Talents

[Kit]

I actually posted this to SIMU's DR game about a year ago..and I just thought of it again, so why not post it here!

Talents. Talents are one thing a person can't choose and doesn't know about it until it's discovered. It's a random skill assigned to a person. For instance, a trooper could find out that he gets MAD bonuses to singing and, directly from out of the CM, he has a nice voice.

This can work for any skill.
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[Xenoapollyon]

its an interesting idea. I'm not overly sure how the creation system works, but I can see people doing mad rerolls starting out to get a specific talent. I can also already head the unending whining and complaining of those people with higher level characters because they get some mad bonus to something they never use. While its a very cool idea and I think it would rock, it may be one of those "wait till live" ideas if at all. also not sure how the coding would work on it... so yeah. I like the idea, just putting it in I think might cause complications.

Sean


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[Kit]

[Brokyn]

Actually, there is a REROLL command. It starts your character over completely. I believe this will still be around in Live.

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[Kit]

[HR-Trevor]

The only bad thing about something you inherently have without choosing is that some people will undoubtedly feel ripped off by what they get and think some other player got it lucky. That's not a big deal for a short term event/situation but for a lifetime one, it's more of an issue.
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[Xenoapollyon]

So your idea is for it to be an invisible bonus?

And that was kinda what I was thinking as well to quote Trevor
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[Kit]

[Xenoapollyon]

I wasnt aware of that. I havent been following it too too closely actually, so I'd really like to hear the specifics on if bonuses will still be visible or not for sure. If trevor has time to comment on that I'd appreciate that.

Without being able to see the bonus I can see it being more interesting
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[SolitaryTurnip]

Here, Trevor mentions that neither the new SKILLS nor the new INFO verbs will show bonuses. Unless things have changed, that includes after the beta skill change and in Live.

[Xenoapollyon]

Thanks for the link.
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[SolitaryTurnip]

That's what I'm here for *grins*.

[Dzynna]

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i dislike random boons because:

1) i like having controls as to how my chracter is developed. like i wanted the fragile flaw. if traits/flaws were random, for example, for all i know i'd end up with yaru getting the robust trait, or something.

2) i also know that people are powerplayers and will try to screw with the system to make the random factors more in tune with what they want. so that encourages poor roleplay, because many people don't want to have to have their character feel apt at something they didn't choose.
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