Report 199

Report #199
Skillset: Crow Skill: Scavenger
 Org: Ebonguard Status: Rejected Jun 2009
Furies' Decision:
Working on a creative solution to expand carrion reserves. It won't be carrying
around corpses which is trivial, however.
Problem: Crow is highly reliant on stored carrion, and there is a hard cap on
it. This cap was recently raised, but it does not help much with the underlying
problem-- that the only way to refresh it is to get to your nest. For the
normal warrior, finding trees on-demand isn't very reliable, so the only real
option is to stop what you are doing and return to the nest. There should be a
way to restore carrion slowly (at a much less efficient rate than using the
nest), aside from PC corpse-destruction.
Solution #1: Allow Crow users to eat NPC corpses. Eating an NPC corpse will
 give 1/2 to 1/3 its normal carrion supply (as you are not taking
 the time to actually use all the pieces), and this further
 destroys the corpse so that it cannot be offered / otherwise used.
Solution #2: As above, except make it so that an NPC corpse only gives 1
 carrion when eaten directly. Again, it would be far more
 efficient to use the nest, but there is an alternative.
Player Comments:
---[Nienla on 6/16 @ 02:22 writes]:
Solution #1 sounds best.
---[Alban on 6/17 @ 00:38 writes]:
This sounds like a great change, I would say 1/2 of it's normal carrion supply.
---[Ceren on 6/20 @ 01:58 writes]:
Either one. I've always felt carrion was too restrictive.
---[Viynain on 6/23 @ 06:27 writes]:
Go for it.
---[Krellan on 6/25 @ 03:14 writes]:
No need to even half or reduce the amount of carrion gained. Carrion is
extremely restrictive with a max capacity of 60 bits. There is still use to keep
carrion at the nest since dark rebirth uses it as well as maintenance
---[Krellan on 6/25 @ 03:15 writes]:
In addition, It would be great if the nest carrying capacity could be upped from
100 to say 200 or even higher. It poses no combat benefit. It makes nest upkeep
one less hastle. As the nest owner is the only one who can store carrion, if
someone needs to leave for even 3 days, the nest will go from 100 carrion to 0,
completely decaying.
---[Nienla on 6/25 @ 17:44 writes]:
I have to agree with Krellan here. Even if a boost to the carrion cap in the
nest is not increased, at least drastically decrease decay time for carrion
---[Alban on 6/29 @ 03:06 writes]:
I would agree with both of those changes as well, I don't see any reason for it
being so inconvenient.