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Notepad for finding important people

I find myself semi-regularly trying to work out where the various vendors are around the game. I'd really like it if some of these things were kept track of for me - ie. when I first meet a vendor, something is added to my notebook telling me where they are in future. The fun of the game is in the doing of things, not trying to remember where things are, so it seems to me that this would speed things up for me and help me concentrate on the awesome stuff.

Posted 3 years ago by Tom Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • I agree. I was maybe thinking of a "last seen" thing, but yeah, same idea. It's hard to remember where the different vendors are.
    Posted 3 years ago by clare Subscriber! | Permalink
  • could notepads be actual in-game items that we could sell to, show to or share with other people in the game?

    perhaps that's overkill, but i think that being able to easily share this information is almost as useful as being able to easily recall it.
    Posted 3 years ago by striatic Subscriber! | Permalink
  • But i like not knowing where something / someone is. Going looking for it is half the fun - but then ... i'm not like other people ;)
    Posted 3 years ago by RavingOak Subscriber! | Permalink
  • But Priya, after you found it once, do you really want to search for it over and over again?...
    Posted 3 years ago by Nevet Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I think it's a good idea to be able to buy or earn some kind of item that lets you keep notes or annotate the map. That way people can use it if they want, and there's a sense of achievement that's tied to the amount of exploring you've done.

    Early in the game, it's fun to explore and learn where things are. But even at this stage it can get confusing trying to remember where I'm supposed to be going.

    (I found it especially tough to remember which of the different vendors I was supposed to be heading for. Uncle Friendly has a name (and therefore more of an identity that I could associate with a location) but the others are just vendors, and I kept getting them confused with each other)
    Posted 3 years ago by wurzel Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Maybe GNE-style notes?
    Posted 3 years ago by fluorescence Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'd like to +1 the general idea of keeping track where I saw such-and-such, and add with specificity that I'd love to be able to annotate the map we already have.
    Posted 3 years ago by quasistoic Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I was thinking about this on the bus this morning and I think this can be divided into two different needs - the need to keep track of game NPCs, etc, and the need to keep more general notes.

    Viva Pinata has an encyclopedia that fills itself in every time you get a new achievement or see a new type of game character or whatever, maybe something like that to keep track of shopkeepers? It could maybe include other things like a list of everything that you've successfully grown/made, and badges that you've gotten, list of friends and groups, etc.

    And then aside from that, I liked the notes in GNE that you could carry around, or leave around for other people to pick up and read or whatever, those were fun!
    Posted 3 years ago by fluorescence Subscriber! | Permalink
  • The quest log worked great for keeping track of vendors until i had to reload.
    Posted 3 years ago by Tingly Claus Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 Greg. Persistence in the quest log would be appreciated.
    Posted 3 years ago by quasistoic Subscriber! | Permalink
  • a 'notepad' for vendor locations is a silly idea. the map should should point out where specific NPCs are at a given time... especially since presumably there will be more NPCs like Rube who can move around anyway.
    Posted 3 years ago by yeoz Subscriber! | Permalink
  • tho yeoz, it could be a *magic* notepad where the locations of people/NPCs you add to it update over time.
    Posted 3 years ago by striatic Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Picking through a giant map with 1,000 locations and hundreds of npcs could take as long as brute forcing it takes now. Tell what npc you're looking for and get a "Wintry Place" map pointer for stationary npcs or an "ix" shaded area for roaming ones.

    The encyclopedia may work for that as it expands and goes in-game. Click on stationary Snowcone Vendor and see "This is a thing you find in Wintry Place." Click on roaming Rube and see "This is a thing you find in Ix."

    I'd rather a quest log have 2 parts, in-progress and completed, though I doubt the completed side will be useful eventually.
    Posted 3 years ago by Tingly Claus Subscriber! | Permalink
  • "This is a thing you find in Ix."... with a link to the map, that is.
    Posted 3 years ago by Tingly Claus Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I like the idea of having two notepads, one just casual notes that can be traded, the other automatically updating as you discover information on your own. Even harder than remembering vendors, though, is remembering specific items that may be sold by the gardening tools vendor in E. Hechey, but not in NW Passage.

    But for the meantime, notes? You mean this Notepad file I've created? :)
    Posted 3 years ago by Delphin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Unlocking in-game encyclopedia entries as you find/create could work as the 2nd notepad. It would start tiny, making it managable instead of daunting for newbies. It could even largely write itself from the data of what it is, your location, if you found or made it (would give the recipe for making it), where to buy/sell. Every time you find it in a new locale, it's added to the entry.
    Posted 3 years ago by Tingly Claus Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I hear the Facebook testers were seeing vendors marked on their maps. Thanks for that!
    Posted 3 years ago by quasistoic Subscriber! | Permalink