The Artcraft Studios have announced a change to the resource system of the PvP MMORPG Crowfall.
In Crowfall, every single resource is supposed to be important. It won’t be the case that you mine copper first and the better you get, the higher quality material you find, making copper eventually just trash. Copper always remains important in the game.
For example, it is possible to combine different resources to create alloys for items, which thereby gain different stats. In this case, copper would also play an important role as it adds a special property to the alloy.
The mining of resources had to be adjusted
However, the system for mining resources did not harmonize with this basic concept. It was a standard MMO system where it was harder to mine gold and you needed better equipment for higher quality materials. The question the developers asked was why, for example, you need a pickaxe for gold, which does not work for copper or silver. So the system was overhauled.
The quality of a resource is now crucial and determines how easy or difficult it is to mine it. The type of resource does not matter. The difficulty of the campaign you are in, as well as the type and location of the parcel where the resource node is located, determine the quality of the resource.
Quality is important
As an example: Rank 1 copper veins never provide better resource quality than “Poor” (gray). In contrast, you receive from rank 10 copper veins rare (blue), epic (purple), and – very rarely – legendary (orange) copper quality. The tool does not break down into ranks but has different quality levels. You simply use picks for mining, hammers for breaking stone, axes for logging, knives for skinning, and shovels for looting.
Thus, the difficulty of mining resource nodes depends on the quality of the node. And the quality of the tool determines how hard or easy it is to mine a node. This also leads to the manufacturing of tools becoming more important in the MMORPG Crowfall.
The MMORPG Crowfall aims to combine the best of two genres. The MMORPG aspects should provide gaming depth. Strategy elements are responsible for keeping Crowfa...
