Game Development: Perry Flotsam

[jorb]

In the Pipe
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• The main dev focus is the client rendering rewrite.

This joke never gets old.

Two years and counting!

[Yuginelol]

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[*] Gathering resources from natural wonders now takes about 2 minutes per unit harvested. The idea being to make life a little harder for alt gatherers, and to give some chance to contest the items. Unsure if meaningful.

Before change: If I want to go and gather ancient root or something I'm gonna drive there with my main. If it respawned and no one picked it up - I'm going to get it. If someone looted it - there won't be anyone there. Literally nothing to lose but time to get to resource location.

After change: fuck that, I'm not risking any of characters in a feud for a piece of salt. I'd rather just make disposable alts that may or may not be successful, but if they end up dead because someone wanted to loot same node - nothing is lost.

[Lunarius_Haberdash]

After change: fuck that, I'm not risking any of characters in a feud for a piece of salt. I'd rather just make disposable alts that may or may not be successful, but if they end up dead because someone wanted to loot same node - nothing is lost.

Literally operating as intended... Now the one that wants it more, gets it. Before it was just a roll of the dice, now it *could* be a battle royale.

[Uriel]

Thx for patch.
Yet, I really dont like spending 2 minutes on every resource to harvest it, please consider it.

As for catch up mechanic, Im ok with LP catchup, and Im strongly against about fep and q of stuff - that would be hell unfair for people actual playing from the start.

[Hasta]

2 minutes.
To gather a piece of crap useless enough noone bothered to vclaim it.
I thought this was a joke.
@devs guys are you off your medication or something? You're acting all weird lately.

[Aceb]

Bring it to 2 minutes for harvesting entire node or 2 minutes and each next takes 10-30 seconds.

To quote someone...

[11:16] qukalover: fk jorb 30 min for drift kelp
[11:16] qukalover: knarr will be broken XD
[11:17] qukalover: maybe he wanted to see broken knarr

Which brings me to question if people won't start to take alts to harvest together the node for being a lot quicker.

[lachlaan]

Hug heartwood tree for 8 minutes, much interesting mechanic. Seems like very little incentive to play if everything revolves around staring at something else while your character does afk stuff. Hard agree that it should be for the first hour or two after the resource respawns and that it should be a timer on the first resource picked.

[Hasta]

Hug heartwood tree for 8 minutes, much interesting mechanic. Seems like very little incentive to play if everything revolves around staring at something else while your character does afk stuff. Hard agree that it should be for the first hour or two after the resource respawns and that it should be a timer on the first resource picked.

This.

[Angwyn]

Hug heartwood tree for 8 minutes, much interesting mechanic. Seems like very little incentive to play if everything revolves around staring at something else while your character does afk stuff. Hard agree that it should be for the first hour or two after the resource respawns and that it should be a timer on the first resource picked.

No one forces you to take all 4 leaves every time. And if you truly need them that badly, then you can afford to spend those 8 minutes.

[lachlaan]

I can afford to spend 8 minutes on it, but does it have to be 8 minutes doing nothing? By all means make me dance around the tree or kick it to shake the leaves off, but if my alternatives are boredom or bust then slowly similar mechanics will end up spelling "Just go be bored elsewhere", and I hope the intent isn't to push people that way.