Notes from the Shroud of the Avatar International Convention 2019 panel on crafting, services, and the economy.

2020 Crafting Highlight

• Additional trophy data

  • same sort of data for fishing trophies will be added to other items like dragon heads, etc

• Player vendor UI polish

  • May be possible to use Lua for some vendor data

    • read/write vendor inventory to Google Sheets

• Episode 2:

  • Item history and leveling

  • Pet leveling/skills/customization

  • Player chest settings

  • Treasure Map System

  • In-game achievement system with titles

Questions (paraphrased)

• Will teleport to zone scrolls be replaced by the new dungeon teleporters?

  • No. The dungeon teleporters will only be for popular location and you still need a way to get to other zones.

• Can vegetables/growables could be removed from NPC vendors or the price increased?

  • Yes

• When will gold/silver scrap really make it in?

  • As soon as they can make sure it won’t be exploitable

• When will things like the aortic thrombus, emerald ash borer, get a use?

  • First need to find a way that the crafted item that requires them has the higher value to make it worthwhile to use them

• When will the pain removed for buying high volume of fuels, etc from NPC vendors?

  • Originally, they purchase limits where put in so supply would eventually run out and for the price to increase with it

  • It’s been difficult to balance. But, improvements are in the plan

• Will there be additional uses for the essences, etc?

  • Yes

  • Perhaps creature specific poisons, etc

• Can we apply patterns to artifacts?

  • No, for technical reasons

  • Crafting and artifacts are very different systems on the backend

  • It might be possible in the future to find a way to combine the systems

• Can we get the name of the heraldry on mouse over?

  • Maybe

  • The data’s not there right now. But, it may be possible to add it

• What can we do to reduce the time/effort with for watering plants?

  • Were surprised so many people would get into farming and especially as with such large grow operations

  • It is very difficult to balance because it combines the economy and skill systems in a unique way

• Why doesn’t rain water my plants?

  • Mostly technical reasons.

  • Weather is mostly client side so the servers doesn’t have to deal with tracking all the information

  • The rain would need to be rare to balance to economy as well

• When over encumbered, why can we buy from NPCs or take something out of a box but players can’t trade even zero weight items?

  • This is partially to protect against “mule” and bot exploits

  • There is no special cases for zero weight items

  • Might be worth reviewing again

Be sure to checkout the video posted by NBNN

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