Game Development: Perry Flotsam

[Zentetsuken]

Suggestion -

Make it so the more full a natural resource is the less time each pick takes per piece.

If a salt node is filled up to max it means that it's not a well known node and that even having an alt there isn't really unfair because it's not being contested and there is no race for it. Perhaps in this case it should be as low as 30 seconds per piece. The player will still stand there for a short time and leave a window for the node being contested but in the case that it's a claimed or unknown node it will not be an irritating time sink.

This could mean that an ancient root and mother of pearl could be even longer than 2 minutes since I think they can only give 1?

Another solution would be to make it so there is a set time to harvest a node no matter how many resources there are, like 2 minutes to pick 1, 2 minutes to pick 8, no difference. It stands to reason that a hearthling would scour each crack and crevice of a local resource looking for bits to pick for the same amount of time, each time, and that the picking process would be rather negligible.

Maybe a little system chat message like, "you begin harvesting the node for it's spoils" followed by an animation where the hearthing is actually looking around and picking would make the whole process feel slightly more sensical, albeit pointless and larpy.

[Ardennesss]

"Hey Jorb to fix natural resources, why not just respawn them in random places every so often so everyone has a chance to collect them?" -Everyone

"Increased the time it takes to harvest natural resources by approximately 3 metric fuck-tons to combat alts collecting resources, unsure if this is meaningful (it's not)" - Jorb

[Headchef]

"Hey Jorb to fix natural resources, why not just respawn them in random places every so often so everyone has a chance to collect them?" -Everyone

"Increased the time it takes to harvest natural resources by approximately 3 metric fuck-tons to combat alts collecting resources, unsure if this is meaningful (it's not)" - Jorb

Yeah this

[jorb]

"Hey Jorb to fix natural resources, why not just respawn them in random places every so often so everyone has a chance to collect them?" -Everyone

"Increased the time it takes to harvest natural resources by approximately 3 metric fuck-tons to combat alts collecting resources, unsure if this is meaningful (it's not)" - Jorb

Yeah, ok, but one of the points of them was to create resources that can be claimed, maintained and contested.

[shubla]

"Hey Jorb to fix natural resources, why not just respawn them in random places every so often so everyone has a chance to collect them?" -Everyone

"Increased the time it takes to harvest natural resources by approximately 3 metric fuck-tons to combat alts collecting resources, unsure if this is meaningful (it's not)" - Jorb

Yeah, ok, but one of the points of them was to create resources that can be claimed, maintained and contested.

They are not valuable enough to risk fighting for them.
Add more good sinks for them so they become valuable. Then people may fight for them.

[Aceb]

"Hey Jorb to fix natural resources, why not just respawn them in random places every so often so everyone has a chance to collect them?" -Everyone

"Increased the time it takes to harvest natural resources by approximately 3 metric fuck-tons to combat alts collecting resources, unsure if this is meaningful (it's not)" - Jorb

Yeah, ok, but one of the points of them was to create resources that can be claimed, maintained and contested.

They are not valuable enough to risk fighting for them.
Add more good sinks for them so they become valuable. Then people may fight for them.

Spoiler alert, they won't. Unless it's basically a 2nd and 3rd etc. etc. icycle.
edit: or siege/combat get reworked once again

[MagicManICT]

Even icicles aren't worth fighting over.... or rather let's say they're not worth losing characters over other than the throwaway alts anyone might use to camp them.

[jorb]

They are not valuable enough to risk fighting for them.
Add more good sinks for them so they become valuable. Then people may fight for them.

Perhaps that's where the focus should be, then.

[Granger]

"Hey Jorb to fix natural resources, why not just respawn them in random places every so often so everyone has a chance to collect them?" -Everyone

"Increased the time it takes to harvest natural resources by approximately 3 metric fuck-tons to combat alts collecting resources, unsure if this is meaningful (it's not)" - Jorb

Yeah, ok, but one of the points of them was to create resources that can be claimed, maintained and contested.

Ever heard of 'winner takes all'? Because I have the impression that that's basically what the mechanics boil down to: the first faction who gets to the icicles is the one to keep them - and through them quickly becomes unbeatable to the rest around.

Dosn't sound like fun, unless you're that faction (and important enough in it to get access to the stuff).

[jorb]

Therefore...?