The Scent/Leanto Issue
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 3:39 amCurrently if you pickup a summonable scent, it will last for an unlimited amount of time. The scent on the ground expires, but the scent you picked up will last in your bag until the end of time. This is broken as ***** imo.
Say the game has been out for 3 years and 2 weeks. 2 weeks into the game, I left a theft scent at a friend's base trying to trade with him and that scent was collected by a raider at the time. For the next 3 years, I never leave a scent. If I am raided by the scent holder, I will be summoned and killed. This makes zero sense to me. The second a scent is picked up in the game world that is tied to your character, that character is essentially doomed for all of eternity. Why build stats? Why progress? Your character is a dead man walking anyways.
2nd issue following this. Leanto decay.
If your leanto is not on a claim (though it is CLAIMED by you) it will decay. After a while, the leanto will simply break. This means that someone with a scent from 3 years ago can insta summon you and insta kill your character even if you haven't left a scent in that 3 year span. This means that I have tethered to my character forever also. I will always need to repair my leanto, or I will die. If I make a p claim, I can be memorized/identified and summoned also. Or if the p claim loses auth and someone breaks it, again, insta death. If I go the p claim over my leanto route, I'm still tethered to the game because I need to keep the upkeep steady. There's no "taking a break from the game" because once you do you're essentially surrending your character's body to the Oddgod.
Please make it so that when scents expire on the ground they also expire in their inventory.
Say the game has been out for 3 years and 2 weeks. 2 weeks into the game, I left a theft scent at a friend's base trying to trade with him and that scent was collected by a raider at the time. For the next 3 years, I never leave a scent. If I am raided by the scent holder, I will be summoned and killed. This makes zero sense to me. The second a scent is picked up in the game world that is tied to your character, that character is essentially doomed for all of eternity. Why build stats? Why progress? Your character is a dead man walking anyways.
2nd issue following this. Leanto decay.
If your leanto is not on a claim (though it is CLAIMED by you) it will decay. After a while, the leanto will simply break. This means that someone with a scent from 3 years ago can insta summon you and insta kill your character even if you haven't left a scent in that 3 year span. This means that I have tethered to my character forever also. I will always need to repair my leanto, or I will die. If I make a p claim, I can be memorized/identified and summoned also. Or if the p claim loses auth and someone breaks it, again, insta death. If I go the p claim over my leanto route, I'm still tethered to the game because I need to keep the upkeep steady. There's no "taking a break from the game" because once you do you're essentially surrending your character's body to the Oddgod.
Please make it so that when scents expire on the ground they also expire in their inventory.
. Who knew you were the guy at the party to let the victim in on the joke 