Let this be a new empath option.

Syntax: Shift identity <self, pc>.
Requirements: Empathy, Discipline, Charisma.
Use: Randomizes the target's features and removes social outrage. Maybe make it do something with warrants, but social outrage is the key component.
Long CD on the empath's ability to shift. This is a once a week move and then it locks shift out for a while.

> But I'd say a daily thing, if not more frequent, would be more appropriate.

The idea would be to change your face (lore and mechanics wise) to eliminate the negative effects of social outrage. It's the empath equivalent of needing a res. I think the CD is negotiable.

> If we're just going with 'I made a booboo' type situations, then I'd rather it be a game wide NPC that you can just pay off. Good press, or whatever.

I think allowing players to provide a utility for other players is a plus. Maybe add an NPC in TF or Plat, but prime shouldn't be removing ways for players to positively interact.

So you're arguing in favor of social outrage without a player solution to resolve it?

Have you ever seen this system? An empath recently learned shift and didn't know they couldn't use it in the crossing guild. They tried, and they were kicked out. They tried to gweth to talk to other players and were arrested. That escalated to the point that they were getting chain arrested and had to be moongated out of the city. The primary social collaboration point. They now have to be logged into the game, completely separated from other players in an entire province for about 15 days. I get that this system is built for necromancers, but empaths have the perfect solution to resolve this. It's supported by both lore and mechanics. There's no good reason to argue against this.

I'm curious where non-Necros are regularly getting enough social outrage to make something like this worth the dev investment. Necros past a certain point can't be healed or shifted, and they tend to be the ones with the most SO problems.

It does happen to non-Necros on rare occasion, but it sounds like the situation above was more down to player ignorance than anything else. It's a shame that it happened, but it's not too hard to avoid the death spiral if you've read HELP OUTRAGE 2.

I'm all for more shift-related abilities, I'm just not sure this suggestion is a good return on the investment of dev time.

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Add to this some sorcery blacklashes, using shift in most city limits, being accused of being a necro, trying to use services at the 50% SO or higher range, and I'm sure some ways I don't even know about yet.

I think this is a cool idea.

Logically, feature-hiding cloaks should help resist the build-up of social outrage too, but I guess the townsfolk can read our names too? No idea.