zagerblag Posted:

I think avtr and flipr should be buffed and have their refreshes swapped. Also, it could be nice if Hackers got more varied abilities. I don’t know what you could have them do. Perhaps they could zombie other posters? This could be an Offense boost, or perhaps something else.

I think it would be interesting to have them do the inverse of what trolls do. While trolls have abilities that buff themselves (and hopefully eventually that tree of theirs will be fleshed out), Hackers could have abilities that debuff threads. Alternatively, a sort of “damage over time” ability is something the game should have eventually, and if there’s any natural place to put it, it would probably be a Hacker ability (deploying malicious code on a forum would do damage for longer than simply posting one thing that’s offensive, stupid, or full-of-drama, if you think about it.) Possibly Hackers could also have an attack that deploys some sort of worm that allows them to use somebody else’s computer for a time, which would have the in-game effect as “an attack that restores some PP.”

This is getting far afield, but a neat project for Ep3 development would be to give all clbumes unique combat abilities and mechanics so they do something other than “spam their most powerful attacks.” It would be neat, for example, if Camwhores had attacks that had the opposite mechanic as emo attacks, that is they do the most damage when your ego is full and they cost some ego to use, then buff up the camwhore healing abilities, so the end result is possibly that camwhores might want to spend a turn healing themselves even if it’s unnecessary to do so to simply “pwn the forum.” There’s lots of different directions we could go here.