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Arcona  6/03/08 6:18:37 AM
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Massively once more got the scoop..

Insight into The Crafting system By Massively

 

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Khrymson  6/03/08 7:07:45 AM
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Monarch of Khrymson ~ Destruction & Order Guild!

Thanks very much, sounds even better than I had at first imagined!  For all those wondering about Armor and weapon making, the last question was:

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The choice to not include a weaponsmith or armorsmith is interesting. Was that based on just how the designers wanted to itemize the game, or was it so you didn't have people doing really passive activities in the game?

I think every game I've ever played, I've always been a little bit upset with how blacksmithing / weaponsmithing works, in that they never give me the end results that I really want. A lot of games there'll be the discussion whether crafted stuff should be better than the stuff I get elsewhere. Not necessarily even high-end content, but just my normal, going about my business doing quests kind of thing. I don't remember ever playing a game where I thought that mix was "right". Personally, I'd love to put in a system where you could do crafting and that was the pinnacle of stuff in the game - but there are other aspects to take into account. I'm not sure the main reason why we didn't do it. From my point of view, being in charge of the team that had to do it, we know we have this awesome exploratory system of apothecary and Talisman-making. We have the associated gathering skills, and we just want to knock those out the park first. We'll give you the tools that impact your initial RvR experience the most, early on in your lifetime in the game. After that, we'll see what happens. We're probably going to be around for ten years, it's going to be five or six expansions ... we've got to hold something back!

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I like his response on this and I think the same way in this regard!  Most of them never fulfilled what I really wanted but thats all there was so you had to take it!  Then the last line about 5-6 expansion...love it!  WooHoo, another 10yr game like DAoC!