How could we improve current jobs!?

[Zegshock]

The idea of adding awards for existing jobs seems good for giving people goals. It doesn't change the core of the jobs much though. Daily quests for collection jobs would be good too (i.e. Collect 400 mushrooms. Reward: 500 gralats). The goals can be long like that so only the most dedicated get the bonuses.

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For digging, I think adding a leveling system would work well. As you level your shovels would become more durable like days of olde or perhaps even better. I was on Ol' West the other day and their new fishing job had poles that just transparently said that I have 26 uses left on my pole. If a level system was added, it would be good to make shovel durability public to the players too so they can see how leveling up makes a difference. Earning stronger shovels this way is something all players, new and old, would love.

Zegshock's treasure chest idea would make digging more interesting, too. Finding a chest for the first time is such an awesome feeling. Then you start to dig more to find another.

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For trash picking, the only decent idea that I could think of is adding a large garbage truck NPC baddie. This truck would slowly drive along the roads on the map and be filled with a bunch of trash. It would be up to us criminals to destroy that truck. Upon its destruction, players that damaged the truck the most (top 10-20%) would receive a bunch of bonus trash and the area around the truck would be covered with trash to pick. Think of it like a heist on a garbage truck lol.

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For drilling, first split rocks into regular ones that give the normal minerals, and gem rocks that will give the rare gems like rubies, sapphires and whatnot. The normal rate for finding gem rocks can be something low like 1%. To make gem rocks more valuable, I would say increase the gralat value of a gem to around 30+ gralats. If I remember right they're currently only worth about 10 gralats. This is to make the other drilling ideas below more worthwhile to players.

In a mine, a small, glowing spot could spawn where drilling in that spot increases your chance of finding a gem rock to around 5% giving incentive to players so they always chase down that spot. If the spot is always active, but, changes every minute, then you'd have miners running around more instead of just taking a small step to the side to drill another rock.

You could even have "gold rush" events. The event would start off with a PM or something announcing, "Miners in Blazian Bandits mine have struck a vein of gems!". While the event is on, that whole mine would have a boosted rate for finding gem rocks. The boosted rate can be somewhere around 15% assuming this event runs once an hour. If the event runs for 10 minutes at a time, then it would only be possible to drill up 20 rocks or so for lower leveled miners. They would most likely find 2-4 gem rocks within that time frame giving them a small boost in gralats (~100 gralats). With this event, you might see some players flocking to the mines when the event activates.

Love the Garbage Truck NPC idea!
Just killing it can get you easy trash, and trash around it is more money!



And the gem rock idea is amazing too, but what if you go to this light, and some a-hole tries mining in your area? Or will there be enough gem rocks around the cave for everybody? o.o

(remind me later to +rep you)

[Vendhin]

Loving the ideas, writing them down
will show the manager when the next big update is out of the way

[Kamiroo Wolf]

We can all agree that Era's jobs are a bit lackluster...so how about a new event event to spice them up ;D

Rush Hour- This is basically a 1 hour time period where all jobs are buffed and/or made to be more exciting. The frequency of this event is once a day or maybe even every other day? Anyway this Rush Hour adds excitement to jobs that desperately need them such as pizza making, digging, mining, and more! An announcement will be broadcasted saying that Rush Hour has begun! Get to work Graalians! The buffs that come with event depend on the jobs:

Digging: Rush Hour causes crabs to spawn with more power than before.
The crabs now afflict unsuspecting diggers with status ailments such as poison, shock, or burn depending on their color.
Red crab=burn, blue crab= shock, green crab=poison/slow, black=fast shadow warp, yellow= the new fart ability.
Sure the crabs are now strong as well as annoying but their shell drop rate has been DOUBLED! That's alot of cash for your kill. Their health has been merged however.

Pizza making: Rush Hour allows concentration for the most exquisite pizza making.
Pizza makers can now grab ingredients from both sides of the table and the money earned from pizza making is increased by 15%.
Players also get hungry on the constant job! This will cause a 15% chance to take a slice from every pizza you make during Rush Hour

Car missions: Why would people waste their own gas during Rush Hour?!?!
More NPC's! More job opportunities!
There is also a small chance one of the new NPC's will be carrying a bomb only to kill you and fail the mission!

Mining: Concentrated miners now work more efficiently for the best of results!
Rocks have a better chance to come out of the machine as a rare mineral such as gold, emerald, sapphire, silver, ruby, or even diamond!
The mineral processing time is even quicker now! Know the result of your hard work at record speed.

Slot machines: Oh come on these things needed a buff from day one. '
Players now have a better chance to win. Please? Please?

Streaking/Spar: Rush Hour causes an increase in adrenaline allowing for more ruthless PK and Spar!
5$ every 10 kills/wins in a row!
There is also a new 5% chance that spar arenas will have traps set upon the match starting.

Mushrooming: Rush Hour has caused most of the mushrooms in Era to be harvested.
Mushrooms are less plentiful and only spawn in random bunches of 4.
But this lack of shrooms means they are now worth more than they were before! 6$ per mushroom picked during rush hour!
A new mushroom seems to sprout during rush hour! It's a green glowing one that poisons and slows all who come near it. Lasts for 5 seconds. Think of it as a new pickable trap!

That's all the ideas I have for Rush Hour and I'm sorry there's nothing for Trashpicking, I'll get on that.

[olive6661]

We can all agree that Era's jobs are a bit lackluster...so how about a new event event to spice them up ;D

Rush Hour- This is basically a 1 hour time period where all jobs are buffed and/or made to be more exciting. The frequency of this event is once a day or maybe even every other day? Anyway this Rush Hour adds excitement to jobs that desperately need them such as pizza making, digging, mining, and more! An announcement will be broadcasted saying that Rush Hour has begun! Get to work Graalians! The buffs that come with event depend on the jobs:

Digging: Rush Hour causes crabs to spawn with more power than before.
The crabs now afflict unsuspecting diggers with status ailments such as poison, shock, or burn depending on their color.
Red crab=burn, blue crab= shock, green crab=poison/slow, black=fast shadow warp, yellow= the new fart ability.
Sure the crabs are now strong as well as annoying but their shell drop rate has been DOUBLED! That's alot of cash for your kill. Their health has been merged however.

Pizza making: Rush Hour allows concentration for the most exquisite pizza making.
Pizza makers can now grab ingredients from both sides of the table and the money earned from pizza making is increased by 15%.
Players also get hungry on the constant job! This will cause a 15% chance to take a slice from every pizza you make during Rush Hour

Car missions: Why would people waste their own gas during Rush Hour?!?!
More NPC's! More job opportunities!
There is also a small chance one of the new NPC's will be carrying a bomb only to kill you and fail the mission!

Mining: Concentrated miners now work more efficiently for the best of results!
Rocks have a better chance to come out of the machine as a rare mineral such as gold, emerald, sapphire, silver, ruby, or even diamond!
The mineral processing time is even quicker now! Know the result of your hard work at record speed.

Slot machines: Oh come on these things needed a buff from day one. '
Players now have a better chance to win. Please? Please?

Streaking/Spar: Rush Hour causes an increase in adrenaline allowing for more ruthless PK and Spar!
5$ every 10 kills/wins in a row!
There is also a new 5% chance that spar arenas will have traps set upon the match starting.

Mushrooming: Rush Hour has caused most of the mushrooms in Era to be harvested.
Mushrooms are less plentiful and only spawn in random bunches of 4.
But this lack of shrooms means they are now worth more than they were before! 6$ per mushroom picked during rush hour!
A new mushroom seems to sprout during rush hour! It's a green glowing one that poisons and slows all who come near it. Lasts for 5 seconds. Think of it as a new pickable trap!

That's all the ideas I have for Rush Hour and I'm sorry there's nothing for Trashpicking, I'll get on that.

That sounds awesome. You could get a broadcast like the Pk/spar ones saying which job (random) would get boosted.

[Vacci]

And the gem rock idea is amazing too, but what if you go to this light, and some a-hole tries mining in your area? Or will there be enough gem rocks around the cave for everybody? o.o

I'm not really sure. I think you could either have multiple spots in an area or you can just turn off collision in mines so everyone can stand in the same part lol. Maybe it could be both.

[Greeze]

But to be honest though, these ideas are all amazing, but please.

Buff drops/spawnrate/price

*trashes for 10 minutes*
*gets 100$*
In real life that would be pretty cool... but this isnt real life.
good guns cost well over 100,000$

oh boy.

I mean, I have a LIFE, I'm not spending all my free time picking up trash.

[Zegshock]

We can all agree that Era's jobs are a bit lackluster...so how about a new event event to spice them up ;D

Rush Hour- This is basically a 1 hour time period where all jobs are buffed and/or made to be more exciting. The frequency of this event is once a day or maybe even every other day? Anyway this Rush Hour adds excitement to jobs that desperately need them such as pizza making, digging, mining, and more! An announcement will be broadcasted saying that Rush Hour has begun! Get to work Graalians! The buffs that come with event depend on the jobs:

Digging: Rush Hour causes crabs to spawn with more power than before.
The crabs now afflict unsuspecting diggers with status ailments such as poison, shock, or burn depending on their color.
Red crab=burn, blue crab= shock, green crab=poison/slow, black=fast shadow warp, yellow= the new fart ability.
Sure the crabs are now strong as well as annoying but their shell drop rate has been DOUBLED! That's alot of cash for your kill. Their health has been merged however.

Pizza making: Rush Hour allows concentration for the most exquisite pizza making.
Pizza makers can now grab ingredients from both sides of the table and the money earned from pizza making is increased by 15%.
Players also get hungry on the constant job! This will cause a 15% chance to take a slice from every pizza you make during Rush Hour

Car missions: Why would people waste their own gas during Rush Hour?!?!
More NPC's! More job opportunities!
There is also a small chance one of the new NPC's will be carrying a bomb only to kill you and fail the mission!

Mining: Concentrated miners now work more efficiently for the best of results!
Rocks have a better chance to come out of the machine as a rare mineral such as gold, emerald, sapphire, silver, ruby, or even diamond!
The mineral processing time is even quicker now! Know the result of your hard work at record speed.

Slot machines: Oh come on these things needed a buff from day one. '
Players now have a better chance to win. Please? Please?

Streaking/Spar: Rush Hour causes an increase in adrenaline allowing for more ruthless PK and Spar!
5$ every 10 kills/wins in a row!
There is also a new 5% chance that spar arenas will have traps set upon the match starting.

Mushrooming: Rush Hour has caused most of the mushrooms in Era to be harvested.
Mushrooms are less plentiful and only spawn in random bunches of 4.
But this lack of shrooms means they are now worth more than they were before! 6$ per mushroom picked during rush hour!
A new mushroom seems to sprout during rush hour! It's a green glowing one that poisons and slows all who come near it. Lasts for 5 seconds. Think of it as a new pickable trap!

That's all the ideas I have for Rush Hour and I'm sorry there's nothing for Trashpicking, I'll get on that.

Did you copy/paste this from your other thread? xD

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I'm not really sure. I think you could either have multiple spots in an area or you can just turn off collision in mines so everyone can stand in the same part lol. Maybe it could be both.

Nah, it should just be a light with one gem rock, but then a-holes would try to take it.
But whatever, if you hit it first, most likely you'll get it unless the other miner has a faster drill.

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Loving the ideas, writing them down
will show the manager when the next big update is out of the way

Hopefully he likes some of them.
Cuz some of these ideas are amazing. Amazing enough to have a huge conversation on.

[Star*]

But some of these ideas are going way overboard for the staff(s) to do.

[Chopsticks]

Drill skins as olive6661 said! Please, I want a hot pink drill which is shiny.

[Vendhin]

But some of these ideas are going way overboard for the staff(s) to do.

I'm writing the good ones down, some are too big of ideas lol.
I'm certain we could implement some though.
Some will be easier than others