Conan Exiles Underutilized Map Areas - Mini-Obelisk/Yogtha Network Suggestion

[MostlyCharmless]

I have 4700 hours in game. PVE, PVC, PVP - primarily PVC

I have observed that there are areas of the map that are essentially “dead” with rarely any player activity / buildings.

In particular, areas of the jungle, or areas of the frozen north have extremely low player activity. I’m sure Funcom is aware of this. It is definitely the case that there is an uneven distribution of obbys relative to the number of grid squares a player has to travel to get to the nearest one:
Deselect all then select Obelisk

Sorc portals helped with that, but there are still areas without dungeons or adequate resources or access to a nearby obby to make those areas popular or “useful”.

It is often the case that I go through “hibernation” periods in the game, where I check into my base to keep the timer up, and then check out until something new rolls around. If I had satellite bases, dealing with sorc portal corruption simply made those satellites a pain to visit, and I’d always let them decay.

Since the fast travel map is an established asset, it does not make sense to revisit /redisgn that game feature.

What I am proposing is that in areas that have evidence-based low traffic occupation, or by the math are remote locations relative to the average distance to an obby, have a new smaller obby portal installed.

In practice, let’s say grid M5 was identified as a low traffic location, and a candidate for a sub obby portal. When you port into the N6 obby, a second smaller obby is installed near the N6 obby that is a direct connect to M6.

The Yogtha plant may be an appropriate asset for this purpose, that when interacted with gives both corruption and teleports you through the demon underworld to the invasive Yogtha at the target location beginning to contaminate the Exiled lands. This may offer some fertile ground for a sorc content revisit as well.

I believe that with more fast travel nodes, more of the map will be made alive.

What do you all think?

[MarcosC]

@MostlyCharmless

What do you all think?

That the North freezes your ass without adequate armor/food and in the jungle it’s ALWAYS fkng raining. You step out, rain!.. and spiders… and rippers… and giant ass snakes always hissing!
There are advantages to building there, but unless you’re into a certain theme, who would want to live in those inhospitable places of the map?
So, I agree. Something has to counter the aesthetic disadvantages. I always want to build in the deep jungle, but after a while, all that rain drives me mad.

[LostBrythunian]

The frozen north at least has star metal and black ice. There is also the one and done Dungeon, Temple of Frost. When the Sacred Hunt is active, there is also the Mammoth.

The Jungle…
So there is a little lotus.
But it’s easy access from the river.

Other than picking up a part of the scourgestone (which can be accessed from the Highlands much more efficiently), there is little reason to go to the interior of the jungle, and even less reason to return or remain there. The resources are basic, the thralls are extremely low tier, and a good chunk of the local fauna are poisonous.

While this one personally enjoys wetlands and likes rain… The distance from anything useful makes it a very undesirable location.

The Obelisk there brings you smack in the middle of nothing useful, compared to the Snowfield Obelisk that is right near an event boss, black ice, temple of frost and an entrance to the Volcano with an easy line to the Well of Skelos.

In a far flung space future, it would be nice to see another dungeon in the jungle, one that could be worth running, as opposed to “The Passage”, which is both off on a corner and doesn’t really offer much to be desired.
Heh, put something like the Grey Ones pools out there, ancient Lemurian ruins where they had experimented with the maric they would later unleash against the Giant Kings.
Likewise, the Disjunction would be perfect for a Grey Ones pool esque feature.

But that’s in a hypothetical space future.
There will be no new development for awhile.
Hopefully after stabilizing the pasta plate from a bowl of spaghetti to something more structured, like lasagna, such areas can get attention and it won’t collapse the whole system.