Report 1036

Report #1036
Skillset: Brewmeister Skill: None
 Org: Cacophony Status: Completed Feb 2013
Furies' Decision:
Solution 3.
Problem: Since Dwarven Brewmeister can't change trades without being severely
gimped (10 cha bards = not cute) and can no longer, like everyone else, benefit
from combat related trade items from inactive trade skills, I think a small
change to make their trans ability a little more accessible and less of a pain
to use is warranted.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #1: For Dwarves with trans brewmeister, a new ability -
 beer blast/beer bong/keg stand or whatever. It would
 function like tea ceremony but with beer and just for
 the one doing it. Pale = white, Amber = green, Dark =
 Black (Dwarves scoff at the pansy affs that oolong
 protects against and skip that one, or if they don't
 absinthe = oolong). The cost and duration would be
 the same as a full tea ceremony.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #2: Reduce the number of people needed for a tea ceremony
 when lead by a Dwarf. You know there ain't a dwarf in
 the history of ever who carried around enough
 matching unbroken china for 10 people anyway.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #3: Allow artisans to make a comm heavy tea set, to be
 carried and not a room fixture, to reduce the number
 of people needed for a tea ceremony. Could work the
 description of the tea set into the ceremony message.
Player Comments:
---[Celina on 2/5 @ 17:02 writes]:
Opposed. Enormous dmp unparalleled within the gme is reason enough.
---[Enyalida on 2/5 @ 17:33 writes]:
I just don't think this makes much sense. You're asking to be able to do a
TeaCeremony... with beer? Why not ask for a different trans skill entirely?
---[Llandros on 2/6 @ 22:47 writes]:
Ivyys really just more of a convenience change so that they can get something
out of the trans trade ability they are locked into. Being able to more readily
make use of this existing skill is unlikely to cause balance issues. Adding in a
fair amount of inebriation will prevent rapidly changing resistances. Open to
ideas for something new but any change would impact 6 different guilds and even
thinking about that kind of scope makes my head hurt.
---[Ushaara on 2/7 @ 13:11 writes]:
Why not just reduce the number of people required for a tea ceremony?
---[Llandros on 2/8 @ 16:37 writes]:
Added in a couple solutions in the just reduce the number of people needed, one
for just Dwarves and then one in general.
---[Tacita on 2/12 @ 13:48 writes]:
Solution 2 or 3 with a preference for 3.
---[Tandrin on 2/14 @ 13:53 writes]:
Support Solution 2 or 3.
---[Shuyin on 2/17 @ 20:54 writes]:
Any solution is fine
---[Steingrim on 2/23 @ 09:08 writes]:
I would not mind seeing teaceremony and herofete take fewer people for any race.
I just do not see this tweak as fixing a problem. If the bonuses for dwarven
bards are not enough those bonuses should be adjusted, if they are enough, then
I do not see a problem. I do not see playing with a few numbers for tea ceremony
as actually addressing a racial imbalance. You point seems to be that bringing
race into trades created this problem, it seems to me that making non-dwarves
second-class tea-ceremony masters makes the problem of race worse and not
better. I suppose if the duration could be more for dwarves, but if the problem
is with dwarven bards, why buff all dwarves?
---[Llandros on 2/24 @ 18:41 writes]:
This report is concerning the issues surrounding a trade based spec race and the
recent change to limit the benefits from inactive trades. Since dwarven bards
are locked into their trade, allowing them to make the most of said trade would
go a long way to address the lack of flexibility. It has nothing to do with
cooking or the balancing nightmare of tweaking the spec race that spans 6 guilds
beyond giving them greater access to something they already have.