Guild Wars 2

This is not a game breaker, but I was quite startled when I chopped down a pine sapling and got hard wood (pine is a soft wood). I don’t mind imaginary monsters, but this seems to be more a case of mismatched research than stretching the imagination, and temporarily interrupts game immersion. Once the big kinks are worked out, may be they could rename the tree to an actual hard wood tree for crafting purposes? For me proper use of language in dialog, letters, and naming conventions is as beautiful a part of the game as graphics or creative questing opportunities, of which GW2 has in abundance.

this is your complaint… really? breaks immersion… when your average play in fact wouldn’t have noticed…
this just seems silly to me but, oh well.

Are saplings (the only thing we are allowed to cut down) even a good source of wood ?

I thought the same thing with pine being a hard wood. Where is the Oak? Whichever, it is just a game. Apparently, the developers are just “average play(ers)” if this one slipped through.

I have had a similar thing with some of the harvestables – “why did that come up here” – taproots IS a little vague – but that doesn’t mean the whole list of every veggie in the game should be found at “taproots” – some of those “lettus” and “spinach” types could just be “leafy greens”…

I have no idea why but this reminded me an episode of west wing.

This one broke immersion for me too actually… I mean pines are nearly the definition of SOFT WOOD. It’s just a jarringly strange choice. They could’ve easily just made up a tree type and been done with it….

Is there a “That’s what she said” joke floating around in here, somewhere?

Why are we allowed to cut down ancient wood? I believe in the right of this ancient trees to not be butchered by the wood industry.

We need to protest in front of this ancient trees to stop this! Who is with me!

Cancer.9065:

Why are we allowed to cut down ancient wood? I believe in the right of this ancient trees to not be butchered by the wood industry.

We need to protest in front of this ancient trees to stop this! Who is with me!

You’re improving the longevity of the trees by weeding out the weaklings. If you’re ancient and still only a sapling, you are not doing your part in the world of trees. Make room for faster growing trees that know what they’re doing.

On Earth pine is a soft wood, maybe it’s a hard wood on Tyria

This does actually stand out as an obvious error for anyone who works with wood, either professionally or as a hobby. I completely understand why everyone else would not notice it, or care if it were pointed out – but like the OP, I do think that changing pine to an actual hard would be a worthwhile addition to a low-priority to-do list.

I think we should be able to chop down Sylvari NPCs for wood.

My husband grew up around a yellow pine saw mill, he’s made the same observation as the OP. He also complains about the butts left when you chop a tree down, apparently the butts are the best part of any tree. And the last complaint; the chopping axes are not the right type. I can’t remember exactly what he said, something like the graphic for the axe is actually a finishing tool, because there’s a beard on it.

now, what if this game world ran as a parallel world to our, where almost everything is the same but with different types of things such a growth and stuff. In the end its a game. So to go in and be like heh would of been better. Your reality is not equal nor the same as another reality out there in RL on a different plane, let alone; A video game. I’m just saying.