Resource Gathering Ideas for DA4

You are onto something. I love the crafting system in Inqusition, but the more i play the more i get annoyed at having to collect materisls. The one big problem with this, and some other aspects, was the Inqusition did not have a big impact. You could send your people out and they spend half an hour ish gathering mats... then come back with like seven silverite, If i did that I could easily collect 30-40 Silverite, probably more. So doing things like having an organization collect materials for you would be awesome.

Other thing, bit out of the box, but if DA ever implements NG +, I'd love to see you being able to bring equipment over. That should limit the time you need to spend collecting stuff.

I'm all for it and for a game like Inquisition would have made a lot of sense, since it ended being a huge orgnization. I'm sure all the people working with the Inquisitor were delighted with her humbleness, spending her hours collecting her own herbs for potions and such as she had nothing better to do, but I could have perfectly lived without it And it would still be an incentive for exploration (which I feel it's something important for most people) since you have to find the mines

I was happy with the way it worked in DA2, tbh, but if there's not coming back from the focus in crafting that came with DAI, I'd rather go with something like this. I have always prefered that kind of things to running around pressing "x" every 15 seconds.

Yeah not levels because I enjoy working a character from nothing, building up their skillz over the game but I would love to have imported Dawnbringer (my superb bow of the dragon with dragon mats) from the beginning.  

Another idea, don't know the practicality but othergames allowyou to dismantle items for mats. Something similar might work. Any item above level eghteen should give out 18~ tier 3 mats.

And you make a good point about there being incentive for exploration, because you want as many reasons as possible. As you say, you still would have to find the areas to mine, seeds to kick-start your garden, secure encampments/fortifications for your hunters to venture from, and so on... and then, profit!

I don't know how useful this is to the discussion, but to be honest I liked how it worked in DAO... which is to say that it was fairly limited. I don't need to craft armour (to be honest the thrill of looting it or finding it locked in a chest in a long abandoned crypt is faaaar more exciting to me), managing crafting is distracting from being an adventurer (really, I can't be all things to everyone, an elf's gotta sleep...).

What I do like however is the ability to customise the armour we do have (such as dyeing it). That's quick and enjoyable.

But for 'resource gathering' I hope it is limited to potions and traps and other such consumables similar to DA:O. Just my thoughts.

Edit: Oh and runes! Runes are fine. Enchantment.

You find a resource you tell people, people gather. Worked in NWN2 (the perfect RPG), worked in Awakening and worked in DA2. DAI MMO'd it because reasons, dumb ones. No need to be creative, stick to what works and you're bound to be happy.

Though we have no information on it i would be a lot mor confident that the next game will be smaller in scope then DA I.  If any game would add a strategic component it would havebeen DA I

I like your idea, Hrungr. When you visit the mines you could clear them of baddies and creepy crawlies and the more you upgrade the mines the more challenging the enemies could get.

I hear ya and that would be wise. But on the other hand, Deus Ex:Mankind Divided got dinged in reviews for being too short. Successful franchises can be victims of their own success. Every new installment has to be bigger and more spectacular.

Don't miss understand me i think the game will be similar length similar content similar in terms of companions but i doubt we will be in charge of another organization t the size of the inquisition. I could be wrong but I'm expecting a much more intimate dark and gritty story next time out.

DAO resource gathering was kinda meh. I prefer just hitting up the elves first and going crazy on the purchase of elf root rather than actually gather the stuff. Gathering only didn't seem to lead to much...gathered. I mean, you definitely couldn't depend on it. Seems gathering was a bit tacked on last minute?

DA2 resource gathering was great. Find it once. Have invisble underlings get it for you. The end.

DAI resource gathering: I entirely ignored it and pretty much all crafting the first time I played. Dabbled a bit the second round. Got deeper into it the 3rd time, because the following finally sunk in: what the Golden Nug does, I could stop having ugly clothes, and maybe I'd stop dying so easily from bears in the Hinterlands if I made better armor off the bat. On my third round, I was already getting tired a bit of the clicking. The 4th round, I intend to do all these crazy things like...craft a grenade other than the bees one (which I only crafted because the idea amused me.

The only other game I've played extensively enough to form an opinion that also had resource gathering? Harvestmoon 64. Considering the whole point of that game was to be the Farmer repetitively gathering things for sale... The only annoying thing about it was that sometimes my vegetables didn't go into the horse's saddle bags, darn it. Wasted good as they splatted on the ground as if I'd intentionally thrown them. haha

I lean toward DA2, although I like what you've described about your Civ game. I wish there had been more to do with the Mine in DA2 as well that would have been quite neat. War Table like missions for controlling "Trade" would have been pretty cool.