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crystal2014 wrote:I have been given more thought to what kinds of things...

I have been given more thought to what kinds of things can be done to make an artisan a more appealing character, and here are some of the things I have come up with. First, farming, I think that artisan should have seeds that aren’t available to other players. This will give new artisans something sellable to other players from the beginning. These things can include green, yellow and red peppers, grapes, sweet potatoes and celery, for example.

I believe if an artisan sticks with farming and gains master farmer perhaps this artisan should be allowed to plant fruit trees. It is nice that keth offer fruits for sale in that shop, but if artisans could grow fruits such as lemons, pineapples, mangos, and other fruits like that, this would also give them a commodity that can only be obtained through an artisan. Then the players should be able to make things like lemon marang pie, stuff pineapples etc.

I am glad to see the tree preserve open, but we need some more trees that perhaps aren’t offered anywhere else in game. Since we have the logging ability, can some or all of the following trees be added to the tree preserve?! Black ash, white ash, yellow birch, black cherry, red maple, sugar maple, red oak, white oak, red spruce, white spruce, black walnut, mahogany, ebony, teak, rosewood, redwood and cypress.

I have mentioned that the leather goods are coming out to be heavier than the store bought items perhaps this warrants another look, please. If possible can we be able to forge metal buttons and buckles and things like that? These items can be used, by artisans only, in making leather goods.

I wanted to mention the possibility of carpentry being added to the artisan guild as an ability. We have the logging ability so it would seem that carpentry should follow this. Perhaps the prerequisite to apprentice carpentry should be master logger. With master carpentry the artisan should be given the ability to make furniture pieces that are not available to anyone else. Things such as vanity tables, writing desk instead of just desk, steam trunks instead of just chest, hat stands instead of just coat trees, four-poster beds instead of just beds, end and kitchen table instead of just tables, handcrafted casks instead of just casks.

Perhaps we can also forge different types of metal bands that could be added to the barrels to make them unique. So an artisan made barrel would be an exquisite rosewood barrel with a burgundy gold band. I love what has been done with forging at this point; however, here are some other things that I think could be added to make forging more necessary in game. Forging general, well the only really useful things that can be made under this category are nails, hinges, and hoops, which are both necessary in carpentry and supports the reason why that should be an artisan guild ability. However, forging is a hard and time consuming ability to build so I believe there should be other useful things that can be done with the general category. I believe that metal buttons, buckles, knobs and barrel bands should be added under the general category to be used in the manner I described above.

I mentioned in a previous post that perhaps artisan made armor should be light or more resistant to add some need for player made armor in game. Perhaps any forged armor should be more resistant, but the artisan made armor should be slightly lighter as an artisan forging advance. So the player made armor would be the same weight as the store bought armor but more resistant than the store bought armor. However the artisan made armor should be more resistant and lighter than any other armor available.

I believe I have given more than enough ideas in this one post and I hope some of these things can be seriously considered. I am not sure how much work it would take to implement these ideas, and I do appreciate all the effort that has been put into the game as a whole. It is not my goal to make the artisan guild super powerful, but to give people more reasons to have primary characters as artisans.

crystal2014 wrote:I am glad to see the tree preserve open, but we need some more trees that perhaps aren’t offered anywhere else in game. Since we have the logging ability, can some or all of the following trees be added to the tree preserve?! Black ash, white ash, yellow birch, black cherry, red maple, sugar maple, red oak, white oak, red spruce, white spruce, black walnut, mahogany, ebony, teak, rosewood, redwood and cypress.