Tier 2 City Building
Everyone has enjoyed our Tier 1 City construction so far, but the materials have been too easy. Our members take pride in collecting, participating and contributing. The mats for Tier 1 have been so laughably low that it's just been an exercise in gold cost.
Tier 2 is much, much harder with the materials. This is the challenge that we crave.
Just the Tier 2 Keep alone will take:
- 2500 Granite
- 1500 Yew
- 1200 Iron
- 500 Electrum
That's a big effort for our guild just for the Keep. Tier 2 should be more satisfying with each building, something for our guild to be proud of. Resource grinds are what we're very good at. We're not competitive with it, but I'll bet we'll outpace guilds that are much larger than our own.
From what we've learned recently, the guild city does matter in Funcom's plans, especially for Crafting. Each of the profession buildings provide progression for your related Crafting skills. Each upgraded Tier will allow you to upgrade your Crafting as well (there are level requirements and quests too of course). Plus there may be recipes available through the city later.
Nelg, Sakkara and myself have discussed this and as you can see from my Guild Direction posting, this is our focus and priority for now. =)
Comments
Re: Tier 2 City Building
(Gorgrom, Gerard)
posted June 28, 2008 - 10:25am
Does the tier 2 have a different look to it?
Re: Tier 2 City Building
(Harhm)
posted June 29, 2008 - 5:00am
Not yet, although I expect Funcom will get that in sooner or later because it's a popular request for sure. They have implied that the NPCs coming may be different between the Tiers.
Re: Tier 2 City Building
posted July 14, 2008 - 6:46am
Just curious to how we are coming along with resources?
I've now banked enough to lvl my armorsmithing once i hit 70 (less the needed silk) - so my focus now is on harvesting for construction - is there a large gold cost as well for the t2 buildings?
Re: Tier 2 City Building
(Harhm)
posted July 14, 2008 - 8:10pm
There's a 22.5g cost just for me to get to tier 2 architect, basically each of the buildings made I have to make a duplicate set of plans to hand in to progress the profession. I'm at 6g right now, but I haven't played as much this past week. I have to admit I'm burning out on high level farming, we'll see how I manage.
Funcom is fixing the duplicate set problem next patch.. except they won't be doing it retroactively, so that doesn't really help us for what we've already built.
For materials, we'll need high volumes of granite, yew, iron and electrum, but we may run into storage problems until I get to tier 2 (then I can compress the mats into other parts).
I'm not really asking for gold donations at this point, because it is my profession, plus being highest level I can get the coin fastest.