Topic

Skills building - bring into the game

Hi,

A suggestion I thought of earlier was that skills-building should be brought into the game itself, instead of a separate window.

I realize that skill-building is part of the game, but it currently feels "separate" from the game, given that you have to go into a completely different window to do it. Pet Rock learns for you in-game, but you have to switch to a separate window? It feels strange to set it up that way.

We currently have quests in-game that we can check the status of while we're in the game. Is there any possibility of bringing skills-building into the game as well, that also runs in the background without having to switch to/open another window to do so?

Posted 2 years ago by Aerin Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • I completely agree. Could the characters also possibly do thing to learn skills inside the game itself, rather than just "downloading" it "offsite"? It feels a little like a cop-out not doing anything to learn a skill! haha.
    Posted 2 years ago by Soap Bubble Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I like having skills the way they are right now, since some of the skills are INSANELY long.

    Sure, 10 minutes or so may be okay, but 12 hours or several weeks? :S

    Sometimes, (like now) I can't be logged into a flash game, but I can be looking at a webpage with a giant progress bar, so the skills page works really well for me right now.

    What might make us both happy, though, is if we could access skills both in game and out of game. ^^
    Posted 2 years ago by Catriona Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Ideally, Dryea, it would be running in the background while you continue to play your game.
    Posted 2 years ago by Aerin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • My understanding is that in the future there will be more components and mini-games outside the main game. The benefit to the current setup is that if I don't really want to go into the game I can still keep working on things that have effects in-game. I can't actively play all the time but I can still participate by queing skills.
    Posted 2 years ago by Rogue Drone Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I can buy that, Rogue.

    Maybe a hybrid of the two, so I'm not constantly pulled out of the game when building skills? That's probably too much to ask, I'm aware :)
    Posted 2 years ago by Aerin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Skills and backyard gardens are supposed to be integrated eventually. That wouldn't necessarily mean that the skills page would vanish.
    Posted 2 years ago by Tingly Claus Subscriber! | Permalink
  • To follow up on Tingly's comment, they have already built a simple API for skills and auctions that is being utilized by the site. I would imagine that they are waiting to implement those things in game until the API is farther along in development.
    Posted 2 years ago by Rogue Drone Subscriber! | Permalink