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[Cory Trese]

50,000 downloads! woooooot

[moody]

Nice work, next stop 100k I'm trying to spread the word as much as possible, as I'm sure everyone else is.

[skwerly]

I look forward to seeing what you all will create for the psyonic powers to balance them with the chromed gods of the street.

[moof]

Jul 24, 2011 18:25:49 GMT -5 skwerly said:

I look forward to seeing what you all will create for the psyonic powers to balance them with the chromed gods of the street.

my 25 dex would like to have a word with you!

[Cory Trese]

oh boy you're going to be miffed when we cap that at like 12 =)

[monkeyrogue]

12?! Oh come on. If we earn the xp, let us spend it....we like doing crazy nutjob stuff like that. Besides won't we reach the end of storyline by 12?

[Cory Trese]

monkeyrogue -- well I was speaking in particular about attributes. Non-cyber attributes will have to have a upper limit and the current plan is to limit them somewhere between 12 and 16 for human maximum.

I really like 12 because the final skill break occurs around 36 but I could be maybe see 14 and 42 as well. All good numerical values.

Neurotic numerical alignment aside, limiting attributes simply puts a finite curve on XP cost for skills and defines a set value for cyberware that adds / stacks attribute bonuses.

If there is no "maximum normal human" then we can not have "super humans." Skills are one thing to be unlimited (and even then, specialization will drive a certain type of self limiting behavior ...) but attributes need to have a upper limit.

[monkeyrogue]

Ah. Good points. I enjoy my superhuman guy atm. Lol

[Cory Trese]

but i'm very aware that we want an unlimited sink for XP so that you can advance a favorite character to ridiculous levels. like, 120 year old cyber logician with only scraps of human flesh wrapped around a tactical computer control whirlwind of doom.

the sum goal of all my SR3 games =)

[monkeyrogue]

+1 for being on my page.

[spectre]

I like the possibilities of going towards an SR style but still you're own. One way that you could arrange that is "body modification" bioware. Sort of the like a cyber version of this guy:
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1052934/Cat-Man--human-tiger-enjoys-climbing-trees-eats-raw-meat-day.html

...except instead of a tiger man, he could be "Troll the retired Cyber Knight"


Also, will we be seeing any HAL9000 AIs as NPCs? A cyber knight world
seems like the perfect place for it...

[moody]

Or go the route of The Major from Ghost in The Shell.

[thetxlibra]

Cyberswords should get the ability to attack as many adjacent enemies as you have AP for: If I understand the concept correctly, a Cybersword is supposed to be wicked fast with melee weapons and able to deal out massive damage with them. However, taking a knife to a gunfight only works in the movies because the guy can slash through three opponents in one swipe. So if I have enemies on 3 sides of me, and take out the first guy with one punch, and have AP left over, I should get to take an attack on the 2nd guy.

[Cory Trese]

One of my CyberSwords has 19AP, he can definitely hit 3 or 4 opponents in a row, assuming those opponents are slower than him. There is more we can do to improve the round sequencing, but at this point "multiple attacks" will be vs. a single target (combos) instead of against a sequence of targets.

as we advance the set of weapons, we'll be adding area effect attack which will change up some of the concepts around how many targets per attack.

[moody]

As it currently stands, you use the remaining AP to help you dodge / evade any subsequent follow up attacks from your foes, so you don't really lose out too much.