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I had another Wild idea (go read my other about gathering :)

Imagine if in game you can only purchase the simplest simplest of maps. However you can add notes, drawings etc to your. Anyone can do it, its not locked behind a profession.

Thing is, expand the system a little...

Imagine if in game you could then show your map to another player, who could overlap your onto theirs. Now with a system where you granted permission they could do a copy, a rubbing of your map to capture all your wonderful cartography skills.

The permission is important as if you became well known for making great, up to date maps you'd potentially have a hidden profession where you could charge for the map. The copy would be made weaker than the master map and you couldnt be able to copy from this one.

Expand this system further still.. In a guild there could a master map for the guild. All the guild members could do their scouting and observations and the guild appointed cartography officer could scribe them onto the official master map. In this way there could be some amazing guilds of artists and explorers who take on the role of unofficial world cartographers making amazing maps which they sell of a lot of gold in game. They would be able to remain active constantly due to the changing node system that would need to be reflected in updated maps. They could also add little images to celebrate world firsts or draw guild emblems on the map at towns... they could be genuinely things of beauty :)

over 2 years ago - Vaknar - Direct link
Interesting idea! In what ways do you imagine this would change the way the game works? Especially when it comes to spying, espionage, and guild vs guild play, I wonder? ^_^