Graff Island has no Gem Trade

You would think that Graff Island would have a very healthy Gem Trade, but there's not a gem to be found in the town. No NPC Gem merchant. No players selling gems.

I'm sure this will get "fixed" after the wipe. But it seems to me that this is an oversight of the design of the town based on the backstory and location of Graff Island.

I think an NPC gem shop would make sense here. NPC's should sell mining equipment, and maybe even books on what each gem is all about. Maybe even small fragments at VERY expensive prices.

 

The gem business went bust when the kobolds and satyrs took over the mines.

Edit: 666 posts. Woohoo. Helter Skelter.

 

Shouldn't Kobold's own Graff Island now then? How do the Kobold's distribute the gems? Where's their base of operations? They either need the gems to create wealth for their war machine (not sure if they use money like we do) or they need the gems for the disruption of trade as part of their war (in which case no one seems to be fighting them) or lastly they would need the gems for weapons or magic related to the gems - that doesn't seem to be happening (yet). So it looks like an oversight to me.

 

There is no story element for Graff Island or Port Graff this release. It will be added to match the lore of the Graff family post-R33. The two scenes are currently placeholders to allow for lot claiming pre-final wipe but are not the final state of either town.

 

Can you give us some brief insight into those plans? Not story detail, just how the town will be built out as Drocis and others have wondered about. What can we expect to see here or is that too early to tell?

 

Do you mean the story (which is about a paragraph or so describing the Graff family and their gem trade, some of which is already in game), the final town layout (which hasn't been designed yet) or when all this will be added (as part of a polish/construction pass over all the cloned scenes post-R33)?

 

It was more about elements of the town, its high-level design. But it looks from your response that's not in place yet.