Developer Q&A - Part II

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Master content such as Incursion and Betrayal can be distracting and disrupts the flow of just grinding maps. Do you have any plans to change this?

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I hear Anno 1800 mentioned constantly at work also.

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Do any of the dev team members read/watch fantasy stories with adventurer guilds in it? If so, have you ever considered bringing the concept of a "request board" to PoE (list what you want to buy/accomplish as a request/mission)? Or borrowing any other ideas from those fantasy stories (like a guild hall, guild missions, guild wars, guild blacksmith workshop)?


I'd love a "requests-driven" economy (alongside the current trade system we have now). Everyday, checking the requests board and seeing "oh, this guy in my guild wants to get this item with these rolls and is paying this much for whoever gets it" and "there are these guys looking for this specific item that I just found and this one is paying this much, that other one is paying that much, and oh this one is paying a value that I'm willing to take". And everyday, by the end of the day, I'd post as many requests for items that I want to use in the next day as my currency can pay for.

I'd also love to meet my guild mates at the guild hall, join a party with them to run a long map chain built by the guild master as a mission (maps dropped are allocated back to the guild to be used in new missions), fighting other guilds in a big map (Battle Royale!) both solo or in team (could take maps from the guild as an entrance fee), and dump my veiled items on the guild blacksmith to make crafts available to everyone there (could require maps as an additional fee to use).