Hello everyone,
Myself and the Developers are following this thread, and I must say we are quite surprised at some of the posts here.
We originally thought that players wanted less and less involvement from the guide team, and also wanted us to stop the taxi service that players were getting to and from the Trade fair to encourage a more immersive and realistic gameplay.
Going forward, our goal is to hand over the Trade Fair Market to the community 100%, safe for the Announcements for them, which we would do.
Now reading through the posts it appears to us that your main concerns are weight and encumbrance.
Since our Goal is to hand this over, and not teleport players to the Markets, and keeping this in mind we would love to have some feedback on a few points...
- What would you normally carry with you (including numbers if you can), on a single trip to the Trade fair in which you get ported to?
Wainwrights need a way to carry multiple carts inside another cart.
Woodcrafters need to be able to carry full baskets of wooden handles etc
Masons need to be able to carry a few 1000 bricks
Hunters need to be able to carry 100s of bones
Tailors need to be able to carry a few 1000 twine
Scavengers need to be able to carry 100s of metal sheets
etc ect
- Baring in mind that different items have their own weights, What would you consider being a reasonable number of items to carry in a cart, before it becomes to energy draining? Try to give examples please.
You should be able to fill it with as much as it can hold, whether that be 5 logs in a 5 slot cart or 20 baskets full to the brim in a 20 slot cart.
there should be a maximum of 50 or 60% encumberance and movement speed penalty. (carts need to be a viable PVP target to compensate for the amount you can carry... do you risk taking everything in one run or do it in multiple trips in case you get attacked and looted etc)
- Lastly, what would you suggest we can alter to carts or the characters, that would encourage you to trade the normal way, and not rely on a teleport to do the trading?
1. Trade Fair Host needs to be able to allow trader to unhook their carts on the the tribeland. buyers need to be able to see inside carts via permissions granted by the cart owner (view only ?)
2. Expansion Totems that allow players to terraform a path suitable for carts. so that we can form roads/bridges to connect trade routes or a path to the lake (see 3) expansion totems should be a viable PVP target
3. Give us the ability to create simple rafts that a cart can be pulled onto and transported across the lake/down rivers. it should be possible to pack up the raft and place it on you back like logs/branches etc or in one cart slot. you should have to stand at a tiller/wheel to steer raft with wasd. rafts should have no ownership. anyone can jump on and steer the raft. rafts should take 30 secs to pack/unpack. during which time if you are attacked the timer stops. rafts should be lootable off of dead players backs. Rafts should greatly increase travel speed on water, to approx 80 swim skill speed, so that they are still attackable by swimmers
4. Make carts a viable PVP target. i.e when the carts owner dies there cart becomes lootable for the same time as the normal player loot window
We would be very interested to hear what you have to say about this, and we will take all your feedback into consideration.
the biggest thing you should take into consideration is that Xsyon was designed with local trade in mind and hopefully the player base will only increase over the coming years. do you want to basically waste time now fixing a problem that will fix itself once the player base increases and spreads out a bit more.
with the introduction of totem decay/expansion totems and more reasons to PVP along with ranged combat and heal abilities will see a greater retention of players and will fix the problem of the need for long distance trade.
until such a time that there is the ability to get from one side of the lake to the other (north to south) in 15-30 mins with a fully laden cart, you are still going to have to offer the teleportation service.
Thank you for your feedback so far.