Apr 10

Librarian Specialization

Have a librarian specialization. Put the workorder board, science table and laboratory to this specialty, so they can generate money by selling those, while they can be the first to set up work orders to create the research papers and upgrades. They'll have to buyout lots of materials from other craftsmen, but then make a good income out of selling upgrades. This would stop the evergoing nagging for papers, and encourage the cooperative playstyle by setting up workorders for every starter specialty from day one. Loggers can concentrate on logging instead of being spam whispered for dendrology papers.

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Nov 17, 2024

Hello, i have little diferent idea :) https://eco.canny.io/feature-suggestions/p/library-publisher

Jul 1, 2024

I like your example - not being spam-whispered for dendro papers, etc. It would also avoid having tons of material being short-sightedly turned into unnecessary papers by someone who just wanted to level their skill (or didn't realize that their basics were not the best choice to use as generic papers). Before v10, I would have hesitated because Gathering Basic papers is currently the only crafting recipe that gives Gathering XP (and without crafting, like rock-crushing, it's a bit of a slog to level up a skill.) But now there are fiber-scutching and clay-mold recipes. :) I do like the current way that research is distributed across all specializations, and everyone should be aware of how their bit fits into the big picture. It gets a bit weird when that awareness is lacking.

Apr 16, 2024

This seems like a really good idea! It probably needs a bit more thought however on a few more details on how it would work. Could you perhaps dive deeper into specifics? Maybe just take dendrology only as an example for now. What/how would the Dendrology Librarian do at their "library store"? What materials? What upgrades? From whom?

Apr 16, 2024

Thad Guidry As it is now, only a miner can put labor in research papers for geology. With a librarian as specialty, you'd be able to put librarian labor in any research and research papers. And the skill scrolls would be in one shop. I see players dedicated from day 1, putting workorder board up and spam it with research paper orders to get things going. Those people would gladly spend a star on Librarian and do all that without the workorder board.