Item creation and prediction

[Gintigael Gemweaver]

Jan 16, 2013 17:28:14 GMT -6 nimitztreecat said:

As I was reading this and the discussion turned to cooking and NPC needing items that our cooks make a thought popped into my head. I think it would be fun if goblinworks went really deep with NPC. Here is an example once in a while a gold standard NPC will pop into the game that is much better than the rest. For this I am going to say a overseer who has special traits, lets say Bornleader(can overseer 30 workers instead of 25) and efficient(5%less materials needed for crafting). Now to get him a settlement might need certain items/buildings. Lets say he is a Foodie(must have special food items to attract him) and he is a collector of fine kobalt weapons(so we need a kobalt weapon smith. The game assigns him to the first town who meets all his requirements or if more than one the some method is determined where he goes.

Now I know this is a bit off topic, but where I am going with this is it would be nice if we had people who where good at predicting where future games changes will go and be ready for it when the new item goes live. I.E. we know a new batch of armor recipies will be entering on the next patch. Now from past armor recipes we know that we need a 3x3 tanning shed that needs 5 workers and 300 wood 200 stones. But this person from reading between the lines figured that will need a different metal smelter and plans for its construction, because some of the items are rare in our region. So when it goes live we have everything ready to go for immediate construction.

Now you might be asking why go through all this work, well from my experience maximum profit for an item in mmo is normally right when it comes out. Now it we build a reputation of being the first to have new items then people will come to our settlement to get these items on patch day and while waiting for us to pop the first items out will hopefully b spending money in our other shops.

I know I am playing the long game here but I think if done right this game could have a meta game than can rival EVE online.

Nimitz, this is a great idea. I just moved it to a new thread so it can be a different topic.
These are great things for the Rings of Iron and Earth to keep a watch on. These Rings will need to keep ahead of the curve as far as item recipes and making sure the Ring of Wood and others are finding the right items for us to harvest and create more and better quality items.

[nimitztreecat]

Thanks, I did not want to make a new topic since I just joined today.

[Gintigael Gemweaver]

Don't be afraid to make new topics. We love talking about stuff

[hark]

Well this suggestion really depends on how a lot of the mechanics work out. There is nothing to say they don't just ignore formulaic mechanics and just go with what feels right. Not a likely option, but it wouldn't be the first time a game company has done it.

More realistically we will get a very formulaic game mechanics to work with. Then it is just a matter of plotting out details on a spread sheet and seeing where things fall on the charts.

Not sure how much I would enjoy that kind of work. I'm really good at the whole prescience thing, but it is a really painful job to have because people never like what you have to tell them.