Thread for Talent suggestions

[drspendlove]

Name: Demolish Cover
Type: Crew Combat (Attack)
Usable from ranges 1 (closest), 2, and 3
Requires: Rifle (Cannon/Rocket Launcher/Flamethrower, whatever you have in the works?)
Init Cost: 1.5x weapon cost
Hits targets in range 1 (closest), 2, and 3
Effect: Weapon Attack deals -75% Damage with +10% Penetration to all three targets. Applies debuff making grenade avoidance impossible, and -20% Dodge, for 2 turns

[fallen]

Apr 12, 2018 8:35:07 GMT -5 drspendlove said:

Talent: Forward Thrusters
Type: Ship Combat
Job: Pilot? Level: 11?
Usable from distance 5 only
Grants buff to self: +20 Range change, -50 Escape, +15% Defense, +20% Shielding, Lasts 4 turns
3 Week Cooldown

Analysis: Grants a significant net penalty to escaping, forcing you to double down on your combat strategy for a long time after it is used. Because it can only be used at range 5, it is likely most valuable at or near the start of battle. The range change bonus keeps your foe from simply escaping quite as easily while also permitting you to close the distance with greater success. The defense bonus tries to be somewhat competitive with other buffs such as Evasive Maneuvers. However, this talent isn't purely another "dodge all the attacks" talent. The shielding bonus is where it shines, granting a massive boost for a long time. This is to help you close to short distance without taking too much crew damage along the way.

Really loved this one, added to the game.

[fallen]

Jun 18, 2018 21:07:00 GMT -5 resistor said:

I'm going to suggest some talents that make fighting in low mass ships more viable.

Rank 8 Navigator Talent:

Speed Trick -- Buffs ship with (5 + Speed/2) Accuracy, (Speed/2) Range Change, +10% defense for 2 turns (ranges 4-5)

Rank 8 Pirate Talent:

Target Engines -- Each weapon shot has an Agility% chance to deal damage directly to the enemy reactor for 2 turns (range 1 only)

Rank 11 Gunner Talent:

Agile Obliteration -- Buffs ship with Agility% critical, +10% damage for 2 turns (ranges 1-3)

These are great and am looking into how we can create this type of agility / speed based effect.

[drspendlove]

Name: Flashbang
Type: Crew Combat (grenade)
Job: (Unreleased?)
Usable from: front rank only
Initiative Cost: 16
Effect: Attempts to impact front two targets with debuff of 50% Stun, -50% All Accuracy, -50% Parry for 1 turn. +10% Accuracy to this attack.

Analysis: Another grenade-based attack. This one is pure debuff -- no morale/hp damage. It also lasts an extremely short time, making it only useful if you're close to the first crew member to act. The debuff it imparts shuts down attackers by severely dropping their accuracy to pitiful levels while causing them to miss half of their actions and be vulnerable to any followup sword strikes. Because this is such a short term effect and still costs the usual 16 initiative, I propose an accuracy bonus to this attack to make it a little more worthwhile.

[Marilyn Monrobot]

This thread is awesome.

False Flag, Spy 15, encounter talent - sacrifice a stack of Intel records to recalculate hostility as if you were a member of (sacrificed stack's) faction with (sacrificed stack's size) rep.

Black Ops (could use a better name), Spy 11? Smuggler 15? - negotiate for an extra 15+(2xstealth)% profits on illegal mission payment. Doesn't stack with military rank or edict and doesn't work for legal missions.

I just want sabeteur and smuggling missions to be more profitable

[Marilyn Monrobot]

May 24, 2018 15:41:40 GMT -5 PyreFox said:

A set of talent ideas probably for bounty hunter, spy, and perhaps some future stealth melee class based around killing people who it would be perfect for?

On crew combat victory: The crewmember sneaky sneks through the enemy ship, dealing significant damage to an enemy officer (including the captain). The crewmember has a chance of taking damage as well. Or is guaranteed to take some.

In ship combat: Execute a boarding attempt which draws out an enemy officer into the fight. Idea is Brutus's.

On encountering hostile ship: Give up a set of intel records in your possession in order to bribe/blackmail the enemy ship into reducing its hostility. Perhaps more effective if the records relate to the ship's faction, or perhaps it's a requirement.

Just realized you already suggested the first one. Great idea! lol

[drspendlove]

Defensive Preparations

When your ship is boarded by the enemy, your combat team starts with a buff for the first round. The buff grants +15% Dodge, +15% Parry, +15% Armor to the entire group.

9 Week Cooldown

[aj]

The Imperial Ace Pack
These are a pack of talents to help expand officer/captain choice selection. Some officers benefit greatly from stacking certain skills (intimidate, negotation, electronics, etc). The general aim of this group is to make an officer who excels in piloting valuable.  Stacking Death's Dance with Incite Victory will give experienced crews with an ace pilot an easier way to disable a ship or gain an edge in close ranges.  Maniacal Approach will give extra boarding talents to pirate crews so they can board more often in radiation gun ranges.  Angled fire gives more options to captains on how they build their ship to survive an engagement.

Ship Combat
Name: Angled Fire
Rank: 11
Job: Pirate or Pilot
Range: 4-5

The pilot manuevers the ship to take incoming fire at better defensive angles, reducing penetration and increasing glancing blows. Lasts 3 turns.
+(1/2 Piloting) Void resist
+(1/2 Piloting) Radiation resist
+%(1/2 Piloting) Armor
+%(1/2 Piloting) Shield
-5% Defense


Name: Maniacal Approach
Rank: 5
Job: Pirate
Ship Combat, Ranges 1-3

Erratic angles and excellent approach boosts launch speeds and defenses of boarding shuttles. Launch a boarding attempt against enemy ship.


Name: Death's Dance
Rank: 11
Job: Pilot
Ship Combat Range 1-2

Perfect and bold piloting reduces enemy fire and provides small windows of fire on critical enemy systems.  Lasts 3 turns.
-25% damage
-25 escape (possibly not needed, but showing that the pilot is essentially hugging the opposing ship)
+%(1/2 Piloting) Crit
+%(1/2 Piloting) Defense
+%(1/2 Piloting) Boarding
+(1/2 Piloting) Range Change


Card Games
Name: Hunting Grounds
Rank: 8
Job: Pirate

During blockade of a system, increase reward by 10% + Piloting skill.


Victory
Name: Pirate's Life
Rank: 8
Job: Pirate

Enforce looting laws and distribute loot to those who deserve it most.  Gain 5+Intimidate morale boost to 10 crew members.


Boarding
Name: Savage Boarding
Rank: 5
Job: Pirate

An experienced pirate knows how to cripple their foes and spread terror. Apply a mechanical debuff and terrorize the enemy crew with threats.  **If random debuff doesn't fit or make sense it can be replaced with the normal effect from Sabotage (1 component takes dmg).
Applies 1 random ship debuff (engine debuff, hull vent, etc)  OR 1 random ship component takes 30-80% damage
Terrorize crew (+25 morale damage a turn, 3 turns)

[drspendlove]

I like the Pirate's Life talent here. I would put the word "deserve" in quotes though.

[fallen]

aj - wow, great list! I like the extra crew build options it would inject.

Play pirates much?

[drspendlove]

Name: Closer Look
Type: Exploration Card Game

Upgrades a +1 or +2 card to a +3 or +4 card (with a small chance of even better rewards)
3 Week Cooldown

(Similar talents could exist for the other minigames.

[drspendlove]

Name: Spice Savior
Type: Exchange Bonus

When making a profitable sale of Raw, Narcotic, or Refined spice to a world with a Spice rating of 4 or lower, gain (15 + Negotiate)% in profits and up to 8 Reputation with the resident faction.

(6 Week Cooldown)

(Sales of any size trigger this, but as it has a cooldown, it wouldn't be best to sell a single unit at a time.)

[drspendlove]

Name: Heroic Fame
Type: Landing Bonus (competes with repair-on-land talents, not 1 fuel landing cost talents)

When landing on a planet with a population of at least X and with at least 100 reputation with the resident faction, gain up to Command / 2 Reputation.

(20 Week Cooldown)

The long cooldown prevents heavy (ab-)use of this. It shines as another reason to have high Command but doesn't impact reputation when it matters most, closer to 0. Instead this is a way to get slightly better deals with contacts over time, especially those that highly factor in faction reputation into their effective calculation.

[fallen]

Jul 12, 2018 10:53:22 GMT -5 drspendlove said:

Name: Spice Savior
Type: Exchange Bonus

When making a profitable sale of Raw, Narcotic, or Refined spice to a world with a Spice rating of 4 or lower, gain (15 + Negotiate)% in profits and up to 8 Reputation with the resident faction.

(6 Week Cooldown)

(Sales of any size trigger this, but as it has a cooldown, it wouldn't be best to sell a single unit at a time.)

Interesting concept, to have a Talent that specifically boosts one type of resource sale. I think, you picked the right one. "Spice Runner" I can see it as a Smuggler Talent.

[athios]

There could be many parallels as well.

e.g. Weapons smuggler - supplying weapons or weapon components to low Security worlds
e.g. Anarchist/Viva Le Revolution - supplying explosives or weapons through Black Market to high Gov, high Law worlds
e.g. some Doctor talent - supplying advanced meds or prosthetics to ??