Granite Quests

Nexus Graveheart · Post by **Nexus Graveheart** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 1:34 am

I got this idea from jrhather, or at least something he said spawned the idea in my head. It would work just like the current bod quests.

For instance, you would go to the Gargoyle Stonemason in Ilshenar and accept a quest for such and such amount of granite in a certain color. You'd supply that granite, and you would recieve an award.

One thing that I think could be a deterrent would be the requirement to prove the quality. Such as....if you supply the gargoyle with 20 bronze granite, it would be almost unfair to require the player to then create a number of large stone tables to prove the granite quality. If that was the system, it could likely take months to finish a single quest due to the time and luck involved in digging up that much granite.

But I think the idea itself is sound. And I thank jrhather for inspiring the idea. In regards to rewards...there could be a number of things. Such as:

-Stone decorations unobtainable by any other means such as boulders and the various rock designs found in the woods.
-Special granite with the hues of the Tokuno dyes (Or any other hues that would be more appropriate). They would work the same as normal granite, but when crafted, would take the hue of the reward granite.
-Tools that would have a higher chance to dig up granite.
-And, of course, various wearable items. Nothing that is too uber, but things that would be useful to a newer player or something that could round out a good suit. Things like stone shields, weapons, etc. On a different note, these things could be uber, one-use items. Such as a "stone dagger" that will deal a fixed amount of damage to any creature but after that one strike it would crumble into nothingness.

Just an idea. It may help to spur some trade in stone items, as that market is remarkably low due to the smaller player-base and the time and difficulty in obtaining and crafting stone items. Hell, Hector's old museum that used all stone tables was a rarity in itself due to all the shadow granite needed to craft that many tables with the failure chance added into the equation.

Everyone please post what you think. I myself think this could be a good idea...but I am only one player.

Thank You,
Nexus Graveheart

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Plastic Man · Post by **Plastic Man** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 7:05 am

I like my 3x3 Verite table with shadow chairs XD I'm about to upgrade to a 3x4 verite table too XD

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jrhather · Post by **jrhather** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 9:01 am

Plastic Man wrote:I like my 3x3 Verite table with shadow chairs XD I'm about to upgrade to a 3x4 verite table too XD

Would be more badass if it was 'zerker red instead of verite.

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Plastic Man · Post by **Plastic Man** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 9:32 am

Or TB purple.

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ninja2007 · Post by **ninja2007** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 9:43 am

i like it BUT i have no clue how to get the book to be able to mine granite !

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DOCTOR THUNDER · Post by **DOCTOR THUNDER** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 9:55 am

gargoyle city in illsh has vendors that sell them

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onykage · Post by **onykage** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 10:05 am

stone really isnt that rare, tell me how much of what color you want and we can work out a deal. only colors i dont realy sell to anyone are the top 4 colors, gold-val but the rest i have a fairly large quantities.

Also if you a legendary carpenter with a decent carp tally you rarely fail when making anything on the stone mason list.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 12:16 pm

lol @ the google ads.

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Death · Post by **Death** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 12:45 pm

Nexus Graveheart wrote:I got this idea from jrhather, or at least something he said spawned the idea in my head. It would work just like the current bod quests.

For instance, you would go to the Gargoyle Stonemason in Ilshenar and accept a quest for such and such amount of granite in a certain color. You'd supply that granite, and you would recieve an award.

One thing that I think could be a deterrent would be the requirement to prove the quality. Such as....if you supply the gargoyle with 20 bronze granite, it would be almost unfair to require the player to then create a number of large stone tables to prove the granite quality. If that was the system, it could likely take months to finish a single quest due to the time and luck involved in digging up that much granite.

But I think the idea itself is sound. And I thank jrhather for inspiring the idea. In regards to rewards...there could be a number of things. Such as:

-Stone decorations unobtainable by any other means such as boulders and the various rock designs found in the woods.
-Special granite with the hues of the Tokuno dyes (Or any other hues that would be more appropriate). They would work the same as normal granite, but when crafted, would take the hue of the reward granite.
-Tools that would have a higher chance to dig up granite.
-And, of course, various wearable items. Nothing that is too uber, but things that would be useful to a newer player or something that could round out a good suit. Things like stone shields, weapons, etc. On a different note, these things could be uber, one-use items. Such as a "stone dagger" that will deal a fixed amount of damage to any creature but after that one strike it would crumble into nothingness.

Just an idea. It may help to spur some trade in stone items, as that market is remarkably low due to the smaller player-base and the time and difficulty in obtaining and crafting stone items. Hell, Hector's old museum that used all stone tables was a rarity in itself due to all the shadow granite needed to craft that many tables with the failure chance added into the equation.

Everyone please post what you think. I myself think this could be a good idea...but I am only one player.

Thank You,
Nexus Graveheart

It's a neat idea but we have no plans to make anymore bod quest types like the ones that are currently available. The next step for those would be collect quests.

Collect quests would be similar, but the objectives might be different. Instead of bringing the stone, you might instead have to craft stone chairs or something else and hand them in. Or you might have to bring in a variety of stone such as 5 granite, 5 bronze granite and 10 shadow iron granite.

Collect quests will provide mini quests for all kinds of crafting/resource skills from cooking to fishing. Once we've done a collection quest prototype, it'll be possible to create a quest of that type.

The rewards might be something made of stone that's otherwise uncraftable (Like a massive stone statue). I'd rather like to keep the stone in natural ore hues to keep with the lore of it all, but it might be possible to make tokuno pigment tables (Hopefully they don't look tacky).

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