Happy Holidays everyone!

Here's this week's main question of the week, inspired by this post.


Also, this week we have a special holiday bonus question: Can we craft items out of rats? (see: http://forums.play-earthrise.com/index.php?topic=2375.0)

Here's what our developers had to say:
Monopolized designs that only certain Organizations have access to and provide as blueprints to players as a reward for their numerous deeds towards that organization, will be physical objects that can be sold on the free market. This allows fighters who have easy access to rewards due to their combat-oriented training,  giving them edge in completing combat-based Organization Tasks to provide crafters with the knowledge to modify existing technologies in new ways, and in return either pay handsomely for the blueprint or provide back the fighter with items utilizing the blueprint - a viable tactic when both are organized in a guild. Crafters will be able to complete crafter-oriented Organization Tasks that ask for certain item(s) to be crafted and provided to the organization. Some of those quests will require the crafter to hunt the parts and ingredients himself, making it a mixed quest involving both combat and crafting.
 
And that bonus question that has been nagging everyone's mind for the past months - yes, you can craft items out of rats. But don’t expect to find rifles and armor in their bodies. We really don't want to give out the variety of rat uses, because we're rat lovers and we don't want their furry little race hitting extinction in the hands of greedy crafters!

Additionally, we want to wish all our community a safe and joyous holiday this week (and next, if you will be away). We'll be back next Monday to unwrap another Holiday Time Question of the Week. Until then, feel free to discuss the above information right here.

~ m.

That's ghood that at least a fighter can sell the schematic if he can't use it, thank you for making them tradeable!

And come I wants ta know what I can make outa rat parts! Pretty please!!!!

I wonder if being rewarded these Organization specific blueprints is a quest reward selection or if you purchase it from an accumulated point pool that you build up by doing these various 'deeds'.  It's good to see that these blueprints are physical items though.  This will encourage crafter - player deals.

I don't really know if you'd be able to sell them in mass.  If they're one time quest rewards then the answer is obvious.  If these blueprints for these exclusive technologies are rewarded based on faction points (or something similar), I imagine they'd be valued enough by the faction to be fairly costly.  Also, I'm sure the faction will offer other rewards as well... many of which may be more interesting to a fighter than a crafting blueprint.

were people really not expecting those blueprints designs to not be re-sellable on the market?

I would have been astounded and disappointed if I couldn't actively trade technical schematics that I won from factional allegiance.

BTW: It appears from the words used in reference to getting them that you'll be buying them by choice from a factional "store" based on your reputation.  Makes more sense than other ways.


Also, I'm making a rifle out of rat bones. Calling it now.

Yes and no.  Not much of a surprise, but I think it would be cool to get some 1-off designs that very few people could get.  Nothing overpowered, but still different.  I guess it doesn't matter if there are enough designs and they come with trade-offs, there'll still be plenty of 1-off equipment.



Forget the store, I want to corrupt an NPC to help steal designs or hack 1 of their production/research computers.  Buying is ok and what I'm talking about is insanely difficult to put in (think of the AI required for a good NPC corruption system).  Really though, a store is probably the best way availible.

I'm setting to work on a plague, Rats are as good a place to start as anywhere else.

Personally, I don't see much of a bad thing in making a crafter do a little work outside his or her comfort zone. It also said "some quests", not all of them. And so what if you have to kill something as a crafter? While other people are better skilled at killing crap easily, only you, the crafter, have the edge of making your own, custom gear for only the price of the mats, if any. I think that kind of balances it out.

dang, when I saw "with an extra bonus!" I so thought there was going to be a video or at least some more screenshots.

All well, maybe next week...

Edit: typo

*joins in chuckling with chizad* Most excellent news my dear friend