NI/AG improvements for 2025

[Vill]

Hi Islanders,

It feels like Cyrene is few steps ahead of NI and Toulan/Dsec-9 is also following fast, so we need more action back here

Christmas 2024 seasonal mission was a good example how useless materials can have nice markups, sadly there aren’t enough people here.

So we need improvements to have constant uses for NI/AG materials to increase markups and bring new blood here

I will list 10 possible improvemnts for ideas. For sure there might be a lot more done and all other suggestions are welcome!

1. Fishing improvements.
Make fishing real profession with fishing skill gains, tools, baits, etc. These improvements might require a lot more uses for useless crystals, body parts, fish and also catch players attention.
Some other suggestions regarding fishing in my other thread:

Fishing improvements needed

Hello all islanders and visitors, I would like to start a discussion regarding future fishing improvements. First of all, I want to thank developers for some recent changes like some decreased prices and forbidden areas with “free fishing” and also daily mission with skill rewards, but I think this is not enough and I will give some criticism too I think it’s possible to make something much more great Fishing at forbidden areas: This is a great opportun…

2. Food making/cooking.
Make cooking profession.
The best option to introduce a new profession with cooking skills, etc.
Otherwise some temporary alternatives:

• Introduce cooking terminals. To make food here you need to have a recipe and materials. Depending on your luck and skills you can make some food here which gives temporary buffs when consumed.
• Or make new L blueprints to craft food;
• Or make food to be refined by putting materials into refiner.
  Food making should use materials like body parts, fish and other.

3. NI tokens.
Calypso/Monria have multiple tokens, Cyrene have tokens, Arkadia have tokens, Toulan/Dsec-9 have tokens, even Rocktropia have tokens…
Which of remaining planent don’t have tokens?
People are tired of tailoring blueprints.
I suggest to introduce NI tokens which we can pick from Multi-Faction daily missions. Keep blueprint choises too in case someone want to pick these.
Later there should be more ways to get tokens, maybe some additional missions or similar.
Tokens are not tradable. For tokens there should be some kind of rewards which are tradable.
Possible rewards:
L blueprints/recipes to cook food or craftable pills with buffs;
Some epic items which require a lot of tokens;
Some cool L items;
Other.

4. Revamp tailoring.
Tailoring profession is quite useless and I think it needs some upgrade.
There should be some new clothes introduced which require some rare materials to craft clothes with buffs. Only higher level tailors should be able to craft these.
Alternative - make some upgradable clothes with buffs which can be used under armor.
For example adjusted suit with 5m autoloot, improoved 10m autoloot, modified 15m autoloot, augmented 20m autoloot, perfected 30m autoloot.
Make different kinds of crafted or upgradable clothers with variuos buffs like: autoloot, run speed, increase crit dmg, increased evade chance, increase skills gains, etc.
Upgrading or crafting should use some rare materials and also other crystals/body parts, mined, crafted materials.
Tailor profession should be included in upgrading process too.

5. Gardening/building on AG.
It would be cool to have some area for gardening on AG.
Gardenining plots can be bought for NI tokens or similar.
Anyone having a plot would be able to build houses using timber, crafted, mined materials or plant vegetables, fruits used for food.

6. Epic/long mission chains.
We need long epic mission chains like NI citizen, but different.
There should introduced some epic missions for new upgradable items.
Upgrading also requires rare items together with crafted materials.

7. Fix mob spawns.
Some mob spawns should be fixed.
All mobs that have missions to kill at least 500 mobs daily should be also in instances or at least to have some spot with small, but dense spawn and very fast respawn time.

8. Fix mining.
Add size caps back to Dark Lysterium as it was before 1st Resource Mayhem event.
Dark Lysterium was only thing that helped to make some profit for any noob running with tt finder and now this opportunity is gone because Dark Lysterium is raining left and right and markup is close 100%.
Introduce rare finds for mining on NI, something similar to Calypso/Arkadia where you can find mining boxes and rare loot while mining.
Add more rare ores/enmatters to PVP.
At the moment there is no point to mine here and take the risk.
Enamtters here mostly have no markups at all.
Some ores have a bit better markups, but besides Pyrite there is nothing special.

9. Upgrade Gorgon pit on AG.
It feels like Gorgon armor is getting quite outdated. It still offers some nice protections, but nowadays there are many new armors with buffs on other planets to work for.
I suggest to add at least new upgradable armor type with buffs.
Or crafted armor parts with new rare materials which can be looted in Gorgon pit.
As alternative, introduce new epic snake pet with cool buff which shoud be obtained from Gorgon pit.

10. Make something fun or unique to NI/AG.

• Create new type of Bumpercar that can have a Liberator attached and make Bumpercar fight arena.
• Make ship at Shoreline Flats non lootable PVP repairable. Or introduce some robots attacks where players can repair big ship here.
• Make more fun stuff

And overall I think much more development is needed for AG.
AG shares are not doing well and these can be a lot more things done to attract more players here.

Happy new year!
And for developers - work work work work work

[Official_Circe]

Thank you again for a very detailed post with suggestions.
Some suggestions are not something we can do, because they are in MA’s control, like professions for example and I doubt any big changes can be done in that regard until possibly Unreal.
And some suggestions are not possible for other reasons, like craftable food afaik.
But I will do my best to make sure when there are questionmarks AND several of the ideas are already being worked on or planned at least.
I don’t want to spoil anything just yet, but just saying.
As always, it’s a matter of time when developing. Sometimes it doesn’t matter how much we would like to add a million new things, there’s not always time for everything.
I can say though (and I have said it before, but again, reasons lol) that AG is the focus of the next VU.

[Official_Circe]

Oh, and I wanted to add that the dark lysterium issue wasn’t us.
But I will see if there’s anything I can do about it.

[Hono]

So many great ideas, thank you Vill.

Food and upgradable clothes seem to me that would be atractive to players, though as Circe says, much depends on MA.

[Vill]

Thank you for your reply
It’s hard to propose something properly when we don’t what you are not allowed to implement
But it feels like other planets can print new weapons and other cool items and NI is not allowed…
Maybe NI can introduce something unique that other planets are not allowed then, like craftable food for example
And I’m sure for some things there might be workarounds, like if we can’t craft food, maybe there can be some NPCs where players can trade specific materials for a treat? Or we can choose some candly with buff as a mission reward?
Also for fon things there can be some mission with random rewards, some rewards can be good, some rewards total crap or even debuffs for specified time

[Official_Circe]

Ofc it’s really hard to suggest things, but from my perspective I like it anyway because it can give inspiration that can be useful for something completely different at times.
And sometimes one idea can be combined with another idea and so on.
I can’t comment on the other planets (because I don’t know anything) but I do understand the feelings and we’ll do what we can to present something new. Hopefully a weapon, but we’ll just have to wait and see.
And you know I like random stuff lol, but that should probably be chosen.
Like you can choose a safe mission reward, or a random one. That would be most fair I think.
I like it though, fits me perfectly.

[Dante_Inferno]

In Cyrene there are a lot of “dumb” missions that give tokens that allow you to obtain weapons (L) and armor pieces.
In Calypso we already know the daily tokens for CDF weapons…
In Toulan/DSEC9 there are tributes that can be exchanged for weapons…
So in NI there could be daily tokens resulting from other dumb missions to be exchanged for weapons, amplifiers or other items…
Regarding the epic mission… well, it could be something like the Viceroy in Arkadia: a series of lootable items to upgrade the Ascension Armor…
Back to Arkadia: I don’t know how but they got “permission” to deliver a UL ship, the Dropship… It doesn’t allow you to go into space, unlike the UL version similar to the Quad, but it is a UL item that is obtained throughout an 11-month mission… Why not something similar?
And back to the ships… Is there no way to talk to Mindark to allow ships (craftable, lootable, prize, epic mission) to go into space like the Sleipnir?.. I say allow, because it seems there is no way if they don’t give permission…

[Vill]

Regarding ships I think we need to wait when space minging will be introduced.
There should be some new craftable L ships for space mining.

[Nakor]

I like the idea of NI tokwns and have suggested tat myself
Cyrene’s ‘dumb’ missions (the daily trades) are a nice way to use some local materials.
Also it is a way to reward players that are there longer.

Craftable clothes, yes!! Make NI the fashion planet of EU, please! Maybe designing clothes for a new BP could alao be a contest.

Again Cyrene has a lot of daily missions for L texture BPs. I think NI could do more of those too (maybe at the cost of a Silver Carnival Ticket)

[Vill]

Thank you for your opinion
And yes, with all suggestions I try to find more uses for materials.
From Cyrene I really like their upgradable epic items like Courier touched suit, mining back pack, fap, jelly pet - they offer up to date buffs that players are chasing.

Regarding new textures I also asked these few times already
But not sure if I agree for L texture bps.
In many cases to craft textures with L bps is too expensive which leads to high texture prices and not much actual uses.
NI already have L Gorgon and Daudaormur textures which are too expensive mostly because of just how hard is to get bps. To craft one stack of textures you need hundreds of clicks and they are hard to get, only possible to get 5 clicks daily from multi faction mission and for someone that don’t hunt drakes it’s real pain to stack enough of these clicks. Gorgon also drop from crafting, but looting few clicks on like 20k clicks while crafting is ridiculous
L texture bps for tickets also seems like a bad idea which would lead to too expensive texture which noone use. And knowing Circe, I won’t be surpriced to see 5 clicks for 7 tickets
Also it depends a lot on texture tt and input materials, but devs don’t play they game and their balancing decisions are not always good too

[Dante_Inferno]

For a long time I crafted textures and clothes, but… just like in real life, luxuries are bought and sold if there is money to spare.
In the EU there is never money to spare… Peds go fast, and most of us do not achieve balance even after years, either because we do not know how to play correctly, or because we do what we like instead of what makes money, or because we have low-efficiency weapons… The thing is that tokens for textures or clothes, yes, to use it yourself, but they will not have an outlet… I do not think it is a good business today…

[Vill]

@Official_Circe I forgot to add few things on first post for you to consider.

Mining:

1. Sonrensen stone weights A LOT. Maybe you can consider to lower it’s weight?
2. Please consider to replace Sweetstuff from NEO mining to something else, it is quite rare on NI/AG.

Crafting:

1. Can you check are these blueprints really boosted?

• [Scavenged Skyripper (L) Blueprint (L)]
• [Resa Nomad Handwraps Blueprint (L)]
• [Resa Nomad Shirt Blueprint (L)]

I did like 500 or more clicks on Skyriper and it doesn’t seem to act like boosted bps from caly.
Resa boosted bps not sure, maybe I made not enough clicks.
All I say would be good if you check are these really boosted or “fake boosted” and in thins case make them boosted or remove orange color.

Hunting:

1. Some epic mission for lower level players like mission chain to upgrade Falcata to give it some more eff and damage would be nice to see on AG.
2. There is Multi-faction mission to hunt 50 OLD Female Screechers, but to hunt this in the wild is quite insane for only like 50 ped cycled. I suggest to replace Female Screecher Stalkers with OLD ones at White Westerlands for people who not only want to do 222 mission here, but also multi faction daily.
3. AG terrain is bad for hunters in many places, there are a lot of montains and rocks. Would be good to have some areas more flat where mobs are denser or at least add some more dense spawns somewhere as I said in 1st post.

[Official_Circe]

I’ll answer a few of these now and check some later to see what can be done.

• Weight shouldn’t be a problem if it’s indeed very heavy.
• Replacing sweetstuff can ofc be done in theory, but what happens to those that has it active? It will then change or crash. I’ll see what I can test but just saying, that even though it’s easy to replace it, that might not be a good idea. A safer option is to add sweetstuff to the mining itself.
• If a BP is boosted or not, happens automatically by the system when setting mats and amounts. So I don’t know how it can be “fake”. Do you have examples of such fakes and also what you consider “real” boosted ones? Better if they are from NI but I don’t think we have that many.
• The multi-faction mission for Old screechers is on purpose, since it does indeed offer the more rare BPs, it’s supposed to be harder and instead of having a higher level creature to hunt, they are just harder to find.

[Vill]

More sweetstuff is even better solution I think, because many players have pets which sometimes want to eat

I feel that there are already many requests in this thread
But also I think long term you also need to find some constant sunks for NI components like dark lyst cogs, chrysoberyl fasteners and others to boost economy of NI. How it is not, some of these are crafted for some new things after vu and then not much more uses. Would be cool to find some more good uses for NI compoments so we craft more of these instead of recycling loot