Topic

Metal

As of right now, metal is essentially useless to a player, unless they are using it in a street project. Here, I would like to outline my ideas for the uses of metal and some other miscellaneous ideas that relate to it.

Uses of Metal
As you know, metal must be smelted into ingots. Then, it can be used to create tin, copper, and molybdenum. These metals, as I mentioned before, are useless. I would like to suggest the creation of a "Metalworking" branch of skills. Then, when you click a tool such as a pick, you could choose "Reinforce." This would let you upgrade the tool with one of these metals, changing its appearance, durability, and possibly its other usage attributes. Then, you'd have to smelt the tool down before you could upgrade it with another sort of metal.

Spawning and Smelting
If these ideas were to be implemented, the value of metal would probably increase. The frequency of metal ore deposits would have to adjusted. However, if a player has sought out metal I think the smelting rate of them currently is ridiculous. It should rather be 2 or 3 chunks to an ingot.

Posted 23 months ago by Roxon Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • Metals are currently used to make tools when you have higher levels of tinkering. That might not be incredibly useful considering most people already bought the tools, but that doesn't mean metal is useless.
    Posted 23 months ago by Cainunable Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Cainuable, who is really going to wait until they have Tinkering 4 to buy tools? But I suppose for the sake of argument they aren't completely useless. But that's irrelevant, I still think it should have more uses.
    Posted 23 months ago by Roxon Subscriber! | Permalink
  • They are pretty useless as they are now. Having a Reinforce skill available to learn when you've hit Tinkering 2 or 3, and then different levels of reinforcement based no what metal you use and what level of tinkering, would be extremely useful.
    Posted 23 months ago by Johnny Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thanks Johnny.
    Posted 23 months ago by Roxon Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Just wanting to make sure people notice this...
    Posted 23 months ago by Roxon Subscriber! | Permalink
  • They are... However, when donated, it seems most items give 10% of their street value as fame.  Since metal ingots sell for 20-25 currants each (current auction prices), and you get 3 fame per ingot, you now have a cheaper source of donating (according to the wiki, I haven't tested the donating of metal ingots).
    Posted 15 months ago by mtek Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Moved this thread to the Ideas forum so it be at home with the other lightbulbs. I like that "Reinforce" idea though, especially now that we have the "uber tools." (runs to jot it down)
    Posted 15 months ago by Blanky Subscriber! | Permalink