Devices for Gathering/Crafting
issueid=2700 06-08-2020 08:11 AM
Xsyon Citizen
Devices for Gathering/Crafting

Major issue I see with Xsyon is I feel like I'm watching green bars a lot.
Like fishing. You click, wait 20s, click again. Repeate until you have enough fish.

I would like to be able to feel like I'm playing the game more. How I though about doing this was more devices.

Like a fish trap. You set up a fish trap. You leave it sit for 1 or 2 game days, come back pull out the fish.

Another example is cooking.
You set up 20 or 100 meat to cook in a grill or smokehouse (already in game), come back after 10min (Real Time), your meat is cooked you pull it out.

Another example is a workbench. Allowing you maybe to craft faster.

The key to these things are you are able to go do other things. I'm not saying everything should be set up on devices.


You can also make it so when you are pulling the resources out it would give you the skill/stats of those things. Like say a fish trap holds 8 fish. When you pull it out you would get 8 fishing uses.
This could save a lot of time and make it a lot more fun. Right now its about 20s per fishing try. To get 8 fish it would take about 3mins.
Vs doing the fish trap it would only take like 20s of play time but hours in real time. So you can't gather massive amounts of resources like this, but it would help in the fun of the game.

I think a lot of people get turned off of Xsyon because the sheer number of green bars you have to watch all the time. Without thought or moving.
With this system, you are moving around, planning stuff, picking up things. It feels like you are doing stuff, not grinding.
Issue Details
Issue Number 2700
Issue Type Feature
Project Suggestions
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Status Acknowledged
Priority 1 - Highest
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06-08-2020 11:11 AM
Visitor
Yeah I've been saying this for a bit now too, we need the ability to do more crafting than our hands can do.

The fact we can find huge metal blocks but can't turn them into nails or melt them down into anything else really sucks, cuz you can find the metal, but you can't make nails or anything else with it.

I'd really like to see some kind of blacksmith crafting building so that we could smelt metals down to ingots and than use ingots to make other metal things, like maybe nails, screws, bolts, weapon heads ect.

06-08-2020 01:14 PM
Xsyon Citizen
You and me both.

I would love to see blacksmithing. OMGoodness that makes me so excited if Xsyon had that. Seeing a forge and smelter. Man you got it. I've been asking for that too.

06-11-2020 04:53 AM
All of these things have been on my todo list since day 1. There's just so much I can get done.

About the grind, that is something I want to address immediately after (or as part of) the current patch series. Originally players were meant to primarily raise skills through gained experience (through quests, hunting and other actions). Grinding actions was meant to be a secondary method.

It should be easier to raise skills just by playing and gaining experience than by grinding.

At least that was my original intention. The current system of xp gain was balanced based on testing and feedback. Clearly it wasn't balanced properly as players seem to grind primarily and often ignore their accrued skill points.

I plan to get back to my original design as the game progresses this year.