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Offline Gebeleizis "Hultaan" Kapnobatai

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PDA features
« on: August 01, 2014, 12:11:40 am »
hello,

I was thinking at some ideas regarding the lately tools for mining and I come up whit few thoughts...

I m thinking if this is not a bad idea to be an in game feature, some PDA for mining who allow u to track all your claims, instead to be saved in chat log to be saved into a different folder called mining log, and the PDA sections could collect and select all data into some similar option,

would be excellent in my opinion to add some extra " memory module " that give this option, tbh I m thinking for all PDA featured should exist some electronic parts that can be crafted from different components found in game, nothing exist as it own, all must be crafted, and all should give u what is called PDA features, like the applications on the IRL PDA's,

the PDA itself can be also different, or this can be a feature section to one of the fallowing PDA example, such as ... Military PDA, Urban PDA, Science PDA or even a starter PDA ( this one should be allowed to be crafted by newcomers into the New Quarantines giving them the chance to craft something of their own, among other things ) each of those have a different power, memory, application range and so on ,for each can be an update or why not brand new one.

in my opinion all items we use, all stuffs we have or will have, must be crafted, few things u can find and use them in a raw condition, as u found it, except pvp looted items, but nothing exist until u make it to be,

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Re: PDA features
« Reply #1 on: August 01, 2014, 12:19:07 am »
AW's philosophy has always been all about player crafting for all usable items except for the free iron tools and I think different, craftable PDAs or at least PDA upgrades is a cool idea.

At one time the devs talked about making the PDA a device that had to be "charged" with AWD, which nobody really liked, of course, so they made it free. When voice chat was introduced in AWA, they made that a "charged" option, which makes sense since it really is only an option and since there are free tools outside of the game that provide the same capability, so we'll probably see that again sometime.

But I think it would be pretty cool to have an extremely stripped-down version of the PDA as the free tool that everyone gets, then have additional features and options as either PDA add-ons or entirely different PDAs, all of which we would have to craft. I have wondered a few times why it is that we actually have a PDA item in our inventory that we can't equip, but with this idea I wonder if something like different PDA options has been their plan all along.
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Re: PDA features
« Reply #2 on: August 01, 2014, 09:58:29 am »
AW has always been pretty far ahead in it's PDA-related features. The ability to make your own map markers itself is cool stuff.
If u add an ability to write your in-game knowledge (mob spawns or mining areas) to a CD and give it (or sell it!) to the other players, that's an amazing feature!


Once the devs get some more time for nitpicking on small details and developing new features, Mining would definitely become much more interesting if there was more different log and map related features for the miners.
Hunting gets pretty complex too on the higher levels (if u want to do it "right"), i believe hunters would be happy as well if they could analyze their data about different mob(spawn)s and link it to the in-game map.
It's nice if community develops it's own 3rd party tools for the game but it would be even better if the most basic tools would be available directly from the game (PDA).

Last but not least, i believe the AW world will grow much bigger in the future. The vastness of the territory will change the way we play and think drastically. I would imagine the maps and recorded data won't be just a convenience but a must-have in this new world.
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Re: PDA features
« Reply #3 on: August 01, 2014, 10:55:11 am »
We can already craft Empty Map DD 10 -> 50, although their use has not been implemented.
Maybe this will be the way to go?
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Re: PDA features
« Reply #4 on: August 01, 2014, 01:05:02 pm »
Yes i like this idea verry much this would be verry helpfull and it would be nice if there come multiple options  and offcourse all have to be crafted.
Also as Fifth says the ability to write ingame knowlegde to a cd would be a amazing feature.
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