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Interesting pitches, just so you know where I am coming from I think a skill should revolve around a basic task, variations to said task which eventually lead to activities that we all know and love. Skills must fulfil this otherwise they aren't worth adding to the game and I worry some people will say yes to anything as long as it is labelled as a skill.
For example agility is about getting past obstacles, there are lots of different obstacles, this builds out to agility courses, rogues den and hallowed sepulchre.
Taming
There are 3 wildly different tasks here. Domestication, levelling up creatures and keeping creatures. I think you should pick one to concentrate the skill around and use the others as potential activities later.
For example Taming is the domestication of creatures. Later down the line there could be a animal minigame where you can level up your domesticated animals.
Sailing
Sailing, as it was in 2015 and remains to this day, feels like a minigame. I struggle to see what the basic task a sailor can do to gain experience and how variations of it could be fun.
Don't get me wrong I love the theme and exploration concept, it's just not a skill.
Shamanism
There are at least 2 different skills in here. The gathering side feels like a mix of divination and botany, and the production side is an endless reward space that I don't have any confidence in.
Questions I am left with are
What makes a tamed animal different from a summoned familiar?
How is sailing distinct from a minigame?
Why can't shamanism be split into multiple skills to emphasise the gathering and production elements? RIP Forums
Finally we have signatures in the surprise forum update. I'm Lewis, I play Old School & I've been playing since 2005.
Interesting pitches, just so you know where I am coming from I think a skill should revolve around a basic task, variations to said task which eventually lead to activities that we all know and love. Skills must fulfil this otherwise they aren't worth adding to the game and I worry some people will say yes to anything as long as it is labelled as a skill.
For example agility is about getting past obstacles, there are lots of different obstacles, this builds out to agility courses, rogues den and hallowed sepulchre.
Taming
There are 3 wildly different tasks here. Domestication, levelling up creatures and keeping creatures. I think you should pick one to concentrate the skill around and use the others as potential activities later.
For example Taming is the domestication of creatures. Later down the line there could be a animal minigame where you can level up your domesticated animals.
Sailing
Sailing, as it was in 2015 and remains to this day, feels like a minigame. I struggle to see what the basic task a sailor can do to gain experience and how variations of it could be fun.
Don't get me wrong I love the theme and exploration concept, it's just not a skill.
Shamanism
There are at least 2 different skills in here. The gathering side feels like a mix of divination and botany, and the production side is an endless reward space that I don't have any confidence in.
Questions I am left with are
What makes a tamed animal different from a summoned familiar?
How is sailing distinct from a minigame?
Why can't shamanism be split into multiple skills to emphasise the gathering and production elements? RIP Forums
Finally we have signatures in the surprise forum update. I'm Lewis, I play Old School & I've been playing since 2005.
27-Mar-2023 14:48:51
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I love all three skill ideas! However if I had to choose one I would pick : TAMING!
What I would love to see in Taming :
Companions with the capacity to carry items for us, effectively increasing our inventory space.
Combat pets that level up while in combat with you! : Level up your combat skills while doing slayer AND your combat pet.
Companions that restore health.
Pets that you can ride to move faster around the world : Land Mounts, Flying Mounts, Water Mounts.
On the topic of mounts we can also have that ocean exploration that would have came with sailing! : We could tame a dragon or some type of flying creature OR tame a shark or an amphibious creature and use them to traverse the ocean and reach islands and other things that would have been in sailing without the need for sailing/boats!
Pets that function in more than 1 capacity. I would love to see combat pets that can also be used as mounts/beasts of burdens. Resources pets that also could be mounts or beasts of burden.
Let us tame bosses! Imagine having the kraken for a water mount. What fun
Naming our tamed beast!
Breeding beasts?
With taming we can also have an expansion of the construction skill. Have the ability to house and raise your tamed creatures in your home, give them their own space. Have the ability to create resource nodes in your home that your gathering pets can collect for you while you are away on an adventure! Or your gathering pet will gather resources at a designated location in the world, head over to a bank drop off and when hes tired he will return to your home to rest!
I love all three skill ideas! However if I had to choose one I would pick : TAMING!
What I would love to see in Taming :
Companions with the capacity to carry items for us, effectively increasing our inventory space.
Combat pets that level up while in combat with you! : Level up your combat skills while doing slayer AND your combat pet.
Companions that restore health.
Pets that you can ride to move faster around the world : Land Mounts, Flying Mounts, Water Mounts.
On the topic of mounts we can also have that ocean exploration that would have came with sailing! : We could tame a dragon or some type of flying creature OR tame a shark or an amphibious creature and use them to traverse the ocean and reach islands and other things that would have been in sailing without the need for sailing/boats!
Pets that function in more than 1 capacity. I would love to see combat pets that can also be used as mounts/beasts of burdens. Resources pets that also could be mounts or beasts of burden.
Let us tame bosses! Imagine having the kraken for a water mount. What fun
Naming our tamed beast!
Breeding beasts?
With taming we can also have an expansion of the construction skill. Have the ability to house and raise your tamed creatures in your home, give them their own space. Have the ability to create resource nodes in your home that your gathering pets can collect for you while you are away on an adventure! Or your gathering pet will gather resources at a designated location in the world, head over to a bank drop off and when hes tired he will return to your home to rest!
27-Mar-2023 17:13:56 - Last edited on 27-Mar-2023 17:16:00 by CesarTheGrey
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