Ranger Archive
Thread: Ranger tweak, dark vision
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icarus-uk
Wed Aug 18, 2004 10:20 am
#1
I'm sure alot of people know that when its gets dark (or at any time) you can press ctrl+L and you get a personal light that emits from your body. This light is client side only so other players cant see it.
When I was running around Dathomir last night, it was very dark, practically the entire time I was there.I turned on my personal light, and while it was good, I thought to myself that since Im a ranger, with my senses keenly honed to my enviroment that perhaps I could see things better, have better eyesight when things got dark (Perhaps I have an all carrot diet).
What I came up with was just increasing this light radius for rangers, in one of the branches (obviously not trapping), that at each level, those +5 bonuses would add up and by Master Ranger I could see great so well that I barely noticed that I was night time (of course up to a maximum range, and youd have to make it still dark, Im just throwing in a hyperbole there).
Of course the light radius still remains client side, it gives not advantage in combat, but it makes things slightly easier when you are running around a dark jungle and trying not to stumble in to a fallen log.
Thoughts?
SonOfASkywalker
Wed Aug 18, 2004 10:24 am
#2
I like it!
Useful, simple, not overpowering, and seemingly easy to implement.
What i think may be cooler though instead of it being a light, maybe make it a nightvision type ability. Or a ranger cert. for a nightvision device! it is the future afterall, they must have these thing no?
That little addition added, i think a bonus to our Crtl+L would bea really nice perk 
Owen-Lars
Wed Aug 18, 2004 10:26 am
#3
Yeah that would be a nice vission, as would night vission goggles
The screen would go green/grey and you could see as clear as day yet creatures and people would show up as 'preditor vission' heat signatures
But yeah an extra light source would help abit seen as though on some dark surfaces the light does not illuminate them much.
Calculus_Entropy
Wed Aug 18, 2004 10:32 am
#4
That would be nice....at one point, I had the silly idea that Leezards, with thier IR vision (I thought they were supposed to have IR vision), should not ever have a light value below the max (i.e. it is light no matter time of day, of strucutre you are in).
icarus-uk
Wed Aug 18, 2004 10:33 am
#5
Im not sure there is a need to see creatures as heat signitures when I can just tab and target them.
I do however like the idea of a increase in the light radius, and a ranger only light intensification goggles.
Don_T_Shoot
Wed Aug 18, 2004 10:36 am
#6
Increased light for Rangers is a great idea! Though in reference to the other poster, it's not in the future, remember that bit at the beginning of IV and everytime the game loads? The part about being a long long time ago?
SonOfASkywalker
Wed Aug 18, 2004 10:40 am
#8
Don_T_Shoot wrote:
Increased light for Rangers is a great idea! Though in reference to the other poster, it's not in the future, remember that bit at the beginning of IV and everytime the game loads? The part about being a long long time ago?
Nah, I always skip the intro 
Plus i meant tech level wise silly 
Plus i meant tech level wise silly
SonOfASkywalker
Wed Aug 18, 2004 10:43 am
#9
Vorpaks wrote:
/whispers I turn up the "brightness" on my monitor.
/blush
*points finger* EXPLOITER!
btw, when do you get edit function on posts? My brain only works in snipits and i don't like cluttering the board 
Owen-Lars
Wed Aug 18, 2004 11:29 am
#10
Im not sure there is a need to see creatures as heat signitures when I can just tab and target them.
Yeah i was only throwing around some ideas that i had before the game released about some ranger skills.
BladePride
Wed Aug 18, 2004 11:37 am
#11
I am game for anything that will put a little more light on that h*ll hole of a place(Dathomir).
Its agood idea I like it.
Tibli
Wed Aug 18, 2004 11:38 am
#12
I am not going to speak for other people, but one of the primary reasons I switched from rifles to TK is due to the fact that i wanted to not have to rely on technology.
hence i don't really care for the nightvision.... BUT I LOVE THE IDEA THAT MY NIGHT VISION WOULD NATURALLY GO UP!!!!!
Springbok
Wed Aug 18, 2004 11:41 am
#13
Dathomir was designed to be dark, scary, forboding. While a good idea its just opposite of what they want you to experience while there, aka hate it 
However, Dantooine is a different argument. Nights are just way to long there, the weather sucks most of the time, and I am always blind.
/kicks self- I really have to get in the habit of using tab. Almost never do.
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