inlife
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6 years ago Hello!
Item quality system may indeed improve the gameplay, and especially the economic part. Trading as well as gameplay involvement would really benefit from having different quality tools, food, resources and objects.
Quality itself can be a floating point number, with base value of 10.0, as it's made in the project "Haven & Hearth". Here is an description/reference page containing information about their implementation:
That system can be applied to pretty much anything:
- Farming - crops increase/decrease quality value based on environment they were planted in. Higher quality ones will go to the next round of replanting, while lower quality ones may be used for cooking purposes, influencing quality of ingredients/final food.
- Food - quality of food directly influences stats that the food item gives, even by simply multiplying the base value.
- Wood - same aspects from Farming are applicable. Influences quality of the other components in the craft chain.
- Tools - quality directly influences lifetime, speed modifier, miss chance, ... etc of the tool.
- Environment - every biome/chunk/block can have its own base value of quality for soil/sand/stone/water. Planting crops there, or using stone for crafting from there will give higher quality items in the result.
That system might be too complex for some users, and considering that I think it can be made optional. It can either fully disable quality-related handling code, or just force a default value for every item.
Thank you for your time, and your hard work! Really hope you'll see this :)
From @wiloxe on November 10, 2017 22:50
There's been one thing I've been wondering about for a little. Would it work to have item quality? To explain it simply, if you craft something we say a wooden chair without any special skill or such you will receive low item quality and the more you craft within the same item class for this example wood, like table or anything else you will gain specialization on but the learning speed of that specialization can be affected depending on your efficiency and speed skill combination.
Making this "Specialization" system it's own from the skill system where you have to start crafting stuff and such.
Copied from original issue: StrangeLoopGames/EcoIssues#2798