Would having information about the job distribution help you join servers? Especially older servers?
I’m thinking real active information alongside ratios of say millers to carpenters and give info on shortages between the trades
I think I’d feel more welcomed, supported and appreciated If I wanted to do a run that was in demand on a server rather than adding to the list of smelters
External link →I would prefer being able to view this information with the initial spawn map open. You used to be able to use chat on that screen to both ask the players about what the server needs, and type out skills/objects you could mouse-over. From this I could figure out sky about what is needed and plan an ideal spot in the world for whatever plan or build I'm going for. They nerfed it entirely though.
A redesign of the join card for settlements on the spawn ui is actually planned and would contain the professions of citizens there. A global overview could be added to the top of the map. We have no plans for an overview in the server list itself currently, though - I think that would both be too verbose for that place and have a deterring psychological effect that we don't necessarily want to support, given the choice for a server shouldn't be based solely on the professions already taken there. (And for any more populated server that makes zero sense at all, as all professions will be taken a dozen times) I could rather imagine a intelligent display of only such professions that are currently in specific need, in the form of a "Lacks: Nuclear Scientist".
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