Resource Nodes - dynamic maximum spawns for immersion & new scene visitations

This might get some hate -- but ..

I think a cool mechanic would be if there was a dynamic maximum amount of resources that could be tracked on the server for *most* scenes, which decreased the more resources were harvested. This would create a sense of over-farming / stripping the scenes of resources and force players to try and find new scenes that had resources still. Over time, resource maximums would slowly increase back. Infrequently visited scenes would slowly increase their maximum. Scenes would always have a resource minimum, to account for quests and such.

This would help spread players out to unused / different scenes and create immersion at the same time.

 

i understand your suggestion, but currently many resource hunters farm a whole area, then exit the scene and repeat. As a miner I stay in the scene and wander around till the respawns happen instead of exiting but having a scene regenerate slowly will cause more folks to exit the scene, and cause it to restart. Crafting now in larger batches uses a lot of resources some which take a while to collect like in Elysium mines, especially if the critters don't give you much in terms of experience for higher levels.

Just my opinion
Waldo Ptolomy

 

Even in the best scenes a fast gatherer may end up waiting for nodes to respawn.

My suggestion would be the exact opposite: dynamically buff up XP and yield for natural resources in less visited / used scenes so they get a bit of love.

 

That works too - good compromise

 

Much better solution - the original idea would effectively kill off the supply of gold and silver to the economy as there isn't exactly much choice of where to farm these resources in bulk

 

Well, yea that's why I mentioned it might be negatively received, but I thought it might trigger some dev revamping of mining scenes and keep things a little more chaotic.

 

Yeah, with the current design of the crafting system and the extremely large amounts of gold and silver needed to level it having a reliable way to farm thousands upon thousands of units of ore is vital - remove that and you make levelling crafting impossible in any reasonable timeframe.

 

Not to mention the RNG that leads to spending hundreds of gold and silver ingots to get a couple of high level items.

 

@FBohler Neither of us want to hijaak this thread, but you've re-opened that huge can-of-worms - that deserves it's own thread.
% vs RNG and the stupidity of it all..................
How bout you start one...

 

Instead of a chance to succeed, how about the first enc/mw give 100% bonus, the second gives ~80% (adjusted by your skill level), the third gives ~45%, and so on.

 

Sounds like a good idea. The system would need a major rework though.