Minecraft is a great example of a true open world MMO.
Their "achievement" tree is both a learning curve and amusement park.
What Deantwo had shown is a good approximation of it to Hazeron.
Patents that are immediately available, but not claimed yet, can be shown with a clear distinctive icon and a clearly suggestive description.
Like, for "Ore":
- If a player did not locate ore node yet, it would show a dimmed icon with loupe overlay and "???" in the tooltip. Suggesting that the player should observe something in the environment.
- Once player observe an Ore node, the icon would change into full bright and tooltip show its name with description suggesting to build a mine over it to harvest the resource.
Etc.
Their "achievement" tree is both a learning curve and amusement park.
What Deantwo had shown is a good approximation of it to Hazeron.
Patents that are immediately available, but not claimed yet, can be shown with a clear distinctive icon and a clearly suggestive description.
Like, for "Ore":
- If a player did not locate ore node yet, it would show a dimmed icon with loupe overlay and "???" in the tooltip. Suggesting that the player should observe something in the environment.
- Once player observe an Ore node, the icon would change into full bright and tooltip show its name with description suggesting to build a mine over it to harvest the resource.
Etc.