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Wishful Thinking: Tracking System.
« on: November 29, 2022, 08:23:04 AM »
Is this possible?

I just saw a thread mentioning that it is unfair that people corpsehide "without leaving hints". Well, leaving hints is more or less like leaving tracks. It would be nice if a Ranger or a Druid outdoors or a Rogue or grimetrekker could do that in closed spaces with enough search skill.
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Re: Wishful Thinking: Tracking System.
« Reply #1 on: November 29, 2022, 08:50:29 AM »
Not sure if this is feasible to create without the players themselves leaving some form of tracks.  In reality it's still very possible to cover up all your tracks after all. So how would one distinguish from that/be able to cover their tracks?
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Re: Wishful Thinking: Tracking System.
« Reply #2 on: November 29, 2022, 08:54:37 AM »
Not sure if this is feasible to create without the players themselves leaving some form of tracks.  In reality it's still very possible to cover up all your tracks after all. So how would one distinguish from that/be able to cover their tracks?

First, I frankly doubt it would be feasible without draining server resources.

Regarding a system, for brainstorm purposes, I'd say:

The player tracking tags the player he wants to track (for you need to know who you're looking for or receiving dm indication if who was in that scene). After that, the tracking player rolls consistently for search x the tagged player MS (with a bonus if the player is in stealth). A success means you jeep the trail,a failur you lost it.
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Re: Wishful Thinking: Tracking System.
« Reply #3 on: November 29, 2022, 09:09:10 AM »
On arelith there is a system to search for clues and interrogate NPCs when stuff happens. people also leave tracks IIRC, and those with high enough spot can detect them. thats a huge impact on the server though... impossible no... but...


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Re: Wishful Thinking: Tracking System.
« Reply #4 on: November 29, 2022, 09:57:41 AM »
Is this possible?

I just saw a thread mentioning that it is unfair that people corpsehide "without leaving hints". Well, leaving hints is more or less like leaving tracks. It would be nice if a Ranger or a Druid outdoors or a Rogue or grimetrekker could do that in closed spaces with enough search skill.

I did rp this once before with a wolf animal companion. But it would be amazing to have something implemented that may allow for druids and rangers to track like footprints from a death scene. It could be perhaps based off of a persons stealth and detection skills.
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Re: Wishful Thinking: Tracking System.
« Reply #5 on: November 29, 2022, 11:48:45 AM »
Lots of different tracking systems already exist out there in the wilds of NWN so it is definitely possible.  Most things are possible, to be honest, it just comes down to whether or not it would be deemed to drain server resources or not.



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Re: Wishful Thinking: Tracking System.
« Reply #6 on: November 30, 2022, 09:53:16 PM »
While a fun idea, the only way I see it not being a huge drain on server resources (every PC and NPC all leaving tracks -all the time-) would be through a DM running the tracking.

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Re: Wishful Thinking: Tracking System.
« Reply #7 on: November 30, 2022, 10:02:25 PM »
While a fun idea, the only way I see it not being a huge drain on server resources (every PC and NPC all leaving tracks -all the time-) would be through a DM running the tracking.

Maybe if a player target another player with the "tracking function" the targetted player start leaving tracks for a set amount of time.
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Re: Wishful Thinking: Tracking System.
« Reply #8 on: November 30, 2022, 10:07:17 PM »
While a fun idea, the only way I see it not being a huge drain on server resources (every PC and NPC all leaving tracks -all the time-) would be through a DM running the tracking.

Maybe if a player target another player with the "tracking function" the targetted player start leaving tracks for a set amount of time.

Right but then you run into the problem of metagaming.  A corpse isnt leaving footprints and if you dont know who the killer is (in character) or (probably in most cases) for sure even where they died its going to be hard to know what tracks to follow.

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Re: Wishful Thinking: Tracking System.
« Reply #9 on: December 01, 2022, 10:00:17 AM »
This is something the dev team investigated in the past, cool as it would be we cannot make it work without significant impacts to server performances.
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