Regular materials (Mithril, Platinum, Gold, Omnomberry, Elder Wood Log, etc). For this work they would have to drastically reduce amount of these raw materials received from salvaging (which has become main income of such materials). This idea could be tweaked for many other things as well, I just loved the framework.
We have this bold group of asura named Exploration Squad. I picture a love relationship such as Agent Zott & Elli, some member being as annoying as Councillor Phlunt, etc, like a somehow noisy squad.
Exploration Squad will appear at random, mob-crowded, dangerous locations throughout Tyria and stablish a small camp. They will be looking for help to dig deeper (pun unintended) into Tyria’s underground to uncover highly valued resources (ores, plants, wood, etc), but since they have a busy agenda, if no one shows up they’ll simply relocate/go home (after all they deserve some rest). The idea is to start up a chain of events, first of such is triggered after talking to the NPC.
Throughout the course they will uncover limited-time mining nodes (no rich nodes, just regular ones), and difficulty will increase as they go deeper underground. Those pesky Inquest will try to mess up with the plan, so there will be escort and protect events as well. Going underground is dangerous as no one knows where Primordus’ minions are hiding, some Exploration locations will have a difficult legendary Destroyer guarding an unique mining node or harvesting garden (which the boss doesn’t know what it is, but for some reason is standing between our squad and the goodies, so yeah just kill this thing!).
At the end of this event chain our Exploration Squad will shake the map’s terrain causing new mining nodes to appear in that map. In the last event there will always be 3 gathering nodes, one of them is a time-gated rich one only for those who participed in that closing event. There will be a notice below that map’s meta-event displaying a 10minutes reward that depends on the map:
- Revitalized Flora: The Exploration Squad injected experimental chrolophyll underground causing new plants to show up. Beware! This experiment may have unpredictable behavior in the ecossystem.
- Seismic Toss: The Exploration Squad has striken deep underground causing new rock formations to show up. Beware! This experiment may have unpredictable behavior in the ecossystem.
- Chemical Explosion: The Exploration Squad accidentally injected a chemically-empowered substance underground causing new trees to show up. Beware! This experiment may have unpredictable behavior in the ecossystem.
“What unpredictable behavior?” – You must be asking. When attempting to harvest/mine/log nodes… THAT NODE WILL GET ALIVE AND ATTACK YOU! (I’ve seen this mechanic somewhere, but it’s cool nonetheless).
That’s it. Hope you guys like. Oh, killing these mobs will have a chance to drop that node’s specific rare item. If it’s a living rocky mob it may drop crystals. If it’s a living plant mob it may drop an unidentified dye (because logics…). Hahah #kthxbai
I’m about to get a clicking disease… please, add a Use All option for consumables’ context menu.
@Edit
This could count for containers too, for such there are two options programming-wise:
A) Count number of available slots, if last “rolled out” item exceeds slot number, drop lower rarity items from roll or rollback that last item and quit processing rolls. Something like:
[pre]itemsArray = new itemArray();
for (container in containers){
for (c in container){
while (count(itemsArray) > availablePlayerInventory()){
itemsArray = rollLoot(CONTAINER_ID);
}
appendToInventory(itemsArray);
itemsArray.clear();
if (isPlayerInventoryFull()) {
break; // Next attemps should throw a “Inventory full” warning
}
}
}[/pre]
B) Mail us with exceeding items. This would overflow current mail amount you can receive, but then they’ll be system-generated and as such would be an allowed exception. Maybe:
[pre]itemsArray = new itemArray();
for (container in containers){
for (c in container){
itemsArray = rollLoot(CONTAINER_ID);
if (isPlayerInventoryFull()) {
dispatchLootByMail(itemsArray, MAIL_ALLOWED_OVERFLOW_FLAG); // Let those mail carriers be used!
itemsArray.clear();
}
}
}[/pre]
(edited by Valento.9852)