Suggestion:20071218 Scouting

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20071218 Scouting

Jon Pyre 19:53, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Suggestion type
Skill

Suggestion scope
Survivors

Suggestion description
This is just a brief idea I had today. What if there was a skill called Scouting, or Reconnaissance, or something else along those lines that let you use binoculars outdoors?

When at a monument, billboard, or other tall outdoor structure I didn't think of you would be able to use binoculars as in tall buildings. In addition to giving you the map view it would display this message:

You climb to the top of the monument, look through your binoculars and come down before you lose your grip.

Survivors don't spend nearly enough time outdoors and this would provide some small tactical value to these locations. This would make sense as a Free Running subskill.

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Keep Votes

1. Small cool Fairly useful on the go. --Jon Pyre 19:54, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
2. Keep/Change - Make it cost 2AP. --Midianian|T|T:S|C:RCS| 20:27, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
   • Re A higher cost would make sense because of the outdoor benefit. It would totally be fair for each use of this to cost an additional AP. Good idea. --Jon Pyre 21:16, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
3. Keep - I like it!--GunFox13 20:57, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
4. Just one thing...can you add in a slight precentage of falling off and recieving, say...1 or 2 damage? --•▬ ▬••▬ • •••• •▬ ▬•▬• ▬•▬ ^{#nerftemplatedsigs} 20:59, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
   • Re That would be pretty funny I admit. --Jon Pyre 21:25, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
5. Keepshhhh - As Axe, but bar that I think survivors don't spend too much time outside due to zombies, but the idea of using binoculars outside on momunemts works for me. And also increase the AP cost. Acoustic Pie 21:38, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
6. Keep Make it 2 Ap, and makes monuments a bit more flavoursome.--Rosslessness 21:10, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
7. KEEP But make it either 2AP or have a 5% chance to fall off for 1-10HP and a shriek (exactly as a feeding groan with a crowd size equal to the damage!) You know that would be a great idea for free-running too ;) --Honestmistake 21:39, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
8. Keep- Pwn! Flava!!! And, I don't think that warrants a kill, funt. Spam is not strong kill. BoboTalkClown 22:43, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
9. Keep Ok, just make it hurt to fall of and cost 2 AP to climb to the top. --Blobdude^{Talk TM MC} 23:57, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
10. Keep OH YEAH! More skillz! --Darth Lumis^{T! A! E! SR} 01:11, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
11. Keep - Climbing up on your chair, you see an ok suggestion. --  AHLGTG THE END IS NIGH! 01:15, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
12. Keep - Good Idea--Corndoghero^T-S-Z 04:40, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
13. Keep/Change - And trees at parks too! ~Ariedartin • Talk • A KS J abt all 06:09, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
    • Re Good idea. --Jon Pyre 16:32, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
14. Keep - I'm totally building a tree house now. --Uncle Bill 09:38, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
15. Keep - seems an interesting idea. --Pavluk ^{A! E!} 12:24, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
16. Keep - I am sueing you now though, as following seening this I went climing up a billboard with a pair of binocluars, and now I'm in hospital for six weeks.--Seventythree^Talk 12:58, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
17. Change 10% chance of 5 dmg, 2AP, thud sound when you hit the ground, sounds cool. - Pardus 13:04, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
18. Keep - I'd like to switch the skill purchase with an AP increase to use it, but it is good. --Z. slay3r •  Talk  16:33, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
19. Keep - Eh, good enough. --Private Mark 19:41, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
20. Keep - As is. --Heretic144 00:25, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
21. Keep - I fully support giving use to useless blocks. I agree with Pardus though, there should probably be some kind of price to pay for climbing around. --Vandurn 14:40, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
22. Kepp - I like it. If you need to check out a mall while out reaping XP, this would be good. --The Trichloroethane Potato ^{SGP E! RQ! Winner 1!} 13:12, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
23. Keep- I don't like to be anchored to a skyscraper. Gives the outdoors something to do.--Shotstol 16:11, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Kill Votes

1. Kill - Meh, who's going to go outside looking for a monument, there are plenty of tall buildings about -- boxy ^{talk • i} 02:05 20 December 2007 (BST)
   • Re You wouldn't go out of your way for a monument but it would be useful if one happened to be nearby. For example if you were outside searching for zombies and happened to cross a monument you could use your binoculars there spur of the moment. Or if a monument happened to be closer to your safehouse than a tall building it might just be the faster option. --Jon Pyre 16:31, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
2. Kill- Survivors need no more help.-- BKM 23:57, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Spam/Dupe Votes

1. Spam - A billboard or a monument isn't necessarily very tall compared to surrounding buildings. --Funt Solo ^QT 21:54, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
2. Spam - And this would be a spam vote Bobo. Spam is spam --Ryiis 22:50, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
3. Spam - Binoculars are limited for a reason.--Karek^maps?! 01:45, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
4. Spam - Suggesting crap for the sake of suggesting crap. As Karek as well. Please take a holiday. --The Grimch ^{U! E! WAT!} 11:58, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
5. Go die - I've only voted keep on one of your suggestions Jon, that's a bad sign... --/~WOOT~\ 18:55, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
6. Goes against health and safety, what if you trip and fall? --Thekooks 13:20, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
   • Re Well, so does free running which is leaping from rooftop to rooftop. Our survivors are used to the heights. --Jon Pyre 12:31, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
7. Spam - -- dǝǝɥs oʇ ɯɐds: sʎɐʍ1ɐ! 22:18, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

   Get the fuck out of suggestions.--Thekooks 15:26, 1 January 2008 (UTC) One vote per user. --Midianian|T|T:S|C:RCS| 15:33, 1 January 2008 (UTC)