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Brewing Numbers - Port Hates Money

Discussion in 'Release 56 QA Feedback' started by Lhamabomb, Jul 20, 2018.

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  1. disorder

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    A lot of faith in Lord British was lost on this day.
     
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    It was 40 gold per bottle. Currently there are no bottles of wine on the NPC-Vendors.

    The bottles of wine are still there where i have stored them.

    Better you consume them for cooking on the live server (in R55). If they change the recipes like mentioned in the R56 draft, all wine bottles become deco items only.
     
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    While it 'technically' meets the mark, it only does so because of the farming aspect. The current prices, brewing is straight loss-making; any profit you make is from the farming stage. So it makes more sense to just farm, sadly, and save yourself the hassle and cost of cask-making and ingredient-crafting and cask-refilling. I could see potentially if the ingredient/refill steps at least gave decent XP, but at 25 xp each its not really better than just basic smelting. With these prices I think brewing just became one an obsolete feature already, one of those things you can do for RP purposes to have a bit of beer but not something that has a productive purpose. Which is a shame, considering how long it was awaited and the amount of effort that went into implementing it.

    If the issue was maturation when not placed, then simply make the only way to retrieve the contents to click the spigot that appears when the cask is ready. While yes, an alt or box could technically still 'hold' these, you'd have to place them down one by one and click them, which is quite frankly, a lot of hassle, especially for a large operation, but should help satisfy the time sink. Else make them not mature unless actually placed properly, and I'll go fill my basement up. This is initially how I thought it would work anyway, actually crafted casks based on my basement capacity.

    The problem of course is...you have to pick them all up to refill them....so if we're talking revamp, lets address that step...;)

    The solution of "nerf the price into making the entire system pointless" isn't really a solution. You wont have to worry about people holding casks on an alt, sure, but you've also just implemented an entire system that results in a couple more furniture deco items / consumables.
     
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    I can't wait for fishing!


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    Lol! +1
     
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    Fix for that should be "stuff doesn't age if it's not placed in the world."
     
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    And re: prices, I'll just float out there that QA is always in flux. Those might not be the final prices.
     
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    It is equal parts ridiculous and disappointing. Really not much else. Such a waste of effort for both the Dev's and the Players.
     
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    Also, I'd like to throw this out there but hopefully not derail this thread with it. It is my belief that social activities and crafting should come with a profit as well.

    I approve of profit from crafting. I think it's way better when the profit is made from selling to another player, but even dumping your extra swords to the local NPC militia shouldn't be a giant hit. If you craft swords for an hour, get an hours worth of profit instead of an hours worth of loss.

    To be clear on crafting, I don't take a loss on those swords because I only make one or two at a time, and then wait until they sell, I never do giant batches.

    Make dance parties generate some gold! Since it's social, make it generate more based on how many people showed up!

    ("But gold generation must come with RISK!")

    Why? If I'm making 4k an hour dancing, and someone else is making 7k an hour adventuring, how is me having dance time hurting anything?

    Why should adventurers and gatherers be the only ones who can just step into the world and grind? I don't buy the RISK argument. There is no risk. This game doesn't actually kill anyone.
     
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    Well i hope for those that stick around the numbers end up looking better. But like i said, port showed their cards in a lot of ways doing what they did here...

    So rather than raise my cortisol levels any higher from shady stuff like this, i'm stepping away.

    Game is great, horribly managed, like so many others out there today... But that's what happens when you try to force a golden goose to lay eggs
     
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    Make it simple: Every minute someone is online he/she gets 100 gold. And when people starts complaining it becomes to less, give more and more... as long as everybody has understand acrifice...
     
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    This is still just QA guys. This is exactly the feedback Port needs to be hearing before release. Lets hope they do the right thing here.

    It's not the way I prefer to make gold.. but I will say that casks should only be allowed to mature in basements.. WHEN PLACED. NOT in your inventory. It gives plenty of incentive to finish the main quest-place a row house with basement-upgrade lot/basement-make more gold. Then you wont have a million casks all over the main parts of town (lag)... and gives reason to place and visit your basements. I'm sure this is easier said than done however. I cant even imagine how they would code this. I just hope they seriously look at this as its a passionate trade players wish to partake in the game.... Fishing will be even worse if not done correctly (treasure maps/message in bottles please. we don't care about nicer/new fish).
     
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    That will kill the brewing system ... setting up 500 -1000 brew barrel in your basement everyday ..put em down pick them up in inventory ... its like having to setup your farms planting pots everyday ..... a better solution would be to have them setup in the basement ... and be allowed to just add the ingredient to it ..same way you add a seed to a planting pot...3 days later you go get your beer out and place another brew ingredient (and even that way would be bad without a batching system) ... its like trying to plant your farm plots one seed at a time.
     
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    Agreed - having to pick them up and put them into your inventory to refill them is probably more the reason people are "having an alt hold them" than lack of space. If you have to pick them up to refill them, and they continue to age while in your inventory, why WOULDN'T you just hold them on an alt (or in a box next to the cooking bench, for example)? This to me was the big oversight in the entire system.

    now, if you could empty and refill them by clicking them in the world - assuming you have ingredients in your inventory? Then we could make it so they only mature while sat - adding a space limitation such as agriculture has and solving the issue.
     
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    I've been making this point for well on three years now as every time a way is found to make any sort of money through non-killing means it is quickly found and nerfed to oblivion.
    If a player's time has value, it should not matter how they are spending that time.
    Killing monsters for gold has no more merit than crafting items for gold.
    Even at the best case, crafting income was about half as lucrative, and I'm ok with that - if you can make 10k/hr killing monsters and selling their crap to NPCs who buy it ad infinitum and never run out 0f gold, then why could you not sell crafted goods to those same NPCs at the same rate of profitability? Or if you must have "risk" be a variable, then make it half as profitable.

    It has often been argued that they don't want players to be able to "print money" - ie, buy mats from NPC, make item, sell to NPC. But I continue to ask ...WHY NOT? If a player time investment is required I don't understand why crafting is a less valid methodology. The only real valid argument I've heard is "because people will set up macros/bots". And I suppose, perhaps, that it is too difficult/time consuming to detect such cheaters - but I reject that it is impossible to create a system whereby NON COMBAT tradeskills can be as profitable as hacking monsters to bits. The main immersion breaking / reality defying aspect of this game is that you have all these tradespeople - players and NPCs alike, and none of them can make a living unless they go chop up monsters. I mean, its quite ludicrous.

    I thought the brewing was finally a step in the right direction - and it was limited due to the maturation times - but it seems this too has been eliminated.

    So brewing "system" - 3 new deco items you can buy heraldry for. Woulda saved a lot of time/effort by just making them furniture as that's all they're gonna be good for.
     
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    Agree. They should consider the logic they used for planters. I once accidentally picked up one of my planters and dropped it into inventory. I believe I happened to be swapping armor manually at the time. Anyways, the planter I was carrying did not age the plants held within.

    They just need to replicate that logic for brewing.
     
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    it's planned. discord:

    Lained - Last Friday at 6:59 PM
    @Atos in case you missed it make casks work like planters so they don't mature unless placed as a deco item.

    Lace - Last Friday at 7:00 PM
    @Lained I agree you should brew in your bank heh
    er shouln't

    Atos - Last Friday at 7:00 PM
    @Lained That actually isn't true! I would LOVE that it were true but currently they have an end date when you make them

    Atos - Last Friday at 7:00 PM
    This was to simplify the implementation but I think we have to address that and make it work like you described
    Because I dream of players with basements (and soon dungeons) full of casks lined up wall to wall!
     
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    Well there ya go.
     
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    I think overall it's important to keep in mind that brewing was a brand new feature in R55 and that it clearly needs significant additional work for it to be workable. I also think it shouldn't be difficult to make it similar to agriculture, where casks mature faster (or only) in basements, but also there needs to be a way then to restock casks without having to pick up & replace them every time, like with planting beds. And then finally, it needs to be possible to make a profit with bought water, like it currently is with agriculture. So that while your profit margin is slimmer (thus giving an incentive to those who wish to draw water) but still enough to be worthwhile to pursue brewing. Right now the margins are so slim even with hand drawing water it's not worth the time. The only area I could see a possibility for profit is brewing wine for use by people who want to cook those couple of recipes that will require brewed wine, if you can get them to buy it for more than you can sell to a merchant.
     
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