Player Leves - connecting DoH with clients.

[Zantetsuken]

I think most players have found that there is a bit of a disconnect between the crafting community and the rest of the classes.

There are large linkshells where members can get crafting done by others, but casual players are resigned to /shouting for help from strangers in Ul'dah, asking for help with crafting and hoping the crafter is trustworthy.

What follows is an idea to make crafting work better for both crafters and general adventurers (*I apologize for stealing parts of this idea from another posters, but the concept is fantastic and deserves more discussion and recognition)

In each crafting guild there should be an NPC who players can visit and create submit their own crafting leve and all materials and rewards that correspond to it.

For instance:

Player A just fought Leviathan and received as a reward a U/U "Leviathan Spine". He then heads off to the Carpenter's Guild to have a lance crafted from it.

He researches the recipe and gives all the required materials and crystals to the Carpenter's Guild Player Leve NPC who creates a custom Leve for him. He decides to offer a 24k gil reward for NQ result and a 40k gil reward for HQ (if applicable) result. He sets a minimum level for the Leve at 48 to ensure that only high level carpenters will attempt this leve. The Leve NPC asks how much insurance he wants on his materials @ 10k gil per attempt. The insurance means that if the crafter fails, the guild will replace all the mats for him up to the allotted attempts. Since the mats are very rare and expensive, the Insurance is well worth the cost in this instance. Player A spends 30k gil to insure 3 attempts.

Player B has just hit 49 as a Carpenter and she wants to make some gil. She goes to the Player Leve NPC at the carpenter's guild and sees that there is an order for a Leviathan Lance. She accepts the leve and begins to craft the item. The first craft fails. She checks the list and sees that the Leve is still available. She tries again and gets a NQ result. this nets her a reward of 24k and a guild experience bonus.

Later that day, Player A checks his mailbox and sees that the craft was successful and he now has a shiny new Leviathan Lance as well as a 20k refund on his unused insurance. In addition, when he checks the lance, he sees that Player B's name is mentioned as the one who crafted it. He will have to look her up when he needs other work done. Not HQ, but maybe if he offered a bigger reward more for a HQ version he might have a different result... but he has the Lance now with not much out of pocket and he is off to adventure more.

This scenario would be ideal for all parties involved and has many benefits:

• It connects crafters with adventurers,
• It allows U/U items to become part of crafting.
• It incorporates crafting into endgame content like Primal battles,
• It is a gil sink (the insurance part).
• It disperses population of players throughout the City-states making the crafting guilds a hub of activity for all gear and item creation.

TL : DR version: Put NPCs in each DoH guild where adventurers create crafting Leves by submitting materials and rewards. Crafters can then accept and fulfill them

[Zantetsuken]

Reserved for expanding on this.

[tymora]

Good idea.

We could also have a server maintained board of currently available crafters for the other flow direction.
Adv. guild has a name list.
1) Either require player sign-in (so as not to get unsolicited requests)
2) Or have server automatically keep track of who is online (Yes we do have the functionality but SE hid it to prevent people from knowing how many people are online).

This would be simpler to implement.

[REDace0]

It would be neat if this also related somehow to one's standing with the guild, e.g. progression of crafting class quests, price and availability of materials from the guild shop, maybe even a new use system like guild marks to buy special or even generic items from the soon-to-be-deprecated guild mark NPC. It would support the familiarity that guild NPCs express with your character during class quests especially.

[Zantetsuken]

I think the key is to keep the approach thematic with the game.

We could do straight server data with many things, but it doesn't really contribute to the FF atmosphere which is the game's biggest asset.

[normalforce]

I support this thread, 100%. Would love to see something like this.

[Teakwood]

I love this idea, I would love to see it implemented. It's basically what I was hoping for all along when the game was first announced and a "narrative of typical play" got thrown up on the website ages and ages ago.

[AtryxEtair]

I thought this was the original premise of player companies...but not limited to crafting.

[NoctisUmbra]

Could work on the details a bit and smooth a few edges, but I really like this idea. You just may be onto something here.

+1

[Shneibel]

He researches the recipe and gives all the required materials and crystals to the Carpenter's Guild Player Leve NPC who creates a custom Leve for him. He decides to offer a 24k gil reward for NQ result and a 40k gil reward for HQ (if applicable) result.

we do agree that the OP is speaking about HQ & NQ unique untraceable (primal wep) ? just to be sure