Gatherer Guild and Mapmaking

[Anne]

Hello everyone,

I did a small survey yesterday to see who of those in the gathering profession would be interested in working as a team next moon to find necessary items around Brink, as well as help fill in details and points of interest on a map of Brink to trade with Abraham for a map of another area.
So far the people who have evinced interest (or been mentioned by friends) are:
Absolon,
Stein
Two Wolves
Circa
Jitsi
Avery
Explorer Calm Pier
Kal
Zarick
Ret
Idris
Veren
Prucilla
Kal-Brood
Tyrael
Sigrid
Cappy
Beneficia

• and myself. If you see your name and do not wish to involve yourself, please do not feel pressured. If you are interested and do not see your name, please speak up.

I would like to set up a meeting next moon so that we can have a cohesive plan to povide the best map possible for maximum trade value to Abraham, as well as gathering in a group or groups to help each other find more during our most active hours.
My suggestion is to discuss mapmaking strategies over breakfast on Saturday - Explorer mentioned that she and someone else were working on an outline of the trails around Brink - I think we would be well served to divide that map into sections and have smaller teams each go out after breakfast to gather in a certain section and make more detailed notes on the specific area. Next moon, we could repeat with each group trading sections to get new eyes in the areas and see which resources are consistent, seasonal or occaisional.

(OOG: basically, lets go out together to look for components since most aren’t having much luck looking separately, maybe we all take a walk together after breakfast? Might be a good idea to go in smaller teams since there’s a ton of us, and that could also be a useful way to get the most detailed map of Brink)

• Isaveau

[VoodooSpecter]

I think it’s worth noting that while we should get a map together of Brink, we all come from different places and we ought to think with all these people participating of also making maps of other areas.

(OOG: I’m really confused, as far as I know he wanted us to spend BGA time making a map to trade, the words “it will take a month to make a decent map” sounded like “it will take one person a month to make a decent map aka one soft bga”, but then I heard from Chris that he wants us to hand draw a decent map which honestly sounds biased against people who can’t draw for shit and seems unlikely. Now it sounds like we are just trying to do a self organized nature walk. This won’t help because, according to discussions post game, staff never seeded components on our side of the camp site and only put out components on their side of the camp when they had a plot coming through - so I don’t really get exactly what we’re organizing. But either way we have enough people on this list to do multiple maps)

[Anne]

(OOG: I got a clarify that stuff was seeded for walks and such, but in such a way that it got mistakenly pulled up only by specific plots. Just a small glitch in a new game and one we as players can help with by being organized in an IG way.
Also, we’re allowed to go as far as the fire circle so long as we don’t go on the main road. So if we all work to be a bit more organized about looking IG, we’ll get stuff.
As for maps, I asked abouth the detail/effort needed and the npc said a more detailed map would get us a better trade value. Specifically, he said a single person sketching out a basic map would be worthless to him :(. It doesn’t have to be biased agsainst people who can’t draw if we work as a team to make it. - those who can draw can compile sketches, those who can’t can do more scouting so we have accurate info since the npc requested as much detail as possible in several categories. Think of it this way, for a full BGA, a single player can make something like 10 purl, so how could a single player produce hundreds of purl worth of map with one BGA, at the first game of the arc?
I agree we should definitely make maps of other places, but that seems more like a thing that should be collaborated on by specific regional cultures rather than gatherers as a whole, so, let’s use separate threads to keep the forum easily navigable.)

[Praseodymium]

I am very interested in group gathering activities and mapmaking and will contribute as I can. I am also willing to guide the untrained to locations we acquire maps to, if the need arises.

-Absolon

[car0mur]

I was going to read this but it was long and I got bored…

Anyway I am a gatherer! I really like mushrooms and bugs! If anyone ever wants to go on a walk I’ll show you were there’s some really cool grasshoppers. I can guide people around too.

Here’s a drawing of a grasshopper!

[egullard]

Hello everyone, Cal here. I am planning to leave for the Abandoned Chosen Temple in a couple of days. I ask that if you find anything directly related to the Chosen that you bring it to our attention.

[Praseodymium]

Cal’s message has reminded me, we are going to want to have a directory available of locations available to explore. To facilitate this, I have created a directory, feel free to change or replace it as you wish. I was not sure how to separate out gathering and foraging information, we can either make two pages each with separate information or we can list each map twice with a note as to which type of information is being presented, or just lump them all in together at the risk of readability.

-Absolon

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1a2SjNKNJ7XCK9w0YdCpwPsRzs-R1bCNa8HkoHEun-e0/edit#gid=0

[Liz]

Can you upload the information for the Abandoned Chosen Temple into the spreadsheet provided below so we can keep track of it?

[VoodooSpecter]

OOC: I know we’re pretending this is a bulletin board, but the spreadsheet is ABOVE to be clear.Edit: OHHH, I can see what’s happening yeah. You clicked reply and the site did something strange.

Still OOC: Yeah there are I believe quite a few people whose bgas hinge on what this map actually does so the more information the sooner the better. We also need a staff clarification on how other people using the map works.

[liam_wang]

If I can have access to the Gatherer Guild maps, I will help however I can.
– Mithra Suhar

(OOC: I also had an unrelated question for the BGA. If we want to work for purl, do we have to specify a location to work? You have to specify you’re working in, say, the swamp for foraging and gathering. I wasn’t clear if that was needed for “gathering purl”)

[Praseodymium]

I dont have that information, im hoping whoever has the map does.

[VoodooSpecter]

OOC: That would be a really good question to make a new thread for, since that will draw visibility. You should probably also tag mike in it because he worked on those professions.

[liam_wang]

OOC: Shall do. Thank you.

[Praseodymium]

Hi Everyone, I took some notes on the forest map although that map has not been purchased. I’ve added a section in our directory for coordinating purchasing additional maps where we can put the information for maps we have not yet purchased, and have marked those as clearly unavailable so no one will mistakenly waste time planning a trip somewhere we can’t get to.

OOC: Updated the map information with everything I have and everything Erik has made available. Added a section grayed out and marked as unavailable for coordinating map research.

[Venskus]

Hello. I’m Nicodemus “Nico” Novem. I’ll be kicking it in the “mine” for my first BGA, but much like Avery, I’m a gatherer.