Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-24108228-20150221232716

Right now, I'm really just reviving an old thread. We've never really got any negative comments on this, so I decided to bring it up again. The only issue was that it simply ended up getting swamped in the old and active forum activity, so it was knocked off before enough opinions were gathered to make it conclusive. With the new forum activity, where we've got threads halfway to necro-territory sitting at the bottom end, I honestly don't feel that's a threat anymore.

Anyway, I'm suggesting we open the poison recipe to the public. For those of you who don't know or have forgotten, the recipe for poison is one that as a wiki, we are honor-bound to keep as a secret, for reasons that date back to before I got here and so far back in time that I can't really find enough on it to guess at. In fact, it's so important that quite literally rule #1 is "No revealing the poison recipe." (along with a couple other items that fall under the category of hidden knowledge, such as mushrooms, mithril and bluesteel).

Personally, I find this silly. The poison recipe is remarkably basic, easy to guess, and frankly all you need to do is look at the item and think "What does this look like the combination of?" to likely get it first or second try. Contrary to the bluesteel recipe, or the new map mithril locations, this isn't really advanced stuff, it's merely a way of checking if the player trying to poison things has high skills. The tricky bit is getting the chemistry level, and finding the mushrooms (something I personally did by searching through the revision history of the mushrooms page).

We keep the mithril location secret because it's the main boundary preventing newbies from abusing mithril (smithing's easy to grind). We keep the bluesteel recipe secret because it's an alternative to mithril (and will perhaps one day live up to that role), and the developers went through a lot of effort to hide it. We keep the mushroom location secret because it's the main boundry stopping newbies from abusing the end-game powers of poison. With all three of the conventional end game weapons covered, we really don't need to keep any more things secret. We are a wiki after all, and although it's important to withhold some information for the sake of the game, it defies the point if we're doing it needlessly. Reveal the Poison Recipe? Yes, people should know I'm not concerned either way No, we should hide it We'll give this poll 5 days to come to a conclusion, that should be plenty of time for any of our editors, whether they be active or occasional, to have their say. 