Kinda interesting to have a podcast about lifeskills, when 2.5 of the 3 people don’t lifeskill. Missed opportunity to have guest(s) on who actually do lifeskill a majority of their time.

For me, the Trading lifeskill or atleast how I envision it in a world like bdo is much akin to a certain anime called Spice and Wolf. TLDR: a man is a travelling merchant carrying goods from city to city in his wagon. Keeping with the idea of the podcast to make trading a viable full time lifeskill, I think it would be really really cool to see some sort of manos wagons and wheels. Mabye even a trade specific ring or something. And also adding in functionality to the worker system system where you could get workers with trade specific bonuses with their own wagons and send them to various corners of the globe with goods. This could also intersect with the bartering system as well! Allow players to either.... A: hire players proficient in bartering with a good boat to take their goods to the island towns B: allow us to attach our wagons/board our wagons onto our ships cargo hold and take them across the sea with our fast ships. This system could also incorporate horse breeding by simply not allowing dream (t9 and t10) horses to be attached to these manos wagons. Making a brand new market for the fastest possible t8 horses and even padding PA'S pockets with some more wagon costume sales. Of course it could also allowing the expansion of horse breeding into a brand new territory of camel breeding specifically for getting across the desert faster. And lastly, I think the coolest yet also the most difficult idea to implement would be allowing players who are actively trading to give benefits to the entire community by affecting the central market tax system in some way. Similar to how a player clears a tier 7 LomL boss it gives the playerbase an item drop rate buff. Perhaps when really good trades are done by guru traders the server could recieve a 5% tax evasion buff for any items listed on the CM during the buff time. I really do love the idea of trading as a main lifeskill and it's always bummed me out that it just doesn't have fun, deep, and meaningful progression and impact in the bdo world.

Farm plots and stable needs to be a thing in Manors already, and maybe an npc like Ahr in Calph, in the form of a butler/maid, to downgrade produce. Those alone will get me using my Manor in LoML multiple times a day. It'll go from being just a _thing_ to something that's beneficial to my gameplay loop. Anything else, such as buff furniture, etc. is a welcome bonus.

Allow alts to chill in your housing like the maids/butler. Each class would give an individual buff unique to the class. And they would be able to work at the manor after some prerequisite to do 1 mundane life skill like cook, alchemy, process, or something really basic. For instance, A Mystic Manor Lead/Lord would provide % inc chopping speed and be able to alch caphras left in the storage for example. More RP would be dope, but having more manors with more function. I doubt they'll do it bc fewer ppl would go to town. Imagine a ranch manor with a horse track for training, or a wood cabin manor with a tool shed allowing faster processing and an alt to perform some processing or a maid, or a cave/castle manor in a mountain with a built in storage and well and a fantastic view/flight jump off for T9s/T10s to fly to calpheon or kama, a Desert abode manor where a mine and trade manager to kind of trade once it comes back. I could come up with these ideas all day.

Just a thought here. The reason and I feel this that cooking and alchemy seem to be a little bit more of a simple life skill is because we have an actual object to interact within the game in our house. This processing idea with a saw mill. Or a pestle of water. There's another game called arc. Where you purchase or craft items to put in your house to help aid you in processing and building components.

One topic I'd be interested to see be covered is Treasure Items. How do you feel about the ones we got? Do any of them need changes - farming spots or the item itself? How would you feel about more getting released? What new treasure items would you like to see released?

Add failstacking to Manos Accessories and Clothes

The silver inflation in this game is insane, meanwhile meat is worth half what it was a year ago.

I love Jaykun VR is a lot more lively with hugging that... thing... racoon? Anyways, thanks Blue.

Fishing would be such an easy fix too to make it profitable for active - just add totally new fish with better prices and loot tables to hotspots only, chance to proc multiple relics per cast, maybe better, super rare trophy fish and stuff for housing

The talk of farming working with trading made me think as well about seasons. Imagine maybe it cycles between a full year of seasons twice in the actual year (maybe four) and it incentivizes you to cycle different kinds of crops or need to do something different with your animals.

i love that lifeskilling doesnt generate new money, you get other peoples money

Classic WoW's season of discovery added a system similar to what jaykun talked about for crafting items. Its basically trade crates for lifeskill goods (professions in wow terms). It's okay. Not great, but it works to get people utilizing those dead recipes nobody crafts. Also, on fishing, we DO have fish weights when you catch fish. We have an in-game fishing guide that shows leaderboard rankings for different fish and who caught them.

Was waiting for blond to mention that "guild trade missions" were effectively the end game of archeage and it was A BLAST!

I spent about 50 bil on my LoML and blue lion manors, and there were so many furniture items I wanted to use but saw the questline for it and said “f that.” I don’t wanna quest I wanna decorate. You should be allowed to unlock an NPC shop and buy the damn furniture after unlocking it for the first time.

Ideal location takes more than 15 mins off your timers. Its a % time decrease. If you combine ideal location with the fertalizer and a worker you can get carrots down to about 3hrs. If you just place them anywhere expect 4-5hrs

Bring tiltus back for 52

Best system for player housing is in swtor , make a button that teleports you to the manor, make the areival point selectable, on the manor make a button that teleports you back where you were. Make the manors available as a one time purchase instead of a rental system, if greedy make it a pearl item on the shop. Remove the residence option for the CP rentable houses in cities. Make a non CP version of the rentable storage container as a pearl shop item or an achievement in game, i hate wasting 10 CP on that one so I use a house close to a storage manager. Let us add vendors to our manor like a fruit vendor, a cooking vendor, etc...Boom, manor gets used by everyone and might be even a priority purchase like the pearl shop tent tent. Add new manors to the pearl shop to make money, people will buy them even if they can get the other manors.

i wish we had a full quest list, like i don't want to go looking for one time quests throughout the map. just give me a list to work from.

You guys talking what needs to be changed in lifeskills is starting to sound a lot like Ashes of Creation which we will all be playing 2029 when it releases.

they need to add a blueprint mode for player housing. where you have access to all items. you place and design the house how you want it to be. then you can import / export that blueprint with other players. and then you have a list of items you have to get to craft the needed items for that blueprint. i think its okay that some items are hard to get and require questing. but you should be able to plan the house without owning them. and then off course remove all the silly stuff. like cp cost for player housing. silver cost for the manor. not being able to use the house + use the same house as a player house. floor and wall decoration being destoryed when you change them. rank 1 houses as a requirement. (only results in ugly houses everywhere)

34:00 Blue, this is massively out of date information. They walked that idea back QUICK, since they realized it'd tank a huge part of their national economy.

Black desert mobile you have a ranch in your player camp. Full husbandry system.

Just put manor in a city we can use not far away. Make it free to use with no crazy extra steps.

i wanna see net fishing and trolly fishing

I LOVE lifekill s! c:

Just wondering if you ever plan on having different guests on your podcasts. I love your solo or new content but about to free up my FYP cus of these popping up.

The point at 28:20 I couldn't agree more! I am a new player (only 100 hours so far) and I tried looking into Alchemy as it sounded cool to match with my witch character (don't judge me)... Well, after watching a few tutorials and reading some guides, I simply gave up. I have no idea what is going on and there is just a waterfall of words coming from the people talking about life skills. I am sure it makes sense to them, having years of experience, but for me it is an overwhelming nightmare. I just gave up. I don't life-skill at all. I just kill stuff.

The housing system UI is a nightmare.

Who is the main, racoon or a human? And what are their relationship? Could it be that human is just a riding mount for the wicked animal?

nice thank

TLDR who cares if they improve the housing if the foundation is rotten, stop preventing creativity. Yeah sure lifeskilling buffs would be nice but the entire housing system will remain dead to me until they fix 2 major issues. A: they need to disabel item cliping so i can place furniture where where i want furniture to be placed hitboxes that are 2-5x the objects size be damned. B: everything is locked down to the floor or badly defined "surfaces" preventing me from placing items were i want them to be placed.

Does that mean grinding is a no-lifeskill?

Id put down 300cp worth of farms if i could. I can never get enough fruits. Gathering for fruits sucks

all good, but how are you gonna make J hire more devs, and or take some from the other games and put them back on bdo_? I feel like they just maintaining now, alot on the pearl shop and possible a small team on the updates. all the major zones are made I feel they made those longagow and are adjusting them and tricking them out. this is the main issue. they jumped to their new game too fast. and left bdo in the dust.

I just don't understand why they don't turn lifeskills into active fun activity with good rewards. Where is the fun in doing some activity whole time with same results? Click R, get 10k meat, sell on market or click r and go afk cooking...that's not fun. Why can't you just add rare items into fishing and other like skills? It's just so much more fun when you have chance to get 200-300m item here or there, have chance for really rare item once per hundred of hours? Why is everything turning into chore? You can literally do any lifeskills in specific pve area and have chance to trigger some pve game/arena/miniboss for example in star's end if this pops you have chance to get the earring. Get rankings into specific areas, make people excited to invest their time into something, reward them weekly for I don't know, hey you gathered tons of stones in this arena and managed to get 50 witch earrings, here is some reward for you and rank 1 title above your family name for beating the most stones in Hexe! Just to change the pace, have some fun...reason why I always get bored with BDO is because it's just repeptitive chore and people will say, ok, stop grinding, go gathering! It's same thing and on top of that now you have to get into more systems which aren't fun and you make even much lower profit.

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