Mechanics - Character & Perks

## General

A **player character** , also known in this game as **You**, **Character** or **Survivor**, is a ***fictional*** character in Card Survival: Tropical Island. It acts in a card, survival, and "role-playing" game, whose actions are primarily controlled by the player, mainly using cards, rather than the normal rules of the game.

There are currently 5 official pre-made characters. There is also 1 temporarily removed character. All characters need to be purchased using **Suns** and **Moons**.

There are two default player skins are male and female versions of normal person, which both are intended to be generic representations of a person, although the character's portrait can be changed. The player can change the name of the Character while in the Character Creation, but not in-game.

## Real Life Similarities

A player character may sometimes be based on a real person, especially in this game, where they represents the abilities and likenesses of real survivors. Being them also called as "classes", they may sometimes appear as real persons too, particularly in having specialized skills, such as Crafting, Cooking or Fishing. Such a player character is more properly an avatar, as the player character's name and image typically might have little bearing on the game itself.

The characters that are controlled by the player are normally called **playable character** or just **PC**. The actions of the player are typically handled by the game itself, or according to the rules followed by doing a game tutorial refereeing all the mechanics of the game. Resuming, the player character functions as a fictional, alternate body for the player controlling the character.

## Creating Your Character

The Character Creator, where all the unique and customized characters come from, and it's simple: when starting a game, you'll be given the option to create a new character or to pick from the existing ones.

If you want to create a new character, it has the following sections:

- **Name**: Self-explanatory

- **Description**: Used for immersion or roleplaying purposes, if you are feeling really inspired.

- **Portrait**: Here's where you can pick a face for your character. There are male and female faces, depending on your real gender (or maybe for you that doesn't even matter at all). You can also upload your own files to the game, and use them as a face, if you're feeling fancy.

- **Perks**: This is the most important section of the Character Creator. Here, you can pick from a selection of perks, each giving you certain advantages or disadvantages that will affect the difficulty rating of your character. Perks start locked, but you can unlock them by playing the game, gaining Suns and Moons. They can give you anything, for example: a parachute that makes you start the game in a different location than usual, a different set of unique starting equipment, some traits that can help or hinder you, or wounds, if you're feeling way that stupid (*just kidding!*). Needless to say though, there are bunch of perks and planned of more even more perks with new updates.

- **Difficulty Rating**: Each character has a set difficulty rating. Mostly so that you can see how challenging the experience is going to be with the perks you selected. The difficulty point can be either positive or negative, depending on the perk you've chose. The difficulty rating needs to be balanced, as it might still not reflect well the actual difficulty of the experience. In the end, it is heavily based by RNG on how difficult it goes)

## Select Your Character

While custom characters are possible, there is a selection of pre-made characters you can choose from. Each has a unique combination of perks and goals, which can also be used for custom characters. The only difference is this pre-made characters had unique goals and possibly able to create items that not accessible to custom characters. Currently, these are the pre-made characters:

* The Hunter
* The Farmer
* The Tourist
* The Mermaid

## List of Perks

Players can make their own custom character with variety of "perks" that either ease or increase challenges to the game. It is required to unlock them before adding them to the custom character.

### Conditions

* Super Survival Trunk 2000 - Starts with a large trunk containing Food and Water Rations, Flares, 2 Plastic, 2 Fishing Line, a First Aid Kit filled with medicine and Wound Dressing
* Life Raft - Starts with a Deflated Life Raft which it contains 2 Container Bag that acts as a portable storage similar to the Sack, it contains Food and Water Rations, Flares, 2 Plastic, Fishing Line and a First Aid Kit in the first bag and Safety Knife, Signaling Mirror and Flare in the other. Will start in the Beach or Bay and cannot stack with other non-coastal location-based Conditions or the Parachute, Plane Crash or Abandoned Farm conditions
* Obese - Start with extra more weight with speed penalty
* Overweight - Start with extra weight
* Underweight - Start with less weight
* Parachute - Starts with a Parachute in the starting location, can work in any Location-based condition or the Abandoned Farm. Cannot stack with Parachute or Plane Crash
* Plane Crash - Starts inside the Crashed Plane in the Wetlands.
* Abandoned Farm - Starts inside a wrecked Mud Hut in the Secret Valley
* Rain Start
* Night Start
* Extreme Rain
* Extreme Drought
* Leg Fracture
* Bleeding
* Killer Drones
* Macaque Curse
* Seahounds
* Alien Lifeform
* Pregnant
* Biome related starting location Condition - Allows the player to start in certain areas in the island as their starting point, which either adds or reduces difficulty.
	+ Bay
	+ Deep Jungle
	+ Desolate Beach
	+ Eastern Grasslands
	+ Eastern Highlands
	+ Jungle
	+ Jungle Highlands
	+ Mangroves
	+ Secret Valley
	+ Western Grasslands
	+ Western Highlands

### Trait

* Pale Skin
* Dark Skin
* Down to Earth -
* Short-sighted

### Background

* Initial Equipment - Picking this gives off with additional equipment that helps the player in game. If picked none, the player will start with a T-shirt, Shorts, Underwear, Socks and Sneakers
	+ Birthday Suit - Starts literally with nothing
	+ Islander - Starts with a Bottle Gourd, a Pouch that contains 4 Sago Flour, a seashell necklace, a leaf skirt and hand/foot callouses.
	+ Tourist - Starts with a Backpack that contains a Sun Screen, a Plastic Bottle with Water, Chocolate and Chicken Sandwich, a Hawaiian Shirt and Flipflops aside from the stock equipment.
	+ Survivalist - Starts with a Survival Backpack that contains a Canteen, a Military Knife, a Survival Axe, a Gas Cooker and a Packed Tent as well as Survival Hat, Military Boots and the stock equipment.
	+ Youtuber - Starts with Glasses, a Hoodie that contains a Phone and a Chocolate, along with the stock equipment
	+ Military - Starts with a Military Belt that contains a Survival Knife, Water Canteen and a Pistol with 16 ammo, Military Boots
* Skills - Picking this starts the player with a 50% filled skill bar.