Character Profile Traits

[Mugentsuki]

I've seen it a lot with other survival games, but character traits would be a fun addition to character profiles. Things like "High Metabolism" you heal faster but require more food and water (and its inverse), and other types of traits, perks with penalties to balance them, if you would. What do you all think? What would be some fun (and balanced) traits you would like to see?

 

[Adam the Waster]

That'd be cool like project zomboid

 

[Riamus]

I've seen it a lot with other survival games, but character traits would be a fun addition to character profiles. Things like "High Metabolism" you heal faster but require more food and water (and its inverse), and other types of traits, perks with penalties to balance them, if you would. What do you all think? What would be some fun (and balanced) traits you would like to see?

Well, there is already a perk that heals you and consumes food/water. Not sure we need a duplicate of it. TFP has also been pretty focused on making all options available to all players. Having things locked because you chose a specific "class" type trait instead of a different one probably won't go over well with them. And a lot of people would hate it based on all the complaints about the perk trees requiring people to pick where to spend points even though you can get all the perks you want there. Being locked to you would probably enrage many of these players.

 

[Old Crow]

Character traits would be cool. I know Project Zomboid does that as was mentioned, and so does Abiotic Factor.

The Pimps seem pretty dead set on classes though - I just wish we had actual classes instead of attribute "classes."

To retain some freedom though, they could be like Dark Souls classes or Abiotic Factor classes, where you start with a little boost to a few things, but can still build your character how you like.