Scout Archive

Solving multiple scout/ranger issues

With the news that scouts and rangers are going to be losing some of their ability with the change in camp functionalityand pulling pets/vehicles, it is clear there are calls to replacethe usefulness of thecamping skill.

Also of some concern is accessabilty to meats by many of the crafting classes. Meats such as Herbivore and Avian are already in high demand, and with the coming changes to the BE profession, domesticated and wild meat also look to have big potential.

It is in the merging of these two problems that I belive a unique opportunity exixts to add a great mechanic to the scouting based professions.

I propose the addition of a line of snares that depend on a set camp to use. Basically the idea works like this. High level scouts and rangers gain access to schematics for varying levels of snares. They would be very similar in ingredients to traps, but their function would be more along the lines of a focused forage.When used in conjuction with a camp, these snares could be set around the camp (bigger camps = more snares) and after a random period of time from 1-4 min, the snare would trigger and reward the scout with a harvest of meat, hide or bone, based on what type of snare was placed. If the scout placed a Domesticated animal snare, when it was triggered the scout would then access the snare through a icon in the datapad (similar in function to a mission data point) Through the interface the scout would choose to harvest bone, meat or hide. For ease of use, no mob would ever spawn to be visually represented as being snared, it would all happen through the scout deploying the snare and then the snare's correspoding data entry.

Obviously, Rangers should have the most opportunity, and if number of snares is related to camp size, it may not even be necessary to have varying levels of snares, rather the power curve for amount of snares is simply tied into how many snares a camp of a given size can support.

Yield on the snares could be tied into the harvesting skill or not, just depends how they could best implement it. Number of snares per camp would be another variable that would need to be balanced. Personally I favor snares being contructed from minerals and chemicals rather than bones and hides as the traps are. The reason for this is I would like to see a direct trade in process (veiled in snare resource cost) to get organics like meat and hide out of similar amounts on inorganic materials that can be far more easily harvested with machines.