Woodcutting

[Jaxan]

I really hope there wasn\'t already a topic on this already. I searched a couple different ways so...

How will it work? Would one cut down a real-big-tree and get a whole mess of lumber from it? Or would the cut-downable trees be smaller.

Will the wood have to be cut and stuff to be made into construction-ready wood?

This hasn\'t been talked about before (I don\'t think)...

[Xandria]

It probably hasn\'t been talked about yet, because even if you could cut down trees, there\'s nothing to do with them yet  

[Rageburst]

Chop chop.... chop....

God that\'s boring. I hope that there would be a good use for wood... Then again, if given the option, I would probably waste my time making wooden action  figures and try to make people buy \'em.

[Axsyrus]

you need a really good balance for this, if everyone just started removing trees everywhere, there won\'t be any trees left in just a few days..

[lynx_lupo]

That\'s when i come in play, hehe.

[Natrina]

Wood will be useful, we, builders, will need it to build houses. (at least I supose so, after all I have wood cutting fro something..) Well, maybe they will create cutting zones, or that will be a problem.

[lynx_lupo]

Not in my grove, they wont!

[Freak Of Zombie]

Maybe they can make cutable trees and have them spawn like the crystals now. Red tree is one log, green tree is 10 logs and blue trees make 100 logs. LOL J/K but I\'m serious about the cutting trees part and then spawn or something, or maybe they can get a tree planter profession or have the trees grow again starting from little trees and then growing to big adult (cuttable) trees once again. Just don\'t cut the trees me and the other Merry men are sleeping in. I made a thread somewhere asking about all kinds of resources gathering, like stone and iron. You guys will find it, I\'m sure you do.

[lynx_lupo]

Yep, Nature regenerates itself. So trees could grow back randomly, until reaching a certain \"age\" or getting felled. The older the tree, the bigger, resulting in more wood one get\'s from choping it.

[Moraine]

1.  Take axe, target tree
2.  You will receive x logs
3.  Axe to logs again to create planks
4.  Click on planks and choose from menu which item you wish to make (may choose to incorporate macro/hotkey program in game)
5.  Success rate depends upon skill level

Now the amount of wood you might be able to get from a tree should depend on the program choosing trees at random, no matter what their graphical representation is, and you cut and cut a tree and the amount will vary each time.   After a tree is harvested it will regenerate in x hours.    

You could cut a dead tree as well as a live one for wood.  This would be good in areas in the game that portray pestilence and the trees are all dead, but a lone carpenter still likes his woodwork...  LOL

[shangralah]

woodcutting ........ reminds me of runescape (ewwww runescape)

RS

[Jaxan]

Originally posted by shangralah
woodcutting ........ reminds me of runescape

Indeed it does, only woodcutting was pretty much a pointless skill in Spoonscape, only useful for cooking junk unless you became a member (lets not get into that right now...)

Perhaps trees could be treated *like* monsters  

You could take out your axe or saw, or even sword, each weapon having a different wood cutting ability, and attack the tree in a weird kind of battle (the tree would have craploads of def, but wouldn\'t attack you back). Also you could use spells to mow down a couple trees at once maybe...
Just some more thoughts.

[shangralah]

i like your idea  

[Arthureloi]

This is just getting like ultima online guys! Thats bad!

[Wormtail_]

I think that instead of trees, there should be giant fungi and seaweed in the city. I might be stealing this idea from Journey into the Center of the Earth , if I remember the title correctly, by Jules Verne, but oh well.. I don\'t think that trees as we know them should be underground, unless we lost all of our \'good\' ideas.

I dislike the click system implemented by That Game. i agree with Jaxan on the point of treating trees like monsters. Perhaps there could be trees that fight back. Other trees leave nasty surprises, and all trees have woods of different qualities in terms of special abilitities, strength, etc. Then you have the task of hauling the logs to wherever you want them to go, which means summoning some conveniently placed Kran and dwarves and \"asking\" them to log them back out. Or pay them to.

Some of us do not know how this is getting like Ultima Online, or why it is bad. Please explain.

Ugh, I don\'t think I sound right...