Is there anything in the tutorial that actually teaches players HOW TO craft?
I cant remember anything about it myself.
These features of the game are not clear by themselves. Most of RPGs i know of use separate additional windows for crafting, so the second you see those you know what to do: put elements her and here - click a button. - kind of a thing for dummies.
OS does this completely differently.
Therefore, the tutorial should teach all this to the players - quite literally.
1. What to use for crafting and exactly how,
2. How to cook something and exactly how, using what kind of items
3. How to repair equipment, exactly how and with what items.
4. Teach players they can drag items from their inventories to or onto specific places, such as filling cups with water and putting medallions on some pedestals
5. ... lockpicking... something else im forgetting right now, etc. (how to make spells from lank scrolls!)
And this needs to be quite literal, in your face - take this, put it right here, click like that or like this - kind of a thing.
Thats what a tutorial needs to do.
I realize that this might seem like spoiling these mechanics and revealing what players should get by themselves... but... well,...
I think the problem is that all these things use very similar but somewhat different mechanics, so figuring out one doesnt automatically make clear how to do others. (either that or im getting too old)
Either that or make the NPCs in Cysael give lessons about it.
Maybe even charging some relatively low amounts of gold for the lessons, so its not all just free for nothing.
At this point i would pay money for someone to teach me a few of the features mentioned above. :P
