05-30-2009, 12:08 AM
Dustie,
It is the gathering part that most games get crafting wrong.
The key to crafting is the resourses not the gathering.
We want crafting to create pvp. To create pvp we need to create battles over resourses. Screw putting nodes all over the world where anyone can run around and gather them.
You tie the resourses into locations and the factions that control the resourses. Mines, Farming Fields, Orchards, Wineries, Slaughter houses etc.
As Slamz pointed out above if you are a blacksmith you can either help a faction build or run its mine in order to get access to the resourses or you have to raid it to take the resourses. Maybe a guild itself is given permission to run their own resourse center with in what ever is available with any given faction.
The reason for pvp is to control resourses. You need resourses to help with factions, or help your crafters keep you equiped. Especially since equipment breaks permantly.
Let the game do the gathering, let the players worry about trying to get a hold of resourses. They can buy them, raid for them or help produce buildings to generate them.
If you fix the gathering piece you will dump most of repeditive crap. That is not to say you should get rid of the repetitive pieces of generating finished products. If you are a blacksmith you will probably end up repairing a lot of crap or producing your best pieces. Can't be helped. Don't be a Blacksmith then.
Vllad
It is the gathering part that most games get crafting wrong.
The key to crafting is the resourses not the gathering.
We want crafting to create pvp. To create pvp we need to create battles over resourses. Screw putting nodes all over the world where anyone can run around and gather them.
You tie the resourses into locations and the factions that control the resourses. Mines, Farming Fields, Orchards, Wineries, Slaughter houses etc.
As Slamz pointed out above if you are a blacksmith you can either help a faction build or run its mine in order to get access to the resourses or you have to raid it to take the resourses. Maybe a guild itself is given permission to run their own resourse center with in what ever is available with any given faction.
The reason for pvp is to control resourses. You need resourses to help with factions, or help your crafters keep you equiped. Especially since equipment breaks permantly.
Let the game do the gathering, let the players worry about trying to get a hold of resourses. They can buy them, raid for them or help produce buildings to generate them.
If you fix the gathering piece you will dump most of repeditive crap. That is not to say you should get rid of the repetitive pieces of generating finished products. If you are a blacksmith you will probably end up repairing a lot of crap or producing your best pieces. Can't be helped. Don't be a Blacksmith then.
Vllad