New Skill: Concealment

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New Skill: Concealment

Postby ciroth » Tue Oct 05, 2010 1:06 pm

Skill Name: Concealment
Requirements: Tricks and Ruses, Theft, Ranging, Stealth 150+, Agi 100+, Dex 50+ (gotta be nimble yo!)
Type: Active

Description: When player uses Concealment and is successful, he will be shown as transparent. This means if player A uses this ability, he will become invisible until detected by two means:
1) Enemy Player has High enough perception to see player, similar to how foraging works. (Re-rolling could work, but if you don't know a player is concealed, you won't be re-rolling)
2) Player walks into a well lit area, AKA Light sources.

Concealment is useless during the day and becomes more effective when the moon phase reaches New Moon. Con sealed players can only move 1 tile at a time, crawl speed, and each time he moves there is a chance he breaks out of concealment. Higher stealth prevents this from happening. But if he walks into light source, he will always be detected. This would make it that villages should always be well lit at night in case of such dangerous thieves lurking in the shadows. Major penalties on players wearing any metal armor of any sort, but it is possible to use metal armor if player's character is well developed enough to outweigh the negative modifiers.

You can aim while concealed, but there will be a counter Skill to being "Aimed" at called "Ranger's Perception"
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Re: New Skill: Concealment

Postby erozaxx » Tue Oct 05, 2010 1:51 pm

ciroth wrote:Skill Name: Concealment
Requirements: Tricks and Ruses, Theft, Ranging, Stealth 150+, Agi 100+, Dex 50+ (gotta be nimble yo!)
Type: Active

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Like this one as well
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Re: New Skill: Concealment

Postby mvgulik » Tue Oct 05, 2010 2:20 pm

The only way that would work in the long run is if the player is shown OR is not shown at all. I mean It will only take one HnH client that adds some nice anti Concealment feature to render that feature kinda useless.
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Re: New Skill: Concealment

Postby Thijssnl » Tue Oct 05, 2010 2:22 pm

mvgulik wrote:The only way that would work in the long run is if the player is shown OR is not shown at all. I mean It will only take one HnH client that adds some nice anti Concealment feature to render that feature kinda useless.
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Nonsense, like there is a feature to see all forageables with 10 discovery.
Like I said earlier, think a bit before you post.
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Re: New Skill: Concealment

Postby mvgulik » Tue Oct 05, 2010 3:57 pm

Thijssnl wrote:
mvgulik wrote:The only way that would work in the long run is if the player is shown OR is not shown at all. I mean It will only take one HnH client that adds some nice anti Concealment feature to render that feature kinda useless.
:|

Nonsense, like there is a feature to see all forageables with 10 discovery.
Like I said earlier, think a bit before you post.

I don't think there is a "see all forageables with 10 discovery". But thats probably because those items are not provided to the client by the server.
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Re: New Skill: Concealment

Postby DatOneGuy » Tue Oct 05, 2010 8:10 pm

What's up with all these skills having stat requirements? No thank you.
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Re: New Skill: Concealment

Postby AnnaC » Tue Oct 05, 2010 8:18 pm

DatOneGuy wrote:What's up with all these skills having stat requirements? No thank you.

I agree. I like these ideas in general, but they are all based around something that doesn't have precedent in the current game design.
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Re: New Skill: Concealment

Postby Chakravanti » Tue Oct 05, 2010 10:18 pm

AnnaC wrote:
DatOneGuy wrote:What's up with all these skills having stat requirements? No thank you.

I agree. I like these ideas in general, but they are all based around something that doesn't have precedent in the current game design.

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Re: New Skill: Concealment

Postby Jackard » Tue Oct 05, 2010 10:28 pm

I don't like any sort of invisibility in my games. If something is standing in the middle of a field or road you should be able to see it regardless of how much it eats.

i dub thee "stealth fatties" thread
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Re: New Skill: Concealment

Postby Onionfighter » Tue Oct 05, 2010 10:53 pm

Jackard wrote:i dub thee "stealth fatties" thread

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