Burying Loot in the Wilderness

[Nikodemus]

Emerald, what i was trying to say is that digging is natural skill, so simple that only dump people couldn't know how to do it.
Don't put digging holes near metallurgy. Sure that if you look in game, it is as simple as clicking a bit and done. But it is not for your character and since it isn't, why do you wan't to make it the same, while it could reflect better the reality?

[joshua6021]

I would be happy with just a chest that could be locked and untouched

[bilbous]

And I would be happy to bash your locked chest with an old claymore to bust it open

[lordraleigh]

I would be happy to pick your chest lock, loot all the trias on it, bury it back again and go away as if nothing ever happened 

[Xus]

Emerald, what i was trying to say is that digging is natural skill, so simple that only dump people couldn't know how to do it.
Don't put digging holes near metallurgy. Sure that if you look in game, it is as simple as clicking a bit and done. But it is not for your character and since it isn't, why do you wan't to make it the same, while it could reflect better the reality?

HEY!!  I just happen to be dumb people.

But I think what Emerald was basically saying is that Armor wearing, for instance, is also a simple skill that only dumb people wouldn't know how to do, yet the better you get at strapping on leather, the more damage you can defend against with it.

Real life expansion of this thought: tablating guitar solos.  I mean sure, if I wanted to, I COULD sit down and figure out a guitar solo by some crazy shredder, it would just take me about 2 years longer than the 5 minutes it might take my guitar-instructor.  But who's gonna put in that 2 years and five minutes?  So the better you are at it, the much more likely you are to actually commit the time to do it because that time is far less.  So if you wanna dig a whole to China, you'd better believe that no one will ever EVER dig it if it would take them 75 years; it reaches a point where its not a question of how committed you are as a human being, but how committed ANY mere human could ever possibly be.

[emeraldfool]

Xus... what the fudge are you talking about?

[lordraleigh]

Perhaps high intelligence characters, with some character creation choices, could have an untrainable skill called "self-learning" and some natural propensions to certain skills, dismissing in part(or wholly in some cases) the need of mentors or teachers.

[dying_inside]

Sounds cool.

This could probably go hand in hand with map making, and everytime you buried at a location, you could have to option to mark on a personal map where you buried it.
This could be just like standing over a certain area and then pressing "mark" or somthing on a map and  "You mark your location on the map". 

[Ishtar2]

When weather is established, it should be that the hole dug is at first very obvious, but as time goes on it's worn away untill you can barely see anything remaining.

[Xus]

Xus... what the fudge are you talking about?

My counselor never quite got me either... 

Well what I was basically saying that if you were indeed devoted enough, you could, possibly, dig a hole of any depth you like.  However, when they get past a certain depth, and thus level of involvement, it gets to the point where it's so virtually impossible to have that kind of commitment, you can just as well assume that it is literally impossible.

There!  Is that a good enough explanation for you, your majesty?!  Would you like me to draw parallels to the New American Bible as well?!  How bout classic Victorian literature?!  HUH?!  WHAT NOW?!?!