Introduction to foraging should change with current season.

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Introduction to foraging should change with current season.

Postby Tubby_Squirrel » Tue Jan 07, 2025 6:17 pm

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New players joining in spring/winter will wonder why they can't find the t1 introductory resource that the tutorial is telling you to find.

Yes all of this information is available but new players are unlikely to search for it for an already niech game
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Re: Introduction to foraging should change with current seas

Postby Fostik » Thu Jan 09, 2025 8:54 am

Idk, it feels for me somewhat wrong if introduction quest provides variable introduction into activity depending on season, this might mislead new players to understand what this game actually is.
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Re: Introduction to foraging should change with current seas

Postby ErdTod » Thu Jan 09, 2025 9:10 am

What if "pick blueberries" and "pick chantelerres" would be instead "pick herbs from the wild (x5)"?
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Re: Introduction to foraging should change with current seas

Postby vatas » Thu Jan 09, 2025 4:06 pm

ErdTod wrote:What if "pick blueberries" and "pick chantelerres" would be instead "pick herbs from the wild (x5)"?

I assume that the idea behind having to "pick blueberry" and "pick chantrelle" is that the player is able to observe that higher per*exp = more herbs visible. That is good game design in itself, but it does not mesh with Seasons at all. The quest is physically impossible during Winter or Spring.
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Re: Introduction to foraging should change with current seas

Postby Tubby_Squirrel » Thu Jan 09, 2025 7:13 pm

vatas wrote:
ErdTod wrote:What if "pick blueberries" and "pick chantelerres" would be instead "pick herbs from the wild (x5)"?

I assume that the idea behind having to "pick blueberry" and "pick chantrelle" is that the player is able to observe that higher per*exp = more herbs visible. That is good game design in itself, but it does not mesh with Seasons at all. The quest is physically impossible during Winter or Spring.

It's good in that it teaches players 'OH, higher exploration means I find more stuff'

But there's no real indication in the tutorial quests on what the seasons are or even THAT there are seasons.

Winter is a apparent, I think a new player can peice together that 'Ah, snow. It's winter that's why I'm not finding much."

Perhaps this thread is 'New players should know what the seasons are'

Maybe introduction to 'season' for each.
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