gathering in nature

[Elexia]

"The higher the character’s Mind, the more items are gained."
Whether it be a ninja-edit or you didn't read it properly, they have given answers.

It's called sarcasm.

[wind]

No they didn't.

They didn't go into detail or give a real answer as to what MND did since they answered nothing!

The higher the character’s Mind, the more items are gained.

although this was 'mining' not in general 'gathering', it was still pretty specific.




edit: adol beat me ; ; ( i is to slow)

[Rentahamster]

No they didn't.

Yes they did.

Unless that smiley face over there means you're making a joke or something.

In which case,

[twinkles]

It is difficult to stay positive when questions are given cookie cutter responses that show they did not actually read the question.

Example-

"Are there factors such as Moon Phases, Time of Day, and Weather Conditions that affect the Drops Rates and Quality of items obtained through gathering?"

Similar suggestions have been brought up, but nothing specific has been decided.

The answer is a simple yes (+ what mechanics are a factor) or a no.

[Lionix]

Will the gathering animations ever be reworked or redone through motion capture to improve the realism and fluidity of the animation?

The animations are already made using motion capture...

See the problem is not to make it more real by means of using better creation methods, if I remember correctly, the original poster of that question referred to how "the animations were obviously sped up to make gathering faster" so they seemed "unreal" because of it. It's not implying that the creation method was bad.

When I hit a sweet spot I still get random items, why is this?

We believe this may be because certain requirements (such as not being the proper rank) have not been met.

Haha, that answer sounds very "Idunno lol, I THINK it works like this. Maaaaybe."

What does Mind do for mining?

The higher the character’s Mind, the more items are gained.

HOLY CRAP, I can't believe they answered something like this that clearly. More like this!

Are there factors such as Moon Phases, Time of Day, and Weather Conditions that affect the Drops Rates and Quality of items obtained through gathering?

Similar suggestions have been brought up, but nothing specific has been decided.

Wait-- wat. This was kind of a "Y/N" question... A mistranslation maybe?

Nothing about the pouches for gathering classes, then?

Well, it seemed pretty underwhelming, but I'm glad I had something to read I suppose.

Honestly, not to be a jerk here, but in hindsight, we should try to make polls for stuff that's on "the top of the list". Considering gathering classes are not anywhere near the priority list, it's to be expected that all will be "Your concern is backburner fuel right now" answers.

There were many answers that sounded like "Yes", and that's good and motivating, the problem is that even those sound vague, and since SE has a long history of "soon" meaning "more time than mortal beings are capable of waiting", I don't even know if I should get excited or just move along and wait for them to pop when my future generations can enjoy it.

I wonder if the rest of the Q&A bring a spring to my step.

Similar thoughts have been brought up by developers.

Thanks for delivery Bayohne, have those guys drink some of whatever keeps so active, will ya?

[Illy]

I feel as though nothing got answered and as though they didn't really read a few of the questions as the response to them didn't even fit the question.

Honestly instead of having the players ask questions and get no as the majority of the answers why don't the devs just tell us what THEY have planned and what THEY are discussing and tossing around amongst themselves and see how we feel about it. No sense in asking us to ask questions when they are either gonna get a no answer or not answered accurately.

The only thing I really took away from this is that Gathering classes are no longer equal to other classes and are now basically an after thought as they basically said we won't get our own content like story missions or side quests or what have you.

[Lionix]

Honestly instead of having the players ask questions and get no as the majority of the answers why don't the devs just tell us what THEY have planned and what THEY are discussing and tossing around amongst themselves and see how we feel about it. No sense in asking us to ask questions when they are either gonna get a no answer or not answered accurately.

See, this makes freakin' perfect sense. The only reason I can imagine they wouldn't want to just make "blogs" where the team posts what they've been considering and openly tell us what they've taken and dropped is to not get us hyped on something they are considering that ends up dropped, causing a fanboy-revolt. However, they cause the exact same effect whenever they give super-vague answers, which they've been doing forever (can't really say it's new here). So might as well.

What, are they afraid we'd catch on their trend when making decisions for content?

[VydarrTyr]

Honestly instead of having the players ask questions and get no as the majority of the answers why don't the devs just tell us what THEY have planned and what THEY are discussing and tossing around amongst themselves and see how we feel about it. No sense in asking us to ask questions when they are either gonna get a no answer or not answered accurately.

Well, I disagree that they didn't provide any answers. But I can think of a couple of reasons that players should prefer Q&As over blog entries.

First, it's a good way for SE to gauge player interest in certain issues. SE isn't a company of mind-readers. This is a good way for players to let SE know how we feel about certain issues, and what's important enough to fix first.

Second, blog posts/letters tend to focus on what they've definitely got planned, and ignore everything else. That's just good PR. Here, we got plenty of "We're not planning to do that" and "We're thinking about that, but not sure" responses. So we get responses on a wider variety of topics than you'd get from a blog post/letter.

Third, we got answers to our questions. This isn't SE telling us only what they want us to know. This is SE telling us what we want to know.

[Lionix]

Third, we got answers to our questions. This isn't SE telling us only what they want us to know. This is SE telling us what we want to know.

I~ don't think that's the general feeling around here, that's exactly the issue here.

Eh, personally it's not that I am mad, or disappointed... But I certainly aren't fist-pumping. Wish I could get that feeling again for once. Eh, oh well~.

[Lienn]

Well, I disagree that they didn't provide any answers. But I can think of a couple of reasons that players should prefer Q&As over blog entries.

First, it's a good way for SE to gauge player interest in certain issues. SE isn't a company of mind-readers. This is a good way for players to let SE know how we feel about certain issues, and what's important enough to fix first.

Second, blog posts/letters tend to focus on what they've definitely got planned, and ignore everything else. That's just good PR. Here, we got plenty of "We're not planning to do that" and "We're thinking about that, but not sure" responses. So we get responses on a wider variety of topics than you'd get from a blog post/letter.

Third, we got answers to our questions. This isn't SE telling us only what they want us to know. This is SE telling us what we want to know.

I agree! ^^ They answered what ppl asked. More specific questions had more specific answers...generic questions got generic answers.

I didn't like the answers at all because it seems the way the current dev team see DoL/H is different from the original vision of Tanaka team, giving them much less importance than the battle-related classes, but i support the will from dev team and the community reps in making these Q&A!

Would be nice we even have this kind of topic as sticky at each sub-forum...this way people can leave their questions there and from time to time reps generate a Q&A and remove all posts prior to that Q&A so all questions there are up to date. ^^