Voicechat Notes - 27 August

[Zombilicious]

SHIELD BASH --
- It is intended to be able to do it without balance. It's not graceful.
- Rias is still considering taking out eyes as a target.
-- 1-shot eye deaths is crazy.

Halloween Candy in stores; when is Octum?
- Octum is in Octum.

What other major Republic populations are there beyond Porto?
- The answer is there's not really a specific answer. He rambled last week about it.
-- They're not big and established, they're more ragtag and trying to get more people to join them.
-- Right now, coastal villages and stuff.
- What stops the Dominion from just taking over?
-- They're busy. They have issues going on in the Dominion itself and stuff.
-- Republic is not a real foe in their eyes.
- Porto is their main area/capital.

Are there port areas that are big port areas?
- Huecatn port cities to the north, but they're far away.
- There are other settlements because ports are awesome, but Rias doesn't have other comments.
- None are super snowy, but it can get cold in Porto.

Is there a coded point for any skills to be over 400?
- Some of them, yes. Others, not as much.
-- Combat rolls and crafting stuff?

When it comes to tracking: the higher you get, the more tracks you can track separately.
- The higher you get that skill, can it increase how long we can find those tracks?
-- Rias hasn't looked at it in a while, he had to look at the code.
-- Falor thought they found someone, but only had a rough idea of how old old tracks are.

Pronounciation of Huecatn: "Weck-han". Tatlhuecatn: "Tal-weck-han".

Spate of Marauder abilities?
- Cheat shot, improvised weapons to 11.
-- It'd be fun to have marauders solidify more.
- Ability negating, maybe.

Artisans when?

How's Not-Shardgard coming?
- Hasn't been worked on, because abilities, dammit.

Is the fact that certain mount commands ignore player RT intended, or not?
- Charge/kick. Charge shouldn't, kick maybe.
-- Kaiju vehemently declared it was gross and demanded it effect RT.
-- It causes knockdown too often.
- Ideas: make passive kick go off a lot less, because it goes off too much.
- Rias says kick will get nerfed eventually, with things to ensure people don't feel sour over mounts they bought.

Whispering Door? (Wait and see.)

Metal armor when?
- When it happens.
- What is Rias' thoughts on metal armor?
-- Rias likes metal armor. He thinks it's cool. He just needs to add it.
-- He's not resisting adding it, he's just not gotten to it yet.

Bronze metals: there are things you can't work by hammer, but there are things that can be cast?
- If casting, is it OK to cast it instead of hammer it? Is it kosher? Is it acceptable?
-- You shouldn't be able to cast things that aren't hammerable anyways.
-- If you have a mold, it's acceptable to cast bronze in it.
- Why no bronze arrow heads or bolt heads?
-- Rias might have overlooked them.

Will there be penalties for magic use + armor blending?
- Like channel dropping?
-- That's already a thing.

Are there any actions outside of stealth that create risk?
- Probably.

Beserker Stealth: I thought there was a penalty to ambushing stealth stuff?
- Rias: "You should be able to jump out and shout 'bluh' and surprise them, but effectiveness beyond that..."

[Rias]

Correction on metalcasting: You can metalcast things you can't hammer from that metal. It's intended to be able to, say, have someone hammer you out an iron short blade, make a mold of it, and then metalcast a bronze short blade even though bronze short blades can't be made by hammering. There are some items types that shouldn't be metalcastable though, like long blades.