Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-24108228-20150221232716/@comment-24108228-20150223174752

Poisonchocolate wrote: It's just really a further safety net; and really more importantly, as Narco said, I think it's supposed to be what it is: an item for "expert" players. You have something to strive for, to learn that recipe through experimentation. So what if it's easy? You still get to figure it out. If you want to learn the recipes through experimentation, you can choose not to look them up. If we were to go down that route, we should take off the recipes for all high end items such as lighthouses and war sloops, and hide them all to make the player feel more rewarded when they figure out how to craft the shop.

If I was to figure out the poison recipe, my responce is going to be something ranging from "Oh. Well that was easy" to facepalming. It isn't complicated, you can guess it on your second try, and it's a waste of effort hiding it. Metrix54 wrote: kill the thread its worthless brought up before and denied Last time this was brought up it got 12 supporters compared to a measly three from the people who wanted to keep it. TheRnizam wrote "Staying on Flax for a few minutes is hard"

And by the way, the trouble with poison is neither of those. It's learning how to use it. Although I will admit that actually using poison as a tribe murdering weapon is much harder than getting it in the first place, the issue is that it is deadly. No, I can't kill a tribe (or in the vast majority of cases, more than one person, due to the inevitable cry of "UMG THERE'S A GUY WITH POISON EVERYONE RUN FOR THE HILLS" when I poison somebody, making everyone paranoid), but it kills somebody. One person. In a lot of cases, that's plenty of damage. Poison shouldn't be free knowledge; however I stand by my statement that hiding the recipe is overkill.

On the old map, mushrooms are much better hidden than mithril. Instead of being blatantly obvious (it's hard to miss the spire location once you know the island), it's put in caves blocked off by rubble that blends into the terrain. The plateau location I still couldn't find despite being talked through it, and I had to have the guy actually show me the way in before I figured it out. Not only this, but mithril is far more dangerous than poison. You can't kill a full tribe with poison, and even if you were somehow skilled enough, it would take a very long time. Mithril is much quicker and more effective, and it's much easier to get your hands on, we're not hiding the mithril weapon recipes (which might I add, could work since the gold isn't obvious in some of the items). We don't need this "Further Safety Net", poison is well hidden, infrequently used, and rather overrated for the destructive power it has.