My few ideas...

[MoirTheWarrior]

Firstly...Hello. I'm here from the Interplay boards. Some may recognize me because I have the same damn name.

Ok, now to get down to business... I think you should be able to have two, count 'em, two pistols (or small SMGs) out at once. Not all types of guns, tho. It'd be kinda gay to have 2 shotguns out at once, but 2 pistols? I think that's reasonable.

Or to maybe grab enemies ( or innocents for you evil players ) and use them as human shields and such. Maybe have grabbing the guy take 4 APs, so you'd still have enough to pop off at least one shot from a pistol. Even make it tie into the non-combat part of the game. Like let's say your character goes into some certain guy's ( not every one, maybe 2 in each town ) house and grabs his wife. Then you demand some cash. It then gives you the option of taking the money and letting her go, killing her after taking the cash (whoops), let her go w/o the cash, or kill them both . It wouldn't be a quest, just a way to earn some extra dough. I think that would be sweet.

 

[Galileo]

I like the idea of taking hostages and robbing people.

 

[Ozrat]

It might work...

But what would the consequences be? Should some of the neighboors notice after a certain amount of time and start looking for suspicious people?

 

[MoirTheWarrior]

That would work. Yeah, maybe a police report gets filed if you let them live. Or a crime scene thing with an investigation if you killed someone, and depending how well you snuck away from the scene, they could find you or at least get your description. Then your karma might plummet and people would run at the very sight of you. Bounty hunters would persue you and stuff like that, maybe.

 

[alec]

It might work...

But what would the consequences be? Should some of the neighboors notice after a certain amount of time and start looking for suspicious people?

It could give you a special status like 'Childkiller', 'Gravedigger'...). 'Wanted' posters in the major cities would be nice too. That and a bunch of bountykillers who make your life into a living hell.

I don't think it's such a swell idea, though. Think about how much time would be needed to implement such a side-feature into the game. Not worth it, imo. Especially since you can always tag Steal and/or blow people's brains out if you desperately need cash.