So, I have to admit that I really don't think it's right that the researchers get left out of the flight club. Every other guardian/wiccan guild has an ability that lets them fly. Researchers? Nope. I guess they're supposed to have their feet a bit more firmly on the ground. I want my crystal-loving people to get some love when it comes to flight, so here's the proposed skill!


CrystalDisc (Virtuoso 50%) ~ Take to the skies on a floating disc of crystal.

Syntax: CRYSTALSPIN CRYSTALDISC

Gem: 3 of any gem

Caster: Taking the three glowing (gems), you begin rolling them back and forth in your hands, fusing them together. Carefully, you begin spinning the mass of crystal, flattening and shaping it with your will until a floating disc spins above your open palm.
Room: (Researcher) fuses three (gems) together and begin to spin the mass in the palm of (his/her) hand. After a few moments, the crystal is flattened and rounded, forming a disc that floats above (Researcher)'s palm.

DROP CRYSTALDISC
BOARD CRYSTALDISC

Caster: You drop a crystal disc which comes to a halt, floating a few inches above the ground.
You step onto a crystal disc, balancing carefully as it moulds to accomodate your feet.

Room: (Researcher) drops a crystal disc, showing no surprise as it halts, floating, a few inches off the ground.
(Researcher) steps onto a floating crystal disc.


Pretty please?



P.S.~ Make the Illuminati wings prismatic butterfly wings? I'm tired of being jealous of Drachou.

FYI, there's special envoy reports requested for transmology and harmonics so you may want to send such ideas to your envoy.

Pssh! Enough of that, I want JET BOOTS!

You can probably turn this thread into a pow wow for the Researcher special envoy report that's coming up.

That suggestion for a flight move, making convoke better, and other things would do well in that report.

Rest assured it's being worked on!

Also refer to Project Aerial

Researchers: we do it in-game.

YEEEEEEAAHHHHH!


...Ahem. More seriously, I'll poke Geb to see if he wants to come here and discuss what he's got so far. The flight issue is being discussed in-game; I'll let the people who're "researching" that discuss it and send what they've got to Geb.

Personally, my major issues were, let me see if I remember: 1) General crystalspire uselessness, 2) Multiple-heartstone bug/unfortunate feature, and 3) CRYSTAL|FLESHGRANT LIST.

What do you mean by crystal list?

He means an ability for those who are able to grant harvest privileges to see who those privileges are granted too. Probably will be best to ask it be placed in the respective guild Privs list for the three guild leaders.

Also, these are the concerns that have been brought forth so far:

1. GemAffinity: INGR problems
2. Crystalplex: Ungainly to work with
3. Crystal/FleshGrant List: Ability to see who has been granted harvest privileges
4. Convoke: Not very useful, costly in power, etc. The present implementation of the skill does not fill what is considered its intended purpose.
5. HeartStone: Bugs, use is very situational
6. CrystalSpire: Lackluster transcendant ability to some
7. Malefactgem: Suggestion to help use it to reduce the random nature of our offense.
8. New CombinationStone Ability: Another means of reducing the random nature of our offense
9. Tools: Suggestions for Tools, though I am unsure if Estarra has those still on the table or not.
10. FlightSkill: Researchers lack one, even though an important quest on the Continuum requires the ability to fly
11. Wands: Costs to create and decay times.


If you have any ideas on how to resolve the problems above, please send me forum messages or messages in game. Just keep in mind that the ideas have to be balanced in regards to not only Harmonics, but Aeonics and the three tertiaries Researchers are able to choose. This also goes for other perceived problems you may have and desire to put forth.

Edit: ninja'd.

It's seems like it would be an ok tool defensively if we only had five entities to worry about and the power generation seems to be around 10% a weave I think. At the least a maintenance command would be nice, to refresh the reset counter in those random times where you are full on reserves and so is the spire.


Hope so


YES, but would really like to see this as a crystalplex formation rather than a combination of 2-3 gems as they all share the common trait of being one use only without a sustained effect plus it would be interesting to have another way of combining the crystals.

Crystalspire power generation is maxed out at 5%, that's if you keep 94% or 95% in it at all times.

Our trans skill is really meh. Same for Transmology. Transcendent should be something really amazing and wonderful! Trying to come up with fun and new ideas but it's tough.

Also ask me or Kira about the preliminary results of Project Aerial - I think this may be what you were suggesting Saran

EDIT:

Might as well share idea for crystaltool and get feedback. This is ripped off of people's (specifically Shamarah and Estarra's) ideas from other thread.

CRYSTALTOOL
CRYSTALSPIN TOOL
POINT
ACTIVATE (to use its special effect)

Arcana - Relating to magical energies. Tool could be wand!
Aetheric - Relating to energies in the deep aether.
Temporal - Relating to time.
Dimensional - Relating to other dimensions.
Void - Relating to pure lower, negative energies.
Domotheon - Relating to pure positive, higher energies.

Arcana: -20 magic DMP
a arcane wand

Aetheric: Quicksilver takes +2 seconds to put up, pending other changes to how timewarp works
an aetheric tuning fork

Temporal: reduce effectiveness of timewarp curing
a temporal screwdriver

Dimensional: -???
an dimensional rod


Void: ~10% chance of sapphire/onyx/malefact gem giving an additional affliction, 0.3 second blackout
an void magnifier

Domotheon: no idea... something nice and positive, thing is we have lots of passive healing already so should be something else.
a domotheon scalpel

The transmology version is arguably very slightly better just because it generates flesh, but that's a very very minor benefit.


I am aware of project Aerial and it while it might eventually make some sense, my impression of abilities that combine different gems is that they are eventually only a single use effects that often use power for either amplification of the effect(mending/balestone), sustainment(resonance) or a delay(heartstone).

Another reason for wanting formations is that one of the more interesting parts of continuum was the naming of the spheres which seemed to imply that all the spheres combined together for some greater purpose(seemingly creation). While the spire is perhaps one example of this, I would like to see this reflected slightly in the skills one way to do this is to allow us to set our crystalplexes into certain formations that generate effects until the formation is released. As implied you could only have one formation at a time so that we could have some variety.

Well, the current idea is that if you have some gems in your plex, and the flight skill, you'll be able to fly. I'll be finalizing the project as soon as time allows though.

You win.

Can the other mancers fly?

If not, then there is no need for institute to have flight as then flight was distributed to either the mage or the guardian (in the case of cities). For Hallifax, the ability lies with the aeromancers and not the institute.

Each mage guild has a skill to allow it some special affinity with its own element. It's just that in the Aeromancers' case, that's Air, thus flying.

At any rate, that assessment doesn't take into account the fact that the key Continuum power quest requires flight, and the people supposedly in charge of tending the Continuum don't have flight (unless they're Trill or Faeling).

And really, it's Hallifax. Everyone should have some type of access to flight, it's a floating city!