Report 1180

Report #1180
Skillset: Arts Skill: Statues
 Org: Ebonguard Status: Completed Sept 2013
Furies' Decision:
We will reduce the time required to remove unenchanted statues.
Problem: Statues can be constructed immediately, but take quite some time to
take down. 5 minutes of time can lead to populating an entire village (or city,
or other similar area with roads) with statues of something completely
antithetical to the organization that controls or owns that (for example,
putting up statues of Dame Maeve in Serenwilde villages or statues of the
Supernals in Magnagora). To clean it up, many hours must be spent to tear them
down. The time for "putting up" statues is pretty much entirely in the
enchantment end of things instead- but statues are often used more as a tool for
sending messages (at which point enchanting them isn't even necessary).
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #1: Halve the time to enchant a statue. Put that time on
 a channeled action to construct a statue instead.
Player Comments:
---[Xenthos on 8/24 @ 18:13 writes]:
The overall time to set up an enchanted statue will remain the same, and it will
still be faster to raise a statue than to destroy it- but the overall disparity
will be greatly reduced. Note that a chisel would still reduce the times on
both construction & enchantment.
---[Viynain on 8/24 @ 19:20 writes]:
Sounds neat. As long as the chisel retains its bonus to halve the time of statue
enchantment/destruction and adds on statue building too, it looks good.
---[Vivet on 8/25 @ 02:47 writes]:
Supported.
---[Shuyin on 8/29 @ 21:27 writes]:
Sure
---[Kio on 8/30 @ 14:03 writes]:
Yes please.
---[Talan on 9/2 @ 16:45 writes]:
Supported
---[Akyaevin on 9/4 @ 02:32 writes]:
Supported, although I suggest that the statue's model doesn't need to stay in
the room (the first message can be something like "You fix X's appearance in
your mind", then the target can leave while you finish crafting).
---[Xenthos on 9/4 @ 21:31 writes]:
While that's fine... who uses models for statues? Sketches all the way. (This
might even make sketches and sketch seals more desireable, in fact)
---[Ioni on 9/5 @ 02:42 writes]:
Supported.