Ideas: Weapons and Abilities

[ironhand]

I want everyone's thoughts and ideas on what I am listing below. More may be added with time.

Ability
Vault-Tec Assisted Targeting System (Can't think of any really good name for it right now, should give you an idea what I am thinking of)

Basically put, this would allow one to target an opponent to do specific damage to areas of their body or inflict a certain status effect on them. The other way this could run is by either negating a portion of the defense stat or preventing an opponent from dodging an attack.

Weapons
Eletromagnetic Weapon

I'm debating this one here personally. This could either be a type of coil gun that launches a projectile at x speed up to x distance or it could literally be a weapon that fires an electromagnetic pulse that does certain damage to everyone and x amount of extra damage to machinery. The latter part might be a bit of a useless feature as so far, I haven't seen any machinery around here that could cause some hurt.

[matterhorn]

I don't really think either of these ideas fit as a wide-spread thing. The first, the ability to target specific points on an enemy's body to have additional effects in battle, for example breaking a leg to prevent an opponent from fleeing. That idea is interesting enough, sure, but consider that the combat system on the site already must factor in six stats and twenty-some status ailments as it is. Adding separate damage calculation for crippled limbs, or saying that blows to the eyes could cause blindness, just adds yet another layer of complication to battle. Not to mention subtracts a little from the Final Fantasy feel of the site. But, that's just my opinion.

As for an EM weapon... There are plenty of sources of technology in the world. Walking mechs and spaceships and flying cars and laser guided missiles and global positioning satellites and orbiting moon bases and weapons of mass destruction. Buuut... the odds of facing an enemy that actually uses any of those things is slim to none. EMPs are possible, as a CA for a specific character, but I think it'd be a waste to make an entire weapon class, or even a specific weapon, out of them. No one would really use it, unless that was a basis for their character... and we wouldn't want to include a weapon in the shop for site-wide purchase for one or two specific characters. Again, though, that's just my opinion.

Now, off topic, but I could see them adding a weapon class for Instruments (like the harps, bells, flutes, megaphones, et cetera, used by the Bard Classes in the series), or for Books/Tomes (used by Scholars and Mages in the series, potentially useful for the plot of some mage-characters), or maybe Thrown Weapons (Like boomerangs, shuriken, or Rinoa's Pinwheel).