Help set up the stats of my new DF!

Subject: Help set up the stats of my new DF! Thu Jan 13, 2011 12:56 pm

Compass-Compass Fruit
Parameci... Spelling please?
Thinking the user has the active use of being able to locate anyone they have met by compass direction and distance. The better they know the person the most accuarte and/or detailed the information.

And two passive uses: First, the user is alerted to when enemies get within a certain threat range...
Second, the user is alerted to when allies are in danger... All the info they would get using the DF actively, plus perhaps some idea of the nature of the danger?

If too many of the passive use alerts go off, I figure it might mentally stun the DF user for one to five posts...

Subject: Re: Help set up the stats of my new DF! Thu Jan 13, 2011 4:56 pm

I think the first passive use would be more radar based, and the second... I don't even know. Only the first would make any sort of sense for a compass based fruit-thing.

Subject: Re: Help set up the stats of my new DF! Thu Jan 13, 2011 5:04 pm

... If two people agree with you I'll remove the second passive use.

Subject: Re: Help set up the stats of my new DF! Thu Jan 13, 2011 7:46 pm

this is a place to answer questions and sudgest things for a site... I cant beleave its being used as a help desk

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Admin-sama wrote:: this is a place to answer questions and sudgest things for a site... I cant beleave its being used as a help desk

~~Maybe an "RP/Character Planning" board would be a good idea, then?~~ Oh wait you kind of have one of those.

As far as the fruit goes, it's a bit more vague than it probably should be. How does it determine who is considered an enemy? Is there a way around the detection method? Using a fruit to detect the exact position of any foe feels like quasi-justified metagaming. It's not up to me, but I'd be a lot more comfortable with it if it detected people through something tangible like heat signatures, or maybe keeping with the compass theme, magnetic objects on their body?

I like the idea of the user becoming physically overwhelmed if they receive too much information in too short a time, though.

Subject: Re: Help set up the stats of my new DF! Wed Jan 19, 2011 1:51 am

For the first passive ability I think it should be the user sensing approaching magnetic fields such as the ones that run the human body. I also dislike the second ability, it sounds good, but how would the person just automatically know their ally is in trouble. I guess the user could sense changes in their personal magnetic fields...