Posts made by OlivePit

@GamerSeuss
I am doing multiple experiments with field nutrition and crop rotations.
Currently there exist good 10 day rotations that keep the nutrients at or above 100% for each crop planted in the rotation. Beans are the most frustrating at the moment but I am confident that this will pass with the introduction of more crops.
There is yield reduction and crop health reduction if not kept above the listed irrigation numbers and crops can die or have reduced yields.

I have concerns about the use of warehouses. They take up a significant amount of space, hold not all that much, and are tedious to load or unload. In contrast the marketplace has a huge capacity and is very easy to load and unload from. Further the City hall has infinite storage space and is very easy to load into. The fact that carts cannot be stolen in town and that they hold more bags per square foot than warehouses, and are mobile, and tradeable (via giving another permissions) makes them far far superior to warehouses in every regard other than that warehouses are open to all citizens. If warehouses are to be a necessary aspect of the game they need to hold a lot more, have added functionality, or something. I have built 4 warehouses in our city and the process of having to load a cart from the bagging station, move the cart, and unload the cart at the warehouse is just too ridiculous, why do the second step at all? At this moment I see absolutely no reason to build a warehouse when instead you can have a field of carts loaded and ready to trade or just pile it all in the marketplace.

Container appears to be not full, but says is..
Minor bug.

Bonus stats from talents or items have no effect on memory limit.

If you have a full ability load out -32 pts- and respec to a reduced intelligence your abilities memorized are not effected. This means you can do a 32 point build, then dump int points into something else - like str- and continue play so long as you do not want to change your build.

Thanks for the bug fix to enchanting scholar robes...
Of course now I have to go and do another test of it to see what the new odds are XD
Thanks for the new flexibility ! I hope it breathes some more activity into this last bit of the alpha.

Agreeing with Kralith here.
There were 5 carts that I knew were full of ore but not shared and I had to deleet them as the players stopped playing and I needed the space for a building : /

Giving us the option to turn on pvp in the town if just so we could 'steal' the carts to a new location would also be great for helping reduce clutter and what not.

We have had this issue to up in zenith.

since my first post I made 80 cotton armor pieces (20 of each part in batches) and in total got 10 exceptional pieces, 6 of which were cowels (hats?).
Very odd distribution especially for the reported 20% chance.
I will do another test with a larger batch once I get more chests to store them XD
It is good to know that 'luck has no effect on crafting' as I can use my other characters to do the testing and not my one high luck / kp person.

Thank you for the feed back Prometheus.

sounds like a bug/exploit since the devs specifically do not want it to be used to bypass cliffs or walls.

I fervently disagree.
It is an ability just like the healing herbs and has huge advantages over other abilities as it is not restricted by mana, knowledge points, or having to farm monsters to learn how to make, and the bandages have a very low cool down. The only balancing mechanism is to require it to be in the hot bar and take up one of the 8 slots.

I think that after this alpha governors will realize the utility and value in building services like markets which attract and keep residents more and allow the city to grow than other tech- like walls-
If a thing is given free then it has no value and cannot be used to differentiate between options.
Leave it as is and have governors have to think seriously about benefits and consequences.
But also give them a path to respec'ing the tech tree so that their mistakes are not permanant.

Or have a scaling system where if you use no material you can bag 20 grain, but if you use flax cloth you can bag 40 grain, and 80 with cotton cloth !
It would give me something to do with all this cotton I have lying around >.>

Thanks for the reply. I am not worried about the item loss in this alpha, but later it could be a huge frustration.

Sigh..
1k luck
enchanting.
66% chance to succeed, 7% chance to fail.
failed 5 times, lost 7 items out of 11

Seriously... what the hell?
yes it is -possible-
but with 1k luck the odds should be shifting down to lower than 2% failure and up to 88% success
-if the equations given are accurate.

sigh...

Ok we (meridian) have had farming unlocked for some time and have built up quite a supply of food.
The issue is that one bag takes up an inventory spot and is only 20 grain and is a chore to move around.
Meanwhile grain stacks to 100 and only takes up one inventory slot and a chest can hold a lot of them.
So storing food in chests uses way less space and is far easier to move short distances.
I think this should be changed in that each bag is 100 grain so at the very least the grain does not take up more space when packed and scale down the city upkeep to adjust for the change.
Next there is the moving of the bags. It is fine and important that they are heavy items, no issue there. But can we please quickly move them from or into a wagon from a packing station and into a warehouse?
We can do this when moving them to the city hall or a market, why not these two other facilities?
It would make loading 90 bags into 3 carts much much easier and less of a nightmare.
Potentially this game is designed to have lots of trading of food goods, but right now the prospect of loading and unloading 120 wagons to feed a city is just making me want to give up.

We had a players house decay but not their carts, another player bought the plot but couldent move the cart or even steal it XD It is just sitting there blocking their buildings.

@yneternum
But you are ok with melee characters starting with abilities that are super powerful and otherwise really hard to get by fighting mobs?

@yneternum
Yes, since my post they made goblins weaker so that new mages had a chance to kill them, before that they did not have a chance.
The major ballancing factor for high KP players was supposed to be that each ability had 4 tiers of effect/damage which could only be unlocked through achieving challenges. This system is not implemented and as such the ability a mage starts with is the same ability that a max kp and kitted mage has. Nerfing all the abilities hurt all the different stages of game play, not just the top end. As such I and others consider it a poorly designed nerf.
The evidence that the player base dropped and has remained really low is evidence of the truth in this statement.
High level mages were not so effected because they had the skills and gear to deal with it, newer mages did not and were given a nerf to goblin hills as a half assed apology ... but that nerf also made it much easier for all players to farm goblin hills, not just mages, as such the inequality between mages and melee still exists.

I bet that if the next alpha were pve with focus on trade, ability ballances, and crafting, that there would be a higher player population than there is in our current pvp alpha.

I agree. any upgrade should immediately take the tiers grain/protein/veg upkeep, if not you are getting something for nothing and at the same time reducing the value of food stuffs which was supposed to be the major trading resource in game (the 'it will take two farming villages to feed one city' bit) but is a joke at the moment. Especially with the high fertility resource nodes.