Please make the crafting mini game optional for master crafters

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I believe you may have misunderstood the thread that this comes from.

That was a suggestion, not a discussion about minigames that are specifically planned. There may be some interactions for Processing, and similar, but the actual quote from the Wiki is:

Repetitive skill-based crafting mechanics, such as mini-games, are not an intended part of the crafting experience.[15][16]

We did discuss that type of a feature where the skill of the crafter would grant a greater window of skill-based type crafting. So the higher master level you have of crafting a certain item, the greater your potential to impact the quality of that item might be... The concern obviously that we have when going into developing this type of system is that we don't want what is a fun - you know for lack of a better term - mini-game to be something that becomes repetitive and kind of makes it monotonous... If when we start to flesh out the crafting system and we take a look at that interaction of melding crafting, the actual activity of making something, there is room in the design sheet for different iterations of that particular action; and we may see something come about that can be skill oriented, but that's something that's going to require a lot of testing and different iterations from a design standpoint. [16] – Steven Sharif

My bad then, I'll have someone rewatch that. Carry on.

@JustVine see above

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Could you, by chance, give a timestamp for that? I just relistened to the crafting part of the Q&A and didn't hear anything about a minigame. Maybe I missed it somehow?

Edit: Nvm I see you corrected yourself on the stream in question

@DrPlague are you sure it was in the June 2022 Q&A specifically? I didn't hear anything about crafting mini-games after re-watching the entire section.
The things relative to crafting I heard on the June 2022 Q&A were: 'freeholds have the best artisan profession stations', 'crafted gear is always going to be the best gear', and 'gear for artisan professions will be equip-able as an under layer to your adventuring gear.'

If it was in another Q&A or different section I am more than happy to re-watch the segment in question to advance discourse. I'm just not seeing the data you are referring to right now.

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I mean, he literally says "the proposal is that it's not necessarily a minigame". And he's also talking about processing and not crafting, so we have no info on crafting minigames. Hitting a button once to "pour some water on the hot metal" is not really a minigame. At least imo.

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But those are different things? Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean by all those words in the context of AoC's crafting system? Or maybe we have a different definition of what a minigame in an mmo is.

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Ah, I understand. We just interpreted Steven's words a bit differently. I saw it as just "press an additional button when indicate, while the thing is crafting" and you seem to have understood it as "keep pressing that button, while keeping track of when you need to press it and maybe do that for several different things". I agree with you in not wanting the thing you imagined, while I'd be somewhat fine with hitting another button when I see a red light on the screen, though ideally there'd be none of that at all. But we'll have to see how they design it and whether it'll be truly optional as Steven said it might be.