Job Group: Wilderness

[FlippySeal]

Well, I figure, there should be a new job group. For example, Education, Smiths, Beer. I propose a Wilderness job group. For people who work remotely out there. Some jobs could be:

- Lumberjack (Yes!!)
- Fur trader/ trapper (Yes!!)
- Runners (Peeps who risk death to run the goods to trade at other villages and cities, based on the Coureurs de bois, meaning, Runners of the woods.
- Travel guide(For those people who just get lost, or need to know all the tips and tricks, nooks and crannies of the wilderness.

[Myrtl]

Oooo i like that idea. Basicly all the jobs now are city jobs. But if you were a lumberjack persay ummm how would you make money..would you be employed or go to a store and sell your lumber there?

[dfryer]

Aren\'t there already jobs in resource-gathering industries?  I mean, really as long as the skills & resources are there, jobs can be constructed around them if there\'s a demand for such a job.

[FlippySeal]

Oooo i like that idea. Basicly all the jobs now are city jobs. But if you were a lumberjack persay ummm how would you make money..would you be employed or go to a store and sell your lumber there?

You\'re employed of course.

Then why aren\'t there those jobs?? I would like to be a Lumberjack!!! Or Fur Trader/ Trapper. But that\'s just me.

[Icefalcon]

Originally posted by FlippySeal
- Travel guide(For those people who just get lost, or need to know all the tips and tricks, nooks and crannies of the wilderness.

I don\'t see how this could be a \"job\" because it really doesn\'t depend on any skill. The lumberjack job, however is a very good idea, if not original.

[Nanaki]

lumberjacking is very nice... but original? ^^ I wouldn\'t go that far...
Already the old Ultima Online had lumberjacking.

Some days ago I thought about games, planeshift and the mythos of original ideas (I doubt they exist) ...

It\'s an interessting fact that old games often have the most original thoughts in it, I found some old one in our cellar and was quite surprised. Some of them have interesting ideas i have never seen on any of the new games. The Graphic is creepy and clumsy but they have good ideas. It seams the Gaming industry has forgotten some of the most inovative thoughts they once had and only improved the graphic and the effects... nowaday every fantasy game which comes out is more or less the same, with little variation. It\'s a pity...
And once a game comes up with one of these old ideas everyone says, oh! wow... its so original!

I doubt there were many original ideas in the past years... Evan a very original idea becomes ordinary if it\'s copied ten times. Perhaps this is why old games look so inovativ and original, no one ever copied them ^^

Well, back to lumberjacking... the question i was interested to ask was: (mainly to flippyseal)
Wouln\'t lumberjacking become boring after a while?

Lumberjacking would enrich the game for sure, but would someone here really want to rollplay a lumberjack? As a side line, yes, but as main job?

-Nanaki

[Kiva]

Originally posted by Nanaki
Lumberjacking would enrich the game for sure, but would someone here really want to rollplay a lumberjack? As a side line, yes, but as main job?

You obviously have no idea how far some people will go for money.

If a profession is profitable, people will use it. If noone practices the skills of lumberjacking, noone will be able to cut up wood, and noone will be able to use carpentry. Then, noone will be able to buy items made of wood, and there would be no chairs, no tables and no pickaxes for the miners. If there are no pickaxes, there is no iron or crystal, which means there are no weapons, no armor and no money, and with no money, noone will ever be able to buy wood... You see, they\'re all dependant on eachother, and all job positions will be filled. Besides, if you\'re the only lumberjack in all of Yliakum, you decide the lumber prices.

[Xordan]

Any proffession will become boring if you play it \'grinding\' style. (for example: sit there all day clicking a mouse over and over again in the same repeated pattern, just to get lots of wood.)

But if you play it rp style, it\'s quite fun. (having a group of you chopping wood, while chatting, then gathering it up, and making your way into town and haggling for a good price etc.)

[Icefalcon]

 The lumberjack job, however is a very good idea, if not original.

I said it wasnt original...
And Xordan, your right on...