Thursday, June 15, 2023
Vehicles in Starfield?
Tuesday, June 13, 2023
New (World) Ideas: Buy/Sell Umbral Shards
Umbral Shards in New World are the main currency for upgrading gear to a max gear score of 625. They are also now part of multiple crafting recipes and in the Season 2 patch more uses are being brought forward. The only problem: umbral shards are bind on pickup so you have to earn them yourself.
New idea: Let players buy and sell umbral shards for gold directly. There are already numerous ways that gold is converted into shards (shard selling via mutated expeditions, buying flame cores to use at the forge, infused salvaging scraps turned into gypsum orbs and then casts, etc) so it's not a leap to just let the shards themselves be traded amongst players.
Monday, June 12, 2023
New (World) Ideas: Attribute Respecs
It costs 200 gold to respec attributes in New World even if all you are doing is adjusting a few points. This cost isn't much fun in a game where players are encouraged to change gear often for different content (for example: changing from one ward gear set to another inside a split ward expedition).
There is a stark difference between hitting an attirbute bonus or not (i.e. if you make 299 CON you don't get the 300 CON perk). For all practical purposes players have to respec attributes whether they need to just adjust 1 point or reset all 190 -- the bonuses are that important to hit.
New idea: instead of attribute respecs costing 200 gold it should be a sliding cost based on number of points being changed. This way if you just change one piece of gear out and need to adjust 10 points it's only a few gold vs 200 gold for a full reset. This would make it feel less penalizing for having to change out gear. Simply go into the attribute and change your attributes and a cost will be displayed on screen to save.
Even better would be to tie attribute respec to azoth instead of gold so it is consistent with weapon skill respec, but let's not get crazy on ideas here. This is an MMO after all and what MMO doesn't need a gold sink!
Sunday, June 11, 2023
Saturday, June 10, 2023
Friday, June 09, 2023
New World 200+ Everything
Checked off a personal goal today. I hit 200+ in every gathering, refining, casual, and crafting skill in New World. The last one to finish out was music.
Note: the one's that show a number other than 200 indicate the 200+ aptitude level. For example Weaving on the bottom left is level 27 aptitude (meaning I've leveled it up 27 more times since hitting 200).


