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Harvesting & Crafting
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The crafting seriously makes me wet. I just want to play a game and do that and the supply side logistics all day. That's one of the main components of EVE that always drew me back in as well.
if i play this game...i be also be just crafting lol
I'll balance it out and will only be fighting people.
From what I can gather, you can't really "just craft." You have to be able to PvP to craft, or you just get ganked non-stop.
You can just craft as long as you get the materials. As the game matures, you'll either take your skilling in a combat oriented direction, or crafting direction. Splitting them will probably be the least helpful. So as in EVE, you end up with a combat branch that does harvesting/gathering runs, and then you turn those over to the people who actually can make something good with the materials because the better those craftings skills get, the lower the chance of failure is and the higher the chance of final results are.Quote:
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Also in the current interation there is no safe place to craft. As the game is fleshed out, it sounds like the EKs have a much greater chance of allowing some additional freedoms in being safe while crafting.
Yeah, it's gonna be like EVE or Lineage 2 as you'll go out with your clan to get materials and protect your harvesters from ganks. That's gonna be really fun and will make or break clans.
The game is all about grouping up with friends or clannies since there's some nodes that require at least 2 people to harvest and you'll need to specialize in different things, so it makes it even more complex for solo players. We'll all be specializing in different things, we'll need pure combat people to guard harvest runs.
So it looks like you can be a harvester or crafter without losing that much combat relevance. You still have your archetype/disciplines that you can train skills/passives in. The crafting/harvesting investment happens in the universal abilities that affect all archetypes you play. To specialize in crafting you would forgo some combat abilities/passives in that universal tier. The power curve on those abilities/passives are supposed to be shallow (We'll see if that holds true). In Theory, a harvester could equal a more combat specialized player just by having access to better materials and then having his crafter buddy make better gear. We'll still need groups to harvest, but harvesters won't be useless in combat.
Knight/Harvester looks like where I'd go based on what I know now. I'm sure that will change many times between now and 2025 when this game comes out. That'll be one year sooner than Camelot Unchained.
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It's not a video, but for those who love supply chain and crafting, these charts are ridiculously hot.
Why is the Duelist recipe for the copper tube called "Gere's Cavern" ?
Crafting gear and gearing out people is probably going to be a guild or "constant party" effort, much like it was on Lineage 2 :D
After reading this, I'll just go into suspended animation until this game comes out:
"Technically, there are two parts to this: the underlying parcel system, which allows us to stitch together land masses into a seamless whole AND a procedural system that automated the process of laying out those parcels and all of the content that fills them.
The first part, the underlying tech, is now up and running. We can build any number of unique worlds and boot them and players can log in and harvest resources and fight monsters -- it's a fully-functional MMO.
The second part, though, is still heavily dependent on designer input right now. We have tools to configure everything, but someone has to walk it through the process, mixing and matching the pieces and reviewing the map and changing the default content for each parcel.
The next step will be automating that. Our plan is to lay out the major terrain features (mountain ranges, valleys, hills, forests) and then have a "history simulator" for the world that fills in all the details. The simulation will start by populating the world with various races, and then use AI to let them explore and conquer the world around them, sort of like a game of Civ, only completely automated. As the races explore and capture resources and bump into each other, they will go to war, declare peace, build cities, etc. This process will populate the world with ruins (and history, and artifacts) for the players to discover once that world comes online."
I really wish they'd give more info on the parcel system. It's the main thing holding me back from giving them more money than I should to get some extra parcels because I just don't know what I'm buying.
They <s>explained</s> showed it a little bit on their blog post from yesterday: http://crowfall.com/en/news/first-lo...ue-world-maps/
That doesn't explain anything other than they made a map out of tetris pieces, and that the servers are set up that way. The knowledge on how you set up your own parcels is still very lacking, such as cost/placement/restrictions/how to obtain them and then there are different parcels you can have according to the store, so how do you make each, what goes into each, what are the taxes and how does the placement of buildings on to them work.
Yes, they form maps, and the maps are unique, but that isn't terribly helpful as the tetris pieces could be viewed in the store already.