Suggested major overhaul of vampire +hunt code, to wit:
Establish a threshold for overhunting, per grid square, at which +hunt checks will start taking penalties. Hunt attempts in builds attached to a grid square should count for that grid square. Target number should be based on the Security of the grid room, and whether it's a Rack or not. Additional points toward the threshold should be incurred when a vampire uses more overt or physical methods (e.g.: overpower, brawl, strength, weaponry, athletics)
Establish a secondary threshold at which penalties go up. (For instance, if the initial threshold were at 10 points, and the secondary 5, penalties would increase at 10, 15, 20, 25, etc.)
Establish a daily "drain" of points so that the points toward the thresholds decrease over time.
Establish a way for Staff to manually add a penalty or bonus in a given square based on story effects (for instance, if the police are on high alert in a squar, it should be temporarily harder to hunt there).
Add a command for staff to review (and possibly search) the logs of a given square, preferably remotely.
Similar to overfeeding on a single target, +jobs should automatically go up when the thresholds are reached so that staff has the option of making news posts or triggering hunters. (Should the overhunting penalty also act as a bonus to discover feeding?)
Possibly factor Security in more heavily, since 1 success is as much blood as the vampire wishes? Or possibly change the amount of blood gained per successful attempt, to make it more like +harvest and Glamour? (This would be a downgrade from the system on Requiem p. 164)
No specification in the initial request as to how points should be counted -- blood taken, successful +hunt attempts, something else?
Suggested major overhaul of vampire +hunt code, to wit:
Establish a threshold for overhunting, per grid square, at which +hunt checks will start taking penalties. Hunt attempts in builds attached to a grid square should count for that grid square. Target number should be based on the Security of the grid room, and whether it's a Rack or not. Additional points toward the threshold should be incurred when a vampire uses more overt or physical methods (e.g.: overpower, brawl, strength, weaponry, athletics)
Establish a secondary threshold at which penalties go up. (For instance, if the initial threshold were at 10 points, and the secondary 5, penalties would increase at 10, 15, 20, 25, etc.)
Establish a daily "drain" of points so that the points toward the thresholds decrease over time.
Establish a way for Staff to manually add a penalty or bonus in a given square based on story effects (for instance, if the police are on high alert in a squar, it should be temporarily harder to hunt there).
Add a command for staff to review (and possibly search) the logs of a given square, preferably remotely.
Similar to overfeeding on a single target, +jobs should automatically go up when the thresholds are reached so that staff has the option of making news posts or triggering hunters. (Should the overhunting penalty also act as a bonus to discover feeding?)
Possibly factor Security in more heavily, since 1 success is as much blood as the vampire wishes? Or possibly change the amount of blood gained per successful attempt, to make it more like +harvest and Glamour? (This would be a downgrade from the system on Requiem p. 164)
No specification in the initial request as to how points should be counted -- blood taken, successful +hunt attempts, something else?