Best posts made by Lightspoon

@Gothix Sorry man but what are you saying is good only on paper: you cannot force the majority of players to just avoid to group up because you think that in that way they are carebears.

As you said, people will almost always search for the fast and easy solution and in a sandbox game being a member of a massive guild is the way.

In the end it's in the hand of the Devs: do they want Fractured to be a game where few massive guilds fight between them or where you have tons of little group trying to gain control of local resources? Whatever choice they'll make, someone will be pleased and someone else will not so everything is just all down on what they want to game to be.

It's indeed nice the idea that crafting in some peculiar (and dangerous) places should at last give some extra properties to the items: creating a sword in a forge powered by the lava core of a volcano in a smoldering zone filled with fire elementals, instead that at the safe forge of a city, should at last craft a blazing flame sword with some extra fire damage attached to it!
Maybe also adding exotic materials during the crafting process could give some additional properties and so on.

I would for sure prefer such things than an extra minigame that after the 10th time would be boring and repetitive, considering that crafting will be (probably) a massive time consuming occupation since the entire economy is driven by players themselves and everything must be produced.

Also a skilled crafter should get additional bonus (less materials consumed or less time or something like that) when crafting low/mid tier items: if he's a master he won't find any difficulties in creating such things.