Forage, What can be done?

[Delirium]

Sure, next reboot it'll be in.

Nothin' but LOVE for Morgenes!

[Morgenes]

And for all the love, I'll throw in some command emotes on the junk command too.

Don't say I never do anything for you guys.

 Heading off to the AIM soon, you kids play nice.

[Delirium]

I think I just stopped breathing.

Don't worry, we'll be sure to break all your code while you're gone.

[Aldiel]

Not a bad idea.  I need to think about it more, but it has promise, IMO.

[SpyGuy]

Morgenes, you rock.  Please don't let anyone eat your brains at the AIM.  Seriously, you're putting yourself out there as the ambitious coder right now.  That has to sound tasty to someone like Naiona.

Cuss.. I mean Cuus.. has a point.

For the sake of making fletchery a less unholy time consuming act for a lone ranger, however, it would be nice to be able to specify shards, much like you can specify kindling for branch foraging.

Sure it'd be nice but like everything else it's random with forage.  There are more than enough shops in game that sell shards, of various materials, for cheap prices.  If you want a shard of something that isn't sold in most shops I'd say it's probably a rarer find and should require you to head out to forage for yourself or hire some other poor sap to pick through tons of sandstone just to find what you're looking for.

[X-D]

Alright, these things will help.

[Moving the derail portion of this post to a different post -Morgenes]

[Maybe42or54]

Well, Morgenes. I don't care about the echo, I don't want to spend an hour looking for a plain rock. Regardless of if it means I have to throw aside some "ultra fantastic rocks," (which are in usually hard to get to areas, Maybe that is just still part of the "old" game.) I want one kind of rock, I don't want 400 rocks that I won't use and wont even bother picking up in the first place, when I am looking for a specific type of rock, I want that specific type of rock. When I am a hermit, a diamond wont do me any good, when I want a shard of obsidian.

[jhunter]

Alright, these things will help.


Also, slight derail here, but I did not feel like starting a thread.

Morg, Love your work.

Insanely despise, hate, loath the change to gone.

No, really, Now if I go gone I have to minimize the window and lock the computer. And I hate doing that even more, because if I answer the door or something, I like to be able to run in and glance at the screen.

But no, now I can't do that because I own a cat and often could have small children in the house, either of which are capable of hitting the enter key but are very unlikly to type gone and toggle it off.

No, really, I hate it now, won't be using it any more. Might as well just wish up AFK or change my ldesc to afk...BAH.


Drooling over junk giving a diff message though.

Good point X-D. I didn't think about it but I've been using "gone" as sort of a safety measure when I do go afk. Now I still have to worry about commands being entered by the cat...kids...other people around...

Gonna miss that.

[Maybe42or54]

Here is a different idea, how about make it so you have to go to different places to forage for different kinds of stone? I find it odd I can go to several very differeny places and get any kind of stone imagineable.

[Gaare]

I remember a PC of mine got some type of order of a certain type of stone. I begin to forage stone close to 'nak.. Then I traveled with that PC and a few other friends to Luir's, and searched around there. Later around Tuluk, I finally found where those types of rocks are found. That's good right? I remember I got a lot of fun of that search.

[Maybe42or54]

Yea, it sure is. I greatly dislike being in a grey-walled cave and finding nothing but white, green, red, and black stones. Then I go to a canyon that just mentions the colors red and brown., but I find green, white, red, black, grey, yellow, blue, purple, etc.

[Gaare]

Yea, it sure is. I greatly dislike being in a grey-walled cave and finding nothing but white, green, red, and black stones. Then I go to a canyon that just mentions the colors red and brown., but I find green, white, red, black, grey, yellow, blue, purple, etc.

Is it that bad really? I mean, yeah I remember seeing some unrealistic forage results, but not very important ones. Hope you bugged them. In my example, I was looking for a certain type of rock. I do not recall any room desc. which suggests, "here you see a lot of obsidian." Descs are usually vague, and results differ.

[Anonymous]

I guess I just don't understand why you can't have it both ways and everyone is happy.

forage <category> <- The current way which is left intact.

forage <category> <specific keyword> <- The suggestion way which allows you to narrow down what your character will stumble across.

Doing #2 doesn't mean you have any bonus to finding what you specifically want it just means you are ignoring anything that isn't your focus.  You are so intent on finding green marble stones that you don't happen to notice the emporer diamond covered with dirt.