Stunning views

[Scilly_guy]

This idea stems from something I seem to remember on the HnH suggestions forum.

The basis of the idea is that you come across stunning views when out exploring, instead of being able to pick these views you can only right click and study them, so they cannot be traded or passed to alts. I can think of 3 types of views, ones that spawn on tops of mountains, these should give a lot of M&M obviously, ones that spawn on the shores of lakes and the ocean, these probably should give F&W, and then the third type, which I'm not that sure of myself, should a spawn on the edge of grassland/open areas, this would probably give the least xp, perhaps H&G.

In HnH this idea included the time of day in spawns, so these views would appear at sun rise and sun set.

My first thoughts on how this addition would affect game mechanics:
-More sources of XP makes it easier to gain proficiencies, which decreases the value of those proficiencies.
-People have to come out of the "safety" of their claims to find these views as they can't be given away, (but my suggestions mostly give things that a scout would want anyway).
-Encourages exploration.
-You would not be able to stockpile the view for study at a later date when you have a variety of inspirationals that all give the proficiency that you are currently working on, and snuff.

[pistolshrimp]

I don't really know if I like this idea or not, but to add to the idea maybe you could use your stunning view to craft a painting.

1x Any stunning view
1x planned board
2x any cotton cloth
4x stakes

Landscape Painting

It'd be an inspirational, but more importantly could be hung on a wall.

[Scilly_guy]

Well the whole point of the stunning view is that it is an inspirational that you can't pick, only study it where it spawns, so there would be no ingredient to craft. By crafting a painting you would defeat the point of having an inspirational that you have to actually be out exploring to study, as you could give the painting to an alt.

[Mereni]

This sounds like it would mostly be useful for newbies since it has to be studied on the spot. If it doesn't give enough of a proficiency to raise it, it's useless, and that would probably be the case for all but the least developed characters. Or are you suggesting these views give 10,000 exp?

[Siobhan]

so this would be like those cubes you had to find in SWTOR