Game Development: Rooting thy Native Oak

[Waffles72]

i ahve choppped like 7 trees and got no sapling things and made over 200 boards and still got nothing.

[ramuller]

Loved the Raiding update and changes last patch. Absolutely HATE the claim update. As Jorb stated in his livestream "Anything can be removed in this game with enough effort" when the interviewer asked him how town bells work. Currently claims could be removed just fine by those who wanted to invest into removing one with a bell. Why make it essentially a passive event now? I guess my new years is going to be spent running around stomping out everything that will be expiring on their free month but I disagree with P-Claim upkeep. I personally enjoyed the fact that it required a bell for me to take down somebodies claim. Now its just a few swings I guess.

Chief PeePooKaKa
MM Tribe

This serves the same purpose in this game as a similar mechanic did in SWG. If claims never expire, eventually it gets harder and harder to find good land to settle on. Of course they made it fun by letting someone who finds an expired house to call in an airstrike to obliterate it.

I would think this wouldn't really affect PvP since, I assume, the fun of PvP is in competing with players who are still in the game. The bulk of the abandoned claims are probably owned by players who are no longer playing (or are posted overseas for more than two months), claims that have already been raided and abandoned as a lost cause, or in my case, the claim of a character YOU killed (since the inheriting character didn't have a working key I left it fallow -- at least I got 600 silver back on that).

[ramuller]

i ahve choppped like 7 trees and got no sapling things and made over 200 boards and still got nothing.

Did you get the Forestry skill yet? I am assuming that it will add a new item to the right click menu on a tree -- I am a day or two away from getting arts and crafts up for the skill so I won't know right away.

[Waffles72]

it does not show the skill in my menue and i dont know what skills ot get to be able to get it either

[loftar]

I personally enjoyed the fact that it required a bell for me to take down somebodies claim. Now its just a few swings I guess.

That's just for people who haven't payed their taxes for two months, though. You still need to set up a town for anyone who's playing even semi-actively.

[Zamte]

it does not show the skill in my menue and i dont know what skills ot get to be able to get it either

All I'm missing as far as agriculture skills go are botany and horticulture, and I can't learn it either, so it looks like it's pretty far up in the tree. The fact that it requires 3,500 each in four proficiencies according to the wiki backs that up.

[Shiala]

it does not show the skill in my menue and i dont know what skills ot get to be able to get it either

All I'm missing as far as agriculture skills go are botany and horticulture, and I can't learn it either, so it looks like it's pretty far up in the tree. The fact that it requires 3,500 each in four proficiencies according to the wiki backs that up.

It must chain off of botany then because I have the forestry skill available and just trained botany two days ago. I don't have horticulture.

[colesie]

As we really should have changed this a long time ago -- we've always planned to do it, but never gotten around to it -- we will be generous enough to allow you a one week mortatorium during which you will be able to recover 75% of all invested silver when declaiming (deposits in the bank). If you really want to you can thus reinvest taking this new rule into account. After the next Game Development update declaiming will again imply a complete loss of invested silver.

One of my claims is many hours away, can we get a declaim option sometime in the options menu like in Haven?

[Gallient]

Once you get forestry, you will see a strike cutting option in the right click menu. Gives you a cutting of the selected tree

[colesie]

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