Survival mode: Starting Inventory and Location

[JohnDoe60]

Hi,

I wish I was able to select where and which items the character starts with, allowing me to play a wider variety of Survival mode scenarios:

• Cartographer with top of the line clothing, basic camping equipment, and lots of high quality food.
• Trapper with an extra rifle, cartridges, good camping equipment, and overloaded with snares.
• Misanthrope easily surviving on fish but running out of everything else - hooks, lines, and about to sink.
• etc.

In keeping with the Custom feature of making it easy to share a scenario:

• Read(/write) from text files in the user settings directory. e.g., cartographer.sce, trapper.sce, misanthrope.sce, ...
• Provide a UI so players can easily select from available scenarios; something as simple as a "Select Scenario" button which opens a basic file chooser would work (the Scenario Editor Workshop front end can come later).
• Warn about unknown/invalid items and locations in the scenario files, but otherwise ignore them - it would be up to the community to keep up with the game changing under their scenarios, worst case result should be nothing more serious than missing items and a random starting location.

An interesting expansion of this would be to allow for populating locations with items from lists, and user defined notes at specific locations...

[Fuarian]

Custom starting gear would be REALLY nice. With presets, player-made presets (with text files like you mentioned) and completely custom starting gear sets. That would be so cool.

[Moll]

This totally degrade all challenge. Its basically a cheat. 

Dislike.

[Willy Pete]

Feel like this would have to be a custom game mode only thing, otherwise, as Moll said, it's basically a cheat. Like, in the custom game stuff you can select a "Pick Starting Gear" option. I do like the idea (and was actually thinking about it earlier today) and think it would make a fun way to add some role-playing to the game. One idea might be a neanderthal-like character who only uses crafted items and whatnot and only sleeps in caves, could be neat.