version of this for me with low itemization.

    I also don't think it is necessary to do a lot of very specific items that are only used in one or two things, but how would things like 'Seasonable Gatherables' work across an entire world of Verra if we were so limited?

    I also don't really see what a 'wide variety of things for them to be used FOR' would even be, so I guess I will have to wait for Alpha-2 to understand what that would mean. Other than that, I've got lots of opinions on food and far too many economic opinions that will need to be integrated into testing.

    What I CAN say is that I don't mind if Fish are similar, but as I always say 'not like BDO please' where all Fish are functionally the same, large categories of meat are the same, etc.

    In the end, I just can't imagine what the context of this question is. I don't know what 'fewer' or 'more' is to the Itemization team. I can say that I come from a two games with hundreds of items and that helps me enjoy both the economy (in one of them, anyway) and immersion (sort of). I know I'd be disappointed in 'less than 10 types of ore' and so on.

    But I never know how to imagine what a Fantasy MMO world will be willing to 'leave out' until I see the plans, since so many items seem 'required' (Gemstones, for example, gotta be at least 10, right).

    I don't tend to be quite focused enough on the actual details of game economies to know the right way to build one. I leave that to Azherae most of the time.

    I gotta say though, don't make useless damned items. BDO has many types of trees. This is good. If you don't have variety, it's gonna suck, but they also have a couple varieties that can be used to craft ZERO items. You heard me right. Zero. Their only purpose in game is "sell to NPC, I guess".

    This annoys the hell out of me. I still have to collect that tree because of gathering byproduct I need, but then I end up sitting here with a ton of a LITERALLY useless log, which serves NO purpose but to inflate the economy when you sell it.

    Variety: Yes please! Many types of wood: Yes please! But give me something to do with them. It's not even hard. Other games do it.
Sign In or Register to comment.