Buff Vampirism?

Discussion in 'Suggestions' started by Sseyob, Dec 7, 2012.

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Agree? Disagree? Tell me!

  1. Yes.

    33.3%
  2. No.

    50.0%
  3. Other, please comment.

    38.9%
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  1. Essence

    Essence Will Mod for Digglebucks

    A mistake. There is no scaling on Psychic Vampire.
     
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  2. Wootah

    Wootah Member

    Thanks for that Post MusingOoze. There is so much diversity to this game, I wouldn't have thought to go for a dodging vampire. I had considered using Warlockery, but your post makes me want to really give it a go.
     
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  3. Nacho

    Nacho Member

    Then how does it work? Just a pure 50% chance to get mana?
     
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  4. Essence

    Essence Will Mod for Digglebucks

    No, it's more complex than that. There are three chances to get mana. There's an 80% chance to get one mana, a 50% chance to get a scaling amount of mana, and a 25% chance to get another smaller-scaling amount of mana. So you can get none, or you can get something like 3+(.15 * Magic Power) mana on the high end.
     
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  5. mining

    mining Member

    That's not more complex, that's just more "I have no idea what will happen when I press my skill button".
     
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  6. Vitellozzo

    Vitellozzo Member

    After all the description says you steal magic from your enemies. And being a vampire you keep beating on their heads.
    And so you discover more mana, when Psychic Vampire pop up on your head.
     
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  7. mining

    mining Member

    Yeah, so over the long term, it makes no difference. But in the short term, it means you have absolutely no way to plan your mana usage - the RNG will screw you over in such a way that you wouldn't expect it without having intimate knowledge of the source.
     
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  8. Nacho

    Nacho Member

    But you said there was no scaling.
     
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  9. Essence

    Essence Will Mod for Digglebucks

    Sorry, I meant there's no scaling to :life_regen: like there is with the rest of Vampirism.
     
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  10. Bohandas

    Bohandas Member

    What if vampirism's restrictions on consumables were slightly tweaked? They would be allowed to eat meat products but as a tradeoff would be forbidden to drink wine....
     
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  11. Kazeto

    Kazeto Member

    We would have to usurp Sir Nicholas on his throne to be able to make tweaks to hard-coded things.
     
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  12. Nacho

    Nacho Member

    That's the exact opposite of being flavorful. Everyone knows Vampires love wine.
     
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  13. OmniaNigrum

    OmniaNigrum Member

    I think there is exactly zero hope of this until the code parts of vampirism are removed from the executable and put in XML so we can edit it.

    Where oh where did the modding requests thread go? ...

    I will put a link in once I find it.

    http://community.gaslampgames.com/threads/modding-requests.1926/
    BTW, I am almost sure this is in there already. Several times most likely.

    I feel stupid yet again...
    http://community.gaslampgames.com/threads/modding-requests.1926/page-12#post-41331

    Read it and understand.
     
  14. OmniaNigrum

    OmniaNigrum Member

    I am adding the request that other aspects be mod friendly.
     
  15. Bohandas

    Bohandas Member

    Are you being facetious, or are you really unfamiliar with the famous line "I never drink... wine" from the 1931 Bela Lugosi version of Dracula? I can't tell.
     
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  16. Kazeto

    Kazeto Member

    He's merely referring to Dracula from Castlevania series and his (their?) habit of drinking wine before the fight against him. So I guess he's being facetious.
     
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  17. Nacho

    Nacho Member

    Kazeto got it in one. Also, I have never heard of that line, or anyone named "Bela Lugosi".
     
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  18. OmniaNigrum

    OmniaNigrum Member

    Kids these days...

    He was in *MANY* films back when most were still black and white. Most of them were really quite good once you force yourself to pay attention despite it looking like a bunch of old cheese. (The cheese sensation comes about because the movies were so good that most of them were remade later in one form or another. So you get the feeling you may have seen the same ideas before.)
     
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  19. Vitellozzo

    Vitellozzo Member

    I can't believe you never played Munchkin.
     
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  20. Bohandas

    Bohandas Member

    He was the star of a whole mess of horror films in the first half of the 20th century
     
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