Tracking

[Bouquet of Lotuses]

It would be interesting to see some form of tracking in-game, anything from extremely rudimentary bonuses to Spot (as a mirror to Trackless Step, which implies that higher Stealth negates tracking abilities) to something more involved such as a system similar to Examine which may inform a tracker that someone passed through the area.

Thoughts?

I am aware that I am not making the system myself but this is just an idea.

[FinalHeaven]

A cool system I saw once on a server was a tracking tool primarily for Rangers that worked with Search.  You could use it in an area and depending on your Search Skill would get useful but still vague info along the lines of where people moved through an area, how many, how long ago etc.  The weather also played into it, as did terrain.

[MAB77]

A tracking system would be very difficult to implement at this point. It would require to update the thousand of areas we already have one by one to account for the new tracking script. A sheer impossibility. It would also require the use of a DB that would constantly communicate with the module to keep the data up to date. An absolute drain on server resources. It would certainly be a cool feature to have, but we have yet to identify a feasible way to implement one.

[Bouquet of Lotuses]

That's what I figured, thus my suggestion that maybe a very simplistic "tracking" could be implemented.

The following feat exists in-game, and it's always made me wonder at the possibility of a simple mirror feat in-game:

1: Trackless Step - +4 skill bonus to Hide and Move Silently in wilderness areas.

Perhaps a feat which gives bonuses to Spot or Listen in wilderness areas?

[MAB77]

That would cause major balance issues to raise those skills further. Not going to happen.

[Bouquet of Lotuses]

Alright. I'm sorry.

[MAB77]

Nothing to be sorry about. It was a legitimate suggestion.