Laurel: The list should not include info on where to find the herb nor the name, only info about its description and what it does, and only for those herbs where that is included in the long desc. I dont find that reveal too much at all...
Nobody mentioned telling everywhere every name of every herb and where to find them... so being skilled in herbing (both you and your char) will still be useful. You will still have to gain knowledge of where to find the herbs so the books and maps in all guilds are still useful, and your character will still have use for high herbalism skill since you can search for the name of the particular herb you are looking for.
But thats what I think. Like with maps, I always loved the various map-pages on the web, so I dont have to bother mapping every place. It makes the game a lot more fun to play for me, just like the herb-list I have, that many probably have, also has made the game easier and more fun to me.
But we're all different.
Others, (like Laurel?) probably wanna explore and find this out themselves. I think something inbetween would be great, like maps that give you a rough outline of the domains and places but not the exact rooms is good to have on the official webage. A similar thing should be great with herbs too I think. And yes... why not items too...
I agree Genesis is pretty unique in many ways, but a good webpage with useful information that makes the game easier to play is all good imho. Especially if we are to attract any new players.
I've had my share of disagreements with both Tapakah and Gorboth but here I totally agree with them which gotta count for something!
