05-30-2009, 02:32 AM
grizzle Wrote:I understand the point about making loot from resources, but I think there are too many players who really don't care about, or want to bother with, resource gathering or crafting. I'm one of those people. I love to get out there and PvP, PvE, explore the world, etc. I'd rather farm mobs all night and kill players to get cash to turn around and buy items from others, than make them myself.
In a game like PotBS, I remember I would set up for a Friday night of high seas sailing and PvPing, only to lose three ships in the first hour, and then spend the rest of the night sailing from port to port, gathering resources, buying, building, etc., and it just became horribly boring. One hour of action for four hours of gathering and crafting (or so it felt).
I think games that are gathering and crafting-heavy don't do as well as those that are more activity/action oriented. I would gladly camp Lower Guk for 24 hours for a shot at an FBSS, but spend 24 hours gathering and crafting to make a similar item? Next game. Too much crafting equates to too much work, and not enough fun.
What if you had had the ability to trade (sell) your POBS production to other players? What if an economic minded player could get 90% of his needed resources from putting some time into his econ game and 10% from going out into the world and gathering/killing things whereas a non-econ player could do the opposite. Since he just sells his labor (with no value added) he gets, say 50% of his needed resources from econ and needs to go out into the world and gather/kill for the other 50%?
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