Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Quality Maniac: World of Warcraft Garrison Work Orders

So, I planned for this bug.

Before going to Turkey (as I mentioned I would do in a previous article). (this trip it itself was also horrendous on so many parts, working all day with boring bureaucracy in Turkey were no on speaks English, well that part was interesting but it was a lot of idle time banks and government buildings. But I had no Internet were I lived and while the constant reminding of not being able to answer mails etc was very annoying(and I ad like 100+ to write back to and similar stuff when getting back and why this article took some time to write) the most frustrating thing was that I meet this women the day  just before traveling...so I was sitting everyday getting annoyed that I couldn't call her on skype or something similar, we had just spend talking for like 4+ hours Sunday there--. Anyway I wouldent call myself Internet addicted but its all the things Internet brings.)

Anyway this  issue also has then to do with the Garrison in World of Warcraft, as mentioned in the garrison the player can get valuable game resources by placing work orders at different buildings, these orders takes time and the player can stack up different amount of max orders based on the level of the building.

I have seen a bug that I have suspected for a quite a while if the player let the stack goods(the actual item the player clicks to collect the resources) to grow to a large number of work orders. And by going away for over a week I knew I was gonna max all my work order per buildings easily so I also built the storehouse to level 3 which adds another 15 work orders(level 1 adds 5, +10 more for level)
 To Truly maximize the garrison goods.

So bascily its gonna be a lot of images here now.

But first I want to go over why I dont like this kind of things, obviously its a clear graphical bug when stuff are out of boundary(code joke;)



Clearly these boxes are growing through the roof.



That being said, most players probably go and get their resource way quicker, its 3 or 4 hour per order(depending on building) so its 6 per day. And I probably don't eves get to 6 I go an get them more then once a day, well I used to the first months and started doing it less frequently even if I am in my garrison a lot. But still most players probably wont see this.

No my beef is more in the inconsistency, you know I am all about being annoyed at unnecessary issues. Because some of the work orders other type of stacked-boxes, which will not go into any buildings. They could easily use that model for e.g the mine. While the mine model can be used else where. Were the boxes are placed outside a building, like the Dwarwen Bunker.
 So all the solution is there, its just not getting used.


Here the boxes are growing on the outside with no roof but the game uses a model that grows more on the width instead of height, swap this one with the mine one would be my suggestion.

There is also the Barn version were its just one sack that becomes bigger.


Other images of the mine boxes.





This the herb Garden I suspected it would also be to big and it really forced me to stack a lot of unique resource for the herbs, its actually quite weird in the game. For the mine you get draenic stones like no tomorrow and can easily always max it. While for the garden you barely get any Draenic Seeds it never gets maxed. But I saw the location of the boxes and stored up a lot of seeds to get this bug. (Which is a design flaw in itself)




Here is the worst offender. The garrison resource box outside of the town hall. Now these are all bad images really as they are with the max of 500 resources because this box grows into the other boxes in like 1 day. So its easily wrongful placed/model grows to big.