Forged titanium hammer pricing question

[deenw]

I saw a dev response to a forging threadnaught and his response really sums up forging quite well. It’s a delicate balance b/w making the game fun and making it formulaic. I find it ironic that they designed the centraforge interface to look like a slot machine. Because forging can really feel like gambling

@olliepurkiss

There are elements of chance throughout the game, as there are in most RPGs. Chance, and the ability to manage it, add interest to a mechanic and mean that players have to understand the system and actually “play” the game while forging. If the system was completely deterministic then you would read a wiki page something like “how to make an high level AoE hammer”, follow the steps exactly, and the result would be identical to everyone else’s result from the same guide. In my opinion that would be less interesting as you are following a series of pre-defined steps never having to think or adapt, and also would make a much narrower set of results

Empahsis is mine.