This new update actually puts a huge gap between new players vs elite players.
a long time player who has good skills gaining glutony has the stats to enjoy this new system
a new character just entering salem, just got a huge disadvantage to playing salem, it is quiet an effort to getting the professions required to be able to utilise guns or slings, as you need firearms for guns, and sewing and cotton skills to get plant fibre to craft a sling. while spending time in salem getting food making stuff gaining skills, your phlem is increasing well before you can manage your blood and yellow stat. simply because the foods you gather vs hunting is unbalanced.
you can train in fishing to get foods that give blood and yellow, but thats another gap to add.
getting leather is an important part of salem, its needed, this new system makes it harder for new players. to be honest with the amount of time ive played salem, i still havent got to being able to hunt and gather skins to craft to leather.
with glutony being so ridicuslously hard to manage, im blood 10, phlem 26, yellow 9, black 13. i would easily say this system of gaining stats for a character puts it in the hardest system ive ever tried. i think a math degree would help me threw the right formula of getting glutony gains evenly. now that you have created a more complicted way of hunting, its adds to the gap a new player would find vs an elite player of salem.
the benifiet i see with the new gunpowder plot, it moves hunting to ranged, which takes some of the difficulty off combat, melee combat is way too hard as hunting rabbits isnt a problem, but hunting a beaver is completly way over my skill level in salem. there needs to be a reload skill, or button to press to reduce the complexity of ranged combat.
targeting is an issue, how do i know what my target is ???.
where do i see this going, 1 shot murderers, just waiting outside town, take aim and that new character is perma dead. you have made it easier to grieve new players. atleast before a griefer had to run up too a player and melee 1 shot them, atleast it gave the new player a chance to run. my wife has been murdered twice simply this way. which bridges the gap on people who can actually play salem.
to prove this lately there are more dead salems outside boston.