Resource Node Change: Depleting nodes

[boreial]

Jorb and Loftar,

Not being a programmer of any sort, My idea may not be implementable even, however I would dearly like to see diminishing resource nodes with randomly generated new spots once a node is diminished. (example) you find a node of Q 50+ soil, and after a set amount of time said soil q decays until it reaches base q’s of 10, once the base q is reached the system randomly generates a new location of above q10 soil, Q’s randomly generated as well. While this is not a novel idea, (first found this type of system in Star Wars Galaxies) It made sense to me in that no recourse is inexhaustible and forced the player base to hunt around much more often to find the best resources on a much more frequent basis.

Well that’s my idea, may not be novel, but maybe at least something to contemplate.

[sabinati]

i hated that in swg

[Lunarius_Haberdash]

I don't agree with this wholly on soil, unless there's a way to manage increasing the quality of soil without that.

In fact, I'd rather see soil degrade period, with no respawning of HQ soil nodes, but HQ soil able to be achieved through an ongoing method of fertilization.

[Sevenless]

Very few people enjoy node hunting. Making node hunting a more primary part of the quality grind would frankly make the game less enjoyable as a whole. Sadly that's the conclusion I come to with random nodes.

[maze]

Very few people enjoy node hunting. Making node hunting a more primary part of the quality grind would frankly make the game less enjoyable as a whole. Sadly that's the conclusion I come to with random nodes.

he summed it up for me.

[Granger]

But would solve the issue with walling in eternal nodes.

[sabinati]

How is that an issue?

[nuker22110]

-1 made me quit swg

[LadyV]

It goes counter to the policy of never ending worlds.

[Granger]

How is that an issue?

In nearly every world I have seen walled in resource nodes, whole lakes where the bot foreaged HQ mussels.

I think natural resources shouldn't be able to be monopolized that easy.