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Don't see a point in that since in the end you are still grinding the best thing to get to level 100, regardless of it being useful.

 

As for the original proposal, nobody would actually "experiment" with different ingredients, they would just look on the wiki. No matter what you do, unless there is fun gained to offset the monetary loss, training in RS will almost always be done with best gp/xp in mind.

It might help to introduce some randomness into the process. Ie, arbitrarily assign different properties to the same ingredients for each player. That way each player has to experiment on their own.

 

Then it turns it into "I'm gathering prayer potions because the game arbitrarily chose them to be an ingredient" rather than getting them because it makes sense to be used with a prayer item. Having something like unicorn horns be used with an antipoison depending on rng roll removes the lore that unicorn horns have healing properties in favor of turning it into a child's matching game.

 

This is only true if the system is done badly.

It is perfectly possible, much like many of Skyrim's things to have a list of set items that have property x and therefore can be used to make something that has property x.

Eg unicorn horns and a number of other items can have known healing properties and therefore be possible ingredients for healing related things.

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that pile of potions is still smaller than the minimum potions required for herblore

 

True, if I still had them I should've taken a picture of the ridiculous amount of serum 203's I had back before ashes were a summoning secondary and overall cheap herblore exp.

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Don't see a point in that since in the end you are still grinding the best thing to get to level 100, regardless of it being useful.

 

As for the original proposal, nobody would actually "experiment" with different ingredients, they would just look on the wiki. No matter what you do, unless there is fun gained to offset the monetary loss, training in RS will almost always be done with best gp/xp in mind.

It might help to introduce some randomness into the process. Ie, arbitrarily assign different properties to the same ingredients for each player. That way each player has to experiment on their own.

 

Then it turns it into "I'm gathering prayer potions because the game arbitrarily chose them to be an ingredient" rather than getting them because it makes sense to be used with a prayer item. Having something like unicorn horns be used with an antipoison depending on rng roll removes the lore that unicorn horns have healing properties in favor of turning it into a child's matching game.

 

This is only true if the system is done badly.

It is perfectly possible, much like many of Skyrim's things to have a list of set items that have property x and therefore can be used to make something that has property x.

Eg unicorn horns and a number of other items can have known healing properties and therefore be possible ingredients for healing related things.

 

A list of set items promotes wiki usage, not experimentation and is exactly what we have right now. Nobody goes out and collects a bunch of herblore secondaries and uses them on potions, they wiki it.

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How many potions of health do you have in Skyrim, throughout the course of 100 Alchemy?

 

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Seriously though, if the image and anecdote were too weak an explanation, then I'll just outright say it: it's really fun to fiddle around and train, but people will find an item or method that is a comfortable middle-ground between easy/fast and cost and only make that for the rest of the skill/grind. It doesn't really add any "depth" to the skill or activity, just a minor inconvenience.

 

 

The same would be true with the idea that what you can do at the different levels are hidden at first. I thought about the idea mainly because the skill is new also for the ingame world, so that the commmunity had to work on finding the different recipes. After this had been found, then of course it'd shift back to a grind - exactly like it would have if we knew the ingredients beforehand too.

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Don't see a point in that since in the end you are still grinding the best thing to get to level 100, regardless of it being useful.

 

As for the original proposal, nobody would actually "experiment" with different ingredients, they would just look on the wiki. No matter what you do, unless there is fun gained to offset the monetary loss, training in RS will almost always be done with best gp/xp in mind.

It might help to introduce some randomness into the process. Ie, arbitrarily assign different properties to the same ingredients for each player. That way each player has to experiment on their own.

 

Then it turns it into "I'm gathering prayer potions because the game arbitrarily chose them to be an ingredient" rather than getting them because it makes sense to be used with a prayer item. Having something like unicorn horns be used with an antipoison depending on rng roll removes the lore that unicorn horns have healing properties in favor of turning it into a child's matching game.

 

This is only true if the system is done badly.

It is perfectly possible, much like many of Skyrim's things to have a list of set items that have property x and therefore can be used to make something that has property x.

Eg unicorn horns and a number of other items can have known healing properties and therefore be possible ingredients for healing related things.

 

A list of set items promotes wiki usage, not experimentation and is exactly what we have right now. Nobody goes out and collects a bunch of herblore secondaries and uses them on potions, they wiki it.

 

Your logic makes no sense, unless there are infinite items possible there will be wiki lists.

The idea of having specific ingredients have specific properties AND randomising recipes are not mutually exclusive things - it is something that can be combined to balance randomised for each player with logic and lore based ingredients.

 

It's simple concept:

Have a set list of items that have certain properties but randomise from that list for each player.

Yes there will be wiki lists, that is inevitable no matter how many ingredient variants you have BUT it will leave a degree of experimentation to the player and significantly alter what is a good way for them to train.

 

So what if there is say 20 items with healing properties that might be needed to make a anti-poisons - if its randomised per user you still have to try all 20 and see what makes what for you and from there work out what is cost effective for you.

 

Plus in many ways it's very realistic, if we use real world cooking as an example. There are plenty of recipes out there that vary only slightly from each other but some people can make certain ones work and not others.

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