After 99?

[Risk]

Just curious what we do after we hit 99? Have yet to gain a new craft item as they now come only when you gain a skill point sometimes...

Would love to take up construction as we have a major surplus of metal sheets and knobs *snicker*

Still foremost is the ability to gain craft patterns when the skill gain stops...
*Gotta make the Coyotes and Raccoons fear something, heh*

*edit*
this is also after noticing the corilation between the skill lvl and the craft time req...on basic a gain of two craft items per skill increase was req until lvl 70 on the spot, heh could even have mouse over and saying skill inc on the click.
After 70 seemed to increase on a diff scale

*for those crafters that care*

In the 90's took hundreds of kneepads heh, and different crafting makes no diff atm ive tested, the same starter crap gives the same outcome as higher skill req items.. guess thats why craft with thread max's at lvl 50 heh

[Ravenstorm]

Hey folks. During last beta/previous wipe, getting to 100 was a pain in the head. When you hit 99 it takes awhile to get to 100. And if you do get a point, not sure if they fixed it, but I logged off and log on and the number changed to 100 from 99. It seems at 90 numbers stop but you still get message you gained skill level. Then at 93 you see skil points going up, then at 90 something else, it doesnt go up until you log out/in. At least for me. However it doesnt show up until you log out and log back in. Not sure if anyone else has/had that problem. Its still happens to me, actually recently.
Anyways, g'luck on getting to 100 from 99 (at least with tailoring it was very difficult for me, took many hours).

[Thor]

As far as i know there is no limit on skill caps.The way i understand it the better you get in skill the better your items get.And yes skill gain will become harder to raise,this is testing time,I would expect it to not be this easy at launch.

[Shrimps]

I thought there was going to be something special you got after reaching the top of your profession, I don't know if I'm remembering correctly though.

But with softcaps and skill degredation I doubt it will be very many who reach 99 very quickly.

[Kitsume]

One has to wonder what happens if you reach 99 in a skill, then don't use it for a while and it degrades down to, say 70. If you then start using the skill again, will you start learning new patterns/recipies?

Of course if you have active scavageners in your tribe, you might have all the patterns current patterns by the time you reach 99/100.

I just thought of a nice feature for crafting pattern lists. To prevent your known pattern/recipe list from getting too long, have hierarchical menus that just show the master name of the pattern/recipe, you click on the name, it reveals all the patterns under that name. Weapons and tools could be grouped by type, where armor and clothing would be grouped by name group.

[kiwibird]

I know in Wurm when I was playing, they had a global announcement that a person got to skill 99 in digging (which I think was a first for the game). Other than that, nothing happened.

Here, I don't think that has been addressed thou maybe it will soon after prelude.

@Kitsume, cool suggestion, likely wont happen till after prelude, but throw a copy of it in the suggestion thread too if you like.

[Ravenstorm]

For tailoring, at the time, I thought when you get to 100 or higher you would get new or more recipe. Like making tailoring containers or such. So far, nothing. Only thing you get is 99% success rate on making things without failing and cramp fingers lol.

[Zarma]

When you become a grand master they said something along the lines of you being able to work with the dev team to create a custom item of your own design. They also said it would be very hard to become a grand master.

[Shrimps]

Illmaculate wrote:


Stopped reading after this.






Zarma wrote:

When you become a grand master they said something along the lines of you being able to work with the dev team to create a custom item of your own design. They also said it would be very hard to become a grand master.

Yes that's what I remembered reading, should be a very interesting mechanic.

[Kitsume]

Shrimps wrote:


Zarma wrote:

When you become a grand master they said something along the lines of you being able to work with the dev team to create a custom item of your own design. They also said it would be very hard to become a grand master.

Yes that's what I remembered reading, should be a very interesting mechanic.

I wonder if we could submit something like a boat cloak. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halkett_boat)

[WillBingham]

I am thinking that it might be something along the lines of Sail and Flag design in POTBS. This was a time consuming process with tons of rules on what could and could not be used. In the end once you were able to jump all the hurdles final approval came down to the Devs. If it is a difficult route to get to 99 then I would expect an even more arduous journey in getting to make a special in game item. Lets see who gets there first (my guess retiree or unemployed).

Good Luck :)

[Shrimps]

WillBingham wrote:

I am thinking that it might be something along the lines of Sail and Flag design in POTBS. This was a time consuming process with tons of rules on what could and could not be used. In the end once you were able to jump all the hurdles final approval came down to the Devs. If it is a difficult route to get to 99 then I would expect an even more arduous journey in getting to make a special in game item. Lets see who gets there first (my guess retiree or unemployed).

Good Luck :)

I hated the POTBS system, I never did get my sail design approved. They would reject it with some cookie cutter response and anytime I asked for direct feedback on what was actually wrong they would send the same message :(

I doubt that it will be the same deal with the special items, they'll work with the devs and since the devs will be doing graphics and stat productions most likely I think it would mostly just come down to item type, function and appearence/name.

It will definetly be interesting to see what items emerge out of neccesity.

[WillBingham]

Shrimps wrote:


I hated the POTBS system, I never did get my sail design approved. They would reject it with some cookie cutter response and anytime I asked for direct feedback on what was actually wrong they would send the same message :(

I doubt that it will be the same deal with the special items, they'll work with the devs and since the devs will be doing graphics and stat productions most likely I think it would mostly just come down to item type, function and appearence/name.

It will definetly be interesting to see what items emerge out of neccesity.

I had only 1 bad experience as far as the sail designs went. There was 1 Dev that would not tell me why my designs were rejected (that was your cookie cutter response). I would just resubmit it and 9 times out of ten would not get that guy again. Also, I would get it approved by another Dev with no changes. I had around 40 or so approved (including 3rd place in the "Day of the dead competition) before I quit playing. I am sorry you had such a bad time with them, it was a great part of the game and because of 1 bad "egg" you didn't get to enjoy the game to its fullest.

[Shrimps]

WillBingham wrote:

Shrimps wrote:


I hated the POTBS system, I never did get my sail design approved. They would reject it with some cookie cutter response and anytime I asked for direct feedback on what was actually wrong they would send the same message :(

I doubt that it will be the same deal with the special items, they'll work with the devs and since the devs will be doing graphics and stat productions most likely I think it would mostly just come down to item type, function and appearence/name.

It will definetly be interesting to see what items emerge out of neccesity.

I had only 1 bad experience as far as the sail designs went. There was 1 Dev that would not tell me why my designs were rejected (that was your cookie cutter response). I would just resubmit it and 9 times out of ten would not get that guy again. Also, I would get it approved by another Dev with no changes. I had around 40 or so approved (including 3rd place in the "Day of the dead competition) before I quit playing. I am sorry you had such a bad time with them, it was a great part of the game and because of 1 bad "egg" you didn't get to enjoy the game to its fullest.

I still enjoyed the game very much, did a lot of pvp both big and small scale. But then SOE started changing things, they nerfed small ships so you could no longer outmanuever larger ships and win via skill. You had to just trade blows in an equal or larger ship to have a chance when I quit.

I miss the days of mediator cutter pirate squads that were able to take out Ships of the Line with 100+ cannons just by outmanuevering them and playing smart :(

Anyways a bit off topic but yeah I think the devs here will be much better.

On a side note, please Jooky if SOE offers you candy DO NOT GET IN THE VAN!!

[WillBingham]

AMEN :cheer:

[Vidar]

lol.

I knew I had seen Bingham before. POTBS.

Played that myself from start of beta.

I organized tha ship building start of the French fleet at gamestart.

Had 4 accounts ingame but cant remember one of them now :-)

Very loveable game with GREAT crafting engine. I understand it was difficult getting flags/sails approved if You were not in a society.

Beeing in a society, it was not that bad time to get a flag approved.

[jessebfox]

PotBS...Great memories. At the risk of generating some hate, I was the Pirate "Kail Kordan" of the Marauders. If you didn't play on either of my servers when I did, that's prolly for the better.

I had not realized they changed the mecahnics so. When I played I was able to solo take down SOL's with my Red Devil. I had so many SOL's that i had deeds to some. (was that called scavenging? when you had 1 in 20 chance to get the deed?).

I didn't expect a PotBS convo to pop up here. I only had 1 sail submitted and it was approved, I didn't need another :p. I thought that was a very cool part of the game that you could run your custom sails/flags though.

[Risk]

Screw all the crazyness...I was just hoping for someone to confirm that we can break 100...crafted hundreds and no luck...I just want a chance to see what the rest of, South Camp, Celecel, Magoyota, and Castle had to offer..
before you could gain a craft pat without a skill gain..now it happens 100% of the time and I can even quote the skill/ craft gain to a "T"

Aside from the KittyCat hat in Castle...best ever imo...I wanna see how my toon will look with the rest...4k crafts and no Insperation...needs fixin chief...

[Leiros]

Shrimps wrote:

On a side note, please Jooky if SOE offers you candy DO NOT GET IN THE VAN!!

haha AMEN! 5 years later and I'm still pissed about what they did to Star Wars Galaxies. :S