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I am not too concerned with power balances between skills; I am more interested in seeing that the skills are equally fun and offer something special in return for my investment in the skill.

Some more interesting space monsters and harvestables will definitely make survival/dominate animal more interesting. For example, some rare harvest, e.g. crucial biotech material for some biotech, that can be sold to special NPC can be a quest initiated the untraditional way.

Some verbose description for doing acrobatics will give it more style points.

Some rare mecha equipments that use some minor skills for a certain advantage will be cool: e.g., experimental weapons using Science to roll for better outcomes, mysticism controlled psycho-drones and robotics controlled drones etc.

Happy new year!
Though it's a little bit late in Korea and a little bit early in USA to say that...

Great news, congratulations, 축하.

Here's a bad idea: when it runs out of components, let the deadend grab some other plot, make some statements about unresolved mysteries x-file style, and proceed on another direction. Or maybe a component management tool that allows people to find dead-ends?

How about collaborating on ideas for one gun each DC, that will certainly generate a lot of weapons to choose from, diminishing the possibility of finding the weapon you want, and thus increase the necessity to waste time in shops.

In 0.460 there are:
Gun 5*1,6*2,12*2,15*1
Beamgun 5*1,10*1

L5
Gun 2*2,4*2,5*1,6*2,15*1
Beamgun 4*1,9*1

Don't think Domon Kasshu.
Don't think Master Asia.

That's the cue for miracle/sacrifice/or both in anime world.

Warning Warning All System Critical
"Masculin Sidecharacter! Can you hear me? You must eject!"
"Can't, it's destroyed."
"Hang on there, Maincharacter is on the way."
"No. Save your self.... Tell Nevershowedupwife that...."
"NO! Tell her yourself! We will get through this!"
"Too late... I will ram the (gunfire)... don't waste the chance"
"Masculin, Masculin! No! Masculin....!"
"This is for you, (inaudible)... (explosion)."

Happy lunar new year; it's the Year of the Rat!

Nice picture, especially like the bear by the Y and the Z man; it's a little bit difficult, don't you think?

I just watched a silent film by Fritz Lang, but it's got orchestral score.

Sometimes I run into three gyms squeezed together in one mall, sometimes none at all in the entire L5 space. I have yet to see a monk shop. When I want software, I run into electronic shops that sell nothing but computers and powercells; and they have quite identical inventory since we only have so many types of computers and powercells. Yes, shop balance is very much desired, but how?
One other factor to take into consideration: the availability of items. I have yet to find any shop that sells the lockpicks or the multiscanner. On the other hand, I am assuming that much more items will be implemented in the long run; greater variety of items will surely change and affect the shopping experience.
Missile launchers, for example--we don't have any. Though personally I find them quite useless in personal scale adventures.
Personally I am waiting for Gundam 00 to be translated.

So the evil koala on the same page of comics somehow reminds me of stuffed animals, and stuffed animals somehow reminds me of anime girls with stuffed animals and missile launchers inside the stuffed animals, so I tried to make the item of cute stuffed animals with missile launchers inside but I was unable to draw cute stuffed animals and ended up with this critter and so I wrote instead an item of an ill omen stuffed animal and tried to put this in game and the following is the result but I have no idea if it works or not and I looked at the Dead Miner quest but only to find that GIVEKEYITEM no longer works by the way and so I am still trying to locate my item which is supposed to be in the dark hovel in Theles Spinner somewhere.



Tool 27 1
Name <Stuffed Animal>
Desc <A fluffy and plush toy with calculated cutness that will either appease cute people or make you look cute yourself.>
Category <Entertainment>
Factions <GENERAL>
Legality -50

Tool 27 2
Name <Stuffed Vole>
Desc <This angry but cute vole with a spiked club is one of the latest cute fetish in L5 space.>
Category <Entertainment>
Factions <GENERAL>
Legality -50

Tool 27 2
Name <Stuffed Vole Limited Edition>
Desc <A plush toy with a concealed missile launcher inside.>
Category <Contraband>
Factions <GENERAL>
Legality 0
sub
   MLauncher 6
   Name <Concealed Missile Launcher>
   mass -6
   integral
   sub
      Rockets 5
      Name <Frag Rockets>
      type <SWARM BLAST 1>
      magazine 12
   end   
end

Content
   name <Harvester Victim>
   requires <*DUNGEON_X building condemned open>
   element1 <Prefab>
   element2 <Prefab>
   inv
      MetaTerrain
      name <Harverster Victim>
      desc <A Harvester Victim>
      SDL_Sprite <prop_body.png>
      roguechar <!>
      Clue16 <Print 3>
      clue20 <Print 3>
      Clue37 <Print 3>
      clue34 <Print 4 if= V2 0 XPV 50 V= 2 1>
      use <if= V1 0 else GoBeenBefore V= 1 1 Alert 1>
      GoBeenBefore <Print 2>
      Msg1 <A child lies motionless before you. As you approach, you realize that it's no child, but a man, or what's left of him.>
      Msg2 <A corpse, or what is left of it.>
      Msg3 <The corpse is bereft of limbs and most of organs. The toolmarks indiciate that it's the work of organ harvesters.>
      Msg4 <You say a prayer for the soul of the deceased.>


      Tool 28 -2
      Name <Broken Stuffed Animal>
      Desc <This mangy and ragged stuffed bear seems to emit an evil aura of ill omen.>
      sdl_portrait <item_bear.png>
      Category <Contraband>
      Legality 5
      charm -10
      clue37 <Print 1>
      clue34 <Print 2 if= V2 0 ifG Skroll 34 10 Print 3 PCMoraleDmg 5 ifGSkroll 34 25 Alert 4 PCMoraleDmg 50 V=2 1>
      msg1 <The bear was the previous cute fetish of the L5 space. This particular one has a missile launcher concealed inside.>
      msg2 <You seems to hear a faint echo of screaming.>
      msg3 <A tingling sensation crawls on your skin.>
      msg4 <Imagery of sufferining assaulted your senses, loneliness and abandoment    scorched your mind, and then pure evil forced its way into your spirit! ...or so it seemed like it as you recollect your senses...>
      sub
      MLauncher 12
      Name <Concealed Missile Launcher>
      mass -12
      integral
      sub
      Rockets 6
      Name <Frag Missiles>
      type <SWARM BLAST 1>
      magazine 20
      end
      end
   end

Something's strange, somehow I never get to the nothing but a trap end.

This is my version of Gungaroo, what's yours?
http://ataraxia.comicgenesis.com/d/20071227.html
 
 
Battroid 3
Name <Gungaroo>
Desig <RG79>
DESC <Originally designed as a mass-produced mecha, the project was abandoned because of the cost in its primary material, Gungaroo Alloy.>
Type <GROUND SPACE>
FACTIONS <GENERAL>

sub
Head
   armor 3
   mass -3
   hardened
   sub
      CPit
      Armor 2
      mass -2

      Sensor   6

      Beamgun 1
      BV 3
      type <Intercept>
      name <Pulse Intercept Laser>
   end
   inv
   HeadHarness 2
   scale 2
   name <Eyeshade>
   end
Torso
   Armor 3
   mass -3
   hardened
   sub
      Gyro
      Armor 2
      Mass -2

      Engine
      Armor 2
      Mass -2
      
      Computer 2
      sub
         Software 2
         name <Garoo Motion Sense 2.0>
         S_SpeedComp
         S_BoostScale 2

         Software 1
         name <Target Analyzer>
         desc <Mecha identification and analysis software.>
         S_Information
         SInfo_MechaDex

         Software 3
         name <Sensory Processing>
         S_SkillBoost
         Stat 2 11

         Software 3
         name <Guerrilla Tactical Aid>
         S_SkillBoost
         Stat 2 25
      end
      
      overcharger 4      

      ecm 2

      Mount
      armor 2
      name <Marsupium Mount>

   end
Arm
   Name <Right Arm>
   Size 1
   Armor 1
   Hardened
   mass -1
   sub
   hand
   mount
        name <Right Arm Mount>
      inv
         Gun 8
         name <Double Barrel Cannon>
         caliber <144mm Shells>
         Range 6
         Speed 2
         sub
            Gun 8
            name <Double Barrel Cannon>
            Integral
            caliber <144mm Shells>
            Range 6
            Speed 2
            sub
               Ammo 8
               name <144mm Crystalline Shells>
               caliber <144mm Shells>
               Magazine 24
               type <Scatter Brutal>
            end
            Ammo 8
            caliber <144mm shells>
            Magazine 24
         end
      end
   end
Arm
   Name <Left Arm>
   Size 1
   Armor 1
   Hardened
   mass -1
   sub
   hand
   mount
        name <Left Arm Mount>
      inv
         Gun 8
         name <Double Barrel Cannon>
         caliber <144mm Shells>
         Range 6
         Speed 2
         sub
            Gun 8
            name <Double Barrel Cannon>
            Integral
            caliber <144mm Shells>
            Range 6
            Speed 2
            sub
               Ammo 8
               name <144mm AP Shells>
               caliber <144mm Shells>
               Magazine 24
               type <Armorpiercing>
            end
            Ammo 8
            caliber <144mm shells>
            Magazine 24
         end
      end
   end
Leg
   Name <Right Leg>
   Size 4
   Armor 4
   mass -4
   Hardened
   sub
   Flight 4
   HeavyActuator 1
   end
Leg
   Name <Left Leg>
   Size 4
   Armor 4
   mass -4
   Hardened
   sub
   Flight 4
   HeavyActuator 1
   end
Tail
   Size 3
   Armor 5
   Mass -4
   Hardened
   sub
      HeavyActuator 3
                Mount
                Name <Tail Mounting Point>
   end
        inv
                EShield 3
        end
end
end

Cybernetic-fu? Gunnm (last order)?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Angel_Alita
The Scrapyard? Theles Spinner?

Quoting: Onisuzume

Divine Sight for blindness?

Well, I meant monks as in monks in Gearhead, holding lost clues to lost artifacts of lost technology.