TASOS schrieb:

Since the blog is down, along with other parts of our web presence for upgrading and updates, we'll post today's update here. First I'd like to say that we have signed an agreement with our Korean partner to co-develop a project to-be-announced. We'll share more news about this in good time, in the meanwhile our main focus is getting Darkfall 2.0 out.

Some Darkfall 2.0 development news on resource gathering, many thanks to Vangelis for collecting and writing up this information:

In Darkfall 2.0 we look at resource gathering as an activity, a marketing opportunity, a risk versus reward mechanic and most importantly, a driving force behind territory control.
As an activity, harvesting resources in an efficient way, had previously been quite repetitive, without much challenge and a down time activity for the most part.
Marketing wise, trading in resources was quite difficult and there were no opportunities to profit from fluctuating prices and the like.

The risk vs. reward aspect of resource gathering was also somewhat skewed as nodes would share the same loot tables no matter in how dangerous an area they were. As a result there was not much reason to fight over resources and in turn fight over areas in which specific resources where more bountiful than others.

All this is changing and below we will describe all the available methods of obtaining resources as well as the philosophy behind these changes. There are also some things we have discussed internally but we would like your feedback on.

The first and simplest way to gather resources is by picking up the appropriate tool and harvesting a resource node. Nothing much to say here apart from the fact that we are considering making resource nodes have different loot tables depending on how dangerous an area they are in. By that logic, resource nodes closer to an NPC city drop less rare materials than ones that are further away.

The second way to gather resources is harvesting clan holding resource nodes such as mines, groves, farms etc. In this instance, we are considering moving there nodes outside of the holdings and placing them in nearby villages. This serves two purposes. First, it creates an extra PvP hotspot for small to medium groups. Also, the idea is for the node to serve as an indication to what type of resources the village offers.

This brings us to the next way to harvest resources which is capturing a village. Villages will provide resources to the clan that has captured them but not all types of resources. The clan resource node, as we mentioned above, will indicate the type of resources a specific village will provide to its owner. If there is a mine, the owning clan will receive ore and so on. We are also considering the possibility of nodes other than mines providing infused materials so that villages with mines are not the only ones that are sought after. For example, a village with a grove would provide, apart from normal wood, the rare variants as well.

Moving on to resource monoliths which we have already discussed, we would just like to note that the philosophy is to provide players interested in PvP with a viable way of providing their clan or themselves with resources, while doing what they enjoy most in the game. Sea Fortresses also serve the same purpose.

Finally, various monsters carry various types of resources. There are of course very rare resources that can be found only on monsters such as Dragon scales.

It is our belief that this system, along with other driving forces in the game, will create a lot of meaningful and relentless conflicts as well as prompt cooperation, adding a new dimension to gameplay.


Thank you for reading.

Lord Econ 13January via Facebook schrieb:

Hello ..... here is a suggestion for the monolite system (can maybe



help for your pool of ideas and you dont need to answer but reading



would be cool )



In the Update of the 23-December, AV spoke about the new feature of



Monolites. I love the Idea of them and have another suggestion.





Remove the ressources of Stones,Iron,Timber,Farm out of every



PlayerCity and small Hamlets (only Hamlets can have a farm ( a part for



small clans to produce food ).





Arround every PlayerCity (include Hamlets) and NPC City should be these different types of Monolites.




The Monolits should be in old dwarfen mines (iron) and TimberJackBarracks (timber) on CornFields (farm) and so on.


The Monolits shoud be sametime a mark of territory control for clans.



Is an enemy arround these area a message should be there that clanmember can react.


So Cities became then only a factor to be a Headquarter and not only anymore a ressource incoming spot for a clan.



A captured Monolite could "ticket" ressources to the city/hamlet or



NPC/ChaosCity where the Clan live in. But should only capture monolites



on step by step modus.. means..

a clan has a city, he hast to go out to capture the monolite next to city and then he can capture the next


one and the next. so they can raise the territory with this modus. every 1 or 2 hours or 4 hours these monolites are free to captured for the clan who exists in the area (chaoscities,hamlets,npc cities,playercities) so this become than to permanent border War between the important Points
of Ressources.




Thats for the daily buisiness



Decide another clan to start a real war against one of in this area


living clans the political factor increase because clan need ressources



to defeat their cities.



With the remove of ressources out of



the cities the people have to go out into the open world if they want to



have some, and dont sit anymore in easy mode in their own cities and



harvest semi afk the important ressources what they need to built up the



cities and wonders etc.





another idea...





I am a friend



of local banks, but people need more features that they can transport



their items to another point. Like service with ships mules supported



by players.. Interior of Player Banks cant touched by other player when



they use a system tool to do that but this needs more time to bring it



to another point. Or they decide to use the service of players but this



is a payable service.. in point of local wars

Fisk schrieb:

Maybe you should join the dev team, seems as though they like your ideas