Earned Traits/Perks

Game Talk The Drawing Board
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One of the things I really liked in some games is that the things you do in the game were recognized by the game and you got rewarded for it. I really loved the system in Fallout: New Vegas where if you killed a lot of a specific type of enemy you started to develop minor bonuses towards that enemy. I was thinking we could do the same thing in Cata. We already track the number of kills so why not give a small bonus to damage. Say 1% after killing 100 zombies (as zombies are very common). We can even come up with clever names for some of them.
I think a crafting stats screen wouldn’t be a bad idea either and you could do the same type of thing there. Cooked meat gives a slightly better bonus (or becomes perfectly cooked(food modifier tag?)) to morale after you’ve cooked it 100 times. (100 cooked meats? Carnivore is definitely the name of that one.)

A second aspect of a crafting stats page could be reducing returns of crafting the same item over and over and over and over. Just a thought towards balance. Please put main thoughts towards the main topic and keep this as an after thought.

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Something like this will definitely be going in when we get around to it.

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Woot!

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Achivements in general: yes.
Experience-based achievements that provide bonuses: yes
Practice falling off for doing the same thing over and over: I have some thoughts in this area I need to write up.

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earning traits may be better for an overhaul type mod. so we keep the standard system, then have this as a mod or an option. I think some people may like the existing way, so if we make it a mod or an option, you can make a choice.

lots of people have discussed achievements, I think its meant to be a json so people can add lots of them. i like the idea of mods adding achievements for their mods.

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I thin this should be added as core, Youtoo. Remember that we need to progress, not to make mods for everything. Some people may not like it, but i personnally think it is really good and realistic.