Darkfall Crafting

I have a confession to make ... ok two.

First, I have actually been following the development of Darkfall for a just little while now (no, I am not an '04er), even though the sundry cries of "vaporware!" still ring throughout the mmorpg landscape. I don't care, if it comes out I'll try it and if it doesn't, I'll just keep on with LOTRO and maybe take up Vanguard again (whatever other problems VG has, it definitely has my favorite crafting system).

My other confession is not really a confession, but a declaration: I love being a explorer/resource-gatherer.

What I mean is, the biggest treat for me in an mmorpg setting is exploration. The large, seamless world is what hooked me on WoW, without a doubt. I mean, you can run across an entire continent then swim out into the ocean and keep going until you die of exposure - that was, by far, the source of WoW-crackness for me. Resource-gathering is practically a corollary to exploration and has grown as a habit for me over the various MMOs I have played.

But perhaps as a tangent to my love of exploration and gathering, I also quite like crafting in games, especially in online games for the economic aspect of selling your wares or services. And for some reason I am one of those people who find it a more fulfilling activity than pvp or (gasp! retch!) raiding. Though of course I appreciate both of those activities because they provide the economic stimulus for said wares and services.

I am thinking about all of this because of a post made on Forumfall that has me thinking about crafting in Darkfall. Perhaps it was just a troll - or maybe not. But it got me thinking about as someone else mentioned resource gathering in Star Wars Galaxies - putting down thumpers and collecting hides. Good, good times, but alas so brief for me (I got in then left just before the NGE hit).

When looking around, typical to Aventurine's lackluster public relations, there wasn't much on the subject, though all does not appear to be so bleak. I also came across some burgeoning crafting communities like Darkfall Merchants Association.

Interestingly, I never got into mining in EVE. Maybe that would have helped keep my attention longer?