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Rowell · Nov 20, 2019

kaeshiva said: ↑

Its not just lack of communication ...for me it just seems lack of insight.

Take the amount of effort to create dozens of new recipes using fish ...not a single one of which is economical or viable. Beyond 'first time crafting XP' these are just more useless items.
Or look at the 'use explosion potion to shatter gem' addition. I can see making it a little lossy, but the cost of doing this is just downright silly.
We have potions we can combine that reduces their value - you're better off selling the crap ones and buying mats for the big ones. Recipes using scraps (cloth/leather) that still cost more in fuel than not using them at all. Things like the 'bacon' recipe which nobody would actually make to eat for any purpose other than RP. Cooking in particular is one area where it seems like things were just made up with no consideration to the complexity or difficulty of the recipe other than the obsidian foods, which when used as a benchmark, make 99% of other recipes completely pointless.
Or adding a new mining scene and filling it with death metal slimes that can 2-shot you wearing heavy armor and having 1400+ HP and have no meaningful reward for killing them.
Or adding silver/gold scraps but making them so rare its more cost effective to just smelt using ore eliminating the need for them entirely. Or adding 'young dragons' which have 5x the HP of a normal Tier 5 mob and are reasonably annoying to kill, and give less skinning xp and less loot than stuff you find in the outskirts.

STOP wasting resources/time adding stuff that nobody will use/do beyond the initial novelty. If you don't have time to math it out or play the game to figure out if something's worth doing, then ask!
You have a very involved, very willing playerbase of people who will happily numbercrunch, make suggestions, give explanations as to why/why not.
"We're thinking of adding a new recipe using wyvern haunches. The process should go something like this: These are rare-ish drops off of mobs that have 3 to 5 times the HP of an obsidian creature that hurt considerably more. Lets think, where this should fit in the overall reward-vs-effort scheme? What effects are currently under-represented in food? (like, not having any INT food that doesn't require a rare boss drop or "ultrarare-never-caught-one-in-thousands-of-fish" fish.). Then fill the gaps.

Modifying outputs and improving existing things would probably take less time than coming up with brand new stuff and would improve the game considerably.

I get really frustrated when I read the early release notes and I see:

Cycling out pointless holiday boss with a 1% drop of a holiday rare to replace with next pointless holiday boss that, at least last year, only required killing 20 times or so to get the novelty holiday item for your full team.

Adding 2 new foods that probably wont be worth making.

Adding a new big spider that will be incredibly difficult to kill, and have the same loot as the 300 hp brown spider, 99% of the time, for 1 person only in your group.

Adding a bunch of stuff you can buy for $.

I know the team is working hard. I know Chris especially is working 'round the clock. I do not question their passion or their industriousness. And if you look over the past year, there have been a LOT of improvements to the game. But we still have very basic, very low hanging fruity things, wrong, and what seems to be a huge amount of effort put toward things that end up just getting ignored. It used to be I read the patch notes, and I made myself a shopping list of where to go, what recipes to get, what quests to try, what emotes to learn, what new scenes to explore, etc. And I appreciate its a smaller team and we can't deliver a lot of new content. Which is why its even more important now to ensure that the content we do spend time creating is worthwhile.
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This. 100%.

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