blinx wrote:i personally really like the low-fantasy/near-realism of the setting, and would rather not see the game crowded with a bunch of fantastical nonsense-creatures
this is not opinion this is childish wish. opinion supposed to be agrumentized. everyone can just spam my thread saying - oh i dont like your idea cos i think its shit. and as you say this is selfish. this is when u say only your opinion is mattter, cos u dont even bother explain your opinion cos this isnt an opinion even. when you wrote this what did u expect? that i will say - oh thank u very much, your opinion is important to us? no, im not your mom, and this isnt christmas. its not about you or me, this is about the game, where there is not much pve content. and people leaving the game cos of that. new ones are not coming. you dont like it? ok suggest something yourself. do some work, not just express your childish wishes.
btw im not suggesting put those creatures in the open world i suggest to make raids like beaver raids or such, so you wont see mermaids in the water while swiming, they are just dungeons/raids so they have their own place to live, like a forest kingdom of Leshy or water kingdom of Vodyanoy, if you dont wanna see them then dont go there, that was original idea, but can be changed, doesnt depend on me. i also dont like when magical creature hang around the world but if its raid then its kind of their territory. in russian fairy tales movies mythic creatures always had their own worlds so you gotta enter it first to be able to see those creatures and their boss. sometimes boss went out on a surface but they had some sort of debuffs. cos human world is separate from creatures world.