Couriers

[Lord Rahl]

So lets say you want to contact another player, but they don't have a radio. Lets say you want to make a formal decleration of war without the use of ooc and you don't wanna endanger yourself by running into enemy territory. Lets say you want to join some big group on the server but you can't seem to contact the leader.

I think we should have either:
1) A courier NPC who will stay in one spot, and in theory he delivers mail to players and their own personal inboxes.
-These inboxes can be a sub menu in your inventory, and the game notifies you if you get mail, or maybe you will need to go and talk to him in person in order to retrieve messages.

2) A mailbox that does the above^

3) A Courier class.
-it gets a BIG bonus to run speed & backpacking.
-maybe a bonus to voice limiter: It can hear players from slightly longer distances, or has a tool that does this
-this class will allow for recon, communication, and maybe RP mail-services.
-The purpose of a courier is to make most of their money by being paid: usually to locate other players, deliver items/messages, and escort people as an armed guard from place to place.
To keep balance, Decreased endurance, decreased hunger, They can run very fast but cannot use cars, and they have no special tools but maybe they can use wastelander radar
without GPR.

If you can't add the Courier as its own class, maybe make it an addition to the wastelander's abilities.

[eldarstorm]

Probably will not add new classes at this point.

Adding a NPC for that may casue issues, such as every mob may want to kill it. Or others would kill it, etc.

Mailbox or in game mail system would be a better solution. Will think on this.

[DevilsNipple]

3) A Courier class.
-it gets a BIG bonus to run speed & backpacking.
-maybe a bonus to voice limiter: It can hear players from slightly longer distances, or has a tool that does this
-this class will allow for recon, communication, and maybe RP mail-services.
-The purpose of a courier is to make most of their money by being paid: usually to locate other players, deliver items/messages, and escort people as an armed guard from place to place.
To keep balance, Decreased endurance, decreased hunger, They can run very fast but cannot use cars, and they have no special tools but maybe they can use wastelander radar
without GPR.

If you can't add the Courier as its own class, maybe make it an addition to the wastelander's abilities.

I love this idea, i read 1) and 2) and was thinking nah!, how about a class then read 3) and was like Genius, better than what i had in mind!

bonus to inventory should be by about 100 or 200 in weight. and i like the endurance and food loss due to running so much. not goin in a car....im not sure, i like the idea that they have to run everywhere yes, and i suppose the theory could be they have a backpack to big to sit in a car xD

the courier could have access to the "paper" prop, the page from out of the newspaper. it can cost little from shop, say 10-0-10, and acts like Notepad in a way, you have say....20 lines you can type on for notes. These notes can be typed on by anyone, so the courier can take a message themselves from someone or the person can write a message themselves.

Into the idea that the person can write the message themselves, how about having in the top right corner of the notepad a button saying "enclose", This could use if you dont want the Courier himself to read the letter. Say you give the courier the task to delevier for a truse with someone but you dont want the courier to see that your doing this truse. you can write the letter and click "enclose" then you have a ticklist of all players on the server, ONLY the person OR people that you tick can open this letter and it will have there name on it somewhere (like auto writes at the top, To [names listed here]to people you tick)
BUT, not to worry, this "letter" can still be accessed by someone else who isnt listed, but it will act like breaking into a locker or stock, say takes about 20 seconds to undo it and read the note. This will also mean that when the letter is delivered to the person or people listed the button which said "enclose" will now say "open(Broken)" <------- if the letter has not been read by anyone who isnt listed it will say "open" but if someone has broken into it and read it they have a 70% chance of breaking the seal and the button will say "open(broken)". unless their lucky enough to get that %30 chance and the letter is undetected of being opened.

[DevilsNipple]

Probably will not add new classes at this point.

Adding a NPC for that may casue issues, such as every mob may want to kill it. Or others would kill it, etc.

Mailbox or in game mail system would be a better solution. Will think on this.

looking into this message you could still have the "paper/notepad" idea of mine without the new class?

[eldarstorm]

Still planning on adding letters.