Shattered Kingdoms

I voted for making the game more casual, creating outside of game communication, tradeskills, and an official sharing method. All of the ideas appealed to me, but I see these as the most alluring for a new player. Some of them also would appeal to existing players as well, therefore providing double duty.

The one popular choice I can't understand is tradeskills. Is there some great feature I'm missing in this? MUDs don't normally do tradeskills well.

I remember trying a woodcrafter on a Skotos game: Enter command. Lag. Enter slightly different command. Lag. Two hours later, you're ready to walk into town to sell your stuff. Brew and Enchant Armor are downright exciting in comparison.

I voted for tradeskills because I anticipated them to be a vehicle for (re)descing custom equipment. A MUSH element I really miss, perhaps with some restrictions or tactical benefits, depending on how you look at it.

It's about adding an extra mechanical flavor to your character too. Crap, how cool would it be if you could actually craft your own magical devices or your own minor enchantment jewelry? Those are tradeskills I could get behind. Even without a huge mechanical benefit, it's more fun to RP as a woodcrafter if you can actually craft wood as opposed to having to make everything up through emotes.

Aaaand I just realized that someone is totally going to want a "babymaker" tradeskill if they ever get implemented.

Hahahahah oh man. Sims style genetics. That would be at once awesome and terrifying.

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Would like to see these "tradeskills" implemented...

Not sure if anyone has played any of the games in the Harvest Moon Series, but Smoochy is rather..addicted...to Trees of Tranquility. Not to advertise, if we can have some kind of ball and string in our belts that incorporates that form of casual play it would really help boost our numbers.

Not to mention that being able to market ingame goods further supports a Merchantmen form of RP. Of course, on the pvp outlook, you could simply just rob the guy...

Final results by popularity:

Which options are best for acquiring and exciting NEW players?
Poll ended at 22 Dec 2013 10:16

1. Official info sharing (Wiki and/or Guide Forums) 18% [ 43 ]
2. Revamp quests for transparency (better hinting, quest chains) 18% [ 43 ]
3. Tradeskills (forging, dyeing, mining, etc) 18% [ 42 ]
4. Make the game more interesting before Master (methods to be discussed) 13% [ 31 ]
5. Make the game less difficult/more casual (methods to be discussed) 13% [ 31 ]
6. Out of game communication (Ex: CB/TB Channels on FB messenger, note boards via forums, email notifications for game events) 7% [ 17 ]
7. Decrease number of starting cities (easier to find and meet players) 7% [ 16 ]
8. Native clients for Facebook and/or Mobile 6% [ 14 ]

Total votes : 237

I'll wrap up this thread by saying that the staff will start taking action by rolling out some form of official info sharing via the forums within the very near future!