Currently, we have:

Allows transmission across aetherspace. I believe you lose it when you die, although this hasn't been fully tested.

3% bonus per telepath, including yourself, although you require at least 2 telepaths in mindlink for it to activate. Ego does nothing for telepaths, except for a small side-effect bonus on id balance.

The following ideas have been proposed:

• Expand mindlinks so that anyone can be included.
• Move mindlinks down to the psionics skill, and give another skill in telepathy where it used to be, related to mindlinks.
• Enhanced regen for members of a mindlink.
• Increased XP gain if influencing or hunting in melded territory.
• Distribute esteem across all mindlink members.
• Prevent blackout if a member of a mindlink.
• Distribute damage across members of a mindlink.
• Buff to damage and DMP, depending upon number of people in a mindlink.
• Level one ego regeneration, plus a buff to Charisma.
• Buff to mindblast damage.
• Mindblast/afflict one extra room away for every telepath after two.
• Change mindblast formula to work off max ego, not charisma.
• Allow telepaths to use a new health-damage only skill on super channel, able to target anyone in the room with a member of the mindlink (or the focus alone).
• Consciousness: requires 3 telepaths, and can either damage all enemies in the room with the focus or heal all allies in the room with the focus. Drains ego, drops if the focus dies or the number of telepaths in the mindlink drops below 3.

If I missed any, let me know. Those were from the "Bashing with Buddies" thread. Obviously, not all of those ideas were meant to be used together.

I also wouldn't mind buff points to int/cha depending upon number of telepaths in mindlink, but I'm not sure how balanced this would be. If you were to use cha, it (and ego) would need to be made much more useful for telepaths.

Discuss!

Not gonna lie, my ideas are pretty awesome.

Also: Mindblast is based of INT not CHA

Looks good to me.

Yeah mindblast damage needs a buff right now, almost everyone uses psychic vamp for draining off ego. I wouldn't mind if mindlink- had some extra pluses for having a big mindlink.

No one doess psychic damage but telepaths who mindblast and we already have mindbar, so DMP would be royally pointless.

Ego regen is marginally useful and charisma buffs are all over the place.

Those three buffs wouldn't make me want to mindlink any more than I already do.

Other telepaths are not the problem, domination would take care of that.

Remember, mindlink isn't meant to be getting a combat buff, as the only reason this is being discussed is because it will need something more if webs/whatever are introduced. Don't try to hide your combat buffs.

If people think suggestions are useless, why include them in your list???

I remain confused.

# Move mindlinks down to the psionics skill, and give another skill in telepathy where it used to be, related to mindlinks.

# Enhanced regen for members of a mindlink.
# Increased XP gain if influencing or hunting in melded territory. ( would make sense if it wasn't only in meld because it's for telepath mindlink not a meld)
# Buff to damage and DMP, depending upon number of people in a mindlink.

# Level one ego regeneration, plus a buff to Charisma.
# Buff to mindblast damage.
# Mindblast/afflict one extra room away for every telepath after two.

# Change mindblast formula to work off max ego, not charisma.

# Consciousness: requires 3 telepaths, and can either damage all enemies in the room with the focus or heal all allies in the room with the focus. Drains ego, drops if the focus dies or the number of telepaths in the mindlink drops below

I think these options would look good out of that list. I am not sure how consciousness would work , would it happen automatically if you get three?

For the record Mindblast being based of Int, what is psychic vampirism based off?

#Leave everything as is and buff TK instead

How long have you been a TP? Mindblast is int, psyvamp is a flat % based on the targets ego.



Has been tried. The Admin don't want to buff it. Talk to them.

Use Burst. You can cause OBSCENE amounts of bleeding with it. We're talking the kind of things that makes a cut artery or two look small.

Move mindlink into psionics, add the following skill to telepathy:

TELEPATHY - MINDMELD

Syntax: PSI MINDMELD
Channels: Substratus, Superstratus, Id
By entering a mindmeld, you can share all defenses granted by locked channels with all other telepathic members of your mind meld. If you or any other member of your mindlink uses biofeedback, portraitreading, psiarmour or ironwill, all telepathic members of the minklink also gain the defense without having to lock the channel for themselves. Multiple versions of biofeedback stack, but multiples of the same version do not. ie; you cannot have two fire biofeedbacks but you can have both fire and cold. Multiple portaitreadings also stack.

This.

I want to be able to have Psiarmour, Ironwill, Biofeedback, Forcefield, ecetera. All on one channel.

That would be telepathy. No forcefield for you! And telepathy doesn't have any locked channels, so it would only be psionics defences.

Read again. It noted that if anybody in the Mindlink too, not just the Mindmeld locked a channel. Besides, I make my own forcefield!

No.

It should apply to all psionists of course! Then a mage backed by a group of psymet monks would be a nightmare scenario.

Yes. Other people lock the other stuff. I lock my Forcefield. I get it all.