New easily accessible items for new players

I've a few suggestions for new items that could be added to the game that would be useful to new players who don't have lots of gold. After hitting 40 recently and building up my gear and using the web item search tools (which are amazing btw), there were some gear gaps I found between what I wanted an what I could get. They are just listed alphabetically, the two needed most (I suggest) are the Scout Special and then the Reinforced construction.


Armor Plating
Mostly fine, though there is only 1 line of sight item that is hard to get, maybe add a new one that is accessible


Cloth Armor
Ok options on health, armors, dmg, line of sight isn't too bad, move speed ok too.
For villagers there is the 3.5% wood one from Northern Hold, but could add a 4-5% food gathering one perhaps.


Construction Addition
Good options for training, build time, line of sigh. Only one that could be improved is maybe the cost ones, maybe add an easy to get one at -6% cost



Merchant Gear
Fine, though the line of sight one from Respectable Rare Ramparts is harder to get when visit friend is disabled.


Reinforced Construction
Good options for HP and Dmg, but for the other wanted stats there are big gaps.
Line of sight: the epic is extremely rare, and legendary expensive, could use a shop/recipe item with maybe 35-40% Line of Sight as nice option for new players.
Cost: Only option outside of the Legendary is the -1.3% lvl 15 item from Sparta shop, that's what I'm currently using for most buildings. Could use a shop/recipe item with maybe -4% cost.
Build time: the epic is extremely rare, and legendary expensive, could use a shop/recipe item with maybe -4% build time.
The legendary combines cost and build time, having two separated for new players, -4% on each, would be nice stepping stone items.


Scout Special
Really needs an accessible lens, something at 40% LOS would be fine


Solider's Gear
Mostly ok, for a cheaper Ramses option we have lvl 38-39 Odysseus in trade and as backstop there is the lvl 20 Mycenaean gloves, but perhaps a lvl 30 shop/crafted version would be nice

Sword
Mostly fine, the line of sight swords take a bit of saving to get, but are not bad


All the other slots were fine, in my opinion.
One other thing to note, without the web search tools its hard to get an handle on what items are available in the game, for example there were lots of good choices from shops or crafting, but without going outside the game and searching it was hard to know that. Changes to this are probably not easy or practice for a fan project game, but perhaps links to the search tools could be make displayed in the launcher, or a tooltip when loading, so users learn that they have somewhere they can go look.

 

Advisors:
Not really a big issue at the moment, there are always rare ones being sold in trade, but occasionally its hard to get a specific one you need. Perhaps have a shop that sells all the advisors at uncommon level for 750 or 1k, so its not a replacement for trade, just a backstop for when player base is small.

 

I think I didn't explain my point as well as I thought I did, as I'm starting to do ok for money now and I'm aware of the good items in game and people have being really helpful already (its a great community on discord and in game). But I was referring to particular gaps. None of these items are issues for me, they are either minor or I've got what I need already, but I still think new items could be added that smooths the game for new players for what should be a minimal amount of effort as new items and recipes have being added before.

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Big Gaps:

Reinforced Construction

Line of sight:
There are two options, Master Defender (~55% LOS) - very expensive and Hand-Carved Wall Braces(~50% LOS) rare and also expensive. I got the Wall Braces as drop when levelling so I'm fine but this is still a gap for new players, I feel it makes a big impact on quests having strong line of sight on your outposts. There should be an intro option with maybe 35% LOS that people can get for 1-3k.

Cost & Build Time
Best option is Walls of the Architect (-6.5% cost, -6.5% time) which is the expensive legendary, which is fine. Next up is Superior Imperial Fortifications (-1.5% cost) lvl 15 from Sparta. (There is the Novice's engineers Braces (-3.5% cost), but that is a early game item lvl 2 only end up with 1 of them at best). Build time does have Walls of Earthen Strength (-4.4% time) but its rare drop due to small player base and so is very expensive too. For most buildings you don't need health or dmg or armour in this slot, build time and cost are the stats wanted but don't have good options accessible to new players. I would suggest adding two new items, one with -4% cost and one with -4% build time, easily accessible for 1-3k for new players.



Scout Special
Two options in game, Lens of Mens costs 70k+ (~74% LOS) and Looking Glass (20-50% LOS lvl 7-27) which is rare because of smaller player base, it used to be the stepping stone back when AOEO was out the first time around. Line of Sight on scouts is a huge impact on quests I feel and there should be an accessible option for new players, something with 40-50% LOS for 1-3k would be good stepping stone.



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Less Big Gaps

Armor Plating
There is one Line of Sight Armor plating in the game, lvl 14-18 Scales of the Leviathan (@Kenji03 if I'm missing the one you talk about as craftable can you share details of it as I can't see it on the web item search page, https://celeste-items.netlify.com). Its not a super important item slot, but could be nice to use on transport ships during A new Pharohs Challenge quests (which I complete fine already, was just something I thought would be nice to try out). So far its rarely on trade or the marketplace and was 40k+ on there when I saw it. So having a more accessible part could be nice.


Cloth Armor
There are lots of good options for most slots, punic tunic like you say, however for villagers there are limited options.
Tunic of collector, Ancient trojan guard chiton, alligator-hide chiton - all are very expensive 60-100k. As intro options for players there are Worker's Cloth from Norther hold, lvl 25 and 3.5% wood gathering and Royal Guard Tunic, lvl 19-23 drop with 5% food gathering, however that one doesn't drop often due to playerbase size so isn't generally available (never seen it listed anywhere). So it would be nice and not unreasonable if there was a food gathering cloth armor with 4-5% food gathering that was accessible for 1-3k for new players.


Merchant Gear
There is one line of sight merchant gear item, lvl 32 Helio's Mule Barding, from Respectable Rare Ramparts. If you don't have that shop and visit an empire is disabled (usually a quick way to find someone with the shop) then can't get it. Not a big deal is a small line of sight percentage and jsut wanted it for A new Pharohs challenge but just making a note on its accessibility.


Construction Addition, Soldier's Gear, Sword
Good enough options exist, see notes in original post as I'm already making this a wall of text (PS: Suggestion for new Construction Addition: "Wall of Text" - Snares enemies within 20 yards of it and reduces their line of sight 90%")