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limeye3
Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 101
So, was wondering why a skill like fishing hasn't been put ingame yet.
But during this new festival it happend, and people love it, including me.
And it'd be a waste for it to go away after 20 days when the event ended.
So why not keep it ingame?
Post here if you agree with me and why. ^
- Snow
But during this new festival it happend, and people love it, including me.
And it'd be a waste for it to go away after 20 days when the event ended.
So why not keep it ingame?
Post here if you agree with me and why. ^
- Snow
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But, uhm, yeah... other than that +1
Edit - Nvm it was broken and is being fixed in the patch so the fishing holes light up again to show they are good fishing .
Cooking profession!
Please bring in mining too.
All around I have had a fun day off from work enjoying the festival. Now if only I can keep the ASPCA from finding out that I'm abusing a horse by making it run a slalom, all will be good!
And don't get me started on Monsters on Ice! That there is gold!!
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A lot of people don't like mining, fishing or cutting wood. I always found them to be excellent passtimes that I could do whether I was bored or logged in with very few to no friends online.
I can't even begin to stress how much I am enjoying the fishing mechanic and how much I would love to see this put into it's own profession along with woodcutting and mining. I really don't care for the slave system and the more time I spend fishing the more and more I miss the gathering mechanics that I knew and loved in other games.
Exactly this.
I cant even begin to count the times i got on another popular mmo and just wandered about gathering things just to pass the time.
I like the fishing too , I used to play another popular MMO with fishing and I enjoyed it in that game too , especially the monthly fayre event where you could fish around the shoreline and get rare stuff and pets.
Or the 'Forest" maps didn't have trees/woodcutting/trapping (for fur/leather) and such or any number of other resource gathering oportunities ... There was another game I played (with a very familiar name ... hmmm) that had exactly that, you could find "nodes" on maps that allowed you to do upgrades ...
I definitely love having the option of such activity in a rpg/sandbox/MMO etc. I find it relaxing, or fun to do when I don't feel like bashing monsters.
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Amen brother! I've been pushing hard for interactive crafting (gathering, fishing, cooking, woodworking, etc) since beta. Can just barely stand the indentured servitude slavery "professions" we've got now.
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lol!
i definitely like the fishing so... i wouldn't mind having that in the game somewhere as a permanent fixture.
I like the idea of fishing, but the mechanic is literally as simple as it can get.
Fishing in FF XI was interesting and requires a bit of skill (and is harder but far from impossible to write a bot for). My suggestion is to keep fishing, but to add some amount of player skill to the task.
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There is actually a level of skill which didn't work as intended. There are supposed to be different quality fishing holes so you have to move around a bit but it wasn't working in the initial release. unless I misread something, though, it should be fixed now after tonight's unscheduled maintenance.
It might not be what you think is perfect, I would agree.l But it is a bit more complex than press F in the same location for fifteen minutes.
No thanks. One of the very appealing parts to me, and the one I play with most, of the profession system in this game is not having to run around competing with others for materials in make work fashion.
It works for this event as it involves an optional activity not all that tied to any other, that one can do for a change of pace over a limited period of time. Further, making a limited time special occasion activity into a permanent feature can often cause that previously celebrated activity to be quickly seen as nothing special as it is now just part of the norm.
However that is also the easiest to solve. Most games with really competitive systems tried to balance the professions by including a competitive element and it's the most negatively received aspect of those systems. If you ever look at which gathering tasks are the best received compared to the worst it is those which allow you to interact with others compared to those which segregate you.
For instance one game I played allowed multiple people to cut the same tree but only one person could mine a resource from a rock. As such, naturally, most people enjoyed Woodcutting but hated Mining.
So the answer is quite simple: design all resource collecting professions with the intention for player interaction. Remove all competitive elements and make it a social hub more so than anything else.
It is a simple answer, and a good one, if one wants to have to be in the game to get crafting resources. I don't use Gateway for crafting myself, so it would work for me. However, she does a good deal of her crafting in Gateway. Having to collect resources in game would kind of be a kick in the shins to that.
I suppose they could add a resource collecting aspect to Gateway, but just clicking on the same few nodes on a Gateway map akin to those in Sword Coast Adventures sounds a bit tedious to me. Maybe they could find a way to jazz it up. SCA turned out to be pretty fun, so it's possible they could make resource collecting fun in Gateway as well.
Aquaman would be way too overpowered when it comes to fishing, he could just command all the fish to jump in the buckets. :P
Having to grind everything, all the time, just to keep up.. well, it's no fun if you have more than a couple of characters. Thus, care should be taken to not turn this into a cross between Animal Crossing and a grindy Korean MMO. That doesn't mean "don't have fishing, ever", just if most of the game becomes face-aching makework, it will become a lot less fun.
Personally, I like smashing big scary monsters in dramatic dungeons, rather than spending all my time gathering fifteen Crystals Of Embiggening, a bag full of Poultice of Pedantry, thirty Nacreous Shin-Bones and a hundred Greater Bear Asses per day. If all of that becomes necessary to be ready for the most interesting dungeons, it will really restrict what people can do in their finite playtime.
I stopped playing certain other MMOs when the density of stuff to grind (enchants, gems, inscriptions, pets etc.) got so cluttered that it detracted from the game itself.
But when I am not smashing monsters faces in i would like something to do other than run in circles in PE.
So here's an idea: A lot of people want more cosmetic options, and a lot of people want more hobbies. So why not combine them? Grow a field of berries and make dye. Get some wood and dye, and paint a picture for your house. Heck, even *get a house, so you can decorate it. No, this won't turn into Animal Crossing, but... "it works for them, so it works for us"...
For that matter, did anyone play Vanguard: Saga of Heroes? If you wanted a house, you had to build it yourself. Want a guild hall? Build it. The result was spending a lot of time gathering resources to build a house, but you felt it was yours. Want to build a guild hall? Be prepared to gather up all your guild mates and have everyone build a guild hall together. It tooks weeks, but it was a lot of fun. Why not expand on that idea in Neverwinter?
Yes, the key is balance. There's an awful lot of busywork in the game already. If the busywork grows too much, it could eat into the monster smashing badly; that's the point. The trouble is, the grindy busywork is extremely cheap and easy "content" compared to a new Monster Smasharium(tm).
Extremes in any direction seldom work out well, though- and there's a trend where the balance starting to tilt towards cheap busywork.