A Smoke, Friend?

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Would You Like to See Smokable Items in SotA?

Poll closed Sep 10, 2013.
  1. Yes

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  2. No

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  3. I Don't Care.

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  4. I'm Sick of Dichotomous 'Yes/No' Polls.

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  5. I'm Sick of OPs Adding Poll Options Needlessly. It Takes Away From the Data.

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  1. Myth2

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    How do you feel about smoking as a feature in SotA, and why do you feel that way? For the sake of discussion, assume that smoking is purely aesthetic. Personally, I find smoking to be both useful in roleplaying, and fashionable in PvP (smoking is, however, shunned by most healers/doctors). What would be smoked is not so much my concern, but rather how and why. If you like the idea of smoking in SotA, and even more so if you dislike it, what do you think the purpose(s) of smoking could be in SotA's world?

    A topic for another time is how you feel about polls. I myself struggle to take them seriously.
     
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    Yay for pipes, cigars and cigarettes! Gotta pwn newbs with class.
    Extinguishing your cigarette into the eyesocket of the fallen victim? Priceless.
    ....
    Detective Owain finds a cigarette butt next to the victim's mangled body:
    "Ah, it was Templar again."
     
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    Items tied to smoking emotes. 100% yes. :)
     
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    I smoke a pipe in RL, but I don't really care if it is in game. It was nice in LOTRO, but not really crucial in any way. I can tell you that if they did include it, I would probably smoke a pipe in game, too!
     
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    We had somewhat of a lengthy discussion on the topic some time ago in the Dev+ area. I will leave my comments there except to say it's an RP tool.
     
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    I don't smoke IRL, and don't personally care of the look of people smoking cigs. Smell bugs me, too. However, in an RPG, I think people should have the option to play it.
     
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    Smell is pretty good actually.
     
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    I like the idea of smoking in the game..... vendors could engage in the sale of tobacco and pipes, perhaps possibly farm tobacco.... cannabis? haha:cool:
     
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    I don't smoke. I'm deathly allergic to both tobacco and marijuana. That said, allowing it here is not only something I approve of, but something I think is right and proper. Good thought.
     
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    Why wouldn't there be smoking? If you don't like it in game, then don't participate in it.
     
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    Smoking is "Bad" for you.... Why is the Poll closed? I want to be the only "no" vote...

    I quit in 1994 and saved enough money to purchase my first IBM computer and Ultima VII; The Black Gate/Forge of Virtue (my first software for it).
     
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    I hope to see pipes in the game, and different types of weed.

    LOTRO did a good job with this (although it was pushed by the fact they had lore behind them doing it, since it was such a predominant blurb in both the books and movies". In LOTRO I carry pipe weed on all my charecters that is some of the most costly. when smoked you blow out a smoke dragon who in turn puffs a little smoke himself.

    That said, that may be a lot of animation for episode one, in which case id be an advocate of, just put out some pipes in episode one.. then when devling more into farming as an actual skill (please!!!), add weeds to the farming list. Then at that point they could introduce special weeds, different colors of smoke, maybe some animations, and effects they cause.

    But its a fun little RP immersion. Usually when pipes are being busted out in LOTRO is when a group is waiting for one or more two people to finish off their advetnruing party, you drop a campfire, someone busts out an insturment, everyone busts out their favorite tobacco and its a couple minutes of player built immersion while waiting on the companion(s). Not many things like this in LlOTRO in my opinon, because its a sandbox type of mechanic and LOTRO is anything but sandbox....which is why i hope to see it in SotA as it belongs there.

    Obviously theres no legal concerns or rating concerns with this, as they get away with it just fine.
     
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    #420 BLAZE IT
     
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    YES Please- I stopped smoking 4 weeks ago and want to play games where I can smoke in them. I big O pipe, or a hand rolled even, with big belows of smoke exiting the toons mouth. I PLEASE.

    :)

    As Sir Stile Tickel said, it is a great when waiting around in LOTRO.
     
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    make it part of crafting, you can craft a pipe out of wood you chop and get some matches at a vendor or something.
     
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    No matter what happens, ill still be smoking cigarettes even if my character in game isnt!
     
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    Yea, rolling a joint gotta be a skill.
     
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    Im All for this Smoking should be Emoted and you continue to smoke untill the emote is triggered a second time. Provided you have the Pipe or whatever's needed .
     
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    I'm not a smoker, but I play one in games and would on TV if I was an actor! I smoked the hell out of Gothic 1,2 and 3 and also Risen. Why not, your the Avatar, you did drugs in Ultima VII you got drunk in Ultima 8 and were a tramp in SI. I am also an avid Sherlock Holmes fan(if that has any meaning at all).
     
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    Smoking in-game should give the character a chance to obtain stat-loss to stamina, and also be highly addictive and stat-loss for not doing it so often. :D I, personally, love having an emote for pipe and a nonchalant stance whilst puffing away in-game.
     
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