Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-24108228-20150412155106/@comment-24046900-20150416041441

Skullcrusher115678 wrote: Just saying unless you haver read the hobbit, lord of the rings books or played some other video games that have it your not gonna know what mithril is. Most players are what 10-13, I say most 13 year olds would know what it is but when I was 10 I had no idea what mithril was and I didnt until I read the Hobbit, and that was just mentioned. So no I dont think most new player know what mithril is. And I never said your idea was bad just needs improving. Maybe like gold ans sulphur trading off. And chromium and mithril, so they are both still hidden. I love the idea of iron and coal because that allows steel production but mithril for gold is a little op even though the chances. Hmm... hobbit, lord of the rings, videogames, that seems like slightly significant amount of sources to let people figure out what it is. Ontop of that, what the lack of yellow strangely radioactive tropical fruit said, why would they mine the mithril in the first place if they had no idea what it was. Even if they didn't know and went to mine it for some strange reason, it's a purple ore which they probably had never seen anywhere else, so they would put together it was something special. Ontop of that, it's literally called mithril, that sounds SLIGHTLY powerful. And if they didn't figure it out yet, there's always other people to ask in the server. And if they COMPLETELY and UTTERLY failed to put two and two together, people rarely trade anyway, and if they do, it's only one mithril. Even then, this is what has to happen for someone to get a free mithril off a newbie

1.Random newbie joins and happens to spawn on an island with gold/goes to an island with gold wielding pickaxes

Edit: Oh yeah, they have to actually MINE the mithril even though they have absolutely no idea what it is. Insert that here.

2.Random newbie is the first one to find the mithril after the AMAZINGLY MINISCULE chances

3.Random newbie has no idea what mithril is

4.Random newbie can't put two and two together.

5.Random lottery winner is the first one to pass by

6.Random lottery winner persuades the newbie to give him the mithril, or the newbie for some reason just gives the mithril away

7.Random lottery winner thinks he has had all his birthdays, christmasses, and easters at once

Slightly specific path fate has to decide to go down for the gold to mithril conversion thing to be op. Slightly.

Anyways, I don't think gold and sulphur trading off makes much sense. One is yellow and the other is yellow. Also, their both yellow. Gold and sulphur don't have anything in common usage-wise, or compositionally.