Suggested changes to underwater exploration

[Mharr]

I've helped and been helped by people in several different threads in which there is confusion about player abilities and limitations in underwater zones.

There are three abilities relevant to exploring underwater: swimming, breathing and walking on the sea floor. They're attached to various costume pieces, and some of the logic here is unclear. Every character can swim, the undead (including trolls) and those with air tanks can breathe, and those that can breathe can walk, except the space suit which can swim and breathe, but not walk. Since you start the game with a complete space suit, this obscures the fact that walking and using tools underwater is possible at all - give new players an air tank and they won't explore their first ocean as a skeleton.

I'd like to suggest changing the limitations, allow *all* characters to walk on the sea floor, equip tools and interact with the world underwater, but limit *swimming* so that the easily accessible underwater characters need a submarine to get around. The starting space suit, deep sea diver, undead and heavily armoured characters would only be able to walk, most characters could swim but would have limited oxygen, and the scuba diver would be the ultimate underwater explorer with all three abilities combined.

[Benji_h]

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