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New spy devices: Tape recorder and Bug

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Michaelh139:
Tape recorder is useless.  just press F2 and give to your buddies on mumble skype or teamspeak.

Besides, no useful information normally gets passed by text anyways.



Now the Bug...  That's interesting.  I would rather say, give it ability to track players somehow.  On worldmap and in town.  Worldmap just showing extra player like this as it moves and gets into encounters.

+ -Player: JovankaB  Status:  Travelling/In encounter.

You could bug several players.  And with good pickpocket/thief skill, and depending on their perception, they may not be able to see the bug in their inventory for some time until the good roll comes their way and it shows up in their inventory.  (can be rolled and re-rolled every time you open inventory, or maybe a seperate action.

You could even find people's bases this way I would hope :).

But you can also get a high perception buddy to search you using steal skill to spot it.  Stealing a bug from someone would always succeed no matter the steal skill.

jan0s1k:
Great idea, bug is ideal, but about tape recorder, it would be nice if you could hide it somewhere and then just take it and listen (read ;p). As well it could be connected somehow with traps skills to get less possibility to find it. (as well as with another side, that if higher traps, then higher chance to detect traps)

Shonsu:
I like both ideas.  F2 isn't proof... this would be concrete proof of what was said with no editing possible.  I like it immensely.

Marko:
I like both ideas. Good work! Well thought.

I think a tape recorder should have a delete function too, so a taped recording could be wiped* and the recorder could be used multiple times. 2000 character limit (and no time limit) also makes sense as this is the character limit of holotapes, and such a recorder would be voice activated.

Also an alternate version of the recorder could be hidden on the ground somewhere and loaded with holotapes. It records everything within a (?) hex limit and it's capacity is less limited depending on how many tapes you load it with (max 8 maybe).

Also, holotapes used this way could be switched to "read only". Then they only record once, cannot be deleted or edited. A 1-time use tape! Thus anyone who reads them can see there was no way to tamper with the contents.

*Use of the word "wipe" here has no relation to the server wipe which is "very soon" lol. Any similarity in terms is purely coincidental and Marko LLC recognizes no legal obligations associated with the server wipe ;)

Ganado:
This game doesn't need anymore bugs!

But yeah, I like it. Would be great for bases and such. Especially the part with footsteps to know if anyone has been near your stuff.

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