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Perhaps it’s been said already, I don’t know. I’ve read most of what’s written here and I don’t think I saw it already, but I kinda like the idea of having the ability to build on skills. You start with an open pallet where you can do anything you desire. But it’ll be the basic of that skill. As you use it more, you’ll improve upon it until you’ve reached a certain point where it’s at a point that you’ve almost perfected it (or as it good as it gets anyway)
A practical example has already been given I think; Cooking.
At first you’re just able to cook what you find. You build a simple campfire like how I described it over here: http://oortonline.com/forums/topic/viewers-have-spoken/Then, once you can heat your food, you can get to the next level. And so forth. This goes on, all the way to the point where you can say, for example, make desserts or whatnot.
TLDR; everyone can make anything, as long as you have the experience that you can build up through some sort of achievement-system.
EDIT: Of course you won’t get far when you’ll master one skill from the start, but if that’s what you wanna do, you’ll need other players to trade with. Same goes the other way around, when you very gradually gain XP in every task simultaneously, you won’t be able to make those desserts I mentioned earlier.
Personally, I kinda like the small robots being used for added protection. Set them up at my walls, tell ‘m to hold and they’ll form a perimeter around my house/castle/town whatever. But to power ‘m with magic is something I’m not really for. I’d rather see them powered by something more solid. A special sort of material to be found deep underground perhaps that expires over time.
They can carry extra items whilst I’m mining, other ones can guard me and follow me around and that sort of stuff.. Yes, I’m all game for that. But don’t solve it with a cheap way by infusing them with magic. Make it so that they can be build from the ground up or something with a special sort of rock as base material/energy source.
And if you really want/must have magic to infuse it into them, it should be at least done with a skilltree where infusing the small golems is the last part of that particular science. This way, it’s more satisfying to the player when you have a small golem running around. It’ll also prevent the world from over-occupying it with multiple golems.
A last added note on this topic; if they’re build to be non-permanent, please let it be a system that allows the player to check up on it everytime he/she desires. I don’t like my droid/golem to power down whilst I’m in the middle of a fight or something.
Crossbreeding crops? I wonder what this’ll look then? A carrot with orange leaves or something? Not that I’m against the idea, but it’s got to serve a purpose, in my opinion.
A tree that doesn’t require you to break the leaves, to have apples, is something I’m all for though. It creates the opportunity to have an entire orchard of apple trees. Something that’s still on my to-do list.
– How about some form of skill building? This way it’ll be a form of skill that you’ll be able to gain when you’ve been building enough.
– Another idea I have to solve this, is to be able to create an architect’s table that’s cluttered with plans. It demands various plans (you’ll need a lot of paper for this) of various structures (that you’ve already build) to build it, which need several specific items (that are only to be found in specific area’s) to be found in the world.
In overall, it might take a while for the player to obtain this table, but once you have it, you can add extra items to your buildings, like:
– Support beams; no wolf will be able to blow this baby down.
– Adding esthetical options; make your house extra pretty with flowers, banners, wanted posters, a doggy door for your tamed pet & whatnot.
– Better construction bases; withstands any earthquake you throw at it.
– Increasing the overall design; make your house match with your tower.
– Better protection against natural erosion; years of rain & snow can be a killer for your roof, you know.
– Improve your already existing buildings.
I’ve always been a big fan of stuff like this, Minecraft handled it pretty well in my opinion. I’m all in if/when this will be created.
Also, remember that they’ll implement something at some point like this:
Crafting II
Mechanical Systems & ‘Fun’ Blocks
Power your creations and automate your claim.So my guess is that whatever these ‘fun’ blocks will be, they’ll be used to guard something as well, since we can power our creations. Sounds promising nevertheless.
Personally, I think travelling with a mount would be great. I’ve been waiting for this for a long time. Someone mentioned that it could form a problem however, once they’re killed, so that’s why I came up with the solution for protecting them through a way of quests for players. I wrote the big picture on this part of the forum already:
http://oortonline.com/forums/topic/bag-inventory-trading/
As for the air-travel in general: I don’t see why we wouldn’t have spaceships in the end? You can maybe have a specific world of just techy, futuristic stuff and another world with just mounts? This way, everyone wins. I can easily imagine a giant zeppelin holding up a small piece of land by means of a lotta of grappling hooks. Sure, I haven’t build that yet. So why not?
As long as it would actually work though, and not like as what happened in Minecraft, where you see these things floating in the air, for no reason at all. Never to move, never to serve a purpose other than the esthetic ones.
