The Team Effort: Job Speculation

[Shapedistort]

Thought to start this as a group discussion of what people will be doing as occupations for the great continent of Nupoanqa. Hope this helps the devs with their ideas as well.

Personally I'd like to be a traveling merchant, while roaming the jungles of the races, looking for herbs and animals needed for the continued population growth within the cities and villages.

[Serpensio]

Good Post.

As for myself, my first occupation will be a lone hunter/gatherer, training my archery, dagger, hunting and survival skills while sustaining my hunger, getting a feel for the game and training my stats. As I come back to sell any excess kills, I'll make contacts with other players, and NPCs, hopefully finding a shipbuilder I can coax into building me a fair sailing vessel for a good price I can afford. If I can find no ship-builder, I will skill myself in it instead and build my ship with my bare hands.

My second occupation, as I have a ship being built, will be to make contacts with merchants and potential sailors so I'll have an actual crew once my ship is finished. At this time, I'll officially start up the Senokan Privateers Association so the groundwork is pre-laid for all and any of the future players who want to be ship captains. I will take odd jobs around the city to keep a stream of money coming in, as hunting will likely be too time-extensive, and I'll have to pay off the huge debt to the shipwright for the materials and labor building the ship, as well as having to buy all the logistical stuff for a voyage on a ship (food, drink, medicine, weapons, armor, etc.)

My third occupation will be Senokan Privateer, Captain of my Ship, sailing the seas with my crew. I'll take merchanting jobs from traders and transportation jobs from other players, if there doesn't seem to be much ship traffic to prey upon this early in the game (which there probably won't be, unless a guild focuses entirely on it right at the beginning.) After each job, I'll be sure to spread word of myself, hopefully growing my crew as well.

My fouth Occupation will be Privateer Admiral. As I become a more experienced captain, and earn more coin from my profiteering and other jobs, I'll upgrade my ship, or buy a new one, a larger and faster one, and take on a larger crew and larger and longer voyages. I'll make a name for myself, and with my profits start to grow myself an armada from all the ships I've captured. Eventually, I'll be a commander of a fleet, and my privateering empire will no longer need me to generate revenue for itself. I will then retire as an active Captain, but retain my ownership on my fleet, so they keep making me profit as I try out other parts of the game.

My fifth occupation will be a Retiree, I'll try out various pastimes, such as exploration, spelunking and treasure-hunting, while an NPC agent collects my share of the privateering profits from my fleet. I'll use my generous proceeds to travel to the Onakawa and learn their secret arts of herbs and poisons, archery and dagger, death and deception.

My sixth profession, once I come back from Onakawa will be an unknown assassin. I'll make a name for myself, and take up interested recruits, starting a guild of professional, perfect, assassins for hire under, my control, playing the political landscape to my liking, PC and NPC alike, unifying the Senokan Empire, but leaving it just fractured enough that I can control it from the shadows.
Once I control Senoka from the shadows, I shall retire again, but keep my assassins guild under my thumb. I shall have two names, one respected, honored for my service to the Throne as a Privateer, and another mightily feared, reverenced for my precision and influence, as it circulates through the underworld leaving corrupt politicians breathless.

My seventh Profession, as a second retiree, shall be a traveler, and tourist. I shall go traveling the world, using my vast wealth, and coldly precise skills, to visit each and every one of the Continents, seeing the sights and learning of their culture. But, again I will wear two faces. In each Continent I shall train heirs in the ways of the True Assassin, spreading my legacy, and enlarging my Association, until it covers the globe, and I can control much of the politics to my pleasure. Simply by tugging a string, I shall write history, starting wars, and deciding the winner. Men will fight for me, without even knowing it's me they're fighting for. I shall shape the landscape and politics to my liking. I shall be unknown by the majority of the populace, yet my name will be ever-present in the annuls of Caerus' history.


Yeah, I got big plans.

[Glabro]

Too early for me to say...
I guess I will let my character's heart (and, to little extent, devs ) to lead me to my destiny

[Aliatus]

My first and only occupation will be a mage bent on WORLD DOMINATION! MUAHAHA!

But no seriously, the closest I'll ever come to a real occupation in game is a mage that helps heal the wounded. Other than that I'll wander the lands in search of ancient texts to expand my knowledge of magic to use for the good of Caerus.

[Toocansam]

I think I want to explore at first. I want to learn the continent and discover just what is out there. I hope there is a lot of content for explorer types.

After that I will see where the wind takes me. Perhaps I find locations for rare game or materials, in that case I will probably be a trader.

Maybe I find some cool ruins with tough mobs and great items, so I will become a powerhouse soloer to pillage the mobs inside.

If I find a secret destructive spell, I will become a mage

etc. etc.

[Codivius]

What is this talk of magics? No good can come of this..
But you, Shapedistort, might find good trades in our village, you seem to have the interest of our peoples in mind. Do send word by monkey or bird should you come visit, so I can guide you by a safe path. For my 'profession' is the safeguarding of the spirits of Nupoanqa, and of our reclusive village in specific.

[Firaxis]

I'll be setting out into the wilderness as a hunter/scout/ranger type. Map out some areas for a good home for my guild and then help in the founding and construction of our first holding. Then melt some faces in PvP.

[Shapedistort]

Agreed then Codivius, If I may stop by on a trip I shall request your services. And may your village prosper and thrive at the benefit of the resources I shall collect!