World of Warcraft, Warlords of Draenor has been live for just over a week now. The really cool new feature in it is Garrisons. I think it’s cool anyway. It may also be a big problem for me. Talk about a squirrel.
One of the things I like in online games is when you can set something to be happening while you are logged out. That could be skill training and manufacturing like in Eve Online, or in Perpetuum there is the manufacturing and earning ep to go into different skills and in Ever Quest II there is the upgrades that can train or research while you are logged out.I think it’s really cool and enhances game play.
The biggest downside to these offline processing features is that I want to keep checking on them. If I set something that takes only an hour to do, then I want to check back in an hour and see how if it’s done and how it turned out. When Eve Online created the skill queue where you could stack skill training so that if the one skill was only going to take 20 minutes to train another would start right after, that was a huge help. With Warlords we don’t have that option with missions. At least not yet, or not that I know of. And so I find myself logging in to see if something is complete so I can send out another mission.
Missions are not the only thing that keep me logging back in while I’m trying to clean my home. The workorders are just as bad. I find if I log in to see if a mission is done then I also have to check the garrison cache to claim resources and I need to make sure I have picked up any work orders.
I really do like the offline processing, it’s just cool. I would like a way, maybe through an app, to do these housekeeping things remotely. That would be really awesome.
