No gd letter today?

[Fearthis]

Why guild renown wasnt fixed yet? I will tell you why. Because Funcom has no f***ing clue how to fix it. Or dear funcom devs are u tring to tell us its so complicated that it takes a year?

I completely agree, but it's bad business to come out and say "We have no idea what to do".

Renown bug is pretty much in the same boat as the minigame bug, invisible horse, missing cages in Northern Grasslands, electrical/fire/unholy fatalities that don't go away after you die, transmorphs like void essence & fermented brain juices that bug out once you die, etc.

[Anzu]

Telling the GD off now are we?

My answer was directed to Elleanorr

[LunaticAsylumLA]

And to make it clear, I have had a team member focused only on the crafting revamp for over a year now. Just working on crafting. That should give you some idea of the scope.

To be honest, the old crafting system is excellent and innovative. The new system will not annoy the general population as long as the old crafting group and raid system are intact and the new trade skill system does not bring items more powerful than the ones offered by the old one.

[Belawen]

To be honest, the old crafting system is excellent and innovative. The new system will not annoy the general population as long as the old crafting group and raid system are intact and the new trade skill system does not bring items more powerful than the ones offered by the old one.

Agreed 100%, although there are some usable items in the current system such as some accessories, Ibises and T3 crafted stuff that need to be toned down to, around lvl70 green stuff.

[Fearthis]

To be honest, the old crafting system is excellent and innovative.

looks like your standard crafting system to me. You go out & collect recipes to learn how to make certain items, then you need to farm the mats required to make it in resource zones. Each item has it's own set of static stat's and that's it.

nothing innovative about it.

[Kalgon]

To be honest, the old crafting system is excellent and innovative. The new system will not annoy the general population as long as the old crafting group and raid system are intact and the new trade skill system does not bring items more powerful than the ones offered by the old one.

What is innovative about the current crafting system? Its simple and boring.

[Wulfgaarr]

From what I understand so far the new crafting system will allow players to improve and modify the standart crafting recipes, getting different results with the components and ingredients you mix up. That is a far more interesting system, that rewards and incentive trial and error, making it virtually limitless. Or at least, increase the variables so that players can keep exploring it for a large period of time. Im curious about the resource nodes and gathering, as well as the use of the existing items. How they implemebt this will have a major impact in the new system success. We all can agree that mechanically hitting rocks and trees suck any fun out of crafting. And the post lvl 80 crafted items became completely outdaded the moment khitai was released.

The possibility of creating your own epic recipe, maybe even legendary items, will be priceless. The sad part is the change is coming too late down the road. Population is so small the trade economy is nom existent. Most players that were into crafting probably left the game a long time ago and I doubt a new crafting system will suffice their return. Im looking forward to it nonetheless. Anything fresh in this game is something.

[Khaletohep]

To be honest, the old crafting system is excellent and innovative.

I don't see anything innovative the current/old crafting system. There wasn't anything that wasn't present in "classic" WoW years before, with the exception of quests instead of experience giving you new crafting levels. Yay. Innovation. Excitement.
Actually, WoW crafting was more useful to the game balance and fun (better: "less not-fun") in my opinion. Crafting in AoC was/is sheer grind with very, very luck based recipe acquirement. I dare say I can invent a better and more innovative crafting system in an afternoon than what AoC has currently.

[Rathothis]

To be honest, the old crafting system is excellent and innovative. The new system will not annoy the general population as long as the old crafting group and raid system are intact and the new trade skill system does not bring items more powerful than the ones offered by the old one.

I.e., in your view, a crafting system is excellent and innovative if it is dead.

[nico0815]

wow still no gd later ... "fc" is so lame ...