Peter wrote:EDIT:
Not to say that this is a bad update, but perhaps it's not the highest-priority one?
Maybe something addressing the fact that it's impossible to play the game well without investing, conservatively, 25% of one's waking life?
Perhaps some way of removing the universal bottleneck of perception/exploration such that it's possible to bootstrap yourself from nothing (Seeing as you need perception to get seeds and all the basic tool plants such as rustroot, and need to grow plants to get it)?
Or maybe approach some of the hard engine-related stuff that will enable true moving platforms for boats and overpasses like bridges?
Or, I don't know, tinker with the lazy item system so that every item actually knows what it is rather than the roundabout way it appears to work now?
Oh, or even just fixing text rendering so that we can have line breaks on parchment and stone carvings.
But yeah, fancy plates are OK too.
I'm not so sure about that 25% deal, yes there's a noticeable difference between someone who does play a lot versus those who don't, but it's not 'necessary' to spend that, you can play any game in your free time alone, however don't expect to get less from that 'freetime playing' maybe an hour a day than the person who plays 12 hours a day.
What's your point about the seeds? WWW are pretty low on the tier of things to see, and really a standard way for a person to easily get the basics he needs and learn about the game is to start out
- Make some fires until you have 200 LP (not too bad) but this is the 'grindy' turn you off part
- Get Lumberjacking, cut many logs off of trees (Should have at least 400 LP by then)
- Get Carpentry and Hunting
- Get a bone from a rabbit/chicken, make a bone saw, make a wooden plow and start setting up your area
- Get Masonry (Should have enough LP at this point, if not get more logs, you'll need more)
- Lay the stone foundation for your house, build your house.
- Building your house should net you a nice amount of LP perhaps enough to get Foraging, Plant Lore, Farming. If it's not, make another house, or make things you'll need/want (Table, Cupboards)
- Keep stacking points into Exploration until you have 8~15 and start looking about.
- Drying Frames to dry a bunch of WWW (40~ should do it ; 10 frames)
I mean really if you think it out and play it out right it's not hard. I think the biggest problem is misinformation. If there was no information they'd be forced to test it out and come up with stuff, but misinformaiton literally hurts, I mean look at the wiki right now:
harvesting fields of other players (need farming skill). If this is done, seeds should be replanted. Why is this listed as a good way of gaining LP? This is surely a good way of getting killed/expelled from a group given how you could ruin someone's whole farm this way.
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