Picking a spot....

[tredo]

So tribes and homesteads alike are talking about the crowd around the junk piles. The size of the map vs population and lack of land. Here is my take....

There are things that can be done to not force a tribe or homestead to be near a junk pile. This would cause more tribes and new players to be able to get away from the lake some, to spread out and make homes elsewhere. The land is big enough! Go look for a place outside the box!

Here is my recommendation; make the nature skills require less "junk" for example... redo the crafting slightly. A bear bone armor set requires screws and allot of them... why? In the past they did not build heavy armors with screws why are we?

Why does grass armor require junk? The tribes in RL before us didn't have to use junk to make theirs.

Why does leather armor require junk? Early settlers to the western United States didn't use junk in their stuff.

Why do wooden walls require nails? In the past, they would cross notch walls to make them stand up and use nothing other then the wood itself, and some mud paste to fill in the gaps to seal up the walls.

Why can we not make mud paste for our rock walls from dirt and water? Why do we have to have sand? So a rock wall could be limestone rock + mud paste = rough rock wall.

If the crafting / trade skill didn't require so much junk, then I can see the tribes and homesteads finding the super nice little niche areas around the map to settle down in. Instead of everyone crowding around the junk in every corner.

Just a thought .....

[Delvie]

Good point - for that matter stuff like rock fences were built by just stacking up rocks, not real useful for keeping stuff out but good for keeping stuff in.

Screws in bone armor has never made sense to me, especially for something worn as armor - leather strapping holding the whole thing together makes more sense.

[r4NGe]

Screws in bone armor has never made sense to me, especially for something worn as armor - leather strapping holding the whole thing together makes more sense.

You have clearly never made a suit out of human bones.

[ifireallymust]

You have clearly never made a suit out of human bones.

Yes to everything tredo said, as soon as the issues that are stopping the game from going forward are fixed, anyway.

And someone call the FBI or the international equivalent about r4NGe's armor crafting hobby.

[Arkonick]

The point of the game is we had evolved from all of that. Then Apoc has happened every thing destroyed. Doesn't mean we forgot all walks of life. The people in past didn't use junk piles cause they didn't exsist. But do to the fact we are 1000's of years ahead of them and our world was destroyed we have junk piles left over allowing us to get alot of stuff from junk piles.

If you follow the story line it all fits junk piles and so forth. When developing a game you can't always get every single detail in but you can work on it as time goes by. For right now tho the junk piles fit the story line jooky has made.

[anden147]

tbh what i'm doing is living one place here in prelude and then i scouting for other places so i can find an other place to live. but really we need more scra pils random places in the world or something

[tredo]

The point of the game is we had evolved from all of that. Then Apoc has happened every thing destroyed. Doesn't mean we forgot all walks of life. The people in past didn't use junk piles cause they didn't exsist. But do to the fact we are 1000's of years ahead of them and our world was destroyed we have junk piles left over allowing us to get alot of stuff from junk piles.

If you follow the story line it all fits junk piles and so forth. When developing a game you can't always get every single detail in but you can work on it as time goes by. For right now tho the junk piles fit the story line jooky has made.

Very understandable and I agree, however, just because we know better now then we did 1000's of years ago, you can still find tribes in Africa that still do it the way it was done 1000's of years ago. We should be able to choose which way to make our crafts.. this would of course dictate the durability and appearance. I know it is allot to ask, but forcing everyone to settle around the junk piles is going to lead to a shortage of junk sooner then the next update with new content will be ready I am afraid. This will lead to another lull in the game, chaos will settle in, and the world will set itself in ruins again.