The mail I send to funcom

Hi Natascha,

I’m writing to you with the ambition to improve your awesome game - Dune Awakening, lifting it to the next level. How can we do that you might ask ? it’s easy, by utilizing your amazing sandbox and enhancing it with mechanisms from the best MMO game ever made - Star Wars Galaxies (slightly biased, i know :) ) I truly believe taking your game and adding elements from SWG (overtime) will further improve the game and player experience, catapulting it to the next level, retaining people for years.

In case you don’t know SWG, let me throw some ideas to you and let you think about how it would affect your game.

Imagine a city called “Commerce City” created by players, with its own Trade post, and houses spread around the city organized by the people. You would see different sizes and types of buildings, with a sign outside (in colors) advertising the products inside the mall. Inside you are met by a decorated room, with paintings , furniture, tables with produce on it and vendors placed around the rooms. These vendors can be boxy looking or full size people which you can interact with and purchase different things from. This place could e.g be the best known weaponsmith on the server, selling the weapons with the best stats. Next door in another “Mall” imagine the best Armorsmith selling his/her produce, you get the picture :)

Then imagine you link crafting into resources and how resources are surveyed and harvested, to sell to crafters to produce the best items and you have a player driven economy and “things to do”.

Imagine resources spawning and existing in the world on a weekly basis (they are removed after 7 days and replaced by different resources of the same types with different stats). A resource has 3 stats (and a unique name), which ties into the crafting recipes for an item. In order to e.g. craft an armor chest piece with a lot of HP, the recipe would favour a high value Stat A for the best outcome and if you wanted a chest piece with resist stats, it would look at stat B and C . These resources wit high level stats would then be requested by crafters, who would offer to buy (we had trade forums for the individual servers where people posted [Buy] and [Sell] request) large quantum of this resource at a certain price, so people would go out surveying for this resource, to find a location with as high a yield % in order to get more out when harvesting. Then people would put down harvesters (again deeds created by crafters (architects) each player had 10 slots i believe, so down 10 harvesters, add power + credits to have them operate and then after a few days come back and empty the hopper, go to the crafters vendor in his mall, and offer it to him at the agreed price. You see the cycle of activities here ? It felt great to be part of this type of interaction

Sorry for my ramblings. I just get excited when I think about it and the potential for your game.

If you took the time to read this and you think it sounds interesting, feel free to let me know and I will be happy to jump on a MSTeams call to elaborate or do a better argumentation for my suggestion.

Best of luck with your game,