The average person changes careers (Note the term career and not job here as moving between two jobs in the same field is not considered a career change) 3 to 7 times in their life. So which of their jobs are we referring to that they are best at?
Human beings are amazingly adaptable and multifaceted. Builds that have you being good at one role and bad at everything else (the only effective type of build in skillcap games TBH) are in no way a reflection of reality. They are a product of games and games alone. Born of games. Pushed by games. Even characters in popular novels/movies/shows are generally FAR more multifaceted than they are in games.
To give a rather extreme example. If you played The Dragon Reborn you would be a swordmaster, spellcaster, and archer who can play an instrument well enough you don't have to pay to stay at inns. But even with less extreme examples you're hard-pressed to find an interesting character with singular talent if the story spends much time developing them.
All that being said, while I DO find it more fun as a general rule to play games that are slightly realistic, and while I DO want to be able to create characters as interesting as those I read about in games, I would agree that if incredibly focused characters were necessary to make the game more FUN, that we should stick with that.
It isn't more fun though. EVE and Guild Wars 1 had FAR more interesting ways of handling skills concerning combat, and Wurm Online handled crafting/professions far better. All while allowing adaptable/multifacted characters. GW1 even had classes, it just allowed for more adaptability within a class than MO1/MO2 allow without a reroll (assuming you want to play a character that's actually good).
Edit: That being said, this is more wishful thinking. MO2 is slow enough to enact needed changes I recognize this is only a pipe dream. I still found it worth commenting though when people are acting like single-minded unadaptable humans are in any way realistic or game enhancing. This is one of Mortal Online's greatest weaknesses, not something to be cheered.
Yes we can all agree that mortal's interpretation of knowledge its nothing but an interpretation. We can't expect Mortal to be hyper realistic in any way.
But, i agree completly with whats being said. One of the particular problems with mortal is that many KEY features in crafting are very old and stagnant.
Most crafting classes are absolutly tedious and boring and the fact that you are stuck with one or two per character sucks even more. Take extraction for example, something u gotta afk while not using your character for anything else, same as mining and its time you are doing nothing and your life will suck if you don't have a 2nd screen with a movie, mortal allways been like that, forcing players to do tedious shit to progress.
Take armor crafting, if you want to get nice armor books gotta invest a lot of time and group effort to unlock a crafting recipe thats supposed to benefit a group, yet crafting does not deliver any fun, the only part thats required for the crafter to interact with the world is by maybe hunting animals.
Now by having only 1 character, the moment u get an expensive book that character is landlocked and GG to a reroll. Any change will mean that the progression is lost. But thats because of how the skill cap system works and the absolutly 0 realization that theres no reroll support. (Then again its an early stage of the game, but one would expect the foundations of the game to be more stable).
In mortal 1 the game had probably hundred materials and the crafting meta recipes were reduced to 4-6 materials, with absolutly no space of innovation or testing, stagnant boring and tedious crafting classes. And the same happens in MO2 because its the exact same concept, like a copy paste.
I kinda like alchemy and cooking because besides brainless extraction you gotta explore the world and collect massive amounts of shit thats scattered around myrland, but then again alchemy is only the system and the gathering, it won't deliver more. Cooking was broken in MO1, it was a sad crafting class since day 0 till the end.
I consider that the whole crafting classes should be remade and properly tweaked for them to be a little more, and offer more player and world interaction. The how? there many ways to change crafting without leaving its inicial concept which ain't bad but just not developed.
And to be honest i really doubt crafting is going to change, they have a long trip ahead copypasting things from MO1 to MO2.
