Mr.Mashpotatohead

First of all thanks to the OP and special thanks to Hendrix's post, beans for the both of you. With the unveiing of the proposed player construction, and I am an electrician, this idea has definite potential. However perks/skills, looks way to hard to implement into the game and would lead to huge balancing issues. But in almost every zombie survival horror flic I have seen there is the inevitable line "What did you do before all this $#!+ went down?". My idea is in the ballpark on this topic and thought I would share. So it is just a decision in what you did before the ZA, however it does come with a single benefit the ability to use a certain tool, this should be easy enough to implement. And a whole forum thread could be started on it, and actual people with said proffessions could give input. I'll go first. Proffession: Electrician Tool: Digital multimeter Benefit: Maintenace of generators, for player owned bases with other possabilities electric fence?. Assuming they will degrade like proposed weapon degredation. Now you ask why do I need that. This is just a thought but for a player base to be a spawnpoint for your cabal/clan/coproration/guild some requirements have to be met ie: running water, plumber w tool electricity form working, carpenter with tool I think carpenters should also be able to make deerstands, heh. There is endless possibily and the playability has potential to. "Hey our generator broke down. I heard of a guy Mr. Mashpotatohead he used to be an electricain lets go kidnap him and get him to fix it." lawls. The idea here would not to give tactical advantages, mechanics would fix vehicles just as fast, but with their tool maybe they can make vehicles offroad by giving them a suspension?? This would need to be looked at a little closer, with developer interest and player involvement (forum posts on tools and proffessiosn). But so easy to implement and very intriging. I have played a lot of MMO's and pve does have it's place, in most cases to give you an edge up on pvp.