Report 1134

Report #1134
Skillset: Harmonics Skill: Ruby
 Org: Institute Status: Completed Jun 2013
Furies' Decision:
Solution 3 (incl solution 1, excl gust).
Problem: Harmonics rubies are an important aspect of developing shatterplex,
which is necessary for timequake kills. Rubies are removed primarily by running
back and forth between rooms when you are able to escape and hoping to hit the %
chance to make them explode. The only other method is kether, which requires
multiple attempts, making it undesirable. Kether also takes 4 seconds of
equilibrium, while spinning a ruby on someone takes 3 seconds. Notably, rubies
will also remain orbiting a target even after the Researcher who set them dies,
whereas all other common crystals in the crystalplex will die with the
Researcher. The nature of the "run cure" is also skewed against groups, since
you generally want to stay with your group, while also making it extremely easy
for players with high room movement rates to remove them 1v1 simply by moving
about rapidly. I believe we should attempt to make rubies more feasible to deal
with, specifically without leaving the fight, and shift the movement explosion
to take more of a back seat.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #1: Make kether remove a ruby in a single hit. Allow for
 a 50% chance for two rubies to be removed.
 Alternatively (or additionally), allow gust to remove
 ruby in the same fashion as kether. In turn, adjust
 the ruby explosion on movement so that one ruby will
 explode every 10 seconds that the target is not in
 the same room as the researcher who spun it upon
 them. This timer will reset if the target and
 researcher wind up in the same room again.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #2: In addition to solution 1, adjust the standard ruby
 spin equilibrium time to be 4s, matching the time it
 takes to kether a ruby away.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #3: In addition to solution 1, make any targetted rubies
 drop with the rest of the common crystals in a
 researcher's crystalplex when they die.
Player Comments:
---[Vivet on 5/26 @ 05:51 writes]:
Solution 1 was expanded on a bit after some private discussion. The problem has
also been expanded for clarity.
---[Dynami on 6/1 @ 17:48 writes]:
All solutions supported.
---[Xenthos on 6/3 @ 00:38 writes]:
I kind of like all solutions done together- if the researcher dies, make them
stop working. Then also implement solution 2. Won't be able to try to quickly
reduce with a lot of movement spam any more, but in exchange you make it easier
to deal with them without the running.
---[Shuyin on 6/5 @ 02:15 writes]:
All 3 together
---[Wobou on 6/6 @ 05:24 writes]:
All solutions supported.
---[Nihta on 6/11 @ 03:43 writes]:
I support all three solutions together.
---[Ushaara on 6/19 @ 13:40 writes]:
Supported.
---[Kregarn on 6/21 @ 12:51 writes]:
All three sounds like a great solution.
---[Llandros on 6/28 @ 21:01 writes]:
Support all three
---[Enyalida on 6/30 @ 17:55 writes]:
Supported