Small Ideas - AIN'T NO COMBAT THREAD

Moirean

You can do a wide range of special exits/entrances for hours. For my house, example, you have to solve riddles that a pair of bickering gargoyles give you. Just message Razmael and be prepared to pay out 250 credits.

Areka

For the shrine linking - I LOVE that this gives bashers/non-pkers an ability to contribute.

However, the returns seem a bit mrph. A round of Xaanhal (200398 essence) was 90 ylem - roughly the same as 2-3 eld. Rather than ylem-per-corpse, would having it be a fraction of the essence offered, be considered? 1/100th even (making that Xaanhal run 200 ylem, still less than a leyline). 

Daskalos

90 ylem is barely -1- eld, not even 3. You get about 77-83\eld.  Numbers need some serious adjustment. I'd say 3/1000th - that round would become worth about 600 or so.

Moirean

Maybe make it like Great Hunt, where tougher mobs are worth more ylem.

Areka

Oh oh, and a way to fuse a ylem shard or something to our sacrificial daggers so that they can link to the linked shrines? That'd be lovely. 

Vharen

Have alertness/lifescent show the direction of the movement.

Zaephlyn

Not sure if this has ever been offered, might be more of a pain in the butt than it's worth.

Haven rooms marked as outdoors should allow users with Spark to regenerate in the sunlight, just like they do on the normal plane.

Not sure about everyone else but that +1 spark every now and then saves me a meditation trip once in awhile!

Haven

I'd love it if the sun generated more spark. Or even if the class was reworked around 1 resource rather than 3.

Zaephlyn

Haven said:

I'd love it if the sun generated more spark. Or even if the class was reworked around 1 resource rather than 3.

I think this would be a huge help, the only thing/reason I can see there being a 'no' said to that might be because of the spark boon artifact/power that is sold.

Areka

Can we have 'CITY RESEARCH' list the various syntaxes, like doing 'DESIGN' and such does? 

EDIT: And for Cardinal to be able to edit chelps >>

Azton

Hunting Areas.. Make another fish area, like kelsy. So we can get bladder a little easier instead of going to 5 different areas for a few fish!

Sarita

While we're at it, I've been told that research ministers can't edit chelps either.

Areka

Yeah, I've had to have Roux update Eno's CHELP RESEARCH because Aryanne couldn't. :x

Setne

I would really like a command like Lusternia's audit that list all items that have less than a certain number of months left on them, with the base being 25.

Angwe

Take away Woodlore Darts. Make the snake companion a copy of the vampire's ghast. Boom, Sentinels won't have to run and set up darts just to achieve a basic lock and we're using different traps, finally.

EDIT: This was mostly @Kaeus' idea, not mine. An alternative solution he came up with was giving Sentinels Quickfoot back, but taking Woodlore Darts away still. Because relying on darts SUCKS SO MUCH ASS IT MAKES ME WANT TO SCREAM.

Xavin

I would almost rather see quickfoot back with darts gone instead of giving sentinels an ent that powerful.

Kaeus

Xavin said:

I would almost rather see quickfoot back with darts gone instead of giving sentinels an ent that powerful.

I mean, Sentinel aff speed is CLEARLY balanced around having darts proccing. Having such an unreliable aff method being required to be at a competitive affliction rate seems like an iffy mechanic at best. That ent would essentially replicate darts, and also make them not consume a UNICORNS-ton of venoms from setting down a trap. You would probably need to have the ability to swap what venom it is secreting/applying take a decent bit of balance so that you can make it swap super easily mid combat and have an extremely dynamic tick. It would also open up the use of the other in-room traps to actually be used!

I do have to agree with Angwe though, relying on traps is EXTREMELY frustrating. You are forced to drag people into a room or turtle in a room to have them activate, they fade after 25 applications (which goes by quickly in a decent fight), and many (MANY) people just leave and refuse to fight in darts because they simply don't have to.

Damonicus

I've always said the snake should be able to attack and inflict whatever venom it was secreting at the time.

Haven

Well isn't the 3rd skillset supposed to help with this issue? Something about wrist bows. I might be remembering wrong though.

Damonicus

Haven said:

Well isn't the 3rd skillset supposed to help with this issue? Something about wrist bows. I might be remembering wrong though.

Soon.

Angwe

Yeah, maybe sometime soon in the future ain't good enough. I want a bandaid NOW.

In protest, I think I'm going to post an easy bandaid fix everyday until SOMETHING is fucking done. This is ridiculous.

Kaeus

To be fair Angwe, there are classes that have needed bandaid fixes way longer than Sentinel. Honestly bandaid fixes can also create more problems than they solve unless they are properly tested and balanced. This would more be an idea for liaisoning unless Sentinel changes were really that close.

Angwe

While that may be true, no other class has been so throughly nerfed into the ground that they can only achieve kills if a. the opponent is low level or curing badly or b. such a specific condition is met that an application of mass and a ring of flood renders their opponent invincible.

Lin

Hi, I'm a Cabalist and I have no sympathy for you.

Angwe

@lin
Heh. Point.

Haven

Didn't @Serrice pwnface everyone with the current incarnation of Sentinel before moving onto Syssin?

Setne

Lin said:

Hi, I'm a Cabalist and I have no sympathy for you.

Stop trying to kill me/get me killed you. I'm on to you.

Lin

Sorry, that's my buggy--ass skills just targetting you for no good reason!

Setne

Just like you were "eating steak" that one time.

Kaeus

I've been able to kill people quite well, provided they stay in darts...