Report 268

Report #268
Skillset: Discipline Skill: Selfishness
 Org: Nihilists Status: Completed Oct 2009
Furies' Decision:
Solution 1
Problem: Just adding a new aspect to the skill that I think has merit, making it
so that you cannot be dominated to empty vials while selfishness is active. This
is generally a cheap tactic that is used by only a few but would like to
eliminate it.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #1: Make it so that while selfishness is up you receive a
 message while trying to empty vials that says, 'You
 feel too miserly to discard of such precious
 liquids.' Clearly not that line exactly, but open to
 suggestions that sound funnier.
Player Comments:
---[Nienla on 9/28 @ 02:16 writes]:
Sounds fine. Agree.
---[Llandros on 9/28 @ 02:55 writes]:
On behalf of a guild with a passive dominate, I agree with this.
---[Akui on 9/28 @ 03:57 writes]:
Yes, down with excessively obnoxious dominate tactics. Throw in a block on
dominating vitae sipping too, while we're at it.
---[Akui on 10/1 @ 01:46 writes]:
I was asked, in fairness, to point out that only one vial can be forced to be
emptied or put away at a time, which limits the tactic measurably.
---[Romero on 10/1 @ 22:50 writes]:
Being kind enough to give a comment to said person who uses this tactic, I am
saying that as with someone active dominate I can force you to empty vials every
4 seconds or so, meaning if you have 10 phlegmatics (who does), you will be
unable to cure aeon after only 40 seconds of my forcing empty. Most people carry
around 3 or 4 which means 12-16 seconds. Could be worse and dominate you to
empty antidotes or allheales and then cromatine you, or other equally lame
tactics. And if the person really feels the need to use this skill, they could
always force selfishness off, or use it on novices without selfishness if they
need to go that far for a kill.
---[Xenthos on 10/1 @ 23:45 writes]:
Sounds like a good change.
---[Akui on 10/2 @ 01:54 writes]:
I just prefer we act with complete information, which is why I added that
comment. Personally, I don't feel the report goes far enough. This sort of
tactic, the ones Romero mentioned, and things like forced vitae sip (goodbye 10
power!) are pretty put-offish towards combat in general.
---[Romero on 10/2 @ 09:38 writes]:
I am told that order sip vitae will not drain power if you already have vitae
up.
---[Akui on 10/2 @ 14:22 writes]:
Which doesn't make it any less of an obnoxious tactic.
---[Lendren on 10/2 @ 20:23 writes]:
It makes sense to me, selfishness being what it is. Pouring from one container
to another should probably not be stopped by selfishness, though.
---[Ceren on 10/15 @ 14:49 writes]:
Agree that selfishness should stop emptying
---[Meir on 10/17 @ 06:50 writes]:
Seem good to me.
---[Zynna on 10/20 @ 02:26 writes]:
Seems fine to me.
---[Krellan on 10/27 @ 08:03 writes]:
Agree