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| 6s | hello I'm will producer at Strange Loop |
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| 9s | Games yeah |
| 11s | Craig a programmer and designer today |
| 14s | we're gonna be talking about the skill |
| 16s | system we've got a new skill system |
| 17s | coming in 8.0 that Crick's been working |
| 19s | on yeah so Craig's gonna be telling us |
| 22s | all about that Craig before we go into |
| 25s | the new system could you sort of tell us |
| 27s | about the old system what the vision for |
| 30s | it was and how it works we can get into |
| 33s | what's new yeah sure so I mean I'm sure |
| 37s | a lot of people have already played a |
| 38s | ton of eco so you kind of know how this |
| 39s | go system works but I'm gonna highlight |
| 41s | a little bit about it before we go |
| 43s | forward just so you kind of know where |
| 44s | we're coming from and like what we |
| 46s | wanted out of the original system so |
| 49s | pretty much the original skill system |
| 51s | eco was created because we wanted people |
| 55s | to be able to contribute equally despite |
| 57s | having differences in play time so like |
| 58s | say for instance will and I are in a |
| 60s | game together and we'll has to work his |
| 63s | like long job and he has only like the |
| 65s | evenings to play and for whatever reason |
| 67s | I can just play all day every day and I |
| 69s | can just log whatever like ten hours a |
| 71s | day on Eco mining all day we wanted |
| 73s | those two people to be able to like play |
| 75s | together in the same system like the |
| 78s | same game without one player falling |
| 81s | like horribly behind or like just not |
| 84s | being able to contribute at all so the |
| 87s | way we decided to do that is to sort of |
| 89s | gate it on time so that's where the |
| 91s | skill points per day system comes from |
| 92s | that everybody knows you get those |
| 94s | points from eating from having a nice |
| 95s | house we tie them and just like these |
| 97s | other game systems to sort of encourage |
| 99s | people to use those and it you know |
| 103s | there's some good things and some bad |
| 105s | things about that system it did sort of |
| 106s | have that effect we were sort of looking |
| 108s | for and that you know if there was that |
| 111s | disparity in time played you could still |
| 113s | sort of contribute but of course you |
| 115s | know if you don't can't log on all the |
| 117s | time there's still like some issues |
| 118s | there and really like the main problem |
| 122s | that we saw with it is that like in the |
| 125s | end the skills that we had within each |
| 127s | tree were very fairly linear like even |
| 129s | before we had them in the |
| 130s | specializations that they right now you |
| 133s | would have these |
| 134s | efficiency skills and the speed skills |
| 135s | and within each specialization they're |
| 137s | pretty much the same and people didn't |
| 140s | really want to log in and play until |
| 142s | their efficiency had reached the maximum |
| 143s | potential and the only way to do that |
| 145s | was to just wait like log out not play |
| 149s | and that was kind of a really big |
| 151s | problem because even though we are |
| 153s | trying to encourage the people who can't |
| 154s | play as much to play we still want |
| 156s | people to play the game and we want them |
| 158s | to enjoy the game and it's not super fun |
| 160s | to like log in and be like ah here I'm |
| 163s | gonna like heyou some logs and then |
| 165s | you're like oh but if I just log out and |
| 167s | do it tomorrow mm-hmm I'll be able to do |
| 169s | is so much better and like that's not |
| 171s | really the sort of feeling we wanted to |
| 172s | convey although so that does one of the |
| 176s | major issues we were in to address with |
| 178s | the new system the other one was just |
| 180s | like I'm one hand we wanted to make it |
| 182s | simpler because you would or at least |
| 184s | like make these points feel more |
| 185s | meaningful right because now currently |
| 187s | you gain later you're like oh I get like |
| 189s | 50 skill points a day and you log on and |
| 191s | you have 50 skill points but really like |
| 193s | 50 skill points you're just putting them |
| 196s | into these sort of incremental skills |
| 199s | that just don't seem to be that |
| 200s | meaningful like each individual point |
| 202s | has no meaning to you so we're trying to |
| 204s | sort of make them feel better I think |
| 208s | there is an issue with people wanting to |
| 210s | be able to test out different |
| 211s | professions beyond just what they were |
| 214s | specialized in oh yeah so like a while |
| 216s | back we we've been toying around a lot |
| 218s | with how much we want to lock down |
| 219s | specialties into their individual like |
| 222s | Nisha's so like really early on right we |
| 226s | had we have it so everyone could kind of |
| 229s | just like take skills and they can kind |
| 230s | of do whatever they wanted and then we |
| 232s | sort of like later on lock that down |
| 233s | into the specialization system which is |
| 235s | where it is in seven where you you need |
| 238s | to take a specialization to be able to |
| 239s | do it |
| 240s | this also has bronze with the whole time |
| 242s | gating thing right because you like |
| 243s | unlock lumber by like researching it but |
| 246s | you can't actually learn it cuz you |
| 247s | don't the skill points so you can't |
| 248s | actually do anything with it so with the |
| 252s | new civil system we've sort of opened it |
| 257s | up a little bit more so that if you do |
| 260s | progress you can sort of keep |
| 261s | progressing although it's it's more |
| 265s | difficult now mm-hmm but at least it's |
| 267s | not possible |
| 267s | so and you can also like if you're a |
| 270s | minor you can still do a little bit of |
| 272s | farming if you want but you definitely |
| 273s | won't be nearly as good as somebody who |
| 275s | decided to be a farmer and they've |
| 277s | invested time into that right yeah so |
| 281s | Before we jump into the showing off the |
| 283s | new skill system what did we want to |
| 285s | keep from the old system yeah so I guess |
| 287s | the pretty much the main thing we want |
| 289s | to keep is kind of what I touched on |
| 290s | earlier which is really that the whole |
| 292s | thing we're like if you can't play as |
| 293s | much you should still be able to |
| 294s | contribute and I think that's one of the |
| 296s | main things in it as you'll notice when |
| 298s | we go into it that we still have like |
| 300s | the time-based gain sort of but we've |
| 304s | also offset that with reasons to play |
| 305s | the other thing we wanted to keep was |
| 307s | the tie-ins to housing and nutrition we |
| 310s | think are pretty important too like I |
| 313s | just the other systems of the game like |
| 314s | you know getting variety of food and |
| 317s | like building your house and making it |
| 318s | nice all those sorts of things |
| 319s | we really needed to keep that sort of |
| 321s | intertwine with the skill system still |
| 323s | think those are the two major things |
| 325s | that we wanted to keep and in general |
| 328s | like efficiency and speed are still |
| 330s | there they're just not something you |
| 333s | pour points into anymore so mostly like |
| 336s | as opposed to like a complete like |
| 339s | overhaul of the inner workings we've |
| 341s | really kind of like changed how you |
| 342s | interact with it great well let's jump |
| 348s | into the game and show off how the new |
| 350s | skill system works yeah sure all right |
| 355s | so essentially the new skill system |
| 361s | basically the smooshes skill system |
| 363s | comes with a new UI and I guess I should |
| 367s | touch on how you gain them so as with |
| 371s | before it's split into into like |
| 373s | categories which were calling |
| 375s | professions so these would be these ones |
| 377s | which would be like Mason and carpenter |
| 379s | chef stuff like that mm-hm and then |
| 381s | within those there are the specialties |
| 383s | which so for Mason it's like mining |
| 386s | mortaring Bricklin spent those those |
| 388s | things so the the structure is still |
| 390s | pretty much the same and now when you |
| 395s | take these specializations which are the |
| 398s | subcategories |
| 399s | so like you could be a mining specialist |
| 400s | or more expensive in some ways this is |
| 402s | exactly the same as seven it's there's |
| 404s | no in terms of like how they're |
| 408s | organized is pretty much the same so the |
| 410s | organization will be familiar if anybody |
| 412s | yeah exactly |
| 414s | the main difference now is that instead |
| 416s | of skill points you gain levels like |
| 419s | your character will like level up is |
| 421s | what we're calling it and you'll gain |
| 423s | these stars and these stars are used to |
| 426s | gain specialties so now that's one for |
| 428s | one you don't need to be like oh I have |
| 431s | like 500 skill points I wonder how many |
| 432s | if I can get a new specialty yet you'll |
| 434s | just know you'll either be able to take |
| 436s | a specialty or you won't |
| 438s | so for each level you gain you will get |
| 440s | an additional specialty so at least for |
| 444s | me I think I have yeah so I have two |
| 447s | specialties available I already picked |
| 448s | some but that's based on my level and so |
| 451s | that's kind of where the whole one one |
| 454s | part of the old skill points per day as |
| 456s | it were tie-in comes in two is now my |
| 460s | nutrition and housing although I just |
| 463s | have 40 here and no house that comes in |
| 466s | to how fast you gain experience and this |
| 468s | will become more important later when we |
| 469s | talk about how you how the specialties |
| 471s | work but one of the ways that this |
| 473s | experience multiplier works is by |
| 475s | increasing the time it takes to get |
| 476s | these specialties so that's in actuality |
| 480s | it's basically the same as it was in |
| 482s | seven it's just easier to tell and you |
| 486s | don't need to ensign points in to the |
| 487s | specialties you kind of just get this |
| 489s | bar that would be how much it takes to |
| 491s | get your neck specialty and once it |
| 492s | fills up you can take another specialty |
| 495s | so then for any of these specialties you |
| 499s | can just gain them by assigning this |
| 501s | point and if you want to gain a new |
| 503s | specialty like the ones that are hidden |
| 505s | because research still exists do you |
| 507s | need to research them so like say I |
| 509s | wanted to be whatever bricklaying person |
| 511s | I can't because it's undiscovered so I'd |
| 513s | have to do a research table and these |
| 514s | will update share that real quick see I |
| 520s | got a research table here and I guess so |
| 524s | research basic engineering okay I'll put |
| 526s | some of these |
| 529s | see engineer so yeah so see look it says |
| 533s | it's partially researched it says it's |
| 534s | currently being researched and it shows |
| 536s | a bar this is something that we Xin the |
| 537s | old UI it's also in the new UI and so |
| 542s | you still need to research and read the |
| 544s | scrolls so you need to find them you can |
| 545s | trade them why not you know that whole |
| 548s | system is hasn't been changed and then |
| 551s | so once you've read this girls I'll just |
| 553s | use some of these default ones you can |
| 554s | learn the skill okay so here we're gonna |
| 556s | be learning we're gonna be learning |
| 558s | masonry let's talk to your learning |
| 562s | Ewing that's what I did yeah okay so |
| 567s | renaming and it will just confirm so it |
| 571s | when I use this star I'll only have two |
| 572s | left and so as soon as you take any |
| 576s | specialty you'll gain pretty large |
| 580s | bonuses to your specialty 50% yeah this |
| 584s | is right off the bat fifty percent so as |
| 585s | soon as I take this I gain 50 percent so |
| 587s | if you know if you're in the game and |
| 590s | you haven't taken this JLT it'll take |
| 592s | you twice as much resources to do |
| 593s | anything I could do and I digest with |
| 595s | this skill that's the only thing I had |
| 597s | to do is click this star and now I have |
| 598s | 50% which is pre is very significant and |
| 601s | it scales now between 50 and 80 which is |
| 605s | sort of the upper bound is the same as |
| 607s | it was before because it used to go from |
| 609s | 0 to 80 based on how many skill points |
| 611s | you put into your efficiency skill but |
| 613s | now it just starts you off with 50% |
| 614s | speed and 50% efficiency and how do you |
| 617s | get to level seven so yeah so as you |
| 620s | once you've taken a skill you can do |
| 622s | pretty much any action that you would |
| 624s | normally associate with it so for hewing |
| 626s | specifically it's two blocks or make |
| 630s | anything really that requires healing |
| 632s | which is a lot of stuff on the carpenter |
| 633s | table so now that I've have hewing let's |
| 637s | make some boards I like boards |
| 643s | so |
| 649s | so the speed at which you're able to |
| 651s | make the logs yes everything's faster |
| 654s | now that I have the skill it takes less |
| 655s | logs to do so |
| 656s | takes less logs so if you were if you if |
| 659s | you had instead with your zero queuing |
| 660s | skill had decided to build this he would |
| 662s | get that okay so after doing this log I |
| 665s | I have the exp rates turned way up but |
| 668s | I'm doing that log on gained experience |
| 670s | and so you just saw me level up the |
| 672s | hewing skill so as these work orders |
| 674s | complete I'll gain experience you can |
| 676s | see the experience in the bottom left |
| 677s | mm-hmm |
| 677s | as I gain it you see it's times by 40 |
| 679s | because 40 is my nutrition okay so if I |
| 682s | had better nutrition or like a really |
| 684s | nice house I would be gaining this |
| 686s | experience faster and the later |
| 688s | specialties have a higher like exp |
| 691s | requirement so if you want to be like a |
| 694s | whatever |
| 695s | I don't know oil refining person you |
| 699s | would then need more experience to level |
| 702s | up so you would want a better house and |
| 703s | so this is sort of in the same way that |
| 706s | previously we have used skill points as |
| 708s | sort of an encouragement to like make a |
| 710s | better house to have a better diet those |
| 711s | sorts of thing we're now using that to |
| 714s | encourage you to get those to level up |
| 717s | faster so I noticed it said plus 15 so |
| 721s | where can you track that progress yes so |
| 723s | that's all in your skills menu so like |
| 725s | under carpentry I can now go into |
| 727s | healing and like I said skill rates are |
| 730s | way up on the server but so after |
| 732s | crafting that I've gained a ton of |
| 733s | experience and I'm now gonna blow so now |
| 737s | my my stuff will be 65 percent |
| 739s | efficiency it's sixty five percent |
| 741s | faster and pretty much as this is the |
| 745s | only way to get this experience is by |
| 746s | doing actions associated with it so the |
| 749s | only way for me to get from level 1 to |
| 751s | level 7 is to craft anything related to |
| 755s | the hewing special team it makes sense |
| 756s | to be agreed here you go to use it yeah |
| 758s | yeah exactly |
| 759s | so no more waiting overnight for you to |
| 762s | just magically better so now the only |
| 764s | thing you're waiting for these |
| 765s | specialties and once you have the |
| 766s | specialty getting it to the maximum |
| 768s | potential is on you you really have to |
| 770s | do whatever actions associated with it I |
| 772s | already have logging but if I wanted to |
| 774s | love what my log gonna have to go cut |
| 775s | down trees |
| 776s | and that would improve so let's see our |
| 780s | already maximal minor but so yeah let's |
| 784s | talk about talents talents great so on |
| 788s | the other addition to the skill tree |
| 791s | because it's not just loveling up to get |
| 793s | that air all that you do do that we have |
| 797s | we've added talents and these talent |
| 799s | choices happen at currently at two |
| 801s | different points at level 3 and level 6 |
| 803s | and as you're improving you'll be able |
| 805s | to unlock these choices so as it says |
| 807s | this is when you reached level you'll |
| 809s | get to select a talent and the talents |
| 811s | at least for all the crafting |
| 812s | specialties right now we're kind of the |
| 814s | same but a lot of the gathering ones |
| 815s | have pretty unique ones so I'm gonna go |
| 817s | select these and right now there are |
| 820s | icons are missing but we have lucky |
| 823s | break mining yeah so yeah so they're |
| 826s | different for the gathering professions |
| 827s | and so like this one will allow me to |
| 829s | pick up a bunch of rocks at once and |
| 830s | this one will if you have her mind in |
| 833s | the game you know that when sometimes we |
| 835s | get a rock you'll get a large chunk and |
| 837s | it's annoying and it's done like that on |
| 839s | purpose |
| 840s | so this will make it so that I won't get |
| 842s | those anymore so I'm actually not gonna |
| 844s | take this down right now I'm gonna go |
| 845s | hit some rocks we'll see the before now |
| 849s | yeah let's see the before and after yeah |
| 850s | so everybody has a lot of experience |
| 852s | going through this yeah I hate that big |
| 854s | rock that needs to be yeah here's right |
| 857s | here so this rock I can't pick it up |
| 859s | I'll have to break it and nobody likes |
| 861s | using extra calories to break rocks so |
| 863s | as a master of mining I will take this |
| 868s | one and this will make it so I won't get |
| 872s | any more yes I do in which case yeah |
| 876s | nice but yeah so this box you can pick |
| 878s | up every time yeah so this should help |
| 880s | people I mean and obviously there's the |
| 883s | option right because when I take the |
| 884s | other one I could just instead of having |
| 885s | to walk around and pick each one up I |
| 887s | could just press it once and then these |
| 889s | would all just get sucked in my |
| 891s | inventory most a tough choice yeah so |
| 893s | hopefully these sounds will make |
| 895s | leveling up a little bit more |
| 898s | interesting you'll have options at |
| 899s | different levels to get different things |
| 901s | and they all have them some of them are |
| 905s | more interesting than others |
| 908s | and just as you go up you'll unlock |
| 911s | these interesting things what are the |
| 912s | talents for hewing so the talents for |
| 916s | the crafting are actually currently all |
| 918s | pretty much the same |
| 919s | this one doubles the speed of tables |
| 921s | when they're by themselves and the other |
| 924s | one makes them faster when they're with |
| 927s | tables of a similar type and really the |
| 929s | goals of these talents are to kind of |
| 932s | change the way you would build or like |
| 934s | enhance the way you would want to build |
| 936s | so like if you want to have like a giant |
| 938s | factory with like a dozen sawmills next |
| 941s | to each other then there's a talent for |
| 942s | that if you want to just kind of like |
| 943s | live in a small Hut then there's also a |
| 945s | talent for that and really we're gonna |
| 949s | try and hopefully encourage just |
| 952s | different styles of play so that people |
| 953s | can kind of enhance the way they play or |
| 955s | just try out different things encourage |
| 957s | people to play differently anything else |
| 963s | in the current system then you want to |
| 965s | talk about before we talk about future |
| 968s | plans huh see yeah those are like really |
| 973s | the main points of the skill system so |
| 978s | it looks like we weren't getting all the |
| 981s | chat comments to our restream so I just |
| 985s | pulled open the twitch so I'm gonna be |
| 987s | checking through comments and we'll be |
| 989s | answering some questions as we go and |
| 991s | also have time at the end for Q&A oh |
| 993s | yeah so along with the 50% so kind of |
| 998s | kind of touching on this thing where you |
| 999s | gain 50% immediately this also means |
| 1001s | that like a lot of the recipes are you |
| 1004s | don't need to have the specialty to take |
| 1006s | to craft them so like I'm not a Mason |
| 1009s | I don't know mortaring but I have read |
| 1011s | the skill scroll and so reading the |
| 1014s | skills for gets you to what we're |
| 1015s | calling level zero so for instance in |
| 1017s | Brick Lane I've not level zero I don't |
| 1019s | have this I can't I can't learn it and |
| 1021s | it's undiscovered so I can't craft any |
| 1024s | Brick Lane things so but your |
| 1027s | so well just to reiterate if you already |
| 1030s | asked a question I guess we missed it so |
| 1032s | let's begin in the twitch and we'll be |
| 1034s | able to catch it now so as you can see |
| 1038s | in here I don't have more during right I |
| 1043s | don't have the skill it's not skilled |
| 1045s | but I do know of it I have level zero |
| 1048s | morning hmm so with that level zero |
| 1050s | morning I'm allowed to craft a lot of |
| 1052s | these things there's some stuff I can't |
| 1053s | craft but a lot of the recipes are now |
| 1056s | unlocked so they but their prices are |
| 1059s | very high so like if I want to make a |
| 1061s | stone sign it's gonna cost me 60 stone |
| 1063s | right but if you took more if you took |
| 1065s | masonry you would be able to craft one |
| 1066s | for 30 immediately so this sort of |
| 1069s | allows people to test out stuff that |
| 1071s | they haven't taken yet mm-hmm and also |
| 1076s | of like you know somebody's we've all |
| 1078s | experienced if somebody goes missing or |
| 1080s | something you like lose your whatever |
| 1082s | your lumber maker but you need that last |
| 1084s | five lumber to make your research table |
| 1085s | don't like research the next thing |
| 1087s | mm-hmm you can still get that done |
| 1091s | without having to like panic Basin Road |
| 1094s | just heals a lot more wood or maybe you |
| 1097s | just so resource rich and you find you |
| 1100s | so you have to come in skills that you |
| 1102s | go down and you never branch out and say |
| 1104s | I want to make this yeah this yeah and |
| 1107s | yeah it'll let you try a bunch of |
| 1108s | different stuff hopefully the hope is |
| 1112s | that the economies will sort of like |
| 1114s | balance us out so that like even though |
| 1115s | I can make this sign at sixty stone |
| 1118s | right you can make it at thirty or less |
| 1120s | because obviously if you get better at |
| 1121s | it you'll be able to make it for like |
| 1123s | ten and then you'll make this and you'll |
| 1125s | sell it to me for like 20 and I'll be |
| 1127s | like well I could make this for sixty |
| 1128s | stone or I could just buy it from will |
| 1130s | for twenty and that choice seems pretty |
| 1132s | obvious so that's sort of the hope with |
| 1135s | unlocking this because previously we've |
| 1137s | we've had them pretty locked down and |
| 1139s | that was to really encourage people to |
| 1141s | like you know cooperate and not |
| 1143s | necessarily work together but like use |
| 1145s | the economy systems and do that sort of |
| 1148s | stuff |
| 1148s | mmm hopefully that will still exist |
| 1150s | obviously we're testing out this new |
| 1152s | system to see how it works out and some |
| 1157s | the professions are a little bit more |
| 1158s | lockdown in others okay so we had sent a |
| 1162s | question do you still need the |
| 1163s | profession to craft trucks or can you |
| 1165s | craft without yes a certain certain |
| 1171s | recipes still require skill and certain |
| 1173s | ones do not I don't have an exact list |
| 1175s | of which ones do and which ones do not |
| 1177s | but there are recipes that are locked |
| 1179s | behind levels so especially right |
| 1182s | currently in the current build of the |
| 1183s | current building game cooking is very |
| 1186s | locked not like you can still cook stuff |
| 1189s | without the skill but taking the skill |
| 1191s | and leveling it up unlocks a lot of |
| 1193s | extra recipes and then there's some that |
| 1195s | are less lockdown like early masonry is |
| 1197s | not as lockdown but there are still a |
| 1199s | few things you unlock through levels and |
| 1201s | stuff like that |
| 1202s | so we're kind of testing out a range of |
| 1203s | stuff and hopefully we'll figure out |
| 1205s | what works best and like move all of |
| 1208s | them in that direction cool is calorie |
| 1212s | waste at the lower cooking efficiency |
| 1215s | levels seen as any kind of problem |
| 1216s | currently doesn't make much sense to |
| 1218s | cook recipes anything less than full |
| 1221s | efficiency so I'm not sure if that |
| 1226s | question is about like the fact that you |
| 1229s | like take like 5 beats and turn it into |
| 1231s | like one baked beat and then that one |
| 1234s | baked B is worth less calories than |
| 1235s | those 5 beats individually that's |
| 1238s | something that the sort of trade-off |
| 1239s | there is that we're really trying to |
| 1241s | make sure that nutrition is important so |
| 1243s | that you want to take those 5 beats and |
| 1245s | turn them into that one beat because |
| 1246s | that one beat will give you more skill |
| 1248s | points we've done a lot of tweaks with |
| 1250s | like moving how much thing like skill |
| 1254s | points things give you and previously |
| 1257s | that was kind of hard to tweak just |
| 1260s | because of the number like the large |
| 1262s | numbers you would get like you know you |
| 1265s | don't want to get like we could give |
| 1266s | people like 600 skill points a day and |
| 1268s | then we could extend the food recipes we |
| 1270s | have to be from 1 to 600 but that sort |
| 1276s | of number inflation we were trying to |
| 1277s | avoid so right now there the range that |
| 1279s | they're in is sort of low so people |
| 1281s | don't really see that incremental like |
| 1284s | advantage as beneficial so they're like |
| 1285s | oh I could eat these 5 beats and gain |
| 1288s | like 20 skill points a day or I could |
| 1290s | eat this one really nice beat and get |
| 1292s | like 25 and that doesn't seem that great |
| 1295s | hopefully this sort of multiplier will |
| 1297s | make it feel better obviously food |
| 1299s | tweaking is something we're doing all |
| 1300s | the time as far as the efficiency goes |
| 1302s | and like waiting till you get to the end |
| 1304s | that's not really possible anymore you |
| 1305s | cuz you have to cook things to get into |
| 1307s | the maximum efficiency so either either |
| 1311s | way at this point you're gonna have to |
| 1312s | big bunch of beats down to just one beat |
| 1316s | so let's see children are the |
| 1321s | professions now feeling more |
| 1323s | identification 'el or can you still |
| 1325s | choose different specialties amongst |
| 1327s | different professions example skill |
| 1330s | cement furniture clothes and advanced |
| 1332s | campfire cooking yes so the professions |
| 1336s | right now are just logical groups for |
| 1338s | the UI so like there's currently there's |
| 1341s | no benefit well talk about a little bit |
| 1344s | about the plans for that but yeah in the |
| 1347s | guy at least in a toe there they're not |
| 1349s | gonna be related but we do have some I |
| 1352s | mean there was some interest in in |
| 1354s | changing that to make them sort of like |
| 1355s | like the Mason might be better at all |
| 1358s | the trees in masonry rather than it just |
| 1359s | being like oh now I'm a bricklayer today |
| 1362s | and tomorrow I'm going to like sew |
| 1364s | clothes and then after I'm gonna cook a |
| 1365s | nice meal like we kind of we would like |
| 1369s | to steer people towards that but that is |
| 1371s | not currently in the game cool dr. Jones |
| 1375s | hey dr. Jones dr. Jones has been |
| 1377s | streaming a preview of 8.0 recently so |
| 1382s | hey and you should check out their dream |
| 1385s | dr. Jones asked what time frame are you |
| 1388s | think you know for some to go from |
| 1390s | unlocking a skill tree to fully |
| 1392s | maximizing it out in the beta so far it |
| 1395s | seems you burn through them very quickly |
| 1397s | I'm guessing you're still balancing that |
| 1399s | yeah the EXP balancing is something we |
| 1401s | need to work on and but it will change a |
| 1403s | lot between now and when we release not |
| 1408s | really exactly sure how long we want |
| 1409s | people that have to level up because we |
| 1411s | do want to a lot of people fairly |
| 1413s | quickly because you should be getting |
| 1416s | them relatively fast like I know on the |
| 1420s | one server that we have the 800 server |
| 1422s | that's up right now the stream one they |
| 1425s | changed the specialty gain rate to be |
| 1428s | lower than normal so you like normally |
| 1432s | the the plan is that each person |
| 1434s | assuming that you have a house and a |
| 1436s | food according to your technology level |
| 1438s | will gain at the least at the firt for |
| 1441s | the first like week or so will gain a |
| 1443s | specialty every one to two days so like |
| 1446s | today like if we just started this game |
| 1448s | and everything was default I would have |
| 1450s | one specialty point and I would use it |
| 1451s | on like logging and then the next day I |
| 1453s | would have one more and I would use it |
| 1455s | on whatever like smithing or something |
| 1457s | and then two days after that I would get |
| 1460s | another one and so the goal would be |
| 1462s | that you could kind of like level these |
| 1463s | skills up and especially because the way |
| 1465s | that their relevancy works like near the |
| 1467s | end of the game there's a lot less |
| 1468s | reasons to be queuing logs we kind of |
| 1472s | need them to level up sort of fast so |
| 1474s | that they're still like useful at max |
| 1476s | efficiency you don't want it to be like |
| 1477s | oh yeah I can finally hew my logs at max |
| 1480s | efficiency time to heal my logs and then |
| 1482s | your neighbors building like a concrete |
| 1483s | monolith like that's not really where |
| 1486s | you want to be you want to be able to |
| 1487s | like use your skill at max efficiency as |
| 1488s | well so we wanted to be relatively fast |
| 1490s | the exception to this are sort of the |
| 1493s | touristing professions like mining |
| 1497s | mining logging gathering and like those |
| 1500s | ones those ones levels slower and that's |
| 1502s | kind of intentional because we want |
| 1505s | because they're useful for most of the |
| 1507s | game and eventually they don't currently |
| 1509s | tie into the vehicles but we do want to |
| 1512s | tie them into the vehicle harvesting as |
| 1513s | well mm-hmm slowly because they're |
| 1516s | relevant throughout the entire game yeah |
| 1518s | they're the resources that feed the |
| 1519s | world yeah exactly so like at the end of |
| 1521s | the game you're still gonna be mining |
| 1522s | stuff like that |
| 1523s | so you know those ones will level slower |
| 1526s | than the crafting ones and maybe we'll |
| 1528s | do some tweaks to that but that's kind |
| 1531s | of the reason why there is some |
| 1532s | disparity if you've played the build |
| 1535s | Kappa had a few questions about |
| 1537s | nutrition what's the best nutrition at |
| 1540s | the moment the best nutrition I don't |
| 1543s | have a spreadsheet in front of me it can |
| 1547s | get pretty high though it's it we |
| 1549s | haven't changed anything about the skill |
| 1553s | gained from housing or food maybe we |
| 1556s | have and it's been a while so I'm not |
| 1558s | exactly sure but it should be roughly |
| 1560s | the same the maximum cap to your EXT |
| 1563s | multiplier will be about the same as |
| 1564s | your skill points per day let's open up |
| 1566s | the skill tree while we're talking just |
| 1569s | so people can get a look at that and we |
| 1571s | can kind of poke around in there |
| 1574s | good suggestion thank you can't wait for |
| 1579s | the talent to duel we'll pick axes okay |
| 1582s | we will get in the suggestion it's a |
| 1586s | great good idea |
| 1588s | see any other questions I know you |
| 1591s | wanted we'll take some more questions |
| 1592s | later but I know Craig you're going to |
| 1593s | get into what's coming in the future |
| 1596s | what are your visions for the future oh |
| 1598s | yeah so there's like kind of a lot of |
| 1600s | things that we want to work into the |
| 1601s | skill tree as we go forward and |
| 1605s | obviously like this what's coming out |
| 1608s | NATO is kind of like the first iteration |
| 1610s | of this and it's it's a pretty big |
| 1612s | change like even even if a lot of like |
| 1614s | how you gained points is kind of the |
| 1616s | same it's just like that yet the new exp |
| 1619s | gained and like the talents and all that |
| 1621s | sort of stuff is sorted in there so |
| 1623s | right now a lot of towns are pretty |
| 1624s | bare-bones some of them don't even work |
| 1625s | properly right now obviously it should |
| 1628s | be fixed by 8:00 but you know moving |
| 1630s | forward you really want to expand on on |
| 1632s | those as well as like just the skill |
| 1636s | groupings in general like I mean we |
| 1637s | talked about this earlier but we do want |
| 1640s | to make these professions sort of |
| 1642s | meaningful right like I want it if I'm a |
| 1643s | miner I should get benefits right and |
| 1647s | listen this also sort of plays into the |
| 1649s | whole like hewing is like less relevant |
| 1652s | at the end of game obviously you can |
| 1653s | still use it to like make housing |
| 1654s | objects and stuff right but like if I'm |
| 1655s | at max level Heuer it is sort of like |
| 1658s | sad that it becomes kind of irrelevant |
| 1661s | later on mm-hmm |
| 1662s | so how are we addressing that so what I |
| 1667s | mean we don't have anything exact right |
| 1668s | I'm not gonna promise anything but what |
| 1670s | we would want to do is sort of tie this |
| 1672s | in so like if you are good at hewing you |
| 1674s | maybe you get some benefits for lumber |
| 1675s | like if you have multiple just like |
| 1679s | specialties in the same tree maybe you |
| 1680s | can gain overflow experience like say I |
| 1682s | take |
| 1683s | and I'm still gained like some benefit |
| 1686s | for hewn logs into that lumber tree |
| 1688s | because they're all related right mm-hmm |
| 1691s | and we sort of want to sort of tie in |
| 1694s | the sort of obsolete skills into the |
| 1696s | newer ones and I think the best way to |
| 1698s | do that is to sort of tie them in with |
| 1700s | the professions and that's sort of |
| 1706s | something that we would like to look |
| 1708s | into obviously not gonna be an aid but |
| 1710s | as we before that's something we're |
| 1712s | definitely in consider as far as |
| 1714s | expanding the talents Co these levels |
| 1716s | also might change we might increase the |
| 1718s | number of levels it's also possibility |
| 1720s | of making up infinitely level we'd talk |
| 1723s | about something like that before but as |
| 1727s | far as talents go right now there's only |
| 1728s | two choices at every tier and the tears |
| 1730s | are only three and six some of them |
| 1733s | aren't less interesting than others the |
| 1735s | eventual goal would be to have it so |
| 1737s | that each specialty has something unique |
| 1739s | in them like I'm not gonna come up with |
| 1742s | anything on this far right here right |
| 1744s | but like you would want them to be |
| 1746s | unique I don't want to have like oh my |
| 1749s | hewing talent is the same as my lumber |
| 1751s | talent like that's not that interesting |
| 1752s | right you'd want to see something unique |
| 1754s | at each level and then hopefully expand |
| 1756s | it'll either there's more in the levels |
| 1759s | because their service we could put so |
| 1761s | much stuff in here or or like more |
| 1764s | options at the level it's think you |
| 1766s | should give you more choices because we |
| 1768s | want like if you take mining and I take |
| 1770s | mining as like these servers were bigger |
| 1771s | you we really want like you to be |
| 1773s | slightly different from me like maybe |
| 1775s | you were really good at mining through |
| 1776s | basalt and I'm like I love mining in |
| 1779s | deserts and I'm like hitting sandstone |
| 1781s | or something like that you know just |
| 1782s | something to make these people unique |
| 1785s | people within the same profession like |
| 1787s | slightly different and to give that a |
| 1790s | choice and to make that the feeling of |
| 1791s | levelling up sort of like better just |
| 1793s | yeah and a few people might have missed |
| 1796s | it earlier so how do you get stars and |
| 1799s | what affects the rate at which you |
| 1800s | acquire them so as before it's basically |
| 1804s | how little skill points per day's work |
| 1805s | it's just your nutrition and your |
| 1807s | housing will kind of increase the rate |
| 1810s | at which you level up and gain stars and |
| 1812s | also the rate which you |
| 1814s | experience anything else coming in the |
| 1820s | future ideas that you're looking into as |
| 1823s | far as skills go like mainly we have I |
| 1825s | mean obviously there's a ton of |
| 1826s | balancing to do and as we move forward I |
| 1829s | kind of talked about how there's some |
| 1830s | stuff locked in some stuff not we really |
| 1832s | want to kind of figure out which way we |
| 1835s | want to go essentially and so we haven't |
| 1838s | kind of spread out right now and we're |
| 1840s | gonna see how that feels and how it |
| 1841s | works and then we'll kind of push all of |
| 1846s | the trees in that direction and I think |
| 1849s | it's kind of important as we go forward |
| 1850s | that like we make sure that there is |
| 1854s | stuff at every level like even right now |
| 1856s | in the ones that have unlocks there's |
| 1858s | there's not enough stuff to like filter |
| 1860s | in each level mm-hmm so as we add |
| 1862s | content we'll be able to like put it |
| 1863s | behind these different levels or like |
| 1865s | I'm walking for everybody stuff like |
| 1866s | that I feel like you kind of touched on |
| 1870s | this a bit but are there any development |
| 1873s | plans in addressing late-game in some |
| 1875s | professions losing relevance carpenters |
| 1877s | and tea to lumber being largely |
| 1879s | out-of-date or secondary food |
| 1881s | professions such as hunters losing |
| 1882s | income from Lord man yeah so yeah so we |
| 1887s | sort of it's kind of hard to say because |
| 1890s | really like it's really hard to keep |
| 1892s | Hume logs like super relevant later on |
| 1895s | we at least for wood in general my vein |
| 1899s | problem with wood right now is it that |
| 1901s | like masonry goes from tier 1 to tier 4 |
| 1904s | lumber it caps the paper or wood caps |
| 1907s | out at lumber so you have a lot of stuff |
| 1909s | out there and that's not necessarily |
| 1911s | under the purview of skills specifically |
| 1912s | it's just kind of like something that we |
| 1914s | need to put there but yeah so mostly |
| 1919s | we'd be like at least from the skills |
| 1920s | side we'd be looking at making those |
| 1921s | sort of obsolete skills still relevant |
| 1924s | somehow and obviously like you could |
| 1926s | still use human logs maybe we'll find |
| 1928s | maybe a lot of talent or something at |
| 1930s | the end where it's like Oh hume logs can |
| 1932s | be like better tea or something I don't |
| 1934s | know we'll figure something out for sure |
| 1936s | we we do recognize that as a problem as |
| 1938s | sort of these older skills falling out |
| 1940s | of relevance and actually before you |
| 1942s | could on |
| 1942s | but with the new system we're not |
| 1945s | actually gonna let people on learn |
| 1946s | skills at least immediately we might let |
| 1949s | you reset your like completely drop your |
| 1953s | skill maybe a max level or something but |
| 1958s | we're not sure yet because especially |
| 1959s | because of the massive benefit they give |
| 1961s | you immediately we can't really let |
| 1962s | people just kind of swap around their |
| 1963s | points all the time mm-hmm but because |
| 1965s | stuff is more on the lock now it should |
| 1967s | be less like bad for you to like pick a |
| 1970s | specialty that's not particularly useful |
| 1972s | to you right at that moment because you |
| 1973s | can still do the other things it's just |
| 1975s | maybe not as efficiently |
| 1978s | Satsuki says we need a way to burn |
| 1980s | elementary materials for arts and |
| 1982s | culture okay sounds good yeah what a |
| 1985s | burn pile |
| 1986s | yeah well get a burn pile on the game |
| 1988s | that'd be pretty fun let's see make it |
| 1992s | so your stars and a skill increase |
| 1994s | experience gained in related skills by a |
| 1997s | certain percentage that get a cool idea |
| 2002s | let's see what about the research skill |
| 2005s | how do you level this do you need to |
| 2007s | craft a lot of skill books or the talent |
| 2010s | form or carry weight max calories and |
| 2013s | more use for so own paper Billy |
| 2015s | okay well that's like a lot of questions |
| 2017s | okay so let's see the research skill |
| 2019s | doesn't exist anymore um there is a |
| 2022s | special there a specialty I guess it |
| 2025s | would be called called self-improvement |
| 2027s | which is that's what the old skill tree |
| 2029s | was called right now in the current |
| 2031s | build of the game it you can take it but |
| 2033s | you can't level it on by it or release |
| 2036s | it should be it's going to be a skill |
| 2039s | especially that just everyone starts |
| 2040s | with so everyone will have this |
| 2042s | specialty and it's just gonna level up |
| 2044s | by you leveling up other specialties so |
| 2046s | it's like as you just it's just gonna go |
| 2047s | up naturally sort of as you play |
| 2048s | assuming you take a specialty and you |
| 2050s | actually invest in it that that's gonna |
| 2053s | be the skill that covers basically |
| 2055s | everything that the self-improvement |
| 2057s | skill used to cover so that's kind of |
| 2060s | where that the status of that is |
| 2061s | um yeah paper that has no use currently |
| 2067s | there's no change in that obviously it |
| 2069s | is one of the like it's it is probably |
| 2072s | the most useless skill except for maybe |
| 2075s | the |
| 2076s | cooking tear but that is something that |
| 2079s | we definitely want to like incorporate |
| 2081s | into stuff definitely will have more |
| 2084s | importance hopefully in like laws and |
| 2085s | stuff I don't really have anything I can |
| 2088s | weigh I'm not gonna like promise |
| 2089s | anything obviously but you know we are |
| 2092s | planning to look at laws sometime soon |
| 2094s | so maybe we'll incorporate that sort of |
| 2096s | in there we can also back your currency |
| 2100s | with paper so maybe you guys should do |
| 2101s | that right paper money we had a question |
| 2105s | about boats boats are not in 8.0 still |
| 2109s | hoping for the future or you know |
| 2111s | there'll be a future update so but not |
| 2113s | 8.0 but we've got a lot of really |
| 2116s | awesome stuff in 8.0 it's visually it's |
| 2119s | dramatically diets really crazy I think |
| 2123s | you're really gonna like it |
| 2125s | have you thought about adding a mailbox |
| 2128s | system for leaving messages for offline |
| 2130s | players I love it that's a great idea |
| 2134s | very cool it's very difficult to get a |
| 2137s | hold of people who aren't in the same |
| 2139s | time zones when you need them cool thank |
| 2141s | you Bob that's awesome we'll put that on |
| 2145s | our suggestion you can also you could |
| 2147s | also message them I know the chat system |
| 2149s | as always is often overlooked but you |
| 2151s | can turn off the crafty notifications |
| 2153s | and then it's easier to parse you can |
| 2157s | see me cheating a bunch here and you can |
| 2159s | message people but yeah we have talked |
| 2163s | about a sort of in-game mail system and |
| 2166s | it would be kind of convenient hey you |
| 2168s | can all see yeah juice for paper yeah |
| 2172s | it's true |
| 2172s | he's a paper to make a message okay |
| 2177s | let's see it makes more sense do you |
| 2180s | have to gathering specialties to be |
| 2182s | baseline as you have to level them as |
| 2185s | they said you have to hit trees and |
| 2186s | break rocks and it's slow so it makes |
| 2188s | sense everyone has it so they kind of I |
| 2192s | mean it seems it's possible that might |
| 2196s | end a baseline but for now we're gonna |
| 2198s | hear them as they are mostly because we |
| 2201s | do want people to specialize in these |
| 2202s | things like we want people to be like oh |
| 2204s | I'm I'm mine that's my job and there are |
| 2207s | people who do like mining I like |
| 2208s | personally when I play the game and |
| 2211s | they're people who craft and eventually |
| 2214s | you should have enough specialties where |
| 2215s | you can do both it's not impossible and |
| 2218s | I do think it's it's nice to have that |
| 2220s | niche for people who do because |
| 2222s | otherwise if we took out a lot of the |
| 2223s | gathering professions most of them would |
| 2225s | just be crafting professions and not |
| 2226s | everyone wants to craft all the time so |
| 2228s | what do you think is the most specialty |
| 2230s | somebody could have by the end of the |
| 2231s | game depends on your settings by Depot |
| 2233s | so as it is now it scales |
| 2236s | almost exactly the same as its scaled |
| 2238s | before so you'll gain specialties and |
| 2242s | specialties the amount of experience |
| 2244s | required per level will increase as you |
| 2246s | gain more and then at a certain point |
| 2249s | it'll just be at like the maximum cost |
| 2252s | and it'll just keep going over and over |
| 2253s | so if you just played forever you just |
| 2255s | keep gaining them at whatever rate that |
| 2256s | is it shouldn't be about it caps out I |
| 2260s | guess it depends how many skill points |
| 2261s | you have really it's hard to estimate |
| 2263s | based on like but if you had maximum |
| 2267s | maximum everything you had like back |
| 2269s | some fluid maximum housing and at the |
| 2270s | very end of the game you might get one |
| 2272s | every like three days or something chewy |
| 2276s | says what's to stop me from making ten |
| 2279s | thousand hewn logs and power leveling |
| 2281s | nothing in fact that is what we want you |
| 2284s | to do you can do it you can do it ten |
| 2286s | thousand logs although then you'd have |
| 2288s | to put the wood in Gregg's you don't get |
| 2289s | the experience unless you actually make |
| 2290s | the human logs so you could start the |
| 2292s | thing for ten thousand but you won't get |
| 2294s | the experience and so you actually put |
| 2295s | in the wood for that where your friends |
| 2298s | put in the woods yeah yeah or your |
| 2299s | logging friend puts in the wood so yeah |
| 2303s | really really that's kind of honestly |
| 2305s | nothing stopping you except your own |
| 2308s | ability to get together wood yeah oh and |
| 2310s | you don't have to complete the humans |
| 2312s | right like as you saw I was getting |
| 2313s | experience like as each one completed so |
| 2316s | like if I order like whatever four of |
| 2319s | these boards and I put in enough for one |
| 2322s | board I'll gain the experience for that |
| 2324s | one board so you don't need to like you |
| 2326s | could order like ten thousand and only |
| 2329s | complete like a hundred and you'd get |
| 2330s | experience about a hundred |
| 2331s | she's got experience for just just that |
| 2333s | one you get the magic complete Magnus is |
| 2338s | curious what the talents are for farming |
| 2341s | for farming |
| 2342s | so farming a little bit weird because |
| 2344s | farming has the crafting ones Crowley a |
| 2346s | lot of the more a lot of the weirder |
| 2348s | ones are in gathering gathering has some |
| 2352s | I don't have gathering right now but the |
| 2355s | gathering ones are mostly related to |
| 2357s | choosing between harvesting natural |
| 2359s | resources and harvesting planted |
| 2361s | resources so if you're like five if you |
| 2363s | are a farmer you might take gathering |
| 2365s | and then you would take the ones that |
| 2367s | increase your gains from planted |
| 2369s | resources and that would just help your |
| 2371s | farming yields but maybe you're on like |
| 2374s | a small world or like a hermit and you |
| 2375s | live next to a jungle and you're like oh |
| 2376s | I want to just occasionally pick a |
| 2378s | couple of papayas there's one that |
| 2380s | actually drastically increases the |
| 2381s | amount of resources you get from natural |
| 2383s | plants so that could be an option and |
| 2388s | actually is will the chat system be |
| 2391s | updated I rarely see if I get a DM and |
| 2393s | the current system so it's a Craigslist |
| 2395s | pointing out you can turn off other |
| 2397s | notifications you can remove occations |
| 2399s | but I mean |
| 2400s | chai is something we would like to |
| 2403s | improve there's no changes for coming in |
| 2407s | eighth but you know as well as things we |
| 2408s | look at you can turn off these |
| 2409s | notifications if they bother you and |
| 2411s | then if someone messages you it will be |
| 2413s | the only thing that pops up yeah I know |
| 2415s | we would like to update it and there's a |
| 2418s | good chance that we will in the future |
| 2419s | and comments from you letting us know |
| 2422s | that you know you're having issues helps |
| 2424s | us prioritize that so you know no |
| 2428s | concrete plan right now but is something |
| 2430s | that we've talked about and we'll |
| 2432s | continue to talk about okay yeah I don't |
| 2441s | see C contract system with multiple |
| 2443s | boards can we get a synchronized option |
| 2446s | I see you wanna like synchronized C with |
| 2448s | like two boards and you want they're not |
| 2449s | the same contracts on both no I'm the |
| 2452s | wrong person asked about contracts we |
| 2456s | can |
| 2460s | so we'll be I think 9.0 will have a lot |
| 2463s | more things about government and |
| 2467s | contract yeah updates on there so I'm |
| 2469s | sure in the next stream we'll get an one |
| 2472s | maybe in depth on laws or something |
| 2474s | maybe if people want that I'm sure John |
| 2476s | would love to talk about that cool so it |
| 2480s | seems like most of the questions didn't |
| 2483s | want to mention that our friends |
| 2487s | Jeff Grubb over at VentureBeat has been |
| 2489s | streaming 8.0 with his community and the |
| 2494s | Waypoint community they've been doing it |
| 2496s | pretty much nightly on Twitch and it's |
| 2499s | been a lot of fun there's about 70 or so |
| 2502s | people in the world and we're on their |
| 2506s | tail yeah we're on their team and so if |
| 2508s | you've got about three or four different |
| 2510s | factions competing working together and |
| 2513s | it's been a lot of fun so 8.0 releases |
| 2516s | on Feb 6 but you can get a preview of it |
| 2519s | now and we're doing this all month long |
| 2522s | so check it out the big eco world is the |
| 2527s | big game for the big ego game ass right |
| 2530s | video game so yeah it's great to see |
| 2534s | everybody and great to see some people |
| 2536s | from the video game hey Jeff okay one |
| 2540s | more question here is there's a bunch |
| 2542s | more yeah yeah if there's more questions |
| 2544s | coming in we'll answer them definitely |
| 2546s | oh you're wait look paper for Scrolls |
| 2548s | that's something we've talked about |
| 2550s | before yeah I mean I think it's an |
| 2554s | interesting idea so far we kind of |
| 2556s | wanted the information distribution to |
| 2559s | be theoretically free it's not free and |
| 2562s | that people that you can charge people |
| 2563s | for because obviously knowledge is |
| 2564s | important but we wanted to make it so as |
| 2566s | possible but yeah that's definitely |
| 2569s | something we thought about before is |
| 2572s | there plan to increase item quality |
| 2574s | based on craft first yeah actually |
| 2576s | that's something I do actually want we |
| 2579s | have we actually had a pretty long |
| 2580s | discussion once about like sort of how |
| 2582s | we want to improve farming before and |
| 2584s | we're like oh we could make like your |
| 2586s | crops be better like right now it |
| 2588s | directly improves yield but what we want |
| 2590s | is there be like a really obvious |
| 2593s | like sometimes when you're like |
| 2594s | harvesting a plant you're like wake up |
| 2595s | 5:00 and you're like go is that better |
| 2597s | is that the only way to know that is |
| 2599s | just by like remembering how much you |
| 2601s | got before and then something we used to |
| 2604s | have it like the bone is shown sometimes |
| 2605s | but like because it's a natural plant it |
| 2607s | just grows it's not always that easy to |
| 2609s | determine so we thought like oh what if |
| 2611s | you like harvested it's like a gigantic |
| 2614s | corn right that's kind of cool so we |
| 2616s | have thought about that and the main |
| 2618s | problem is right now our skill system |
| 2620s | our crafting system is kind of like |
| 2622s | limited in a way right like if you have |
| 2625s | a different kind of corn that means we |
| 2628s | need another recipe so hopefully in the |
| 2633s | future we'll have a better system for |
| 2635s | that we actually have a bunch ideas for |
| 2636s | that so perhaps soon |
| 2638s | obviously not Nate not that soon but |
| 2641s | we'll sort of work towards that goal of |
| 2643s | having like the ability to sort of |
| 2646s | introduce stuff like that and that is |
| 2648s | definitely something that's on our radar |
| 2649s | and something that we would like to |
| 2650s | improve what about irrigation for |
| 2654s | farming crops |
| 2655s | get your own crops we have you can use |
| 2658s | the aqueducts |
| 2661s | use aqueducts and actually a NATO |
| 2663s | there's gonna be water pumps and pipes |
| 2665s | so you can pump water yeah let's do a |
| 2673s | fly around of the world I know it was |
| 2676s | something in this way yeah but this is a |
| 2677s | point Oh world great sushi oh yeah so |
| 2679s | you want to see like the world this |
| 2681s | stuff yeah okay well some people have |
| 2683s | probably already seen the world gin in |
| 2685s | our last stream yeah |
| 2687s | thing is looking at things from the top |
| 2688s | sometimes a little bit deceiving but |
| 2690s | yeah so this is this is the grassland |
| 2691s | and actually I guess we can talk a |
| 2693s | little bit about the biomes now you can |
| 2696s | ask me questions as well but this is so |
| 2698s | I know people went over this before in |
| 2700s | the other stream but kind of interesting |
| 2702s | so see here so yeah so we're in a |
| 2706s | grassland right now and ideally like as |
| 2708s | we sort of moved through more biomes |
| 2711s | updates and sorry we're moving a little |
| 2712s | bit away from skills I know that was |
| 2713s | kind of like the topic originally but as |
| 2716s | we sort of move forward with the |
| 2717s | development of the biomes we really want |
| 2719s | to like make there'd be some sort of |
| 2720s | like exploration and progression through |
| 2723s | the |
| 2723s | the environments so the grasslands is |
| 2726s | kind of like the eat I don't see easy |
| 2728s | but I guess it's kind of what I we're |
| 2730s | going with it's like the easy zone right |
| 2734s | now because of the way the two leti of |
| 2736s | tool tears are sandstone and shale are |
| 2741s | the two beginning one so there's like |
| 2743s | surface deposits of sandstone and stuff |
| 2744s | around that you can use for your early |
| 2746s | game stone and then also there's the |
| 2749s | desert which also has more sandstone and |
| 2751s | in sandstone there's iron so this is |
| 2753s | that's kind of like you're early on |
| 2754s | materials yeah so this is gonna the |
| 2758s | desert there's you know cactuses are we |
| 2765s | thinking of adding new specialties we |
| 2767s | haven't seen yet like fishing husband |
| 2769s | yeah for sure that's like sort of I was |
| 2771s | moving forward we had more content |
| 2773s | that's definitely something we're gonna |
| 2774s | want to add I think see like right now |
| 2778s | fishing is combined with hunting I |
| 2779s | definitely want to split those up but |
| 2781s | the problem is right now fishing isn't |
| 2783s | super useful so at the time I just don't |
| 2786s | want to like split it up into two not |
| 2789s | particularly useful thanks ray so now |
| 2792s | you just take one you get both but yeah |
| 2794s | eventually we definitely want to split |
| 2795s | them into both and then once we have |
| 2798s | like appropriate talents and uses for |
| 2800s | all those things then we'll we'll split |
| 2802s | them and delete it their own independent |
| 2804s | thing and then as we add other content |
| 2806s | we might split or make new specialties |
| 2811s | yeah I mean like I said I would love we |
| 2815s | would love to have another like tier |
| 2817s | above wood above lumber so like that |
| 2820s | would probably introduce its own |
| 2822s | specialty so it's if you find a redwood |
| 2826s | huxley ass in the hunting hunter |
| 2828s | profession is there anything that allows |
| 2831s | you to run through grass faster I think |
| 2834s | that's a cool idea there's a whole idea |
| 2836s | for sure so yeah so we'll have like a |
| 2838s | lot of weight the talus system in |
| 2840s | general is something we'd really love to |
| 2841s | explore and stuff like that I think |
| 2842s | would really fall under the purview of |
| 2845s | the talents we could also just have a |
| 2848s | skill that would do that like |
| 2851s | yeah for sure and I think one of the |
| 2855s | important things is that it is more |
| 2857s | annoying to move around the world now |
| 2858s | like slightly because of the way that |
| 2860s | you like slow down when you're in plants |
| 2862s | but like that's sort of intentional |
| 2863s | because we want players to think like oh |
| 2865s | should I like pave over this jungle so |
| 2867s | that I can go through it easier right |
| 2869s | this is not just about like oh I can |
| 2872s | like it should be difficult to go |
| 2874s | through a jungle right the real |
| 2875s | wilderness is hard to traverse through |
| 2877s | and there's no trail and so you can you |
| 2880s | can cut cut all your grass down you can |
| 2882s | pave it all over and you'll be able to |
| 2884s | navigate it easier but comes at casa i |
| 2888s | do like that idea for a hunter |
| 2890s | specialties yeah maybe that could be a |
| 2892s | talent so thanks for the great ideas |
| 2896s | owen the other thing so right now we're |
| 2898s | in a jungle or rainforest I guess we're |
| 2900s | calling it rain forest and there's |
| 2903s | always palm trees so but hopefully we'll |
| 2907s | have a we have a plan to this new tree |
| 2909s | it's really awesome looking and so I'm |
| 2911s | not sure when that will get in but it's |
| 2913s | gonna look really cool yes coming really |
| 2915s | soon I guess we don't want to give it |
| 2917s | away yet so we'll just tease that yeah |
| 2919s | as cool as this looks it's gonna be it's |
| 2921s | gonna look way cooler it's gonna look |
| 2922s | awesome and more amazing yeah well I |
| 2930s | think that's about it for the talents so |
| 2934s | it's been really great answering your |
| 2937s | questions and thanks for chatting with |
| 2940s | us yeah so alright we'll see you out |
| 2942s | there and make sure to check out the big |
| 2945s | ego game with Jeff Grubb Waypoint the |
| 2948s | ventureBeat community streaming on |
| 2950s | Twitch tonight alright everybody thanks |
| 2955s | for tuning guys |