Report 1689

Report #1689
Skillset: Skill: VillageQuests
 Org: Glomdoring Status: Rejected Sept 2017
Furies' Decision:
We will be holding off on addressing this at this time.
Problem: For a -very- long time, commodities have been coming into the game from
a plethora of sources aside from villages. This has given quite a glut of them.
However, this has (correctly) been fixed and stocks of certain commodities have
been falling somewhat over time (also a good thing). The problem comes in that
certain commodities are very difficult to actually do anything active to
generate-- the only source is letting the villages passively generate them.
This includes fruit, vegetables, grain, and metals (the quests exist, but the
only way to get the raw materials is to raid the village, kill the denizens
there, and then... turn those comms over to that same village to increase its
totals, which is weird).
[A:15 R: 0] Solution #1: Let us beg from the village NPCs that hold the raw
 materials (farmers, miners). This won't provide a
 -large- amount of extra questable generation for
 these because supply is limited, but at least it can
 be done.
[A:13 R: 0] Solution #2: Introduce other raw sources (ala the addition of
 multitudes of rockeaters, but nowhere -near- to the
 same amount) of fruit, vegetables, metals
 (iron/platinum/gold/silver), coal.
[A:13 R: 0] Solution #3: Perhaps instead of being able to beg from the greedy
 NPCs, allow a swap of some kind (for example, giving
 a rockeater to one of the miners in exchange for
 their raw ore). This way they can remain greedy, and
 are getting shiny raw gemstones in exchange for their
 shiny raw ore.
Player Comments:
---[Xenthos on 5/15 @ 00:21 writes]:
Some ideas for fruit commodities include: Powderfruits, apples. Some ideas for
grains include: Bags of Oleanvir long grain rice (note that there seem to be 5/6
of these, so it's not a lot, so could use some other sources). Metal/vegetable
sources seem a bit scarcer. Maybe for metal, have some metallic NPCs (*not
steel goats*) that can be murdered and their bodies melted down to the raw
components that can be turned in?
---[Iytha on 6/11 @ 20:21 writes]:
There's a quest on Vesucia which does this for Grain, Vegetables and Fruit
already. And there is a single block of marble in Southgard that can be turned
in. Nothing that I know of for metals or coal, though.
---[Xenthos on 9/9 @ 02:50 sets as pending]
---[Ejderha on 9/9 @ 07:45 writes]:
Totally agree on the problem statement. The solutions are all good, though
rockeaters themselves seem a bit like a cop out at this point. I like Xenthos's
idea that you could turn in other fruits etc. Perhaps some metal/coal sources
could be located in some underground areas (hidden? gated behind a quest
'pickaxe?' even just on the ground?) where it might make sense to be exposed.
Preferably neutral territories to avoid recreating the problem of stealing from
Peter to pay... Peter like we do now. I would support all 3 solutions or any
other creative ideas to make this easier and more sensible.
---[Aeldra on 9/11 @ 11:12 writes]:
I do agree with problem statement and am fine with either solution
---[Moi on 9/23 @ 23:19 writes]:
Perhaps the rice/vegetables/fruits in the Gourmet Ghetto could be made into food
comm items?
---[Moi on 9/23 @ 23:26 writes]:
Also, the ore from the irshaw burrowers might be reasonable.