Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-31507215-20170318022650/@comment-31507215-20170330020852

AlteOgre wrote: Part of this nicely adds to this suggestion: [Endorsed] Lore Masters & Minstrels This may have been mentioned before, but forgive me that I didn't feel like checking all of the preceding posts. Your minstrel suggestion may not be fully original when compared to that thread, but I haven't checked both in full detail. Please do, so you can focus on what's new. I think instruments that require fine-metal working / crafting skills of the late middle-ages should not be included. These would concern iron flutes and trumpets with valves or other means to cary the length of the tube. Single length metal horns wouldn't be far fetched though, either straight or bent. I recommend using copper ingots and silver nuggets for the flute, clarinet and trumpet instead of iron / gold. Copper melts at lower temperatures and is more easily workable for such metal parts. Silver has an even lower melting temperature but is rather ductile and consequently unfit for the larger parts, so it si fit for application in smaller, connecting or ornamentive parts. Gold is so valuable and even more ductile than silver: it won't be fit to allow instruments to keep their shape under all conditions, which is especially valuable for rather noisy instruments like trumpets.I apologize - I had not seen your comment earlier.

No it has not been mentioned before, so thank you. I had not seen that suggestion until now - I had searched "instruments" before I posted this, and didn't think to check for "minstrel" or "bard" when I added them to the suggestion. I believe, but I am not certain, that all of my stuff is original, except for the wandering minstrels you hire Bards from. As you said, I think it would fit together nicely. Maybe the Wandering Minstrels have both a "trade" button and a "hire" button like Farmers?

I had thought that the instruments requiring valves and stuff were a little later in the time period, so thank you for confirming it. I don't think I have any instruments with valves and the like, except for the Clarinet, which I know is in lore, but if you notice anything wrong, please let me know. Copper makes a lot of sense - I will change the flute to use copper instead of iron. Silver makes sense too. I had originally used silver for the Clarinet, but after KHAMULofHARDA made some comments, I changed it to iron, but I am thinking about changing it back. What you said about gold makes sense too, but I think I mentioned the option of making trumpets out of Bronze or Silver, too. The gold would only be an option - I can't imagine many people would use it, probably just for decoration purposes.

I appreciate your input. Comments like this really help me improve my suggestions! Thanks!