I think multiple free fournaces could push people to try taking over resources sites, and create the bad mood many people seems to be already worried about... Public stations are a good idea to give same advantage to everybody, but without good limitation on what people can do in their plots could be workarounds to these attempts

@kellewic you should post it for everyone to revel in the past

@Tuoni said in Life Skills?: beer I don't see why Shrooffee ️ and Shroo-T ️ offer can't be expanded with Shroo-B

Update: The guild has been recreated as a Human Guild...guess the guild auto-locks to the race of the Guild Master

I hated the rare resources in SWG usually because I didn't get them lol. The thing about rare though is that it is not plentiful. If something in the crafting genre doesn't impose some kind of hurdle that must be overcome then it doesn't become something you can make your niche in. Everyone will be able to do it and thus crafters will only be necessary for the lazy or those who just don't have the time nor want to make the time. Since knowledge will only open up crafting options that give different, not better, stats to your items, then there will not be any higher tier stuff. No items will be able to handle all situations. There are also no secrets in mmos. At least not until they are revealed for the first time. Once someone breaks a code on a recipe they will become widely known. So only the players paving the way will have the excitement of the secret formula experimenting.

@Tuoni ditto that!

I'd rather not have a time decay mechanism. I have played where games had that and even your logged off time counted. I'd rather have a use decay system as well. Crafting is my love in games and I even want that lol. Otherwise you spend too much time always trying to remake gear. UO also had the durability system that lowered the max durability each repair so eventually it just broke and couldn't be repaired. I would also like the stats of the items to not change even though durability goes down. Otherwise you might as well call it junked long before it reaches 0 durability because the stats drop so much it's not useful.

@Gothix said in Bardikens' Compendium of Suggestions Part 4: Gear and Crafting: Nice post. I would just add that in horizontal progression game, crafting effort isn't actually on crafting the gear (which was already stated it will be quick and easy), but on customizing it horizontally. The more horizontal modifications you wish to apply to your gear (fit it more for exactly specific type of monster you will go hunt, for example) the more effort should it take. So players will have easily obtainable gear, so they will never be "naked" for long even if they lost everything, but will still need to put in the effort to obtain highly customized gear, designed to be highly efficient for very specific purposes. That's a fair point. The emphasis on modifying gear to fit a situation didn't cross my mind at the time.

Like everyone said above, you give permission, check Albion if you want an example.

@needlehawk there could always be a mix of both

@zwiterion Indeed i fully agree with you. And i guess that the devs surely look to all the ideas, suggestions and critisim we have. And i think they will also listen to our fears. My result from the first Q&A was, they do it very well. As for the topic. I would like to have in the crafting system some hidden receipe system. Something you have to figure out by yourself, some secrets that other player can try to hold for themself or sell it for a good value. I liked it very much in the previous sandbox mmo i played.

@blackwebclx said in Ars Goetia - ARGO: The Demon Merchant Guild: I hope i can join the guild! I wanna be a part of a guild that will soon grow to the best guild ever! Add me on discord! 超闪存 Dale#0450

@prometheus Thanks! It makes sense for a game where gear should be relatively easy to get. Just wanted to be certain. Since I've kind of grown to dislike RNG. Esp. after playing the likes of BDO.