Suggestion:20080516 New Item: Welding torch (Includes new sub-items and skill)

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20080516 New Item: Welding torch (Includes new sub-items and skill)

Blake Firedancer 23:45, 16 May 2008 (BST)

Suggestion type
Items, with a related skill.

Suggestion scope
Survivors.

Suggestion description
OK, well a welding torch could be used by survivors who have the 'Advanced Construction' skill in one of three ways:

1. It could be used as a brutal (yet inefficient) stationary weapon.
2. It could be used to strengthen barricades.
3. It could be used to weld additional fuel tanks onto portable generators.

Where are they?

Factories (3% find rate in unpowered, intact buildings)

Hardware stores (5% find rate in unpowered, intact mall)

Where are the additional fuel tanks found?

Streets (10% if you have Advanced Construction, 0% otherwise)

Junkyards (25% if you have Advanced Construction, 0% otherwise)

Carparks (15% if you have Advanced Construction, 0% otherwise)

Where are the welding tanks found?

Factories (1% in unpowered, intact building. +2% for power, -.5% for ruined)

Hardware stores (2% in unpowered, intact building. +2% for powered, -1% for ruined.)

What is 'Advanced Construction'?

Sub-skill of Construction

Allows use of welding tools

Takes up 100 XP

Pros:

All of the above uses

Cons:

3 'shots' per tank only

You can only find the welding torch, welding tanks or additional fuel tanks if you have the Advanced Construction skill.

Encumberance rate of 25% for the welder, 10% for the welding tanks and 12% for the additional fuel tanks.

Requires to be set up before use, in the same manner as a generator.

Does not come with fueled welding tanks

Cannot weld additional fuel tanks onto running generators, or onto generators with fuel still inside. Otherwise, it could explode, taking out everyone in the room.

You'd have to find the additional fuel tank before you could weld it on. Perhaps you could salvage it from an overturned car?

To refuel, you'd need to use a welding tank.

Only people with enough mechanical skill can use them for any purpose.

Only one additional fuel tank can be added to a generator, and it'll only increase the fuel capacity to 125%

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1. Spam - You've not made it clear anywhere in the suggestion exactly how this item would operate. What are its stats as a weapon? How does it improve building barricades? --#4 - Haberdash ^TMG 01:33, 17 May 2008 (BST)
2. Spam - Did you even READ anything I said in the discussion? I told you, if this is a weapon, where are the weapon stats? Damage? Hit %? How does it aid in barricading? What does it DO for it? Generators already run for a WEEK on 1 can of fuel. How much AP does it take to DO any of this stuff? The search % is ridiculously high. I don't have a problem with looking in more places but up to 25%? Wow. Oh, and by the way do NOT add in any of the stats you forgot or this will be removed.--Pesatyel 05:10, 17 May 2008 (BST)
3. Spam - Incomplete -Druuuuu ^OcTRR 06:23, 17 May 2008 (BST)
4. Spam - as Haberdash and Pesatyel --Jasonjason 06:56, 17 May 2008 (BST)
5. Spam - This isn't a suggestion, this is a half-baked idea. ~Ariedartin • Talk • A KS J abt all 07:07, 17 May 2008 (BST)
6. Spam - As above.  Billy Club Thorton  T!  RR  09:16, 17 May 2008 (BST)
7. Spam - Incomplete. Removing as Spam. -- Cheese 10:22, 17 May 2008 (BST)