Skill ideas

Some ideas for skills. Still learning about the hero system but seems smiliar to gurps. So please bare with me.

Surveying - Allows a player to use tools and his own knowledge in geology to find minerals and material for extraction. This skill can be used in a mech however is limited to general location and can not be pinpointed as one is in a mech and not on foot.

Survey tools can be used both in vehicles and on foot. The tool will give a general direction and distance. The distance a player can detect minerals is based on the quality of the tool. From 1000m to 3000m for example. The direction, also based on tool quality, is measured in an arc from the person's facing. From 45 to 90 degrees. The higher the skill, the more precise the direction and distance.

Once the general location is discovered the player can opt, if on foot, to use the survey skill again without the tools. This is using knowledge in geology and formations to find a more precise location. The location will be within 100m of the player. Once this is done a waypoint or marker will appear pinpointing a very good spot. Extraction as this point will give a better chance at higher rated material, more material per attempt, or even the possibility of extremely rare material or odd loot.

EXAMPLE: Player Leetsauce surveys for steel. The rating of the steel at this point is 75 out of 100 in quality. He finds an area 2,350 meters away. After arriving he can then extract the steel. Hoever if choses to he can opt to search for a more precise spot. (Something should be used up to do this. Like Mind in SWG) He is lucky and finds a spot that is 33 meters NW of his position.

Extraction - This skill allows the removal of minerals and other materials from the ground with the use of tools. This skill also be used in mechs if the mech is equipped with mining extraction equipment and a storage container. Both would take up space.

The higher skill a player has the more success he has at pulling minerals from the ground. Tool quality determines the amount he can pull out with each attempt. From 10 units to 30 units per attempt. Also different tools are required to pull out difefrent material. Extracting water would take a different tool from extract raw copper.

EXAMPLE: Leetsauce, having found his area decides to do a straight extraction. Because he was successful at finding the Steel at 75 out of 100 quality rating he can mine this all day long and just get Steel 75 at 22 units per successful attempt because of tool quality. Also had he been in a mech he would get Steel 75 all day. Because his skill is low his success rate is about 1 in 3 attempts.

However had he tried to pinpoint the best spot then move to it he finds he is getting Steel 80 and a few times picks up old salvage, bits of wire etc that can be refined down or even used in crafting. He also turns up a rare mineral that can be used to increase the effiency of bio-mechanics a small margin.

Camping - A player with this skill can make and construct short term camps. These camps have no appreciable value except as a place to rest and socialize. However if PVP is open or flagged the camps would be attackable. Materials to craft these camps would be metal and cloth.

Trapping - This skill allows one to traps small animals for food. While the planet is barren is can still support small life forms so its not a huge stretch to imagine small rodents and the like foraging around. The success or failure is whether or not the player catches anything. Each trap has to be crafted and has a number of uses depending on quality before it is useless. A player can drop up 4 to 10 traps (depending on skill) at a time and each trap lasts an hour. If the player doesnt get back to the trap in time he loses it and anything he might have caught.

When laid a trap looks like a small cage. The cage is dull colored when empty. If something is in the cage it glows faintly to alert the player. Once something is caught the player can then put the trap back in his inventory where he can then extract from it either raw ingrediants for cooking or a food item. A small chance exists that the player gets a good specimen that can be used in genetics or used to create food that gives a small buff.

More ideas to come later. Thinking about how to do smuggling and other things.
Will