Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-27460754-20160402002043/@comment-27460754-20160418072306

Fluid-decanter wrote: I don't believe it would be inordinate work to implement. I'm sure Sierra's plans for Nalili's skills are already rather finalized, though. Personally, I suspect a one-time stat boost - perhaps Aka for AGI, Hilstara for DEF, Varia for critical chance or something.

Does anyone think Dari might be a problem? She joined up without knowing about the Doomed King plan, and she might have objections. Even aside from that, she's a naive girl with poor emotional and impulse control.

About this orc breeding program... Regular orcs are one thing, but Simon seems to want to create a bunch of human-level intelligences just to draft them? Necessary it may be, but this still sounds like an ethical trainwreck in the making. I don't think the move would be too difficult either but I think it'd come across as plot locking it to an extent, with the last scene being reliant on spending money with the Silent Order. It's not a huge investment but you'd have people complaining about 3 moves needing an area unlocked to get at.

On the other hand, your stat boost idea makes sense, it would certainly influence her future fighting style. I think it's probably limited to upping Nalili's level and the AP boosts though, that seems the simplest result.

Dari I think would support the DK plan once finding out about it. This is a person who lived on the bottom rung for years before getting kidnapped and changed, and I think the plan, who's end goal being to help the nation and stop the nobles and other factions from tearing it apart would appeal to her. But yeah, she could get upset at the intial reveal, requiring Simon to have to persuade her, maybe Janine too.

For the orcs, the less intelligent ones seem like barely sentient animals so being cannon fodder doesn't bother them as long as their needs are met. With the more intelligent ones, I don't think it'd be too hard for Simon to pitch that he's trying to improve their breed and species as a whole, and that goal is worth fighting for. I see what you mean though, he's trying to improve them specifically to fight and at times, die, so it would be analagous to creating A.I. for combat drones.

I wasn't actually disappointed by the shielding, it was pitched by Robin as being something of immediate benefit to their journey and that's exactly what it was. The rewards are noticeable with the AP boost to Dari and the easier fight for the loot later. Then again, it getting to be used later in the invasion is also pretty damn cool as an idea. I mostly played through with the improved orc breeding as that seemed to have the longest ranging benefit out of the 3. Shielding is immediate, Mage politics intermediate with the following invasion, and the orc breeding being invasion and on in terms of bonuses provided.

I do agree Robin doing more research during/after the timeskip makes sense, as I'm guessing that would be when she would start it if the spell for Aka wasn't gathered in the Orgasmic Empire.