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Skills

2010-01-19T04:40:28Z

FishOutOfWater: /* Skill Progression Table */

== Overview ==

'''Skills''' give players special or improved abilities. Some require that you learn other skills first, and a few are available only to a certain [[Character classes|character class]] or side. Skills are bought with [[XP]].

Certain skills, like ''haunting scream'' and ''basic tracking'', unlock actions which consume [[AP]]. Other skills, like ''trekking'' and ''close quarter combat'', are passive and do not need to be activated after being purchased for the player to benefit from them. While most skills in a tree have effects that stack on one another, ''haunting scream'' and ''shocking shriek'' remain individual skills (but ''banshee wail'' will replace ''shocking shriek'').

Learning an initial skill costs 100 XP. After that, each learned skill costs 25 XP more than the previous one, until you reach level 30. Hence the formula for a skill's XP cost is ''100 + 25 * (your level)''. (Your character's level, which you can see in your profile, is the number of skills you have learned.) To go from level 30 to 31 costs 1000 XP, and each level above that requires an additional 200 XP. So the above formula is modified to read ''1000 + 200 * ((your level) - 30)''.

A pirate needs 15550 XP to buy the 32 available skills. Explorers and Scouts need 17300 XP for their 33 skills. Soldiers, scientists, warriors and shamans will have spent 19075 XP after buying all 34 skills available to them. Settlers and villagers spend 22875 XP to buy their 36 available skills.

== Generic skills ==

* '''Basic language''' - Understand the smaller words of foreign languages See [[Language]] for more information.
** '''Advanced language''' - Better understanding of foreign languages
*** '''Expert language''' - Full comprehension of foreign languages
**** '''Foreign Writing''' - Not only can you understand foreign languages, you can also write it well enough to be understood
**** '''Foreign Speech''' - Not only can you understand foreign languages, you can also speak it well enough to be understood

* '''Close quarter combat''' - Gain 10% to hit with melee attacks ''(e.g., 20% to 30% with a machete)''
** '''Advanced close quarter combat''' - Gain 15% to hit with melee attacks ''(e.g., 30% to 45% with a machete)''
*** '''Balanced Stance''' - Sometimes turn a miss into a glancing blow.
*** '''Headhunting''' - Take the heads of your victims as trophies or signpost decoration ''('''natives only''')''

* '''Body building''' - Increases melee damage ''(+1 damage; e.g., 2 to 3 with a machete)''
** '''Stamina''' - Increases max HP by 20

* '''Ghostly whisper''' - Allows spirits to communicate With ''ghostly whisper'', spirits can speak to any player that has the ''sixth sense'' skill. Other spirits can hear ghostly whispers, even if they lack ''sixth sense''.
** '''Haunting scream''' - Attract other spirits and scare nearby living players It is believed that ''haunting scream'' gives spirits a chance of dealing 1 [[HP]] of damage to living players in the area at the cost of 1-2 [[AP]]. All nearby players hear the scream, and some percentage of them take damage. It is believed that a spirit receives 0-2 [[XP]] per scream depending upon the number of listeners (perhaps 0, 1, 2+ yields 0, 1, 2 XP).
*** '''Shocking shriek''' - Scare nearby living players ''Shocking shriek'' is similar to ''haunting scream'' but allows spirits to deal more damage to players they frighten. Shocking shriek is superceded and replaced by the more powerful banshee wail.
**** '''Banshee wail''' - Frighten nearby living players Spirits with ''banshee wail'' can emit powerful wails for a cost of up to 6 AP per wail. All characters in the area of effect hear the wail, and a small percentage of hearers take 4 HP of damage. XP reward for wailing is 0-15 XP per wail depending on damage caused, averaging 8 XP in crowded locations.
**** '''Possession''' - Be able to possess the bodies of the living, Allowing you to force you to make them Write or Say something. Speaking costs 3AP, Writing costs 4AP (may be variable, untested). Unavailable to players below level 10.
***** '''Forceful possession''' - Sometimes a stronger presence is needed to be able to possess the living, Allows you to force the person to attack people near them. Costs 6AP (may be variable, untested). Unavailable to players below level 25.

* '''Exploration''' - Helps you remember some of the places you've been Enables the "Map" button, which gives you a large-scale map of places you've visited while alive and haven't forgotten.
** '''Cartography''' - Stops you forgetting anywhere you've visited Note that map information is rarely forgotten and that meta-gamers can use the [http://mattandchristy.net/sharmap/ Shartak overlay].
** '''Trekking''' - Faster movement through the jungle Makes movement through grassland, beach, and [[Jungle|d1-d6]] jungle terrain cost 0.5 AP instead of 1.
** '''Swimming''' - Faster movement through water Makes movement through water cost 1 AP instead of 2; deep water costs 2 AP to move through instead of 3.

* '''Basic tracking''' - With some difficulty, you can track animals and people. ''(2 AP; e.g., "wild boar went south")'' See [[Tracking]] for more information.
** '''Advanced tracking''' - You can track animals and people who were here recently. ''(1.5 AP; often gives 3-6 most recent tracks)''
*** '''Expert tracking''' - You can track animals and people who were here several days ago. ''(1 AP?)''
**** '''Tracking mastery''' - Tracking animals and people is nearly effortless.

* '''Clan leadership''' - Allows you to start your own clan or help lead one. Unavailable to players below level 5.

* '''Sixth sense''' - Sense presence of and hear spirits (lets you know how many spirits are present, and lets you hear them when they speak)
** '''Psychic recognition''' - Lets you recognize active spirits (gives you the name/profile link of a spirit who speaks, wails, etc.)

* '''Haggling''' - Be able to obtain slightly better prices from some traders

*'''Digging''' - Be able to dig deep holes. See [[Digging]] for more information.

*'''Agriculture''' - Gives you a better chance of getting things to grow.

*'''Faith''' - Belief in the spirits of the ancestors increase charm effects. (Faith is a special skill that must be unlocked.)

* '''Native knowledge''' - Outsiders gain basic native knowledge ''('''outsiders only''')'' Allows outsiders to use and recognize items such as blowpipes (and poison darts) and healing herbs (which normal outsiders see as "dried herbs") and to tell the difference between tasty and poison berries (which normal outsiders can only do by eating them).

* '''Outsider knowledge''' - Natives gain basic outsider knowledge ''('''natives only''')'' Allows natives to use and recognize items such as rifles (and bullets), first aid kits, and GPS units.

* '''Triage''' - Be able to tell who is most injured Shows the hit point total of the most damaged character (not necessarily the character with the fewest hit points).
** '''Natural medicine''' - Heal 10 HP with healing herbs ''('''natives only''')''
** '''First aid''' - Heal 10 HP with first-aid kit ''('''outsiders only''')''

* '''Basic blowpipe use''' - Lowers AP cost of firing blowpipe. ''('''natives only''')''

== Settler and Villager skills ==
* '''Animal affinity''' - Lessens the chance of animals attacking
* '''Scavenging''' - Assists in finding things within certain areas Improves [[search odds]] in certain areas. Confirmed areas wherein this skill works are the medicine hut and the weapons hut. Other areas are yet to be confirmed. Roughly speaking, search odds are improved from 1:5 to 1:3. Searches also yield less dross and more valuable items.
* '''Seance''' - Holding a seance can identify passive spirits '''('''''5AP,''' requires Psychic Recognition'')'''
*'''Brewing''' - Increased chance of creating something drinkable.

== Soldier skills ==

* '''Firearms training''' - Gain 20% on firearms attacks ''(20% to 40%)''
** '''Advanced firearms training''' - Gain 20% on firearms attacks ''(40% to 60%)''

== Warrior skills ==

* '''Blowpipe training''' - Gain 20% on blowpipe accuracy ''(20% to 40%)''
** '''Advanced blowpipe training''' - Gain another 20% on blowpipe accuracy ''(40% to 60%)''

== Explorer and Scout skills ==
* '''Trailblazing''' - Increased ability to move and chop through dense jungle Makes jungle chops and movement through [[Jungle|d7-d9]] jungle terrain cost 0.5 AP instead of 1. '''(''requires Trekking)'''

== Shaman skills ==

* '''Seance''' - Holding a seance can identify passive spirits '''('''''5AP,''' requires Psychic Recognition'')'''
* '''Exorcism''' - Exorcise spirits from area. '''('''''4AP,''' requires Psychic Recognition'')'''
*'''Spirit Summoning''' - Summons spirits from surrounding area(range unknown) '''('''''5AP,''' requires Psychic Recognition'')'''
*'''Malevolence''' - Makes all spirits in the area release a haunting scream, a shocking shriek or a banshee wail depending on highest skill available on them '''('''''2-5AP,''' requires Psychic Recognition'')'''

== Scientist skills ==

*'''Advanced triage''' - Be able to see all injured characters in the same square '''(''requires Triage'')'''
*'''Emergency first aid''' - Slowly heal yourself without the use of a medical kit '''(''requires First aid'')'''
**'''Field Surgery''' - Skilled at healing, even in the middle of nowhere '''(''requires Emergency first aid'')''' Allows the Scientist to heal shark bites (3AP for 2XP reward), possibly poison? Not available to scientists below level 10.
*'''Brewing''' - Increased chance of creating something drinkable.

== Cannibal skills ==

*'''Ritual Feasting''' - Feast on your defeated enemy and steal their power '''('''5AP, '''requires Stamina)''' Allows cannibals to feed from a corpse. Feasting restores 10 HP to a wounded cannibal, or 5 HP if they are at full health, up to 109 HP. The feasting gives 5 XP. It appears that corpses may not be feasted upon more than three times. Not available to cannibals below level 5.
**'''Ritual Gluttony''' - Feasting can now fill most of your needs from a single body. '''('''3AP, '''requires Stamina)''' Improves ritual feasting by restoring 20 HP to a severely wounded cannibal, 10 HP to a lightly wounded and 5 HP to a healthy one, up to 109 HP. Gives 3 XP. Not available to cannibals below level 10.

== Pirate skills ==
*'''Lead belly''' - You've drunk enough to be immune to the poisonous effect of most fungi. Not available to pirates below level 10.
*'''Plundering''' - Improve the odds of finding items in foreign camps. Not available to pirates below level 10.

== Skill Progression Table ==

{| border="1"
! Level !! Starting XP !! XP Required to Advance
|-
| 0 || 0 || 100
|-
| 1 || 100 || 125
|-
| 2 || 225 || 150
|-
| 3 || 375 || 175
|-
| 4 || 550 || 200
|-
| 5 || 750 || 225
|-
| 6 || 975 || 250
|-
| 7 || 1225 || 275
|-
| 8 || 1500 || 300
|-
| 9 || 1800 || 325
|-
| 10 || 2125 || 350
|-
| 11 || 2475 || 375
|-
| 12 || 2850 || 400
|-
| 13 || 3250 || 425
|-
| 14 || 3675 || 450
|-
| 15 || 4125 || 475
|-
| 16 || 4600 || 500
|-
| 17 || 5100 || 525
|-
| 18 || 5625 || 550
|-
| 19 || 6175 || 575
|-
| 20 || 6750 || 600
|-
| 21 || 7350 || 625
|-
| 22 || 7975 || 650
|-
| 23 || 8625 || 675
|-
| 24 || 9300 || 700
|-
| 25 || 10000 || 725
|-
| 26 || 10725 || 750
|-
| 27 || 11475 || 775
|-
| 28 || 12250 || 800
|-
| 29 || 13050 || 825
|-
| 30 || 13875 || 1000
|-
| 31 || 14875 || 1200
|-
| 32 || 16075 || 1400
|-
| 33 || 17475 || 1600
|-
| 34 || 19075 || 1800
|-
| 35 || 20875 || 2000
|-
| 36 || 22875 || 2200
|-
| 37 || 25075 || 2400
|-
| 38 || 27475 || 2600
|-
| 39 || 30275 || 2800
|-
| 40 || 33075 || 3000
|}

[[Category:Glossary]]

Skills

2007-09-04T02:51:25Z

FishOutOfWater: /* Overview */

== Overview ==

'''Skills''' give players special or improved abilities. Some require that you learn other skills first, and a few are available only to a certain [[Character classes|character class]] or side. Skills are bought with [[XP]].

Certain skills, like ''haunting scream'' and ''basic tracking'', unlock actions which consume [[AP]]. Other skills, like ''trekking'' and ''close quarter combat'', are passive and do not need to be activated after being purchased for the player to benefit from them. While most skills in a tree have effects that stack on one another, ''haunting scream'' and ''shocking shriek'' remain individual skills (but ''banshee wail'' will replace ''shocking shriek'').

Learning an initial skill costs 100 XP. After that, each learned skill costs 25 XP more than the previous one, until you reach level 30. Hence the formula for a skill's XP cost is ''100 + 25 * (your level)''. (Your character's level, which you can see in your profile, is the number of skills you have learned.) To go from level 30 to 31 costs 1000 XP, and each level above that requires an additional 200 XP. So the above formula is modified to read ''1000 + 200 * ((your level) - 30)''.

A pirate needs 15550 XP to buy the 32 available skills. Explorers and Scouts need 17300 XP for their 33 skills. Soldiers, scientists, warriors and shamans will have spent 19075 XP after buying all 34 skills available to them. Settlers and villagers spend 22875 XP to buy their 36 available skills.

== Generic skills ==

* '''Basic language''' - Understand the smaller words of foreign languages See [[Language]] for more information.
** '''Advanced language''' - Better understanding of foreign languages
*** '''Expert language''' - Full comprehension of foreign languages
**** '''Foreign Writing''' - Not only can you understand foreign languages, you can also write it well enough to be understood
**** '''Foreign Speech''' - Not only can you understand foreign languages, you can also speak it well enough to be understood

* '''Close quarter combat''' - Gain 10% to hit with melee attacks ''(e.g., 20% to 30% with a machete)''
** '''Advanced close quarter combat''' - Gain 15% to hit with melee attacks ''(e.g., 30% to 45% with a machete)''
*** '''Balanced Stance''' - Sometimes turn a miss into a glancing blow.

* '''Body building''' - Increases melee damage ''(+1 damage; e.g., 2 to 3 with a machete)''
** '''Stamina''' - Increases max HP by 20

* '''Ghostly whisper''' - Allows spirits to communicate With ''ghostly whisper'', spirits can speak to any player that has the ''sixth sense'' skill. Other spirits can hear ghostly whispers, even if they lack ''sixth sense''.
** '''Haunting scream''' - Attract other spirits and scare nearby living players It is believed that ''haunting scream'' gives spirits a chance of dealing 1 [[HP]] of damage to living players in the area at the cost of 1-2 [[AP]]. All nearby players hear the scream, and some percentage of them take damage. It is believed that a spirit receives 0-2 [[XP]] per scream depending upon the number of listeners (perhaps 0, 1, 2+ yields 0, 1, 2 XP).
*** '''Shocking shriek''' - Scare nearby living players ''Shocking shriek'' is similar to ''haunting scream'' but allows spirits to deal more damage to players they frighten. Shocking shriek is superceded and replaced by the more powerful banshee wail.
**** '''Banshee wail''' - Frighten nearby living players Spirits with ''banshee wail'' can emit powerful wails for a cost of up to 6 AP per wail. All characters in the area of effect hear the wail, and a small percentage of hearers take 4 HP of damage. XP reward for wailing is 0-15 XP per wail depending on damage caused, averaging 8 XP in crowded locations.
**** '''Possession''' - Be able to possess the bodies of the living, Allowing you to force you to make them Write or Say something. Speaking costs 3AP, Writing costs 4AP (may be variable, untested). Unavailable to players below level 10.
***** '''Forceful possession''' - Sometimes a stronger presence is needed to be able to possess the living, Allows you to force the person to attack people near them. Costs 6AP (may be variable, untested). Unavailable to players below level 25.

* '''Exploration''' - Helps you remember some of the places you've been Enables the "Map" button, which gives you a large-scale map of places you've visited while alive and haven't forgotten.
** '''Cartography''' - Stops you forgetting anywhere you've visited Note that map information is rarely forgotten and that meta-gamers can use the [http://mattandchristy.net/sharmap/ Shartak overlay].
** '''Trekking''' - Faster movement through the jungle Makes movement through grassland, beach, and [[Jungle|d1-d6]] jungle terrain cost 0.5 AP instead of 1.
*** '''Trailblazing''' - Increased ability to move and chop through dense jungle ''('''explorers and scouts only''')'' Makes jungle chops and movement through [[Jungle|d7-d9]] jungle terrain cost 0.5 AP instead of 1.
** '''Swimming''' - Faster movement through water Makes movement through water cost 1 AP instead of 2; deep water costs 2 AP to move through instead of 3.

* '''Basic tracking''' - With some difficulty, you can track animals and people. ''(2 AP; e.g., "wild boar went south")'' See [[Tracking]] for more information.
** '''Advanced tracking''' - You can track animals and people who were here recently. ''(1.5 AP; often gives 3-6 most recent tracks)''
*** '''Expert tracking''' - You can track animals and people who were here several days ago. ''(1 AP?)''
**** '''Tracking mastery''' - Tracking animals and people is nearly effortless.

* '''Clan leadership''' - Allows you to start your own clan or help lead one. Unavailable to players below level 5.

* '''Sixth sense''' - Sense presence of and hear spirits
** '''Psychic recognition''' - Lets you recognise active spirits
*** '''Seance''' - Holding a seance can identify passive spirits ''('''settlers, shamans and villagers only, 5AP?''')''
*** '''Exorcism''' - Exorcise spirits from areas (shamans only, 4AP)

* '''Haggling''' - Be able to obtain slightly better prices from some traders

*'''Digging''' -Be able to dig deep holes.

* '''Native knowledge''' - Outsiders gain basic native knowledge ''('''outsiders only''')'' Allows outsiders to use and recognize items such as blowpipes (and poison darts) and healing herbs (which normal outsiders see as "dried herbs") and to tell the difference between tasty and poison berries (which normal outsiders can only do by eating them).

* '''Outsider knowledge''' - Natives gain basic outsider knowledge ''('''natives only''')'' Allows natives to use and recognize items such as rifles (and bullets), first aid kits, and GPS units.

* '''Triage''' - Be able to tell who is most injured Shows the hit point total of the wounded character who currently has the fewest hit points (not necessarily the most damaged character).
** '''Natural medicine''' - Heal 10 HP with healing herbs ''('''natives only''')''
** '''First aid''' - Heal 10 HP with first-aid kit ''('''outsiders only''')''

== Settler and villager skills ==
* '''Animal affinity''' - Lessens the chance of animals attacking ''('''settlers and villagers only''')''
* '''Scavenging''' - Assists in finding things within certain areas ''('''settlers and villagers only''')'' Improves [[search odds]] by an unknown amount in certain (unknown) areas.

== Soldier skills ==

* '''Firearms training''' - Gain 20% on firearms attacks ''(20% to 40%; '''soldiers only''')''
** '''Advanced firearms training''' - Gain 20% on firearms attacks ''(40% to 60%; '''soldiers only''')''

== Warrior skills ==

* '''Blowpipe training''' - Gain 20% on blowpipe accuracy ''(20% to 40%; '''warriors only''')''
** '''Advanced blowpipe training''' - Gain another 20% on blowpipe accuracy ''(40% to 60%; '''warriors only''')''

== Scientist skills ==

*'''Advanced triage''' - be able to see all injured characters in the same square
*'''Emergency first aid''' - Slowly heal yourself without the use of a medical kit.

== Skill Progression Table ==

{| border="1"
! Level !! Starting XP !! XP Required to Advance
|-
| 0 || 0 || 100
|-
| 1 || 100 || 125
|-
| 2 || 225 || 150
|-
| 3 || 375 || 175
|-
| 4 || 550 || 200
|-
| 5 || 750 || 225
|-
| 6 || 975 || 250
|-
| 7 || 1225 || 275
|-
| 8 || 1500 || 300
|-
| 9 || 1800 || 325
|-
| 10 || 2125 || 350
|-
| 11 || 2475 || 375
|-
| 12 || 2850 || 400
|-
| 13 || 3250 || 425
|-
| 14 || 3675 || 450
|-
| 15 || 4125 || 475
|-
| 16 || 4600 || 500
|-
| 17 || 5100 || 525
|-
| 18 || 5625 || 550
|-
| 19 || 6175 || 575
|-
| 20 || 6750 || 600
|-
| 21 || 7350 || 625
|-
| 22 || 7975 || 650
|-
| 23 || 8625 || 675
|-
| 24 || 9300 || 700
|-
| 25 || 10000 || 725
|-
| 26 || 10725 || 750
|-
| 27 || 11475 || 775
|-
| 28 || 12250 || 800
|-
| 29 || 13050 || 825
|-
| 30 || 13875 || 1000
|-
| 31 || 14875 || 1200
|-
| 32 || 16075 || 1400
|-
| 33 || 17475 || 1600
|-
| 34 || 19075 || 1800
|-
| 35 || 20875 || 2000
|-
| 36 || 22875 || 2200
|}

[[Category:Glossary]]

Skills

2007-09-04T02:50:43Z

FishOutOfWater: /* Skill Progression Table */

== Overview ==

'''Skills''' give players special or improved abilities. Some require that you learn other skills first, and a few are available only to a certain [[Character classes|character class]] or side. Skills are bought with [[XP]].

Certain skills, like ''haunting scream'' and ''basic tracking'', unlock actions which consume [[AP]]. Other skills, like ''trekking'' and ''close quarter combat'', are passive and do not need to be activated after being purchased for the player to benefit from them. While most skills in a tree have effects that stack on one another, ''haunting scream'' and ''shocking shriek'' remain individual skills (but ''banshee wail'' will replace ''shocking shriek'').

Learning an initial skill costs 100 XP. After that, each learned skill costs 25 XP more than the previous one, until you reach level 30. Hence the formula for a skill's XP cost is ''100 + 25 * (your level)''. (Your character's level, which you can see in your profile, is the number of skills you have learned.) To go from level 30 to 31 costs 1000 XP, and each level above that requires an additional 200 XP. So the above formula is modified to read ''1000 + 200 * ((your level) - 30)''.

A pirate needs 15550 XP to buy the 32 available skills. Explorers and Scouts need 17300 XP for their 33 skills. Soldiers, scientists, warriors and shamans will have spent 19075 XP after buying all 34 skills available to them. Settlers and villagers spend 20875 XP to buy their 35 available skills.

== Generic skills ==

* '''Basic language''' - Understand the smaller words of foreign languages See [[Language]] for more information.
** '''Advanced language''' - Better understanding of foreign languages
*** '''Expert language''' - Full comprehension of foreign languages
**** '''Foreign Writing''' - Not only can you understand foreign languages, you can also write it well enough to be understood
**** '''Foreign Speech''' - Not only can you understand foreign languages, you can also speak it well enough to be understood

* '''Close quarter combat''' - Gain 10% to hit with melee attacks ''(e.g., 20% to 30% with a machete)''
** '''Advanced close quarter combat''' - Gain 15% to hit with melee attacks ''(e.g., 30% to 45% with a machete)''
*** '''Balanced Stance''' - Sometimes turn a miss into a glancing blow.

* '''Body building''' - Increases melee damage ''(+1 damage; e.g., 2 to 3 with a machete)''
** '''Stamina''' - Increases max HP by 20

* '''Ghostly whisper''' - Allows spirits to communicate With ''ghostly whisper'', spirits can speak to any player that has the ''sixth sense'' skill. Other spirits can hear ghostly whispers, even if they lack ''sixth sense''.
** '''Haunting scream''' - Attract other spirits and scare nearby living players It is believed that ''haunting scream'' gives spirits a chance of dealing 1 [[HP]] of damage to living players in the area at the cost of 1-2 [[AP]]. All nearby players hear the scream, and some percentage of them take damage. It is believed that a spirit receives 0-2 [[XP]] per scream depending upon the number of listeners (perhaps 0, 1, 2+ yields 0, 1, 2 XP).
*** '''Shocking shriek''' - Scare nearby living players ''Shocking shriek'' is similar to ''haunting scream'' but allows spirits to deal more damage to players they frighten. Shocking shriek is superceded and replaced by the more powerful banshee wail.
**** '''Banshee wail''' - Frighten nearby living players Spirits with ''banshee wail'' can emit powerful wails for a cost of up to 6 AP per wail. All characters in the area of effect hear the wail, and a small percentage of hearers take 4 HP of damage. XP reward for wailing is 0-15 XP per wail depending on damage caused, averaging 8 XP in crowded locations.
**** '''Possession''' - Be able to possess the bodies of the living, Allowing you to force you to make them Write or Say something. Speaking costs 3AP, Writing costs 4AP (may be variable, untested). Unavailable to players below level 10.
***** '''Forceful possession''' - Sometimes a stronger presence is needed to be able to possess the living, Allows you to force the person to attack people near them. Costs 6AP (may be variable, untested). Unavailable to players below level 25.

* '''Exploration''' - Helps you remember some of the places you've been Enables the "Map" button, which gives you a large-scale map of places you've visited while alive and haven't forgotten.
** '''Cartography''' - Stops you forgetting anywhere you've visited Note that map information is rarely forgotten and that meta-gamers can use the [http://mattandchristy.net/sharmap/ Shartak overlay].
** '''Trekking''' - Faster movement through the jungle Makes movement through grassland, beach, and [[Jungle|d1-d6]] jungle terrain cost 0.5 AP instead of 1.
*** '''Trailblazing''' - Increased ability to move and chop through dense jungle ''('''explorers and scouts only''')'' Makes jungle chops and movement through [[Jungle|d7-d9]] jungle terrain cost 0.5 AP instead of 1.
** '''Swimming''' - Faster movement through water Makes movement through water cost 1 AP instead of 2; deep water costs 2 AP to move through instead of 3.

* '''Basic tracking''' - With some difficulty, you can track animals and people. ''(2 AP; e.g., "wild boar went south")'' See [[Tracking]] for more information.
** '''Advanced tracking''' - You can track animals and people who were here recently. ''(1.5 AP; often gives 3-6 most recent tracks)''
*** '''Expert tracking''' - You can track animals and people who were here several days ago. ''(1 AP?)''
**** '''Tracking mastery''' - Tracking animals and people is nearly effortless.

* '''Clan leadership''' - Allows you to start your own clan or help lead one. Unavailable to players below level 5.

* '''Sixth sense''' - Sense presence of and hear spirits
** '''Psychic recognition''' - Lets you recognise active spirits
*** '''Seance''' - Holding a seance can identify passive spirits ''('''settlers, shamans and villagers only, 5AP?''')''
*** '''Exorcism''' - Exorcise spirits from areas (shamans only, 4AP)

* '''Haggling''' - Be able to obtain slightly better prices from some traders

*'''Digging''' -Be able to dig deep holes.

* '''Native knowledge''' - Outsiders gain basic native knowledge ''('''outsiders only''')'' Allows outsiders to use and recognize items such as blowpipes (and poison darts) and healing herbs (which normal outsiders see as "dried herbs") and to tell the difference between tasty and poison berries (which normal outsiders can only do by eating them).

* '''Outsider knowledge''' - Natives gain basic outsider knowledge ''('''natives only''')'' Allows natives to use and recognize items such as rifles (and bullets), first aid kits, and GPS units.

* '''Triage''' - Be able to tell who is most injured Shows the hit point total of the wounded character who currently has the fewest hit points (not necessarily the most damaged character).
** '''Natural medicine''' - Heal 10 HP with healing herbs ''('''natives only''')''
** '''First aid''' - Heal 10 HP with first-aid kit ''('''outsiders only''')''

== Settler and villager skills ==
* '''Animal affinity''' - Lessens the chance of animals attacking ''('''settlers and villagers only''')''
* '''Scavenging''' - Assists in finding things within certain areas ''('''settlers and villagers only''')'' Improves [[search odds]] by an unknown amount in certain (unknown) areas.

== Soldier skills ==

* '''Firearms training''' - Gain 20% on firearms attacks ''(20% to 40%; '''soldiers only''')''
** '''Advanced firearms training''' - Gain 20% on firearms attacks ''(40% to 60%; '''soldiers only''')''

== Warrior skills ==

* '''Blowpipe training''' - Gain 20% on blowpipe accuracy ''(20% to 40%; '''warriors only''')''
** '''Advanced blowpipe training''' - Gain another 20% on blowpipe accuracy ''(40% to 60%; '''warriors only''')''

== Scientist skills ==

*'''Advanced triage''' - be able to see all injured characters in the same square
*'''Emergency first aid''' - Slowly heal yourself without the use of a medical kit.

== Skill Progression Table ==

{| border="1"
! Level !! Starting XP !! XP Required to Advance
|-
| 0 || 0 || 100
|-
| 1 || 100 || 125
|-
| 2 || 225 || 150
|-
| 3 || 375 || 175
|-
| 4 || 550 || 200
|-
| 5 || 750 || 225
|-
| 6 || 975 || 250
|-
| 7 || 1225 || 275
|-
| 8 || 1500 || 300
|-
| 9 || 1800 || 325
|-
| 10 || 2125 || 350
|-
| 11 || 2475 || 375
|-
| 12 || 2850 || 400
|-
| 13 || 3250 || 425
|-
| 14 || 3675 || 450
|-
| 15 || 4125 || 475
|-
| 16 || 4600 || 500
|-
| 17 || 5100 || 525
|-
| 18 || 5625 || 550
|-
| 19 || 6175 || 575
|-
| 20 || 6750 || 600
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[[Category:Glossary]]

Suggestions:Miscellaneous

2007-08-23T08:37:29Z

FishOutOfWater:

{{Suggestions header|page_type=Miscellaneous}}

== Miscellaneous ==

===Clans as contacts and uniforms===
{{suggestion|
suggest_type=Contact list, Role-playing|
suggest_scope=Recognizing people by the clan they belong to if they wear the clan's uniform|
suggest_description=The idea would be that you could add a clan as a contact, just like you can add a single person. It would act as if you added every single person one by one in your contacts lists, all to either friends, neutral or enemies, provided that it's a clan which members wear uniforms (which would be set when creating/editing a clan). It would be pretty convenient, for example if you're at war with a clan, you could add the whole clan as an enemy, and recognize each of its members as such, and thus bring some convenience and some more realism to the gameplay (because it only makes sense to recognize a Colonial Police member (for example) by their uniform if you're at war with them). The interest of uniforms wouldn't only to be an easily recognizable target for your enemies but to also be easily recognizable for your allies. For example, clans made of both natives and outsiders could recognize each other without giving away coins, which I believe would be very convenient for them.|
suggest_time=15:01, 26 June 2007 (UTC)|
suggest_author=[[User:A SN|A SN]]|
suggest_comments=

Comment here

}}

===Entrance text===
{{suggestion|
suggest_type=New text|
suggest_scope=Entering places|
suggest_description=At the moment, if as a ghost I enter a hut (at any rate), I get the message "You step inside." As I leave, I get "You climb outside." Now I'm pretty sure it said somewhere that ghosts are supposed to 'float through the jungle' and whatnot, so shouldn't the same apply to buildings. I suggest that the text be changed to something like "you float through the wall" - or something better, I'll leave that to Simon.|
suggest_time=19:50, 24th February 2007 (UTC)|
suggest_author=[[User:slayerofmuffins|slayerofmuffins]]|
suggest_comments=

Comment here

}}
===Plantable-Plants===
{{suggestion|
suggest_type=Improvement|
suggest_scope=Players|
suggest_description=A player would be able to plant a seed or berry to have a bush grow with a slim chance of success. It may need some watering and a little time to grow. It would function like a normal tree or berry bush, and appear in a block's description. It would last until the block it was in is chopped past a certain density, so it would not work on a beach. Overgrowth by random weeds would also destroy it. It doesn't need to show up on the map as an icon. There might be a small XP reward for successfully planting one.|
suggest_time=05:17, 26 November 2006 (UTC)|
suggest_author=[[User:Lantz|Lantz]]|
suggest_comments=

This sounds like the suggested [http://wiki.shartak.com/index.php/Suggestions:Skills#Planting.2Fagriculture Planting/Agriculture] skill. --[[User:Frisco|Frisco]] 19:39, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

:This idea is simpler and doesn't require a new skill.--[[User:Lantz|Lantz]] 22:08, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

}}

===Temporary Shelter===
{{suggestion|
suggest_type=Improvement|
suggest_scope=Players|
suggest_description=With quite a few pieces of driftwood, a player would be able to erect a temporary hut, for a small XP reward. If making an enterable hut is too costly on the server and/or its maintainers, then make it simply create a square in which a player is not so suceptible to attack by animals or any sort of weather implemented in the future. The hut would last until either it collapsed on its own, if improperly maintained(by adding driftwood every few days), or if attacked by another player or animal. Weather may even knock it down. This would be a fairly simple terrain type, so any additions by game implementers would work very well.|
suggest_time=05:11, 26 November 2006 (UTC)|
suggest_author=[[User:Lantz|Lantz]]|
suggest_comments=



}}

===Player NotePad===
{{suggestion|
suggest_type=Improvement|
suggest_scope=Players|
suggest_description=Players need a little notepad that they can keep notes on in their profile. Notes that only they can see, such as locations of certain places of interest they have found, or plans they want to keep for the next day's AP spending or roleplaying. This would work like the player desciption, easily editable and update-able. I'd use it to keep the coordinates of berry bushes I'd find in my area I patrol.|
suggest_time=05:02, 26 November 2006 (UTC)|
suggest_author=[[User:Lantz|Lantz]]|
suggest_comments=



}}

=== Tunnels ===
Tunnels underneath the island lead to interesting places.

''Comments''
:How do you know they don't exist? :) [[User:Dr._J|Dr. J]]
::Tunnels underneath the island '''lead to interesting places.''' --[[User:Tycho44|Tycho44]] 06:43, 8 June 2006 (BST)
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=== Treasure to capture ===
"Capture the flag" type objective, in this case the flags are treasure from each village. Bonus points in the form of XP or gold coins to be awarded to the holder of the treasure at certain intervals.

''Comments''
:I would like to modify this slightly Mystery Suggester. Please see the '''[[Suggestions:Game_mechanics#Unique_Item_Hunt|Unique Item Hunt]]''' suggestion. --[[User:Lint|Lint]] 08:40, 5 March 2006 (GMT)
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=== Player VS Player Interaction ===
I would propoese a to hit % penalty for attacking members of same Home location. I believe this will promote exploration and perhaps offer a measure of protection of newly "birthed" population. As a recent victim of death by the hands of a warrior from my own villiage this has a bit of appeal to me ;). - [[User:Nankilstlas|Nan]]

''Comments''
:Instead of a hit % penalty, what about reducing or eliminating XP earned for such attacks? It would be similar to the ZvZ penalty used in UrbanDead, and its easier to rationalize not getting as much experience fighting one of your own than to rationalize that its harder to hit your own people for some reason. --[[User:Jackel|Jackel]] 19:52, 27 February 2006 (GMT)

:The to hit penalty and the lack of XP should be combined to discourage intravillage conflicts but only on nonclan members(so clans from the same village can fight with each other to simulate a power struggle for leadership), extend this to shamans as well, as its not often the village shaman gets killed by an out-of-towner. --[[User:Daylan|Daylan]] 00:27, 7 March 2006 (GMT)

:I don't like this idea--especially with the inclusion of pirates in the game. It makes sense for pirates to trun on each other now and then, or to turn to pillaging from one of the outsider towns. All of a sudden, for our good RPing we get a reduced chance to hit and no XP?--[[User:Wifey|Wifey]] 07:30, 29 March 2006 (BST)

:I have suggested a full non player vs player implementation at [[Suggestions:Game_mechanics#PvP_Protection]]. --[[User:Iamtas|Iamtas]] 10:10, 13 April 2006 (BST)

:Players already get less XP for attacking someone from their own camp, and no kill bonus (if I remember correctly). You would still gain a bit of experience from fighting with your own, just not quite as much as when it's a life or death situation against someone hostile. Do we really need this suggestion to be implemented? --[[User:Simon|Simon]] 12:28, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
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=== Spirit Movement ===

A couple thoughts on this topic.--[[User:Jackel|Jackel]] 02:29, 6 March 2006 (GMT)

*My character has the "trekking" skill, but as a spirit, actually moves '''slower''' (1 AP per square) than when he's alive! Spirits should move '''at least''' as fast as someone skilled at traversing terrain.
::Perhaps spirits have less impetus than live characters --[[User:Dr. J|Dr. J]] 18:55, 7 March 2006 (GMT)

*Spirits move effortlessly through the thickest jungle, water, swamp--as it should be. Why should mountains be an impediment?
:Perhaps there's some kind of mineral in the mountain that prevents the spirit from passing through it.. could be mined later on to spirit-proof huts or something (clutching at straws here, can you tell) ?
:They also can't move through the deepest water, but that is the boundary of the game I'm guessing.

So what's the suggestion here? Perhaps this belongs in the Talk page instead? --[[User:Simon|Simon]] 17:51, 27 May 2006 (BST)

:Is the suggestion that spirits can move for 0.5AP instead of 1AP regardless of terrain? --[[User:Simon|Simon]] 12:29, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

::Fast-moving spirits don't make sense to me. Zipping across Shartak by dying doesn't seem right (unless you're contacting the home shaman). I prefer the idea of a spirit that is somewhat "bound" to their site of death. A high fixed movement cost per square (1AP or 2AP) creates this binding effect. --[[User:Tycho44|Tycho44]] 05:19, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

:The main problem with this suggestion is that it lets spirits travel faster than everyone but explorers (since heavy jungle sometimes gets in a trekker's way), meaning that if you're dead and have somewhere to be, it's better to float across the island than walk across it. This means fewer visible people in the jungle and fewer player interactions overall. — [[User:Elembis|Elembis]] ([[User talk:Elembis|talk]]) 05:01, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

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===Player Titles===

To supplement the explored/killed statistics, give players rank titles based on percentiles. For example, if Jack is in the bottom 10% of explorers and the 30th percentile of hunters, his profile would show him as "Greenhorn Jack the Good Shot", if Sheila is in the top 10% killers and middle 50 explorer, she would be "The Adventurous Sheila, Grandmaster Hunter", and [[User:Murk|Murk]] would simply be "Demigod Murk". The titles would be determined once a day like the stats, only apply to active players, and only take active players into consideration when determining percentile. This will help statistics be more relevant to all players, as once time goes on and new players start, the top 100 may be quite a distant goal. --[[User:Frisco|Frisco]] 04:15, 10 March 2006 (GMT)

''Comments''
:I like it. It adds flavor to the game. I also agree that this system should be based on dynamic percentiles to allow for new players to compete with some of the more established ranking players. A static listing would be incredibly difficult for newcomers to break into. --[[User:Lint|Lint]] 22:12, 11 March 2006 (GMT)

*This could be done in a similar manner to the rogue elephants and ferocious tigers that we have now. Several questions need to be answered first.
:* A title for every player or just those in the weekly top A% of whatever chart?
:* Just to be displayed in the profile or in the location description as well e.g. Here you can see [http://www.shartak.com/profile.cgi?id=1850 Fatninja], the hunter, and [http://www.shartak.com/profile.cgi?id=6 Leaky Bocks].
:* What kind of statistics would need to be kept for this to work?
::* areas explored for the explorer titles - not a problem, we have the top 20 explorers this week already, it can be expanded to include however many players are required to make it work since it's just a case of manipulating the raw data differently.
::* animal kills for the hunter titles? specific types of animals killed e.g "Bob the parrot killer", "Fred the big game hunter", "Bert the murderer" (pkills) rather than just all animals killed?
::* something for some other kind of title, trading perhaps? "Tycho the master salesperson" for example ;)
:* Of the above, the explorer titles are the easiest to do. Kills will need some adjusting because there are no database timestamps on kills at the moment, just raw quantities as seen on the [http://www.shartak.com/statkills.html kill statistics] page..
:--[[User:Simon|Simon]] 12:43, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

:: A title for every character, with the top A% appearing in the location description and profile pages, and everyone else only appearing in the profile page - this lets everyone know where they stand and keeps the location page less cluttered. For statistics, some records for healers and wailers should be kept in addition to trading, like HP healed (modified by recipient's travelling/trading/killing stats), number of times screamed/shrieked/wailed (balanced for severity of attack), number of trades (modified by number of towns trades were done in and rarity of item). Kills in particular to the animal that has been killed would be more distinctive and flavourful - should it also be in particular to the town (or clan??) for pkills, making "the Butcher of York" an official title?

:: Weekly tabulating of titles will make them very transient. Perhaps once a title is acquired it is kept so long as you're halfway to that title each successive week (not affecting others gaining the same title if they're in the appropriate rankings)? --[[User:Frisco|Frisco]] 15:42, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

::I thought a little bit about this after I made that early comment. It becomes fairly hard for a newbie to compete with the existing stat leaders regardless if the awards were static or scaling. I think the best way to handle this is a two-tiered approach, one that rewards players for accomplishing static minor goals and one that rewards players for being the highest rank. The latter is already accomplished through the statistics, but the former has not been addressed. Most of what follows is inspired by a [http://wiki.urbandead.com/index.php?title=Talk:Suggestions&diff=prev&oldid=173904 draft suggestion] on the Urban Dead wiki and my experience with Nexus War. I see these award descriptions appearing only on the profile pages to cut down on clutter. Each degree of award is assigned at some arbitrary number. Perhaps 10, 100, 500 (with more titles developed as the game progresses). When a player achieves a target number, an award flag is raised. Every 24 hour period, the server will compute the rankings and append a prefix or suffix to the player's existing award.
::* Area explored - Wanderer, Traveller, Adventurer
:::Bonus prefixes for top-ranking explorers: Top 1% - Worldly, Top 5% - Experienced, Top 20% - (e.g., Worldly Adventurer)
::* Hasn't killed anyone - Pacifist
::* Killed animals - Herder, Hunter, Slayer
:::Bonus prefixes to state which type of animal the player has killed the most (e.g., Wild Boar Herder, Elephant Hunter, Special Slayer)
::* Killed opposing side - Killer, Fighter, Conqueror
::* Killed same side - Turncoat, Backstabber, Traitor
:::Bonus prefixes for top-ranking killers: Top 1% - Bloodthirsty, Top 5% - Fierce, Top 20% - Brutal (e.g., Bloodthirsty Conqueror, Bloodthirsty Traitor, Bloodthirsty Wild Boar Slayer).

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===Inventory Limit===

I think I would like to have an indication of how much of my inventory limit is being used up. :D --[[User:Lint|Lint]] 22:12, 11 March 2006 (GMT)
* The inventory is somewhat flexible in size (+/- 2) so wouldn't be completely foolproof if represented as "(x/y)" appended to the inventory header, I could do something like a small bit of text just below the header like "You can carry lots more" "You can carry more things" "You can't carry much more" "You might be able to carry a couple more things" "You can't carry anything else". The question is though, is it just you that wants this feature? If so, you might be able to do something clever with greasemonkey. --[[User:Simon|Simon]] 11:02, 14 April 2006 (BST)
* Ah. In that case, a greasemonkey script would be fine. I imagine it would require a little list of all the inventory item names and then a size value assigned to each. Then parse through the list and do simple addition and display the result. I might try my hand at it, but I don't promise anything. --[[User:Lint|Lint]] 20:13, 14 April 2006 (BST)
**"is it just you that wants this feature?" Hmm, I assumed everyone would want this feature. Perhaps "your inventory is getting full" and "your inventory is full" would be sufficient warning, but inventory size info seems valuable. Also, the Trader won't give me a rifle for my bananas (you can't carry more) even though I'm giving away much more than I'm getting -- the trading mechanism appears to check for overload based on carrying both the given and received items. Perhaps a feature... but he's the guy who owns an entire hut, you'd think he'd be willing to carry both during the transaction rather than requiring me to shoulder the burden. --[[User:Tycho44|Tycho44]] 09:10, 29 April 2006 (BST)
***<Bump.> Also, why not "(x/y)" appended to the inventory header? If the game code can figure out whether or not the inventory is full, it seems that the player could be able to figure out the same info. Even a simple load indication "(x)" would work fine, if the worry is that total inventory capacity 70-74 depends on quirky variable info rather than being static based on class. --[[User:Tycho44|Tycho44]] 22:36, 15 May 2006 (BST) Besides which, seems like most everyone has an inventory limit of 71 now. (2 for blowpipes or rifles, 0 for gold coins.) --[[User:Tycho44|Tycho44]] 22:31, 20 May 2006 (BST)
*See the last list item at [[The_Shartak_Wiki:Community_Portal#Greasemonkey_scripts]]. — [[User:Elembis|Elembis]] ([[User talk:Elembis|talk]]) 07:51, 28 May 2006 (BST)
* Still needed/wanted or is the greasemonkey script sufficient? Would this change if, for example, backpacks or some other means of carrying extra items was implemented? Inventory size: 23/90 --[[User:Simon|Simon]] 12:46, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
** It would be nice to have an official inventory counter mechanic as I believe the script is based on a handful of assumptions (inventory size for all classes is 71, gold coins are weightless, ranged weapons have weight of 2 units) and will require testing and updating whenever a new item is added. --[[User:Lint|Lint]] 19:01, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
* Ok, this has been added...
<nowiki>36 / 70</nowiki>
but the invsize style is set to display:none by default - override it to get it to display alongside the inventory header. --[[User:Simon|Simon]] 21:34, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
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===In-game Rankings===

I was noticing recently that one of my characters seemed to have killed a lot of parrots lately. I realizing that such information is tracked on the game stats page, but not necessarily everyone looks at it, and I thought it might be fun to have something in-game to acknowledge the player who has killed the most creatures of each type. Maybe a line is added to the player's description page, or the color of their name is different, or a mysterious "crown of the fallen parrots" appears in their inventory--no real impact, just bragging rights. It should be easy enough to implement, and might add a little intrigue.--[[User:Jackel|Jackel]] 01:03, 16 March 2006 (GMT)

''Comments''
* See the player titles suggestion further up! --[[User:Simon|Simon]] 12:46, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
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=== Wiki: table CSS ===

It would be nice if there were a class set up in the wiki's CSS file so that we could make attractive tables (see my ugly, hackish one on [[Tips and tricks]]). I tried to edit [[WikiMedia:Common.css]] but it's edit-locked. --[[User:Vtbassmatt|VTBassMatt]] 16:14, 23 March 2006 (GMT)
* I don't know that WikiMedia:Common.css is the right thing to edit - That link takes me off to an external site! --[[User:Simon|Simon]] 18:09, 23 March 2006 (GMT)
** What the heck! Ha, sorry. Now I can't find the page on either this wiki or the WikiMedia page. Weird. Well anyhow, it would be nice to have a useful table class. Thanks, Simon.
*** What kind of table class? Do you mean something to give a particular title bar, and row colours? Similar to the one on the front page. Got an example of what you'd put in the css file? --[[User:Simon|Simon]] 11:58, 3 April 2006 (BST)
**** Colors aren't too important, I was more concerned with borders. Something simple like:
table.bordered, table.bordered td {
border: 1px solid black;

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=== Pets ===

''Discussion of Pets has been moved to the existing [[Suggestions:Game mechanics#Pet System|Pet System]] suggestion.''
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===ruins===
the ruins in the game are mostly for show, and that can be aggravating at times, as i would love to "explore" ruins more if there was something there. i am suggesting several things such as:
*unique, ruin only monsters
*special items found only in ruins
*if quests are implemented, a quest location

this is a very vague suggestion, but i feel that alot of the ruins on the map are just too bland. i camped out at ruins with my character "Richard Rose" and i stayed there for a week (in real time) because there was nothing better to do. and nothing and i mean NOTHING passed by, no game, no fruit trees, no players. it was completely desolate, and i am just suggesting several "interesting" components for ruins.

'''Comments:'''
*I have to agree that last I checked, the Ruins seemed like a total bust. Fifty searches yielded worse than the typical Jungle average. No events triggered, no creatures, no spirits, no variable flavor descriptions.
:* "As the wind blows through the ruined arch, you hear the spirit voices of the ancestors" (gain 1 XP).
:* "You find a bundle of parrot feathers tied to a leather strap. The spirit magic of this amulet has long since faded away." (junk item that could be implemented with magic/spirits later).
:* "Ghosts of the ancient dead chill your soul" (lose 2 HP, gain 2 XP).
:* "Sliding the heavy iron lid to one side, you discover [[The Conch|The Conch(tm)]]!"
:...And so on. --[[User:Tycho44|Tycho44]] 22:56, 15 May 2006 (BST)
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===Wind===
{{suggestion|
suggest_type=Game Element Addition|
suggest_scope=Everyone|
suggest_description=
Add the concept of wind to the game. Could be either constant (always from the west) or random over time, possibly even dependant on the side of the island you're on. For now, including a changing wind speed (10mph to 30mph) may be overly complex. Wind can affect spirit movement, pigeon delivery times, fire movement, etc.|
suggest_time=16:54, 14 April 2006 (BST)|
suggest_author=[[User:Frisco|Frisco]]|
suggest_comments=

* Working this out technically might be a bit much, but I would like to see similar environmental variables on the island. It would increase the variety in the game and provide a creative amount of unpredictability while not being outlandish. Perhaps there can be a similar effect for the water current and tide as well. I can't wait until there are hurricane-strength winds that whip around everyone unless they're safe inside the mountain tunnels. Mwahaha. --[[User:Lint|Lint]] 20:08, 14 April 2006 (BST)
:* A tornado/hurricane would be possible, scattering players and npcs that it runs over into adjacent squares. It would have to move every 30-60 minutes and theoretically could move players halfway across the island if it happened to throw them into the same square that it then moved into next. --[[User:Simon|Simon]] 16:20, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

}}

===UDTool type Firefox plugin===
{{suggestion|
suggest_type=Plugin|
suggest_scope=All players with Firefox|
suggest_description=I don't have any coding skills, but I'm sure many of you out there do. Currently there is no way to add people to a contact list, thus making it difficult to recoginse people. Could someone please develop a UDTool style plugin (like that seen in Urban Dead) that allows you to add player's names and assign them to groups with user defined colours? Basically just port the UDTool over to Shartak users, so when you're in a hut or square with others, you can see people you've encoutnered with a llittle bit of text to pop up at your cursor telling you why they're important to you (like the 'notes' feature in the UDTool).|
suggest_time=08:18, 27 May 2006 (BST)|
suggest_author=[[User:Rip Purr|Rip Purr]]|
suggest_comments=

* This has partially been implemented in-game, we now have contact lists that identify people from the opposing side as well. That's not to say that an UDTool type plugin isn't required though. Perhaps this isn't the best place to put this suggestion though, but somewhere for the real greasemonkey wizards to see it? --[[User:Simon|Simon]] 20:50, 12 June 2006 (BST)

}}

===Hide Skills===
{{suggestion|
suggest_type=Technical|
suggest_scope=Everyone|
suggest_description=I think it would be useful to be able to have a "Hide Skills" button which hides what skills you possess from those viewing your profile, I know many people wouldn't care but it would be useful for players whose skills don't fit with the way they roleplay. Besides who can tell how good a shot someone is simply by looking at them?|
suggest_time=08:18, 31 May 2006 (BST)|
suggest_author=[[User:Kripcat|Kripcat]]|
suggest_comments=

* ''Comment removed'' --[[User:Lint|Lint]] 20:06, 6 June 2006 (BST)
** Well, hiding (as a skill) seems different from "hiding your list of skills"... although perhaps that would be a way to boost characters with Sixth Sense, who know how good a shot you are simply by looking at you. I like the effects of having fully revealed skills. Realistically, your home town should hardly be public knowledge, nor the date of your last demise, nor your killer, and so on. Perhaps a "Disguise" skill would give you access to a button that shields your character info (such as level) while you sleep (at a small AP cost). --[[User:Tycho44|Tycho44]] 21:51, 1 June 2006 (BST)
*** It makes sense. No more can I look at the victim's skills t osee how well they'll be able to track me if Ifail to kill them. ;) --[[User:Wifey|Wifey]] 23:50, 1 June 2006 (BST)
***That is another bonus to be sure, might add a little ''tang'' to your game. [[User:Kripcat|Kripcat]] 07:28, 6 June 2006 (BST)
***The problem with doing anything "while you sleep" is that it's hard to know whether you're actually not playing, or just taking a very long time between clicks. Idleness is triggered after 7 days of not doing anything, although I'm not sure if simply loading the main game page is considered to be doing something, I'd have to check. I suppose "asleep" is either something you activate on your last go and the next time you reload the page, you're awake again, or else when you haven't done anything for an arbitrary length of time (say 3 hours). --[[User:Simon|Simon]] 12:18, 9 June 2006 (BST)
****There's no issue with ''player-activated'' sleep conditions. Clicking a button ("Disguise Self 4AP" or however many AP you want it to cost) activates the Disguise. Player skills are then concealed. They remain Disguised forever until they click anything, at which point they leave the state. The state never activates automatically (in 3 hours or 7 days), because you have to pay to activate it. There are no mechanical complexities. --[[User:Tycho44|Tycho44]] 23:03, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

}}

===Jungle Regrowth===
{{suggestion|
suggest_type= Alteration|
suggest_scope= The regrowth of the Jungle Terrain type|
suggest_description= As I understand the growth of the Jungle terrain is currently random. At any time a square of jungle can grow anywhere on the map, except for Water and Beach terrain, and when it happens to grow on a square which already contains Jungle it increases the density of that jungle by one. Now to me, this appears to conflict with one of the driving emotions of Shartak, the battle between civilisation and 'the wilds'. At the moment a player can spend a week's AP expanding the settlement's borders only to find that jungle has randomly cropped up in the middle of the settlement. This is highly demoralising and also leads to strange patches of jungle in the middle of no where. I prepose that new Jungle Terrain is formed in the following manner:

*Whenever a square of Jungle with a density above D2 or above is touching a square of D0 terrain it has a 1% chance every hour of "seeding" each D0 square with Jungle. By seeding I mean, the D0 square would become Jungle terrain with a density half that of the square that seeded it.

*Each square of Jungle (with the exception of D10) has a 7.5% chance of "growing" into the density level 1 above its current.

This would mean that roads would be harder to maintain, as they would have to be recut every 4 days or so, but settlements would be easier to maintain and expand as a dedicated weeder or two could slowly push back the borders of the settlement. I know nothing of coding so it may be a coding nightmare and the numbers may need to be tweaked, but I feel that this makes the Jungle more the second enemy that it is in all those Jungle Warfare fiction novels rather than an annoying and unrealistic random occurrence.

'''Edit''': On second thought it may just be easier to create a "coding requirment" that new Jungle Terrain appear within 3 squares of an already positioned Jungle Square. [[User:Kripcat|Kripcat]] 08:24, 6 June 2006 (BST) |
suggest_time=08:18, 6 June 2006 (BST)|
suggest_author=[[User:Kripcat|Kripcat]]|
suggest_comments=

If I understand your comment correctly, you're bothered by the light green d1 Jungles that pop up inside settlements. It is possible that the game already uses a non-random algorithm to grow jungle; in any case, jungle does not appear to grow instantly two or more levels, so the cleanup is ongoing but minor. The crux of your suggestion could be achieved by modifying the current grow system so that d1 did not grow in a fully d0 zone. For example, the game checks a d0-d1 to make sure that there is adjacent d1+ jungle; if not, the game heads out in a random direction (or towards the center of shartak) to the last available d0 square before jungle, and grows that location d0-d1 instead. This would result in the same overall growth speed, but d0-d1 changes would occur on the boundaries rather than the interior of a paved area. --[[User:Tycho44|Tycho44]] 06:55, 8 June 2006 (BST)
*Yes that probably work better with less coding work, but do you have an opinion on such a change? [[User:Kripcat|Kripcat]] 08:36, 8 June 2006 (BST)
* There is a simple algorithm for determining growth of jungle, but it's not as clever as this, it's all to do with growth rate of the square and how often people chop it back. There is also a limit of about 10% of the island that can grow in any given day but it's not hitting the limit at the moment. Having to look at the surrounding squares would also involve having to write the growth as a script rather than a couple of lines of SQL so I'm not overly keen on this even though it would make a bit of sense. --[[User:Simon|Simon]] 18:32, 8 June 2006 (BST)
*If it requires a large amount of coding work I wouldn't worry about it, theres a lot of more imporant suggestions than this one about, I just thought it may have been something you overlooked when creating the regrowth system and could perhaps be easily fixed. [[User:Kripcat|Kripcat]] 09:49, 9 June 2006 (BST)


}}

===Animal Meat===
{{suggestion|
suggest_type= Alteration|
suggest_scope= get meat from dead animals|
suggest_description= well it's simple you kill and animal and you can get it's meat from the corpse!or.... and also eventually the animal on the floor will run out of meat and as it says"there is a corpse of a large stag" that will not be there when it runs out of meat....[meat restores 2 HP].|
suggest_time=04:52, 8 June 2006 (BST)|
suggest_author=[[User:Riddick|Riddick]]|
suggest_comments=

* There is an existing [[Suggestions:Items#Meat|meat suggestion]]. --[[User:Lint|Lint]] 06:32, 8 June 2006 (BST)

}}

===Breakable weapons===
{{suggestion|
suggest_type=Weapon alteration|
suggest_scope=All weapons|
suggest_description=I'd like to propose that all weapons break occassionally. At the moment, cutlasses and machetes do, but I don't think any other weapons do. This means that there is a surplus of rifles and blowpipes on the island, as they continue to be produced, but are never destroyed. It makes perfect sense for a rifle or blowpipe to break (poor handling or poor workmanship?). Additionally, once someone acquires a heavy sword, it is theirs permanently (to my knowledge). If it was breakable, it would be both more realistic and less unbalancing. That being said, the very name "heavy sword" implies that it is strongly built, so perhaps it should have a significantly lower chance of breaking than a machete or cutlass.|
suggest_time=10:25, 19 July 2006|
suggest_author=[[User:Black Joe|Black Joe]]|
suggest_comments=

* Also take a look at Suggestions:Items, where there is a Remove Uber Sword of Doom (aka Heavy Sword) discussion. If I recall correctly, both Simon and Jones Dye have implied that heavy swords do break. I'm not sure why the name "heavy sword" suggests anything other than the sword weighing a lot. Whether it breaks a little or a lot, the heavy sword is still by far the best item in the game, and would still be superior even if it did 1 less damage and broke with normal frequency. Rifles and blowpipes are common - it would be fine for them to have a slight breakage chance. --[[User:Tycho44|Tycho44]] 16:14, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
**To me, heavy implies it's either thick or otherwise stronger. However, that's just my personal take on it, and it's not really a major point. My main suggestion is that any weapon should have a chance of breaking. Otherwise, there will be a surplus. Incidentally, I saw the "Uber Sword of Doom" entry, but given that this covers all weapons, I thought it best to create a separate topic. Thank you for your input, by the way. - [[User:Black Joe|Black Joe]]
* I agree weapons should break occasionally, but I especially would like to see machetes and knives dull with use more often (I dont know if I have ever personally had this happen [though I've heard it does happen], and I've been playing for nearly 7 months), thereby changing your machete into a blunt machete (there arent blunt knives/blunt cutlasses in the game, as far as i know. maybe there should be). Rifles should occasionally explode, too, destroying the weapon and giving you 10 damage or something. Those old-fashioned rifles would occassionally do that. [[User:Arminius|Arminius]] 00:47, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

}}

===Secret Shop===
{{suggestion|
suggest_type=new addition|
suggest_scope= |
suggest_description= I like to see the introduction of secret shops (traders) to Shartak which allow players to purchase hard to find items (heavy sword or charms) and/or special/unique (non-searchable) items at hyper-inflated prices say between (100 to 1000 gold coins). Accesses to such shops are either treacherous (crossing an area full of giant squids in deep water) or complex (requiring the completion of puzzles/quests) or time specific (opening for one day a year) or possibly a combination of all three. This would thus open up gameplay potential for high level players who have maxed out or allow players to get certain items without having to leave it up to chance. Potentially I see such shops being placed in ruins, islands or caves to promote exploration.|
suggest_time=09:31, 22 July 2006 (UTC)|
suggest_author=[[User:A for anarchy|A for anarchy]]|
suggest_comments=

The shop should move every now and then, so that it may be re-discovered by different people. --[[User:Lantz|Lantz]] 04:17, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

}}

===Merchants===
{{suggestion|
suggest_type=New Addition|
suggest_scope=All settlements|
suggest_description=At the moment, gold coins are fairly easy to get, but they aren't in much demand. You can use them to trade, but they aren't removed from circulation. Since new gold coins are constantly added, this means the value will steadily decline as scarcity decreases.

I suggest splitting the trading and merchant functions. The trader will continue to trade, but he will cease making his high speed runs to the ammo hut to replenish his stock. He will work solely with what people trade with him. However, there would also be a merchant. He would accept only gold coins as payment, but would have unlimited stocks. To reduce the chance for abuse, he would charge grossly inflated prices. For example, a med kit runs about 2 gold coins under ordinary circumstances. The merchant would charge 8 to 10. He would act as a guaranteed source of supply, but you would pay dearly for the convenience. Spending 200 gold coins would only get 20-25 med kits at this price. Thus, newcomers without much money would not be particularly disadvantaged, since they could just search for what they need, but established players would be able to stock up on items they actually need. Additionally, the merchant would only sell items that can be found in that settlement. GPS could not be bought at the shipwreck, and rum could not be purchased in native villages. Other possible alterations are linking the price to demand or adjusting price to match the item's find rate (e.g. FAK's are harder to find at the shipwreck, so the price will be higher).

The primary purpose of this policy is to serve as a "gold sink". Gold coins spent at the merchant are removed from circulation, reducing the inflation inherent in Shartak's current economic model. That being said, this is a very rough guess, and I'm sure there are flaws I've missed. Please offer any input you may have.|
suggest_time=16:01, 18 August 2006 (UTC)|
suggest_author=[[User:Black Joe|Black Joe]]|
suggest_comments=

Very good suggestion. Also, some major new expensive items that would only be able to be bought from the all-purpose merchant (not found by searching). I was thinking some time ago about being able to buy a cannon for 500 gold coins, which would serve as a means to actually hold a position and provide heavy defensive ability, it would fire on any enemy that comes within a square of it, and if it hits would inflict 50 damage. The specifics could be worked out. Another idea for merchants in each outsider town is to offer tickets aboard ships to the other towns, e.g. a Durham to York ticket would cost 100 gold or something, and the trip would take 50 AP, a significant reduction in AP to get from town to town, but at a steep cost. This would give people major benefits for getting lots of gold, besides the ability to trade for everyday itmes like FAKs. I'm sure people could think of even more things like this. This could really add a lot to the game. [[User:Arminius|Arminius]] 00:37, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

I like the idea of the merchant very much and think it should be used--[[User:Michael edwards|Michael edwards]] 03:58, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

I've thought about it, and I think I should add to the merchant idea. Merchants will also purchase items, but at a substantially lower rate than a trader, and only pay gold coins. For instance, a merchant would give one gold coin for five machetes, whereas the trader makes it an even trade. A gem would only bring two gold coins instead of ten. This will remove excess items from circulation (particularly those like GPS units, gems, and sharpening stones that are never broken or used up). --[[User:Black Joe|Black Joe]] 01:22, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

This looks like a brilliant idea, i like that the more established players wont have to search for days for a few FAKs when they have 200gc that they dont have plans for. About the cannon; i think that could link in with what somebody said about capturing towns, also (i know i'm still on about it) the trader could be made the only place to buy flintlocks, if people are still worried about balance issues. [[User:Rozen|Rozen]]

}}

===Boost Ad Revenue With Random Reinforcement Schedule===
{{suggestion|
suggest_type=improvement|
suggest_scope=players|
suggest_description=Simon has ads on the wiki and in the game, right? Well, presumably the number of times these links are followed increases his ad revenue. I think when you click on an ad it should open the ad in a seperate window, as usual. But, there should also be a 10% chance of opening an additional window. This window would have a randomly generated code. When the code is spoken by a character in game, the character gains 10 additional AP. Obviously, this would be one time only per page hit. Increases ad revenue and gives savvy players additional AP. Everybody wins!
suggest_time=20:15, 5 January 2007 (UTC)|
suggest_author=[[User:Nosimplehiway|Nosimplehiway]]|
suggest_comments=Comment here, please.

ehh... 10% is rather high. Couldn't I just go around refreshing the page with the 10% chance of getting 10 AP? 10 AP is nice, but also high. Perhaps like 10-25 gold? Or possibly like 50 -[[User:Che|Che]] 03:35, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
:The 'opens in new window' bit is done entirely by whichever advert provider I happen to be using at the time. As such, it's not easy/possible to add extra code to do the above suggestion. Incidentally, ProjectWonderful ads (generally the animated graphic ones) are pay-per-day rather than per click or per impression. As such it doesn't make any difference to ad revenue how often you click them. --[[User:Simon|Simon]] 20:43, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

}}

=== Bridges ===
{{suggestion|
suggest_type=Improvement|
suggest_scope=Players, Landscape|
suggest_description=Some sections of the river should have rapids or run fast: " You slip in the fast current and are dragged underwater. You hit your head on a rock and die." To deal with this, create bridges, with NPC "trolls" or tollmasters. "Tollmaster Troy, holding a large axe, snarls at you, "Pay me one gold coin if you want to cross this bridge!", and shakes his axe at you." Players then have the opportunity of either paying him or attacking him. A bridge allows more opportunity of player interaction, plus keep gold coins in circulation.|
suggest_time=|
suggest_author=[[User:FirstAmongstDaves|FirstAmongstDaves]]|
suggest_comments=

Could be tricky to implement although it's a nice idea. The random 'slip in water and hurt self' part could be done for particular stretches of water, although there are only 2 real rivers on the map at present. --[[User:Simon|Simon]] 20:45, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

:More rivers would make exploration more easy through more ready access to fresh water supplies --[[User:Johan Crichton|Johan Crichton]] 22:13, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

::I had guessed a troll would be a dumbed down (ie. less complicated) version of the trader. He doesn't exchange anything, he just takes gold and lets you pass. If you try to pass without paying him, he hits you with his axe, for a big HP toll, or possibly fatally. The troll might have a 100 HP life like a trader, so it'd be possible to kill him if you were up for it. I'd guess he would be multilingual, so both outsiders and natives you easily understand him (therefore not putting either class of players at a disadvantage if they didn't know foreign tongues). As for the existence of rivers generally, fresh water supplies are indeed handy, but (as someone who has never encountered alligators) there should be some peril involved in navigating a river. - [[FirstAmongstDaves]]
:::Yeah, Dave, some peril would be good, whether in the form of rapids, more active alligators, piranha, a disease like typhoid or whatever. Rivers historically have been useful for transportation, power and water, but also occasionally dangerous. I don't think a troll per see really fits the feel of this game, though. I, myself, have XP farmed the boundary between a river and the sea. Well, I guess technically I was in a estuary. In any case, I farmed it for weeks right next to a swamp and I think I encountered one gator.--[[User:Nosimplehiway|Nosimplehiway]] 16:14, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
::::Well not a "troll" per se, since that sounds mythical and not in the ethos of the game, but more a tollman with a bad temper. Given the colonists are ostensibly English, and Shartak is in the Spanish Main, he could be Spanish, I guess. "Fernando the Tollman" and "Pedro the Tollman"? With a silly accent? "Pay me uno gold coin if you want to cross zis bridge, amigo!" - [[FirstAmongstDaves]]

}}
===Profile Modification: Display last kill information===
{{suggestion|
suggest_type=improvement|
suggest_scope=All character profiles|
suggest_description=In a character profile, the game displays information about what the character has killed in the game - e.g. 
'''NPC kills:''' 293 (Animals: 293; Shamen: 0; Traders: 0) 
'''Natives killed:''' 6 (Raktam: 1; Dalpok: 1; Wiksik: 4) 
'''Outsiders killed:''' 3 (Derby: 0; Durham: 1; York: 1; Shipwreck: 1) 

The 'Died' line in a character profile displays information about when the character last died (if they've died) and where their death was at the hand of another character, lists which character that was -
e.g. 
'''Died:''' 11 times (last time was 200Y-MM-DD HH:MM at the hands of DarthVisor). 

This suggestion is that the 'Kills' entries in the character profile be modified to include information about the last kill - e.g.
 
'''NPC kills:''' 293 (Animals: 293; Shamen: 0; Traders: 0; last kill: Giant Squid) 
'''Natives killed:''' 6 (Raktam: 1; Dalpok: 1; Wiksik: 4; last kill: Suggestiondox) 
'''Outsiders killed:''' 3 (Derby: 0; Durham: 1; York: 1; Shipwreck: 1; last kill: Nyarlathotep) 

if that's possible to be implemented.
|
suggest_time=00:55, 5 February 2007 (UTC)|
suggest_author=[[User:Johan Crichton|Johan Crichton]]|
suggest_comments=

Implemented. --[[User:Simon|Simon]] 22:02, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
:Thanks Simon! Part of the original suggestion was to have 'last kill' information for NPC kills - e.g. last kill: a parrot - as well, is that doable at all?--[[User:Johan Crichton|Johan Crichton]] 02:27, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
::Implemented. --[[User:Simon|Simon]] 19:50, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

}}

===Digging inside huts===
{{suggestion|
suggest_type=UI improvement|
suggest_scope=Digging skill|
suggest_description=I have a "dig a hole" button inside huts, but whenever I click it, it tells me that no matter how badly I want to, I can't dig there. If we really can't dig inside huts, perhaps the button should be removed while in huts.|
suggest_time=13:15, 26 April 2007 (UTC)|
suggest_author=[[User:Vtbassmatt|VTBassMatt]]|
suggest_comments=

Valid point - except it's hard to tell the difference between being inside a hut and inside a tunnel and perhaps you'll be able to dig in tunnels later on. --[[User:Simon|Simon]] 23:48, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
:Ok, how about that? --[[User:Simon|Simon]] 21:17, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

}}

=== Policy Discussion ===
{{suggestion|
suggest_type=Discussion of policy|
suggest_scope=Suggestions page|
suggest_description=http://wiki.shartak.com/index.php/The_Shartak_Wiki_talk:Policies_and_guidelines|
suggest_time=13:08, 3 March 2007 (UTC)|
suggest_author=[[User:Nosimplehiway|Nosimplehiway]]|
suggest_comments= This is a policy suggestion which will impact the suggestion pages. Your input is needed. Please comment on the proposed policy there, not here. Thanks!
}}

=== Invite messages ===
{{suggestion|
suggest_type=Alteration to game|
suggest_scope=Invite text|
suggest_description=I suggest that clan leaders, when they invite someone to join their clan, be able to add a brief message onto the invite. That way, they can give reasons why they think that person would be happy with their clan. This will result in people having a better idea on whether or not they want to join the clan.|
suggest_author=[[User:Black Joe|Black Joe]]|
suggest_comments=

Sounds great --[[User:Rozen|Rozen]] 17:05, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
}}

===UI: Heal Patient as possible action ===
{{suggestion|
suggest_type=UI improvement|
suggest_scope=Player User Interface|
suggest_description=At the moment, the user interface has two options for live characters under 'Possible Actions:' for interaction with other characters - '''Attack''' ''target'' with ''weapon''; and '''Give''' ''money'' to ''creditor''.

This suggestion is to add an additional option under 'Possible Actions:' - '''Heal''' ''patient'' with ''item'', where item can be healing herb, first aid kit, bottle of water etc. The option would appear '''dynamically''' when appropriate, much like the current attack and give options only appear when there is a target for those actions.

This UI improvement would make healing a lot easier with no having to scroll to find the item in your inventory.

Allowing the active character to use different items would allow the use of bottles of water (etc) to heal others, as suggested by Simon's comment on [[Suggestions:Items#Use_FAK_on_Others_Text_Change]]:

It was originally coded to allow you to help someone to drink a bottle of water
/ use a first aid kit etc but at the moment you can only use a fak on them so
I've reworded it. --Simon 08:17, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

|
suggest_time=08:38, 25 May 2007 (UTC)|
suggest_author=[[User:Johan Crichton|Johan Crichton]]|
suggest_comments=

#Actually, I'm fine with it as it is now. I think that if we add too much to the main interface, then it's going to soon become confusing. -[[User:Mark D. Stroyer|Mark D. Stroyer]] 17:48, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
:I've updated the suggestion a little.--[[User:Johan Crichton|Johan Crichton]] 21:43, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
Suggestion updated and hopefully clarified, having considered some feedback from IRC. --[[User:Johan Crichton|Johan Crichton]] 00:40, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

}}

===Town Hall/Chieftain's Hut===
{{suggestion|
suggest_type=Addition|
suggest_scope=Every multi-hut camp|
suggest_description=In order to make the game friendly to newbies, I propose that each camp has graphically distinct building smack in the center of the town. This building, when approached, would have permanent, non-erasable directions to the shaman, trader's hut, ammo hut, and medical hut. For further interest, it might be possible to allow the hall to allow "posters" within. They'd work much like signposts, with a short title besides each poster, but players can click on the button on the poster in order to read the full text attached. Said posters can have general advice for newbies, news reports, or clan recruitment posters. Naturally, some form of expiration and a limit on the amount of posters allowed is required. The final benefit of such a building would be that it becomes a natural center for political debate in-game.

|
suggest_time=05:35, 8 June 2007 (UTC)|
suggest_author=[[User:Tomn|Tomn]]|
suggest_comments=

I like that. Sounds pretty cool. Would the pirates have a Captain's Cabin then? --[[User:Rozen|Rozen]] 05:45, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
:Yeah, I suppose so. I excluded the pirates at first due to the fact that unlike the other camps, they don't really have any empty huts to confuse new players with. Still, the pirates deserve clan recruitment, news reports, and newbie advice too!--[[User:Tomn|Tomn]] 07:52, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
:I'd just like to point out that the vital thing is for there to be a conspicuous building with directions permanently carved into it. The whole posters thing is gravy intended to make things even easier for newbies, but the city hall/chieftan's hut/captain's cabin would make things a lot easier for incoming players who don't have the slightest clue what to do.--[[User:Tomn|Tomn]] 20:15, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

}}

===Campfire===
{{suggestion|
suggest_type=Making fire, and a skill to make it easier|
suggest_scope=Applies to all people|
suggest_description=
*You spend 5 AP breaking twigs and preparing kindling with the featherstick method. this can stay in your inventory as 'Fire kit/Kindling/Tinder' until you use a sharpening stone and a knife to spark it, which can blunt your knife, by clicking on the kindling in yor inventory while in possession of the stone and knife/dagger.
*When you light a fire, it appears as a description on your square (or an icon?) something along the lines of 'There is a campfire here'. When you're within 5 squares of the fire, you should get a message appearing on your screen in the description about being able to smell smoke, hear the crackling or see the light.
*The fire scares away all types of animals, stopping you from being attacked in the night. It could also; improve whatever searches you make, scar the ground when the fire is destroyed or runs out and/or improve the effects of HP restoring items. or even make you automaticaly recover HP, or recover AP faster.
*Can cauterise a bleeding wound for 10 HP, stopping the bleeding but damaging you further.
*Skills:
'''Basic Bushcraft''' - Light fires for 5AP rahter than unskilled 10 AP

'''Advanced Bushcraft''' - Light larger fires (for cauterising, possibly cooking and distilation of salt water?)|
suggest_time=10:49, 8 June 2007 (UTC)|
suggest_author=[[User:Rozen|Rozen]]|
suggest_comments=

Comment here

}}

===Trade Goods===
{{suggestion|
suggest_type=Skill, balance change, improvement, etc|
suggest_scope=Who or what it applies to|
suggest_description=
*Named or unnamed items that players can trade between towns but NOT find laying around. 'A box of goods' or 'A box of clothes/food/soap/jewelery?' which raised the question of different grades of good; 'High quality trade goods' or 'Low quality trade goods'
*You buy them in your home town for say 10gc, making the investment. and sell them to another town for a higher price, which will always be at least 12gc. This encourages better interaction between players.
*You could still of course, trade the old stuff like booze and cutlasses, but this'd be a purely trade addition, which perhaps you would even recieve after killing someone who was carrying it?
.|
suggest_time=10:49, 8 June 2007 (UTC)|
suggest_author=[[User:Rozen|Rozen]]|
suggest_comments=

This suggestion was originaly made on the forum, so if your idea hasn't been carried through, please re-state it below. --[[User:Rozen|Rozen]] 10:49, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

}}

===More Economic Information===
{{suggestion|
suggest_type=Addition|
suggest_scope=Statistics Page|
suggest_description=Currently, the statistics page only shows who the richest players are, not what the total amount of money is, nor which the richest clan is.
That is why I am suggesting this: have the statistics page show how much gold there is on Shartak (by summing up the gold of all active players), and also have it show the richest clans of the island (by summing up the amount of gold each active clan member has).
This would significantly enhance the economical aspect of the game, in my opinion.|
suggest_time=15:12, 20 June 2007 (UTC)|
suggest_author=[[User:0000FF Beard|0000FF Beard]]|
suggest_comments=

The 'total gold' suggestion I think would be great - however, in thinking about it, the richest clans may have an issue in that a player can control if their character appears in the rich list as anonymous - but remaining anonymous when your clan is in the 'wealthy clans' list may not be so easy? --[[User:Johan Crichton|Johan Crichton]] 21:18, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

:Well, I must admit that I can't think of any good solution for that.
:But I don't think it will really be a problem, because in a clan with multiple members, it is unclear who has exactly what amount of gold.
:Something that would help, however, would be giving clan administrators the option to exclude their clan from the list of richest clans, just like individual players can exclude themselves from the list of richest players. [[User:0000FF Beard|0000FF Beard]] 10:11, 21 June 2007 (UTC)


}}

===Map Marker colour selector===
{{suggestion|
suggest_type=UI improvement|
suggest_scope=map.cgi|
suggest_description=Place the map marker colour selector widget on the the actual map.cgi map screen. This would allow people to select the colour on the map screen, without requiring them to go off to the profile editor screen where it currently is.|
suggest_time=09:07, 13 July 2007 (UTC)|
suggest_author=[[User:Johan Crichton|Johan Crichton]]|
suggest_comments=

Good idea. Just like *that* then. Implemented. --[[User:Simon|Simon]] 14:48, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

}}

===Map buttons moved===
{{suggestion|
suggest_type=UI improvement|
suggest_scope=map.cgi|
suggest_description=The new locations are great. However, the more used (at least by me) buttons to "Return to Shartak", etc. are now off the bottom of the page. I think the mechanics of the page would work better if the row of buttons were right below the map, followed by the locations, followed by the marker colour chooser. |
suggest_time=08:37, 23 August 2007 (UTC)|
suggest_author=[[User:FishOutOfWater|FishOutOfWater]]|
suggest_comments=

Comment here

}}

Zakano

2007-08-07T04:01:28Z

FishOutOfWater:

<noinclude>
'''Zakano''' is a wandering [[shaman]] with no ties to any village.

==Current sighting==

* </noinclude>{{GPS|70|391|26|347}} 04:01, 7 August 2007 (UTC)<noinclude>

==Previous sightings==

* {{GPS|70|561|26|413}} 03:42, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
* {{GPS|70|551|26|412}} 23:51, 07 July 2007 (UTC)
* {{GPS|70|209|26|410}} 21:25, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
* {{GPS|70|178|26|461}} 22:23, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
* {{GPS|70|214|26|457}} 09:54, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
* {{GPS|70|201|26|436}} 04:21, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
* {{GPS|70|178|26|421}} 01:50, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
* {{GPS|70|235|26|442}} 02:34, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
* {{GPS|70|239|26|493}} 02:58, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
* {{GPS|70|293|26|504}} 19:36, 15 October 2006 (BST)
* {{GPS|70|410|26|505}} 00:31, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
* {{GPS|70|476|26|519}} 23:31, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
* {{GPS|70|488|26|495}} 18:04, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
* {{GPS|70|489|26|494}} 17:38, 2 July 2006 (BST)
* {{GPS|70|454|26|491}} 18:48, 30 May 2006 (BST)
* {{GPS|70|446|26|453}} 00:52, 22 May 2006 (BST)
* {{GPS|70|436|26|492}} 00:44, 19 May 2006 (BST)

{{Shamansnav}}

[[Category:Shamans]]</noinclude>

Skills

2007-07-06T02:12:07Z

FishOutOfWater:

== Overview ==

'''Skills''' give players special or improved abilities. Some require that you learn other skills first, and a few are available only to a certain [[Character classes|character class]] or side. Skills are bought with [[XP]].

Certain skills, like ''haunting scream'' and ''basic tracking'', unlock actions which consume [[AP]]. Other skills, like ''trekking'' and ''close quarter combat'', are passive and do not need to be activated after being purchased for the player to benefit from them. While most skills in a tree have effects that stack on one another, ''haunting scream'' and ''shocking shriek'' remain individual skills (but ''banshee wail'' will replace ''shocking shriek'').

Learning an initial skill costs 100 XP. After that, each learned skill costs 25 XP more than the previous one, until you reach level 30. Hence the formula for a skill's XP cost is ''100 + 25 * (your level)''. (Your character's level, which you can see in your profile, is the number of skills you have learned.) To go from level 30 to 31 costs 1000 XP, and each level above that requires an additional 200 XP. So the above formula is modified to read ''1000 + 200 * ((your level) - 30)''.

A pirate needs 15550 XP to buy the 32 available skills. Explorers and Scouts need 17300 XP for their 33 skills. Soldiers, scientists, warriors and shamans will have spent 19075 XP after buying all 34 skills available to them. Settlers and villagers spend 20875 XP to buy their 35 available skills.

== Generic skills ==

* '''Basic language''' - Understand the smaller words of foreign languages See [[Language]] for more information.
** '''Advanced language''' - Better understanding of foreign languages
*** '''Expert language''' - Full comprehension of foreign languages
**** '''Foreign Writing''' - Not only can you understand foreign languages, you can also write it well enough to be understood
**** '''Foreign Speech''' - Not only can you understand foreign languages, you can also speak it well enough to be understood

* '''Close quarter combat''' - Gain 10% to hit with melee attacks ''(e.g., 20% to 30% with a machete)''
** '''Advanced close quarter combat''' - Gain 15% to hit with melee attacks ''(e.g., 30% to 45% with a machete)''
*** '''Balanced Stance''' - Sometimes turn a miss into a glancing blow.

* '''Body building''' - Increases melee damage ''(+1 damage; e.g., 2 to 3 with a machete)''
** '''Stamina''' - Increases max HP by 20

* '''Ghostly whisper''' - Allows spirits to communicate With ''ghostly whisper'', spirits can speak to any player that has the ''sixth sense'' skill. Other spirits can hear ghostly whispers, even if they lack ''sixth sense''.
** '''Haunting scream''' - Attract other spirits and scare nearby living players It is believed that ''haunting scream'' gives spirits a chance of dealing 1 [[HP]] of damage to living players in the area at the cost of 1-2 [[AP]]. All nearby players hear the scream, and some percentage of them take damage. It is believed that a spirit receives 0-2 [[XP]] per scream depending upon the number of listeners (perhaps 0, 1, 2+ yields 0, 1, 2 XP).
*** '''Shocking shriek''' - Scare nearby living players ''Shocking shriek'' is similar to ''haunting scream'' but allows spirits to deal more damage to players they frighten. Shocking shriek is superceded and replaced by the more powerful banshee wail.
**** '''Banshee wail''' - Frighten nearby living players Spirits with ''banshee wail'' can emit powerful wails for a cost of up to 6 AP per wail. All characters in the area of effect hear the wail, and a small percentage of hearers take 4 HP of damage. XP reward for wailing is 0-15 XP per wail depending on damage caused, averaging 8 XP in crowded locations.
**** '''Possession''' - Be able to possess the bodies of the living, Allowing you to force you to make them Write or Say something. Speaking costs 3AP, Writing costs 4AP (may be variable, untested)
***** '''Forceful possession''' - Sometimes a stronger presence is needed to be able to possess the living, Allows you to force the person to attack people near them. Costs 6AP (may be variable, untested)

* '''Exploration''' - Helps you remember some of the places you've been Enables the "Map" button, which gives you a large-scale map of places you've visited while alive and haven't forgotten.
** '''Cartography''' - Stops you forgetting anywhere you've visited Note that map information is rarely forgotten and that meta-gamers can use the [http://mattandchristy.net/sharmap/ Shartak overlay].
** '''Trekking''' - Faster movement through the jungle Makes movement through grassland, beach, and [[Jungle|d1-d6]] jungle terrain cost 0.5 AP instead of 1.
*** '''Trailblazing''' - Increased ability to move and chop through dense jungle ''('''explorers and scouts only''')'' Makes jungle chops and movement through [[Jungle|d7-d9]] jungle terrain cost 0.5 AP instead of 1.
** '''Swimming''' - Faster movement through water Makes movement through water cost 1 AP instead of 2; deep water costs 2 AP to move through instead of 3.

* '''Basic tracking''' - With some difficulty, you can track animals and people. ''(2 AP; e.g., "wild boar went south")'' See [[Tracking]] for more information.
** '''Advanced tracking''' - You can track animals and people who were here recently. ''(1.5 AP; often gives 3-6 most recent tracks)''
*** '''Expert tracking''' - You can track animals and people who were here several days ago. ''(1 AP?)''
**** '''Tracking mastery''' - Tracking animals and people is nearly effortless.

* '''Clan leadership''' - Allows you to start your own clan or help lead one. Unavailable to players below level 5.

* '''Sixth sense''' - Sense presence of and hear spirits
** '''Psychic recognition''' - Lets you recognise active spirits
*** '''Seance''' - Holding a seance can identify passive spirits ''('''settlers, shamans and villagers only, 5AP?''')''
*** '''Exorcism''' - Exorcise spirits from areas (shamans only)

* '''Haggling''' - Be able to obtain slightly better prices from some traders

*'''Digging''' -Be able to dig deep holes.

* '''Native knowledge''' - Outsiders gain basic native knowledge ''('''outsiders only''')'' Allows outsiders to use and recognize items such as blowpipes (and poison darts) and healing herbs (which normal outsiders see as "dried herbs") and to tell the difference between tasty and poison berries (which normal outsiders can only do by eating them).

* '''Outsider knowledge''' - Natives gain basic outsider knowledge ''('''natives only''')'' Allows natives to use and recognize items such as rifles (and bullets), first aid kits, and GPS units.

* '''Triage''' - Be able to tell who is most injured Shows the hit point total of the wounded character who currently has the fewest hit points (not necessarily the most damaged character).
** '''Natural medicine''' - Heal 10 HP with healing herbs ''('''natives only''')''
** '''First aid''' - Heal 10 HP with first-aid kit ''('''outsiders only''')''

== Settler and villager skills ==
* '''Animal affinity''' - Lessens the chance of animals attacking ''('''settlers and villagers only''')''
* '''Scavenging''' - Assists in finding things within certain areas ''('''settlers and villagers only''')'' Improves [[search odds]] by an unknown amount in certain (unknown) areas.

== Soldier skills ==

* '''Firearms training''' - Gain 20% on firearms attacks ''(20% to 40%; '''soldiers only''')''
** '''Advanced firearms training''' - Gain 20% on firearms attacks ''(40% to 60%; '''soldiers only''')''

== Warrior skills ==

* '''Blowpipe training''' - Gain 20% on blowpipe accuracy ''(20% to 40%; '''warriors only''')''
** '''Advanced blowpipe training''' - Gain another 20% on blowpipe accuracy ''(40% to 60%; '''warriors only''')''

== Scientist skills ==

*'''Advanced triage''' - be able to see all injured characters in the same square
*'''Emergency first aid''' - Slowly heal yourself without the use of a medical kit.

== Skill Progression Table ==

{| border="1"
! Level !! Starting XP !! XP Required to Advance
|-
| 0 || 0 || 100
|-
| 1 || 100 || 125
|-
| 2 || 225 || 150
|-
| 3 || 375 || 175
|-
| 4 || 550 || 200
|-
| 5 || 750 || 225
|-
| 6 || 975 || 250
|-
| 7 || 1225 || 275
|-
| 8 || 1500 || 300
|-
| 9 || 1800 || 325
|-
| 10 || 2125 || 350
|-
| 11 || 2475 || 375
|-
| 12 || 2850 || 400
|-
| 13 || 3250 || 425
|-
| 14 || 3675 || 450
|-
| 15 || 4125 || 475
|-
| 16 || 4600 || 500
|-
| 17 || 5100 || 525
|-
| 18 || 5625 || 550
|-
| 19 || 6175 || 575
|-
| 20 || 6750 || 600
|-
| 21 || 7350 || 625
|-
| 22 || 7975 || 650
|-
| 23 || 8625 || 675
|-
| 24 || 9300 || 700
|-
| 25 || 10000 || 725
|-
| 26 || 10725 || 750
|-
| 27 || 11475 || 775
|-
| 28 || 12250 || 800
|-
| 29 || 13050 || 825
|-
| 30 || 13875 || 1000
|-
| 31 || 14875 || 1200
|-
| 32 || 16075 || 1400
|-
| 33 || 17475 || 1600
|-
| 34 || 19075 || 1800
|-
| 35 || 20875 || 2000
|}

[[Category:Glossary]]

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