Lucid Dreams (Idea)

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Lucid Dreams (Idea)

Postby goldenrage » Sat Jun 29, 2013 12:41 am

This is my suggestion for a Lucid Dream item. The Lucid Dream would be a semi-rare item that is harvested from a dream catcher instead of "A Beautiful Dream". The item may have a few in-game purposes but when I first thought of it I thought of it as a low to mid level curiosity. There may be a few downsides to this though such as if the base LP would be made too high then people may make tons of dream catchers just to farm it and get a fair amount of LP for the low requirements it takes to make a dream catcher, on the contrary if it was too low then people may be completely dis-interested the item and just disregard it as useless. I would also like to know what you like and/or dislike about the idea and any changes that you would think suits it better or if you don't like at all then why?.
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Re: Lucid Dreams (Idea)

Postby cobaltjones » Sat Jun 29, 2013 12:46 am

"Rare find" curiosities only make sense in an area where you're doing a menial task over and over again. Spindly Taproot makes sense as a bonus for people who do a lot of building. Weird Beetroot is a bonus for people who do a lot of farming.

The problem is that harvesting dreams isn't really a task that anyone constantly does while playing the game, so putting a rare curiosity there makes no sense and the only use it would see would be through botting.

EDIT: Also it would be possible to create a large enough farm of dreamcatchers that a bot could endlessly loop through them, harvesting infinite "lucid dreams" in a pretty timely manner.
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Re: Lucid Dreams (Idea)

Postby goldenrage » Sat Jun 29, 2013 12:49 am

Yeah that is a fair point to make I didn't really think about when I said about it being a curiosity.
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Re: Lucid Dreams (Idea)

Postby cobaltjones » Sat Jun 29, 2013 12:52 am

I like the idea of more "mythical/spiritual" based items, maybe used as potions or buff or something, but the particular action of harvesting dreams doesn't really lend itself well to this idea.
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Re: Lucid Dreams (Idea)

Postby goldenrage » Sat Jun 29, 2013 12:57 am

Yes I would agree dreams don't link well with things like that maybe I will think about things like that a bit more and make another suggestion
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Re: Lucid Dreams (Idea)

Postby DDDsDD999 » Sat Jun 29, 2013 1:12 am

Having quality dreams being almost an industry could be an interesting thing. They're already in a bunch of curios. Just need them to be more interesting. Right now it's just build dream catcher, wait, collect, wait, collect...
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Re: Lucid Dreams (Idea)

Postby krikke93 » Sat Jun 29, 2013 1:54 am

cobaltjones wrote:I like the idea of more "mythical/spiritual" based items, maybe used as potions or buff or something, but the particular action of harvesting dreams doesn't really lend itself well to this idea.

Just as a side note, lucid dreams aren't mythical or spiritual, they do exist and I know bybexperiencing them :D you can now continue debating, sorry for the small derail :3
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Re: Lucid Dreams (Idea)

Postby Sevenless » Sat Jun 29, 2013 3:54 am

Speak for yourself about not harvesting dreams in quantity.

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Re: Lucid Dreams (Idea)

Postby SuperNoob » Sat Jun 29, 2013 1:00 pm

cobaltjones wrote:"Rare find" curiosities only make sense in an area where you're doing a menial task over and over again. Spindly Taproot makes sense as a bonus for people who do a lot of building. Weird Beetroot is a bonus for people who do a lot of farming.

:lol: am I really the first person to catch that?

I sort of like the idea, and like 7 said people do harvest dreams in bulk at times, not just for curios, but also for CR's. its why you see some places that have a little plot of 10X10 all dream catchers...
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Re: Lucid Dreams (Idea)

Postby DDDsDD999 » Sun Jun 30, 2013 1:51 am

SuperNoob wrote:
cobaltjones wrote:"Rare find" curiosities only make sense in an area where you're doing a menial task over and over again. Spindly Taproot makes sense as a bonus for people who do a lot of building. Weird Beetroot is a bonus for people who do a lot of farming.

:lol: am I really the first person to catch that?

I was wondering about it too, but I didn't want 3 pages of cobaltjones posts by calling him out on something so small.
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