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So, my EQ-hating boyfriend tries to wean me away from it by showing me Neverwinter Nights and the persistant server mod that some of his friends run somewhere else in the state. This particular server/mod combo has a 'tradeskill mod' attached to it. IE, certain rocks are 'mineable' for ore and gems, and those are fashionable and combinable to create jewelry. He also mentioned baking and weaponcrafting, but his character only does the jewelry.
Anyway, so you walk up to a rock that identifies as a 'Mineable Rock' and start swinging at it with your Copper Pickaxe, and get one of the following-type messages:
-- "You hit the rock but do not find any minerals." ok, bad memory, but some sort of 'success-but-failure message'.
-- "You find Raw [Gem]!" Malachite, Sapphire, Jade, Pearl, standard stuff.
-- "This rock is not mineable." Game bugged again, go find another rock.
-- "Your skill is not high enough to mine this rock." Creepy thing number one. Hold this thought for just a sec.
He then shows me the Gemcutter function. I activate, and it askes me which one of these gems in the list i want to cut. All are green except for Raw Turquoise (of which his character currently has none) which is dark blue. The green ones (malachite, etc) he explains that his charactor cannot gain Jewelry points from working with. I ask why Raw Jade and Raw Pearl, both of which I just mined, weren't on the list.
"My skill isn't high enough to work with them," he says.
What? A skill-restricted combine?
Yeah, perfectly normal according to this mod. In fact, all the gems have a 'bottom trivial', as does the mining of certain rocks (I couldn't mine Sapphires or Adamantine Ore).
CREEPYCREEPYCREEPY. Yeah, there's some skill restricted stuff in Planes of Power, but... imagine if all basic tradeskills had this sort of bottom-level-skill-restriction thing!
I think my level of complaining is about to fall drastically.
Rule Number Two: "It's not cliche, it's true. It really can ALWAYS be worse."
Anyway, so you walk up to a rock that identifies as a 'Mineable Rock' and start swinging at it with your Copper Pickaxe, and get one of the following-type messages:
-- "You hit the rock but do not find any minerals." ok, bad memory, but some sort of 'success-but-failure message'.
-- "You find Raw [Gem]!" Malachite, Sapphire, Jade, Pearl, standard stuff.
-- "This rock is not mineable." Game bugged again, go find another rock.
-- "Your skill is not high enough to mine this rock." Creepy thing number one. Hold this thought for just a sec.
He then shows me the Gemcutter function. I activate, and it askes me which one of these gems in the list i want to cut. All are green except for Raw Turquoise (of which his character currently has none) which is dark blue. The green ones (malachite, etc) he explains that his charactor cannot gain Jewelry points from working with. I ask why Raw Jade and Raw Pearl, both of which I just mined, weren't on the list.
"My skill isn't high enough to work with them," he says.
What? A skill-restricted combine?
Yeah, perfectly normal according to this mod. In fact, all the gems have a 'bottom trivial', as does the mining of certain rocks (I couldn't mine Sapphires or Adamantine Ore).
CREEPYCREEPYCREEPY. Yeah, there's some skill restricted stuff in Planes of Power, but... imagine if all basic tradeskills had this sort of bottom-level-skill-restriction thing!
I think my level of complaining is about to fall drastically.
Rule Number Two: "It's not cliche, it's true. It really can ALWAYS be worse."
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