Sandbox Crafting Concept

[Havok40k]

Wow, great feedback! Sorry I kinda had to let this one stew for a while before getting to replies, I’m not feeling too swell lately and decided to get some rest. I think for the most part, @Zouls captured everybody’s thoughts fairly well, so I’ll respond to his post primarily.

@Zouls

1. way too complicated for a game such as this.
2. it would be a insanely huge amount of work to make crafting like this, just the actual crafting, all the ways it can interact would be even more

Allow me to counter this with “exhibit A”

@olliepurkiss

I believe this represents a good chunk of the core recipes, but there are still lots to add like wearables, props, and more.

I really don’t want to discredit our dev team’s ability to introduce complex mechanics into the gameplay, and while my concept may be over the top, it is still just a concept and not a fully worked out device. as @Vastar put it, step 2 may indeed be too much, but it could lead to other ideas or fun mechanics.

@Zouls

3. Its naive to think that there would be such a thing as ‘‘secrets’’ in a week there would be guides all over.

Quite true, external resources would make this a joke in no time. At the very least, you would have that mad scramble in the early days to document every possible outcome and effect much like we had when crafting was first implemented. (those damn heal/ember blocks took far to long to figure out!)

@Zouls

Very well presented though, respect for that. Insanely unrealistic though in my eyes, it would be equal to asking for 1000 different weapon types, however who am i to judge, atleast ya thought it well through

Thank you for your fair consideration, and while I’m not asking for 1000 weapon types, I am effectively asking for 1000 weapon outcomes so that is a fair comparison, though I think this may result in far less effort modeling and rendering than 1000 actual different weapons.

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@Heurazio

i think @Havok40k likes to say that it should be “skill” based in some kind. eg. you need to press the “use ingrediant” at a special time that depends on the material / metal / temperature you are melting. if you use it wrong you only get trash. like a real weapon smith does it in his forge.

That’s actually not something I had in mind, though I could possibly see it done in a manner similar to Gears of War’s action reload system. Not sure that this would really add any meaningful gameplay in this sense, however.

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Now, let me ask you guys a question. If you were to use a system like this, would you feel that you are actually “learning” the profession? Do you think that this system could be more fun than the typical “use 2 ingots and a stick to craft a sword” style of crafting? Since that was the goal behind this concept, let me know how you imagine it would be received if it was a real thing.