Philanthropist
This design document is currently completely unimplemented in Ephemeral Space.
You should not expect to find anything listed here in-game just yet.
Tracking issue:
Name: Philanthropist
Troupe: Crew
Archetypes: Giver, Freak
Description: Do your best Santa Claus impression and give random gifts to the crew--out of sight, of course.
Objectives: Give X items to X (~20-25% of crew?) people on the station.
The cookies and milk were quite lovely. Find enclosed in your backpack 50000 spesos, with which you may do as you please. You want a gift as well, Mr. Dugnutt? Care to enjoy a ripe lemon?
Concept
The Philanthropist can put random luxurious items into people's backpacks, as long as they remain unseen.
Abilities
The Philanthropist has a player-targeting action usable once (successfully) per player, with a doafter that doesn't show up for others, identical to the Pilferer's. They can activate this action only when out of sight of that player (i.e. in their viewcone's shadow, or more literally, when they're facing the same direction), taking ~1.5-2 seconds, failing if either of them move. If successful, this will spawn a random item out of a pool (maybe the current gift pool? idk) and place it into their backpack.
If there isn't enough space in their backpack, it will attempt to place the item in their pockets, simply cancelling with a popup if this also fails.
This ability cannot be used on unconscious or dead players.
Gameplay
The Philanthropist serves as a way to introduce some item variance into the game through their gifts--often useful things, like materials, money, or ammunition. Because the Philanthropist and Pilferer have functionally identical behavior up until the point of the action completing, people aren't incentivized to listen to a Philanthropist's plea of "heyyy lemme sneak up right behind you real quick and give you some money".