Search

There's easily at least 20 secret doors . Though good half of them are inside noble/merchant estate/compounds. Luirs alone has four at the very least. Problem is that you're really 'not' going to go all over the world, searching every room. And some of those hidden doors lead to hidden house areas that are guarded, so odds are you'll be told of those secrets if you're allowed inside anyway. Or you're a noble/agent, and it gets revealed to you by an NPC. Secret libraries and stuff like that. Overall, a pretty useless skill.


Except maybe now, I guess. Since you can bury stuff to hide it and so on.

In principle yes. There are just too few save rooms out there (which means they'll all get searched frequently), and too many random crashes (which makes burying something in a non-save room useless), for it to make much difference in practice though.

I third your opinion vicariously through Anaiah. (Kinky, right?) 

The answer for the PCs first and second questions both come down to the fact that search becomes effectively useless after a year or two of playing the game because, after that time, you know most of the common hidden and/or save rooms in the areas where you play. Since the set of secret rooms are so infrequently subject to addition/change, the skill is effectively useless. Half of the secret rooms can be found be either reading the room desc more closely, or trying 'open barricade', 'open trapdoor', or just trying to move in random directions. (Yeah, it's a bit twinky, but 90% of Zalanthas can't attempt to look for trap doors?  My ass.)

As far as bury, it's the same story. Anyone can find your loot by just using forage artifact in random save rooms. (These rooms are even more declarative than hidden doors!) It's great for a Stormer or Northerner who just needs to swing by Allanak for an hour and just wants to hide their spice for a short time, but again someone can just spam forage around the gates a bit and uncover that stuff. And since 90% of the player base isn't creative enough to realize that they can just as easily (and more safely) bury it literally anywhere between their starting point and Allanak, I'm sure some grebber is going to get a lot of spice and a lot of ire from Kuracis. 

totally disagree.

this code is great fun - ruined potential my ass. this is only -adding- a cool feature that didn't exist in the game before. "but oh fuck, the imms -weren't- trying to make these permastore wilderness lockers? shit, this idea is obviously worthless!"

don't toss away the cookie just because it didn't come with milk.

Jesus tittyfucking christ, what spectacularly shitty opinions. Artifact caches are a fantastic addition to the game. Clearly your ineffable Armageddon butthurt is poisoning your point of view. Not everything the staff does is terrible.

To quote Murphy from Firefly

"Forgive my rudeness. I cannot abide useless people."