Introducing The Cartographers Guild

[Sanjian]

Introducing the next step towards adding a little bit of difficuly and exploration and item finding....

The Cartographers Guild:

When you start the game you will NOT have access to any minimaps or big maps, you will need to find/craft/unlock and buy you way to unlocking maps.

Throught the server you will find NPC's that belong to the Cartographers Guild, here you can buy/craft Maps.

Dungeon map parts will drop from mobs, complete a maps collection and you can craft the map to unlock the minimap/bigmap including monsterinfo (thedots).

a small video of it in action below

 

[daneo1989]

Nice, I always liked the concept of buying maps, exploration of maps.

 

[Alecs]

Mir meets harcore rpg.

 

[LightBringer]

Mir meets harcore rpg.

Would be interesting to have a hardcore mode in Mir! haha

Only thing is it would have to exclude PvP deaths

 

[HxH]

having no minimaps/maps is one of reason i stopped playing chronicle after couple hours, and yes im a noob casual player XD....

 

[Sanjian]

its why im going to put them in the tokenshop aswell, so players can if they want too, just buy them

Post automatically merged: Sep 20, 2020

Would be interesting to have a hardcore mode in Mir! haha

Only thing is it would have to exclude PvP deaths

perma death mode... now that does sound interesting.....

 

[daneo1989]

its why im going to put them in the tokenshop aswell, so players can if they want too, just buy them

Post automatically merged: Sep 20, 2020

perma death mode... now that does sound interesting.....

Mir doesn't have that kind of following, everyone expects nearly to whole game given to them on a easy platter

 

[Slipmatt]

Mir doesn't have that kind of following, everyone expects nearly to whole game given to them on a easy platter

Did someone say free items?

 

[LightBringer]

Could have it as an 'option' get more buffs etc, but if you die, your char diiiiiies.

 

[Netskee]

The option to unlock it is nice. Could add a reward that allows for cave entrance teleports if you have unlocked the town map to make it worth while

 

[Ardbeg]

Nice idea but unless they're all new maps, most people know the maps and have the maps anyway. If it means access to the actual maps and not just mini/big map views, that would get the usual set of players bleating !

 

[CountedZero]

"Screeeeeam ! Where the heck am I ? "
Yes new cave maps would slow the fast levelers and give interest to the grinders.
Is it a vast undertaking to create new maps for the same dungeons?
Never thought of it before but
There are parts of Mir that you don't go to because ' it's not on the way ' .
It's like we're on rails !

 

[Sanjian]

Nice idea but unless they're all new maps, most people know the maps and have the maps anyway. If it means access to the actual maps and not just mini/big map views, that would get the usual set of players bleating !

like ANY map that has a mini map you could just access it via the clients data folder anyway, but most people know the usual map, but not having the map unlocked actually blocks the minimap dots

and on my server subs/bosses have a special dot you can see, so not having access to a minimap, IMO causes alot of problems and will be something any player will want to fix, even if they know the way

im sorry but if you in WT and you RT you cant tell me you know exactly where you are every time without a minimap or coord locations :P

plus is handled serverside aswell

 

[Ardbeg]

like ANY map that has a mini map you could just access it via the clients data folder anyway, but most people know the usual map, but not having the map unlocked actually blocks the minimap dots

and on my server subs/bosses have a special dot you can see, so not having access to a minimap, IMO causes alot of problems and will be something any player will want to fix, even if they know the way

im sorry but if you in WT and you RT you cant tell me you know exactly where you are every time without a minimap or coord locations

plus is handled serverside aswell

Also remember that mob sounds play when the mob is in range of the minimap. Not sure how the range works with enlarged screen sizes though.
If the sound call is tied in with the visibility setting then it should work fine.
That said, if the sound plays but you have no idea where from, it would make things more interesting.

 

[DiabloVodkaShot]

ability to unlock special buffs? 1in10 chance of getting 1% drop rate or something on the map? then u may have the edge on that map on other players. Makes them worth hunting?

 

[Sanjian]

Also remember that mob sounds play when the mob is in range of the minimap. Not sure how the range works with enlarged screen sizes though.
If the sound call is tied in with the visibility setting then it should work fine.
That said, if the sound plays but you have no idea where from, it would make things more interesting.

sound still plays regardless of minimap dots and i wont link them tbh, i remember many moons ago running through BC listening for ET.. then you get a group of 5+tongs and they sound like an ET and you get excited....

also i know alot of players have said they dont play with sound anyway >.<

the idea behind it just simply another challenge and something else to collect... hopefully ^^

Post automatically merged: Sep 22, 2020

ability to unlock special buffs? 1in10 chance of getting 1% drop rate or something on the map? then u may have the edge on that map on other players. Makes them worth hunting?

because its handled server side this is actually a really interesting concept that i could include definatly!

i mean you could possibly trick the client into showing the minimap once you know the servers indexing of maps, but the buff would be dealt with server side so cant be abused, i like it nice thanks

 

[DiabloVodkaShot]

sound still plays regardless of minimap dots and i wont link them tbh, i remember many moons ago running through BC listening for ET.. then you get a group of 5+tongs and they sound like an ET and you get excited....

also i know alot of players have said they dont play with sound anyway >.<

the idea behind it just simply another challenge and something else to collect... hopefully ^^

Post automatically merged: Sep 22, 2020

because its handled server side this is actually a really interesting concept that i could include definatly!

i mean you could possibly trick the client into showing the minimap once you know the servers indexing of maps, but the buff would be dealt with server side so cant be abused, i like it nice thanks

You are welcome i think it would make a good approach and perhaps endgame ability to disgard your mini maps in the lottery of getting a better buff as u re learn. Will encourage certain maps to be hunted which are not as popular.

 

[Sanjian]

damn yeah keep em coming lol

 

[DiabloVodkaShot]

Just to top it off Add an extra stat to your stats such as

HUNTERS Ability % stacked and u can add these to your items via glyphs and it helps you in your quest for finding this maps and the higher the % the better the buff reward. Creates a huge gold sink.