How you want the Forging to Work?

In general I think it will be interesting to see what Iga and his team come up with, and don't have too much preference relating to the details of how it's going to end up working. The only thing I'd really not like is if they put timers on crafting like you see mainly in mobile apps and strategy sims. I don't think the waiting involved for that would be well suited to this type of game.


1) HOW DO YOU WANT THE MATERIALS TO WORK?
Having a different amount of raw material required to craft different items seems like it would allow more options, but may require a way to find 'recipes' to make it useful without getting discouraged by the sheer volume of options that could potentially be available that wouldn't produce anything useful. If you kept it to a static amount of material where you're always combining 3 things it would encourage experimentation more. I don't really have a strong preference as far as the general mechanics go, but would probably lean towards the finding crafting recipes mechanic. I do like the idea of existing items being broken down into their components for re-use.


2) YOU WANT THE SHOP TO SELL MATERIALS, WEAPONS AND EQUIPMENT?
Yes. I'd say the shop only sells common materials, and you need to go out and find the more rare stuff. I'd think that weapons and equipment could potentially be crafted at a lower cost than buying the equipment if you can find the appropriate materials. There could potentially be different shops for different types of items as well.


4) CRAFTING ONLY AT SPECIFIC AREAS OR ANYWHERE?
It makes sense to only be able to craft some items at specific locations based on the need for a forge, cauldron, etc. and would be my preference.


5) CONSUMABLE ITEMS BEING CRAFTED?
Yes.

I haven't posted here in awhile figured I'd take a peek and see a thread that's something I like ri ght away. cool.

1: I would like equipment to demand a variable number of materials both in how many kinds of materials, and the quantity of each part to fluctuate. That being said, what I really really want is a crafting system where there are no materials that are all but useless except for one or two recipes. I feel like crafting mechanics are purely a gimmick when they have all kinds of common materials, but most if not all the recipes you generally only need one of such as equipment has some kind of material that is so rare or specific that it is likely going to be the last material you get for that item each and every time. At that point, why even have a crafting system, and just have the completed item 'drop' from the same source as that rare unique material. WAYYY too many games with crafting mechanics do this and it just feels like a cheap gimmick which makes you waste time to me.

I would like a system where nearly every material is relatively common, but each item will require varied amounts of it, so even the most common materials are something you have to budget with rather than take for granted... Plus it makes each time you find or loot said common materials feel worthwhile rather than 'loot trash'.

2: I generally like shops in my games, and similar to above, I find they are implimented poorly most of the time. Where players generally find themselves swimming in so much gold that they can normally buy the most current equipment set as soon as they are available in shops. Either that, or if and when they do buy the 'best' set in a shop, they never again feel like money is something important minus those odd super priced endgame items like the duplicator, or bonus costumes/bgm or whatever. I want shops to have a variety of valuable tempting purchases that the player should be able to afford even half of so they have to pick and choose and really value what they get, and look forward to those pesky gold drops so they can afford more thoughout the game.

It's also worth mentioning that 'shop balance' is extremely important to roguelike games that have shops, so there's that too for roguelike mode.

3: Honestly I don't care. To me it'll be just another currency/material amongst the many at most, or just a plot mechanic. It doesn't matter to me if a useful material is called magi-crystals, or if they're called zombie-guano.

4: Doesn't matter to me again. Yeah it generally makes sense realistically that you can only forge stuff in a specific area, but realism isn't important to most games IMO. If you can only craft in specific areas, hopefully it's something relatively common for roguelike mode again. Nothing is more annoying than getting a massive supply of juicy crafting materials in a roguelike and have the 'forge' room not instantiate for the entire game. argh.

5: In regards to the ammo, do we know if ammo acts as ammo in this game? I mean does it deplete each time you use it and then you can't? Or is it like a mass effect 2 thing where it's basically just another equipment slot that affects the properties of your gun or whatever.

That said Ideally, I'd like consumables to be craftable but to be balanced well so that you can't just have a seemingly endless supply of them at whim. If it's not craftable I'll still take it as a win over the game being too easy because they are too abundant. Not that I have anything against someone who wants an easy game. I just don't like having to deliberately not use a game feature to provide myself with a challenge.

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