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Re: Q&A Livestream - 11th April 2020
Oh! Does anyone have a general concept of what the constellations look like, or the night sky in general?
Esei
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Re: Commodities Discussion (Continued)
I had an idea about tying purchases in org shops to an increase in production of comms, if I ever get around to typing it out in real words.
Comm stockpiles would be less trouble if they weren't in the hands of relatively few people. Bob from That City Over There's 150k platinum in reserve doesn't do much for Jane from Over Yonder if Bob is sitting on it for the next ten years in fifteen different shops that don't sell them.
Comm stockpiles would be less trouble if they weren't in the hands of relatively few people. Bob from That City Over There's 150k platinum in reserve doesn't do much for Jane from Over Yonder if Bob is sitting on it for the next ten years in fifteen different shops that don't sell them.
Re: Commodities Discussion (Continued)
Stockpiles are necessary because commodities are used in necessary things: weapons, armour/robes, jewelry for enchantments. So, disruptions in comms inordinately affects newbies, and this seems like a terrible game design. Sure, the newbie population is small now, but we shouldn't balance it around that!
If, however, people are dead set to removing stockpiles, then the active generation needs to be ramped way, way up. x100! Why? Well, for example, you can only get 16 rope commodities per hour: 4 from ping-ponging hemp farmers between Stewartsville and Delport, and 12 by murdering the farmers for their hemp. That's not at all sustainable.
Thinking about this more, I would caution against treating commodities as a "conflict system" because, as I've said, commodities are greatly needed by the nooblings. People may say, "Well, if you don't want your nooblings to go without, then you should perform better in revolts or do more commodity quests!" That's terrible! We shouldn't be cannibalizing each other's newbs. We must either divorce commodities from necessities (like what Starmourn did), or vastly ramp up production (like what Achaea did/is trying to do?).
If, however, people are dead set to removing stockpiles, then the active generation needs to be ramped way, way up. x100! Why? Well, for example, you can only get 16 rope commodities per hour: 4 from ping-ponging hemp farmers between Stewartsville and Delport, and 12 by murdering the farmers for their hemp. That's not at all sustainable.
Thinking about this more, I would caution against treating commodities as a "conflict system" because, as I've said, commodities are greatly needed by the nooblings. People may say, "Well, if you don't want your nooblings to go without, then you should perform better in revolts or do more commodity quests!" That's terrible! We shouldn't be cannibalizing each other's newbs. We must either divorce commodities from necessities (like what Starmourn did), or vastly ramp up production (like what Achaea did/is trying to do?).
Mboagn
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Commodities Discussion (Continued)
I did not want to reply to Jolanthe in the other thread, but as usual when I point at something as being a problem I tend to have a solution in mind.
My preference would be to stop treating commodities as being the end result of the economy. The quantity of them should not be an indication of how well/badly things are going, because they are essential to gameplay. Without them the game breaks.
Quick solution: 1) Set all villages to have a flat sell rate of all commodities they sell (not affected by buying or doing comm quests), and 2) Give villages an infinite number of comms to sell.
What does this do? It makes comms a consistent, persistent gold sink (instead of dumping gold into org comm shops you are throwing it out of the game). You can make prices higher than what orgs are doing if you want, and let orgs with supplies / income sell theirs cheaper if they want, but there will never be an issue of actually running out.
Long term:
1) Give all comms a price range. Every month each village rng rolls its pricings to fluctuate them. Set the supply to 500. If it all gets bought out, the village is restocked with another 500 and the price increases by 20% (until the next month change).
2) Only commercial governments get passive tithes from villages.
What does this do? It makes orgs choose between comm generation or power. It makes comms something that good / active trade ministers might run around on shopping expeditions to stock up their central depot when prices are good, but also keeps people from ever running out of basic necessities.
Could easily do more tweaks as necessary, but this would completely reposition commodities into a gold dump instead of a limited resource that needs to be doled out as miserly as possible to ensure that any remain at all.
Xenthos
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Re: Q&A Livestream - 11th April 2020
With the design revamp having settled some, is there a chance we can start seeing new design patterns soon? Jewellery is especially limited in what you can make. I think you have enough people eager for new patterns that if you put out a call for a basic design to give an example of what a pattern should be you could crowdsource the base patterns pretty easily!
Has it been decided when the next round of classleads will open up?
Is there an avenue we as players can take to help get quests added to the QUESTS system? I know a few quests I can easily pinpoint to provide a short writeup that we see in QUESTS <quest name> and give other details to ease its adding to the system.
Re: Q&A Livestream - 11th April 2020
The push for scarcity of commodities has significant gameplay repercussions, especially when some organizations have had essentially zero commodity income for RL months. They are a basic prerequisite; without them you cannot really play the game, at least in some classes. Kata weapons, warrior weapons, instruments, all of these take comms. Can you please discuss why you feel that having commodities is a problem that needs to be rectified? Why do they need to be scarce? Is it not preferable for people to be able to get what they need to have fun in the game vs. not?
Xenthos
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Re: Tweets VIII: Knocks Me Off My Tweet
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2050 Aonia o The Monk class has been deleted.
I got so excited...
I got so excited...
Aydeksa
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Re: Simple Ideas
Remove the limit of lessons learnt at one time (currently only 100 lessons can be learnt in a skill at one time).
So, say I want to max Arts, we can go LEARN 910 ARTS FROM MIAKODA > it'll still give us the learning walkthrough text, but just the once and we'll have the whole skillset, rather than having to sit here for a long time and have the same text over and over!
Ani
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Re: Thanks for the RP (Version 1.0 Alpha)
Thank you for the Order RP, @Czixi . It was amazing and so are you.
Nelras
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