Small Ideas Thread

Forum for suggesting changes to Salem.

Re: Small Ideas Thread

Postby Rifmaster » Sun Feb 01, 2015 1:49 pm

Lusewing wrote:Idea: Teddy bear
How: Made with a dry bear skin and fluffy stuffing.
Reason: Has a number of 'cuddle' uses. When cuddled it reduces the fear de-buff.


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Re: Small Ideas Thread

Postby Rantul » Sun Feb 01, 2015 10:47 pm

add raw oyster meat to things you can compost
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Re: Small Ideas Thread

Postby JohnCarver » Sun Feb 01, 2015 11:48 pm

Rantul wrote:add raw oyster meat to things you can compost


Fair suggestion. Will be changed.
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Re: Small Ideas Thread

Postby Dammit » Mon Feb 02, 2015 2:04 am

Would it be a possibility to give spiders more purpose? Maybe add a Spider Fang that can randomly drop and be a good Artifice to have? Otherwise they pretty useless for most things.
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Re: Small Ideas Thread

Postby JohnCarver » Mon Feb 02, 2015 2:09 am

Dammit wrote:Would it be a possibility to give spiders more purpose? Maybe add a Spider Fang that can randomly drop and be a good Artifice to have? Otherwise they pretty useless for most things.


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Re: Small Ideas Thread

Postby TotalyMeow » Tue Feb 03, 2015 1:52 am

Removed another derail. If you two do this again here, I will ban you.

There were two legit ideas buried in there somewhere.

One: A new clothing type Gloves.

Two: Resizable GUI elements for those with smaller resolution screens.
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Re: Small Ideas Thread

Postby Argentis » Tue Feb 03, 2015 8:58 am

Concerning two: Time to update to 4K to play Salem.
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Re: Small Ideas Thread

Postby Rifmaster » Tue Feb 03, 2015 2:07 pm

TotalyMeow wrote:One: A new clothing type Gloves.



This one was mine, i actually thought of it not as a another slottable item, but as sort of a buffer for productivity with there being multiple types of gloves.
At the top of the chart Fine leather gloves which would give a LOT of productivity increase and be made of wool and fine leather.
Next to best would be store bought "Gentlemans gloves" that are white, and give just a little less producitivity than the fine leather gloves.
Here come the Sea island cotton gloves, Sea island cotton and fluffy stuffing (for the warmth of your hands)
Now just Leather Gloves, made of leather (duh) and some of that crude stuffing or whatever its called, the one that gives +5 weaving cant remember the name sadly
Then Farmers gloves (Yellow cotton and that +5 weaving stuffing)
And the worst gloves, the newbie gloves basically would be the Jute Gloves made of random fibres.

Idk if this is actually a small idea but oh well i'll give it a go.
Also if you say the white gentlemans gloves weren't used in that time, just please notice that 99% of salems stuff wasnt used in its time like some coins, most of the clothes etc.
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Re: Small Ideas Thread

Postby Argentis » Tue Feb 03, 2015 4:04 pm

Probably posted somewhere else but I can't find in the search engine. Something to store huge amount of seeds. We do have the bag of seeds but in order to make 4 Cotton Cloth I make twice as much seeds the bag can carry. We do have the press but it feels weird to store seeds in a press. Why can't we have a grain silo? I just want a place where I can put all my low purity seeds and store them here and from time to time taking some of that to feed my turkeys.
I guess we can't have nice things though.
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Re: Small Ideas Thread

Postby d0rin92 » Tue Feb 03, 2015 4:26 pm

Hunting&hideworking should give 0.5 dmg and 1 defense vs animals(this mechanic is good for new players also for veterans)
that means at 100 hunting&hideworking your stats should be 50 bonus dmg and 100 bonus defense vs animals in salem terms meaning +5 actual damage and +10 defense this also should cap at 200 hunting&hideworking that way this mechanic cant be exploited giving a total of +10 actual damage and +20 defense
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