New Player Experience Feedback!!!!!

Kayc — Today at 9:38 AM ola //NEW CHARACTER CREATION: POV//

Creating a character, if i click back isntead of making the character i lose the Character slot and need to compeltely log out to get it back.
If i delete a character, i lose the Character slot and need to compeltely log out to get it back.
Character Creation: On my very first character i toggled female and then chose a race and it defaulted to Male, i had to toggle male then female again, but it didnt work on the 2nd character.
The proffessions seem odd, since the discord suggestions focus around limiting trade skills around the class types, which would make the Proffessions the classes right? so instead of the Blacksmith/Farmer/Cook it should have Warrior/Archer/Mage right?
It would be cool if those Trade proffessions were taught by the NPC's instead of having them in the character creation menu.
I wish i could learn about the stats in character creation, with a click or mouse over or something, since they are a pretty huge deal if i do them wrong and sink hours into the game and not know.
The weapon orb you get from talking with Kristanna, the menu for some reason needs a "more" button instead of showing all of the weapons to pick from in the first menu, it comes across as weird, like "why cant i see the whole list in this small window".
The default mouse cursor size is too tiny, its like a mosquito.
The server selection also seems small for that main screen window, it could be improved for first impressions.
The Targeting mechanic has a delay that makes some gameplay aspects feel clunky.
most noticably early on with Agriculture skills and figuring out Eating/Hunger.
When you are seeing many failed attempts at planting seeds and targeting things multiple times it adds up to not as much fun.
After getting almost all of the Crafting/Gathering skills to 20 on Silvest i have grown to hate the targetting mechanic, its alot of clicking and then you throw in a "macro check".
Doesnt seem to be a Token pack for 250, for mega backpack.
1 year gameplay subscription is $25 thats appealing to me, but im waiting until im 20 in all skills on Silvest to know if i am going to keep playing.
I Wish the Shop window/Icons/Font were scaled bigger, things are very small.
Foraging stick price lower would be nice, it broke quickly.
Foraging stick auto target nearest flowers, instead of needing to target - the extra clicking is not fun.
Right click to Gather/Harvest crops, like picking up loot.
Auto use tools like Scythe with right click, to avoid the targeting clunk would be cool.
Agriculture Harvesting at the start without the farmer hat is harsh.
Farmer Giles quest wants you to harvest 10 wheat but you have very little chance to get any resources until higher level, its a time sink in an un-fun way.
Had to buy 100's of cotton seeds to get the Harvesting up 9 levels to be able to gather Wheat, otherwise it tells me "You damage the crop" with 0% chance to get wheat.
At level 9 Harvesting it is a 1 in 16(6.25%) chance of getting wheat from the crop.
The Holy animals get in the way of doing Agriculture on the farm.
Blackmithing & Digging
There is no sound to Digging.
There is no Attack animation on the resources being harvested like asif i was hitting an enemy, visually im just standing there and waiting.
What is the radius of Resources? i have to walk a mile off to the side to find a new node or else it keeps saying "There is nothing to mine here"
What is the respawn time? seems like a long time.
Could really use a "Last Target" hotkey or something that reduces input needed to enjoy the gameplay.
Like Foraging, it kinda feels like clicking the Pickaxe should auto-target the resources nearby or some improved method of gathering gameplay.
Pickaxe doesnt last long before destroyed, you cannot finish the "Silver mountain mining" step 1-mine 25 iron, you break the pickaxe before you can get 25 iron.
Seems like Digging gives the lowest amount of EXP from gathering skills early on.
Digging feels like it fails the most out of all the Gathering skills so far.
The mountain side closest to Silvest on the right has weak iron ore nodes if any at all(seems excessive to make that part of the mountain useless).
Cannot get Pebbles from Digging on Silvest. ("posted in bugs on discord: FujiQ responded")
Cannot Dig inside Caves, which seems counter intuitive to how they were formed in the first place.
Skill level 13 is around when i started seeing a noticable changing in success with Digging.
Skill level 14 is around when i started seeing Gems from Digging.
The Blacksmith tutorial quest doesnt tell you the Bellows is the thing beside the Forge.
Smelting Multiple ores does not give you the full EXP, you get a little bit extra and you cannot control how many you smelt.
The EXP from smeling ore is not consistent, it can give whatever EXP it wants randomly anda randome extra exp on its own.
Crafting Blacksmith stuff is a very small window with a very long list of things, is annoying to scroll down such a huge list in a tiny window.
Crafting Blacksmith stuff isnt helpful with what would be easy or hard to make or the success chance or whats good for EXP gains.
Crafting Blacksmith stuff has a column with # as the header instead of naming it "Ingots".
Crafting Blacksmith list defaults to an incorrect order, it puts an "Assault Crossbow" at the top, which will waste 26 ingots for any new player who has no idea.
Crafting Blacksmith list does not remember which order you changed the list to and will default back to the random order with an "Assault Crossbow" at the top.
Crafting Blacksmith stuff closes the Crafting window so you must go through the excessive amount of repeatedly clicking the same objects.
There is no way to recycle anything you craft, you cannot get any resources back, but you must attempt to craft 100's of useless items to grind out the skill.
Decorative Helmet randomly jumps around in the order if you hit # while skilling up from low skill between 2-6 and changes again at level 12
The Blacksmith UI is very outdated imo.
Blacksmith UI should have another column with the Level-Req of the items.
I feel like the Blacksmith UI should have tabs at the top that are helpful for playing that part of the game.
Crafting stuff sometimes grants a random extra EXP bonus seperate from the normal EXP.
When using a "Blacksmith Hammer" and selecting "Iron Ingot" The skill of blacksmithing in your UI jumps around.
Clicking the blacksmith hammer and then targeting the ingots over and over is annoying.
You can fail alot at crafting Pebbles with 20 skill.
1 Iron ore only crafts 6 pebbles.. i was hoping it would be something like 20 or even 40, 6 seems like a waste of time since you can fail alot.
Carpenter & Lumberjack
You get Double the exp from Lumberjack compared to Digging.
Like other gathering skills there is no Sound or Animations.
Like other gathering skills i cannot tell the resource depletion radius, i cant chop the tree beside another tree, it will act like i have gathered that too.
I really wish there was another method than click+target everytime, since players have to do it to the same target alot in a row, people are going to use a 3rd party program to make macroes to facilitate what the game doesnt provide in game play.
Resource nodes are hard to tell if i can gather from them, i feel like the game makes you feel 3/4 blind and fumbling around in the dark, it takes away from immersion.
The Wood gathering experience is much better than blacksmiths Digging, i was able to complete "Mufferaw's Carpentry School" with 1 tool.
I still feel like all tools need to have their durability increased to not feel like an inventory management problem and for entertainment reasons, BUT the lumberjacking so far has had the best Tool for gathering success/reward, it was more enjoyable.
AARCHERY
Cannot figure out how to get stones for Sling, they are not sold on vendors.
Warrior gets level 5 skill in everything except Throwing.
Combat Archery/Crossbows collecting the Arrows is always Under all the loot, never ontop, implies that the ammo is inside the enemy instead of sticking out of them.
There is no learning about the 'Pause' that happens after shooting, there is nothing in chat/above character head/combat console that says "Reloading" to give understanding of the mechanic, for the first 20mins of using archery i thought i was doing it wrong or bugged.
Hope there is a Companion or mechanic later that helps with picking up Ammo, because iv had enough of doing it up to skill level 20, iv stopped picking up ammo because of how tedious it is.
Bow shoots slightly faster but makes the character stand still longer, which has a negative gameplay feel and its not that much faster for the lower damage.
Bow needs twice as much Ammo which weighs more?
TAB targetting will target enemies that will block-the-shot, over viable targets that are 1-hex away.
Really cool that the Ammo you pickup is added to your equipped Ammo.
The Melee combat sounds are used for Archery attacks, was hoping for an overall different experience when using the ranged proffesion.
Cooking / Baking / Milling / Mixing
There is no sound when adding to the mixing bowl.
There is no sound adding water to the bucket from the well.
There is no UI to help guide people with cooking the many different types of food, its visually & audio-ly & excessively unappealing.
The Book-guide beside the Mill is not helpful.
I feel like im performing brain surgery on this Mill, iv missed "MILL R" so many times now.
The mouse over tooltips for the Mill need to be a bit more elaborate, mouseover should show all Tooltips and in a specific way, the current tooltips cover other parts of the mill
This is the most i have ever needed to click and reclick over and over, it doesnt feel intuitive, more excessive.
Makes me wish that "Last Target" hotkey was a real thing, i have to target a mill and a bowl alot, feels like there should be a cooking UI window for this.
I cannot figure out how to empty the Mixing Bowl.
The Mixing Bowl tooltip does not show you what is mixed within it, it only says "used mixing bowl".
I broke a mixing bowl, idk what i did but i can no-longer use a mixing spoon on it, but it will happily accept more flour and water, i threw it away and bought another one.
The wall of Green font in Chat is hard to see the difference in what is happening, would be cool if the color changed it up a bit to see each step from water/wheat/extras, even adding water to a bucket, or just the font the says "Adding.....".
After Mixing 100 bread, my hands is really sore.
Have not started baking and am not looking forward to it.
After 100's of Flour, with 20 maximum skill in Silvest it is a maximum 1/3(33%) chance to correctly mix "Bread Dough".
Bread does not stack like other foods, it destroys your storage capacity.
Seems that everything is designed for solo play, you cannot use the same Workbench/Oven/Mill/Anything as someone else without timing it perfectly within the 1000ms delay(too realistic for a game with lots of excess clicking imo).
You need to kill way more Snakes to cook for Jean Jeanies cook quest, you burn alot of Snake.
The Cook Book beside Jean jeanie is incorrect.
There is no Difference in stamina gain from eating Raisin Bread than from Plain Bread(thought it may add the extra grape stamina bonus to it of 2(total 17 -plain bread is 15 stamina).
Eating Food / Potions
Right click from inventory feels like it should be possible and not needing to target or Shift+Lclick.
There is no Eating/Drinking-potion sound? makes it feel weird.
Shift+Left click in inventory can sometimes cause you to split the food and messup the click spam you are doing, works better in action bar.
There doesnt seem to be an After effect from eating or food buffs that i can see so far.
Could use an Action Bar for food/bandages/potions that a single click could auto eat until full.
The tooltips for Edible food donot show the Nourishment value.
The prices for Sleep in the INN is expensive to bother to use in Silvest.
I need to carry around 11kg of Cheese incase i get hungry on Silvest.
Buying/Selling with an NPC's has an Interesting UI.
I like that it highlights what your doing.
The red highlight of the numbers when buying stuff feels like im doing something wrong, along with the minus character infront of the number when buying.
The numbers in the quantity column can be hard to read.
Selling to an NPC has no Shift+Click to select all(& unselect all) of same item for mass selling(learned by cooking lots of unstackable bread and needing to sell it all).
Inventory management
Havent had many problems dealing with inventory, i did hit the 64 cap when gathering and crafting, needing multiple tools, but it was the Foraging seeds and fishing that sent me to cap.
There have been a few things that have taken up extra space, needed to carry multiple tools for some things: Foraging, Digging, Shovel(randomly loses more durability than its meant to sometimes idk how but its always breaks short of a full farm doing multiple 16x plots).
sorry for spam
discord doesnt let me have a higher character limit.//////////////////
//Stuff that crossed the road: (random thoughts while playing)
The games default mouse size is tiny, it would be cool to have the default set to large so you can see it when picking a server&character(even if you have Large Cursor turned On, when restarting the game it defaults to small until you login to a character).
Some parts of the game feel like the original version was not made for playing/having fun or anyone with a Disability.
Gathering from a node does not tell you if you finished gathering all the resources from the node so you never know if its empty until you try it always 1 more time, excess clicking.
Using the "REUSE" hotkey will randomly select 1 of the same tools in your Inventory, instead of using the same one in order until its completely gone to move onto to using the next one, so you will have tools all with different Durabilities(noticed while doing blacksmithing).
Using tools from your Action Bar acts like the REUSE hotkey, it will use a random tool of the same type instead of working in an order.
What is Quanties World? in options.
What does Target Cylcing do?
I Wish there was a Toggle in options to show the fps/ping like tyhe /debug fps command, but the toggle stays on no matter if you restart client.
I Wish i could turn on the Enemy healthbar and Name without having to target them in warmode.
I Wish "Spacebar" did an Auto-Pickup loot nearby, it would be amazing for so many aspects of the game, especially Ammo/Gold.
I Wish most gathering mechanics did not need to Target a Target, that it would auto gather around where the character is.
I Wish chat had a repeat same text filter, for messages that repeat, it would save the chat from being flooded with some common spammed phrases.
I Hope there are pets/companions later on that help with Gathering/Looting/Pickups and maybe even delivering stuff to bank for me, idk what to expect am hopeful theyre trainable or something cool that isnt only combat related.
I Hope there is a checkpoint/waypoint system like Diablo2, walking everywhere is not so smooth.
I Hope i can upgrade my Characters pixels at some point later on, am not sure what to expect.
There are no emotes or things that appear over the characters head for social or dramatic mechanics.
Cannot find hotkey to fast transfer items from Inventory to Bank.
Looking through the Website's and Google docs equipment, i cannot find anything that would hold threat against an enemy for group content in PVE.
Combat healing with Bandages and potions doesnt show a cooldown delay in chat, it just doesnt does heal or drink a potion sometimes(cooldown shows if i spam only bandges)
Combat Console Text Fade out options, feels like it fades too quick for me.
Combat Console font would be better with a black highlight around the words it gets hard to see the text, especially the Blue skill up text unless its night time.
Combat has no Weapon Passive effects per type.
Combat TAB targeting does not prioritize closest enemy, it can target enemies out-of-range if there are 2 enemies.
Combat SOUNDS are always the same no matter what weapon youre holding, it could be Blunt and still sound like a Sword.
Targetting a new enemy has a delay that can cancel the visual of your target square if done too quickly after killing an enemy, you will still attack the enemy but the target marker vanishes, its weird because you can left click twice and auto-untarget an enemy but that will stop the combat.
The Combat skills have a category for each type except Melee, the melee combat is the Combat category they cannot be collapsed without closing the Combat category.
Warning of tools near breaking would be handy, instead of only warning when its broken.
Tool durability needs an increase or doubled for some Tools, new players will not be sure how to manage money and buying new tools, no one wants to buy a tool that will break in the first hour of use.
Burning Spear — Today at 9:40 AM
thanks, gret notes. i will put them in a big ticket and decompose later
Kayc — Today at 9:40 AM
The name and quantity number of tooltip objects are hard to read, very small font, can see the (weight) tooltip fine.
Hard to read the number 0 in bank in inventory quantities, it looks like the number 8.
The sound when leveling up or skill gain sounds like a Wind storm, was not sure what it was until a few levels later, didnt sound right, i thought it was a weather effect.
There is no Cooking sound.
There is no Digging sound.
Have not found anything in any Barrel/Container in Silvest.
Escape doesnt cancel the target cursor.
Escape doesnt close shop windows.
Server select shows server online, but not ping/latency.
Some shops dont have Items on the tables indicating what they buy/sell.
Pressing the Re-use button fast will consume twice the resources and not do 2 actions (discovered while cooking)
Standing still or around town does not slow the hunger effect if you need to AFK.
There is no Follow functions like Ultima Onlines ALT+Click for friends/party/guild.
Seems like Jo Harders Snake quest would be hard if there was more than 1 person doing it, not many snakes to share.
The skills menu needs me to click the tiny + button to expand the category, would be easier to make the whole skill bar clickable and do same thing.
Radar/Map doesn't show compas N,S,E,W but some quests use those as directions, i assume its default up,down,right,left.
Could not tell if stats were a permanent choice, or if there was s system to work them into another build.
It seemed like the Proffesions you pick at character creation would put someone at a disadvantage if they didnt pick warrior, i didnt see mage or archer in the list, would be cool if everyone got the tools from the crafting proffesions if picked warrior or archer or mage.
Is there a Quiver instead of a Shield? -archer
Is there a Totem instead of a shield? -mage
There seems to be no Parry mechanics or talent tree to Customize your combat style/build.. but everyone wears a shield.
The Quest to save the "Lost Goat" clicking the Hay said i wasnt in the right spot, but i was, and it seemed like it was made for a solo quest, not with friends because it was a long time for the Lost Goat to respawn for others (there was another goat there but i could not interact with it).
Quest updates in chat doesnt do an update to notify if you complete the requirements for the quest for some, Zoology of the beast at Silvest,
Quest progress doesnt work very well if you do it with others, it seems to be who gets the final hit.
Zoology of the beast at Silvest quest, had progress reset after a relog.
No Quest Log for Gornaka book quest.
No Quest Log for Dransik Seeker quest.
No Introduction or information about who/why/what about Seekers.
Seeker Quest conversation has an excess menu where he says "Excellent" and you need to click again.
"Orc Warriors" & "Orc Mage's" donot count toward "Vanquish Vile Orcs" -Morganwg Quest.
Every now and then the "Dynamic Lighting" for some wall torches only work when i moved close to it.
Combat misses are color coded instead of showing your name it shows the enemy.
Healing has a dull grey color in the chat window.
Enemies with Red names are hard to read with a light brown highlight around them.
Turned Sound to 50% and it muted all game sound, only music plays.
Cannot pet the Heavenly Animals in town.
Heavenly Animals blocking doorways in towns.
Depending on where you put your Character window and Inventory, mousing over items can have the tooltips off-screen.
There are no (lore friendly)Class type NPC Guilds on newbie island, to help support & facilitate that Class proffesions of Warrior/Archer/Mage, new people to that game are expected to know how to play them and be full aware of attribute effects.
There is no Filter for : "You have learned all you can on silvest, you should explore the rest of the world" -it spams alot and i have not finished all of the things to do on Silvest, only made it to skill level 20 on that 1 thing for it to Spam that i should leave..
There is no learning about Healing/Bandages & Potions and the cooldowns, you just kinda get them in quests and find them.
There is no learning about Alignment on Silvest, and the website guides are vague on how the stats change depending on alignment and skip over to PVP.
There is no learning about Swing speed numbers on Silvest.
There is no Learning about what Seeker quests are for on Silvest.
There is no way to know how to talk in another chat Channel.
There is no confirmation when joining a Chat channel.
There is no Sound when a Macro Check pops up.
Cannot scroll the "CHAT" if transparent is turned "ON", it locks it.
Cannot sell "Any dough type pre-cooked item" -to the
Cannot sell "Triddle Blood Dagger". -loot from thief/fighter
Cannot sell "Triddle Spine". -loot from thief/fighter
Cannot sell "+1 Axe". -loot from thief/fighter
Cannot sell "+1 Bow". -loot from thief/fighter
Cannot sell "+1 Dagger". -loot from thief/fighter
Cannot sell "+2 Trident". -loot from thief/fighter
Cannot sell "Blade of Dexterity". -loot from thief/fighter
Cannot sell "Magic Sabre". -loot from thief/fighter
Cannot sell "Staff of Might". -loot from thief/fighter
Cannot sell "Bow of Antinon". -loot from thief/fighter
Cannot sell "Tyran Sword". -loot from thief/fighter
Cannot sell "Scorpion Spine". -loot from thief/fighter
Cannot sell "Staff Sling". -loot from thief/fighter
"Staff Sling" looks like a fishing pole, the string is too dark, at first glance it looked like a Stick.
It feels weird saying this, But i am gathering more with my Male character than my Female character, im also failing less with the Male character, Ratio of about 1/3(not sure if conincidence since the game tries to get real world active with a few skills with over the top interaction).
Resource depletion Radius seems to be about 11-13 hexs, Notch-3 of game window size seems to be 1 full screen distance to next available resource.
Server stability this week of playing has been alright, not good, not bad, the server has crashed a bunch and i have been disconnencted from host multiple times and been stuck with "character still online" so i could not login for a while.
I am still able to target players on PVE server, but it looks like you dont hit them, still makes them part of the targetable options with TAB cycling.
-done-

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