Have thralls "harvest" simple materials

jesstheripper · 2019-09-09T11:58:29.527Z

Actually that food converter is perfect in my eyes! Great answer, I’d love to see that in official game!

Bryan_Skull · 2019-09-09T19:56:40.278Z

Alpha tribes don’t need harvest thralls. Alpha tribes raid and murder your harvest squad. Capturing thralls takes time. Alpha tribe raid you easy if you solo.

jistsomeguy · 2019-09-09T22:47:53.440Z

hasnt someone already suggested a thrall to follow ya around and collect stuff that ya pass by? seems legit.

jesstheripper · 2019-09-10T01:40:24.062Z

I think that would be the pvp route for sure! It would be the game as usual really, just with resources abound to steal!

Bryan_Skull · 2019-09-10T06:02:25.451Z

The risk is high to use. Players could track down your base. Since it is a large thrall group heading to your base.

Ko6ka · 2019-09-10T08:20:17.053Z

Testerle:

but this is more a resouce converter. in this case food for resources

And it’s right. Look at Alren Storm’s first and brilliant mode, Conscripts:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1094386048
It’s rather primitive but it’s honest. When I played in a clan I myself was such a “conscript” gathering wood and stones while others were fighting monsters. Now I play SP, and my conscripts are my “clan”. By the way Emberlight is thinking about making “Cohort” based on this old good mod they say.

jesstheripper · 2019-09-10T11:35:44.244Z

I think those mods are awesome! They’re the exact solution to the tedious collection of low level stuff and would allow the player to worry about chasing down big things and killing monsters!

I think it’s important too to say that even with these added to the game, you would still be able to be the gatherer as well if that’s what you prefer, it would be one more hand collecting supplies and would give you the advantage over people who rely on the resource posts.

I personally think these would greatly improve the game and even balance the world a little in all of the servers

jesstheripper · 2019-09-10T11:37:48.443Z

And it’s a lovely target of things you need!

Monkey325 · 2019-09-10T18:09:32.684Z

I personally like the resource mine and lumbermill from age of calamitous

WhatMightHaveBeen · 2019-09-10T21:03:42.015Z

Maybe after the farming thrall, we can get a forum post thrall that will express how we do or don’t like the game on Conan Forums. This would free me up to go play something else and just check in even more!!!

jesstheripper · 2019-09-11T02:47:19.835Z

I don’t think the forum post thrall could be negative enough

snowchin · 2019-09-11T04:45:36.139Z

I like the idea of a “gatherer” as well, just like I appreciate the odd Sherpa that can be seen walking about throughout the land. Adds a bit of adventure other than ghosts and threats.

WhatMightHaveBeen · 2019-09-11T15:05:03.952Z

Then why else post

jesstheripper · 2019-09-11T16:37:13.045Z

Lol. I guess we’ll just have to keep it up! Hahaha

fito · 2019-09-12T20:21:41.594Z

Great idea. There are dozens of topics on how to thralls can be more useful. I would like to see it in the game without mods

SON_OF_THAK · 2019-09-12T20:31:39.259Z

I’m interested in the idea. Maybe a ‘peon’ type thrall who can be directed to harvest the nearest raw material (wood, grass, stone, etc.). Basically a guy who trudges to the nearest material source, slaves away until his inventory is full, then trudges home to drop it off.

It’d be watching these chumps getting bushwacked by hyenas.

Bryan_Skull · 2019-09-13T05:31:28.678Z

My idea is balance.

jesstheripper · 2019-09-13T12:05:54.636Z

Lol my biggest gripe is twine. I just never have it. Then I have to sickle some grass and make a bunch in the middle of whatever I’m doing. That and iron bar. I get it’s a survival game, but whenever I’m level 50, scouting the mountains for black ice and star metal, battling ferocious beasts and killing colonies of cimerians, I just don’t like to slow down to crack some iron and twist some twine.

If you want to equate this to reality, if I have a camp of people and I’m going hunting, their probably taking care of camp and making simple essentials.

NOGG · 2019-09-13T20:51:48.881Z

when I first got the game I thought this was possible… I believed it was the taskmaster NPCs that gathered resources… I was sadly disappointed lol… plz add the ability to have a “laborer” NPC that harvests resources (probably consuming a tool when “broken” and then consuming food and repair kits)…

GodKingVivec · 2019-09-14T03:54:49.588Z

The food (or maybe even coin) for resources conversion sounds like a great idea to me, maybe even have hunter thralls who hunt small game, or fisher thralls that manage fish traps and the thralls deliver meat to cooking stations, yes this is a crafting and building rpg, but at higher levels why shouldnt a i feel like a king in a castle builder rpg once my kingdom is built? Advancement should slowly remove micromanagement. This would make solo play alot funner and more rewarding as well. I think this could also open up the conversation to a more in depth wealth mangement system, because lets be frank, the merchants were disappointing, I can make my own iced tea and mystery meat soup, thanks. We could allow thralls to stop feeling like just tireless slaves and instead become proud citizens, farming and opening businesses, they added the signs didnt they!? Why not have actual working businesses? Id actually be proud to sit on my throne, as my servant brings me a cup of our kingdoms finests highland berry wine as a i look over what Ive worked so hard to build. This all sounds amazing to me. Then again, Im biased, as I am a solo player.