Binoculars, Yay or Nay?

[Burter]

Binoculars allow you to see who is in squares adjacent to your own. Should it stay? Too powerful?

[Warako]

Stay, however it should only be able to see squares N/S/E/W, no diagonal squares.

[Orion]

Yeah, let it stay too. As long as it's one direction once a day.

[Burter]

It's actually up to three uses per day

[Kirano]

Yeah, binoculars are cool, but how much diagonal sqaures are we talking here, just one NE, SE, SW, NW of our current position?

[Burter]

Yes.

[Raditzu]

I think binoculars are fine.

[Hellfighter 17]

Yea. It adds a lot more strategy to the game. I remember when XTC was doing DA and we had my sniper rifle to see around us (I think it was the rifle; either way, we were able to do this), and it added a whole new level of strategy to the game, to plot others' movements and foresee possible attacks. We didn't always know what we were doing, and it can give a group (or individual) the opportunity to control the game in a tiny way which, I think, is a big part of DA.

Eight squares around and three looks a day sound b-, no, a-okay.

[Burter]

If the sniper comes back, it won't have that ability anymore. It was a mistake to give two items the same ability

[Talys]

I personally think the binoculars are fine. . .

[Raditzu]

Unlike the GPS, people actually have to move around to get full use of the binoculars. And that keeps most of the unpredictability that makes DA so great.

[Zangya]

Like I said in the GPS thread, the binoculars are a tool, not a weapon. I'm sticking by that. Even though my problems with the binoculars are considerably less than my problems with GPS. The GPS is just too powerful. But I agree with Orion. One direction, once a day.

[Bardock]

Stay, however it should only be able to see squares N/S/E/W, no diagonal squares.

That.

[Orion]

What's wrong with diagonal squares?

[Hellfighter 17]

One direction a day and no diagonal squares seems so arbitrary. There should be some sense of realism with this.

[Burter]

I would be willing to compromise on 2 times a day

[Raditzu]

If the Binoculars are being dropped to 2 times, I'd say the GPS should be dropped to once.

[Dave]

I think binoculars are fine.

Agreed.

[Bardock]

One direction a day? Why shouldn't you be able to see all the squares around you?

[Burter]

I'm leaning on 2 uses a day. A use means to see everything around you, including diagonal