How coding abilities work in EdgeVerse
We basically tried to balance and make them not so OP
These are the abilities that will replace code manipulation for most Outcodes that have code manipulation
Code stitching- similar what fatal error does, you have to steal code from beings or objects by destroying/killing it, you can stitch their code to create something new
Code editing- you can edit the code of an object without resulting in its destruction, this allows you to change things about the object
Code manipulation- (reserved for only the gods)
Code stitching can end in failure due to the code not being compatible or other reasons, requires you to kill or destroy the being or object, it takes a significant amount of time to stitch code, and the thing you have created might not work as intended and may have some glitches, errors, and other problems. You CANNOT edit the code meaning whatever that code has stays there and cannot be changed into something else unless you destroy it again.
Code editing is a slow or fast process depending on how much code something has, this ability is really only used for items and while it can be used on beings, but they have so much complicated code that it would take forever to edit their being so it’s not used in battle much. Code editing CANNOT be used to create, only edit existing objects and add code onto it.
To better explain code stitching and code editing here is an example You take the the real knife it does 99 damage, with code stitching you destroy this object taking only the code where it does 99 damage, you apply this code on with a bunch of other code in hopes of creating a custom weapon, now this weapon looks completely different and still does 99 damage with other functions but those abilities would be from other objects and may not blend well together
With code editing you edit this knife making it do 195 damage, you change the knife ability but you can’t change the knife itself and while you can add other functions it would take time to add those but it would be abilities you created that work/blend together
Most Beings will have one of these abilities
There are some abilities beings must have in order for code editing and code stitching to work properly basically sub-abilities of code editing and code stitching
The ability that are need for them to work is
Code editing- code sight: allows beings to see code in a object or being
Code stitching- death code: anytime a being dies by your hands or attacks instead of dying normally they will turn into a blob of pure code
There are chances that beings that have code stitching to have code sight and vice versa This will make your abilities harder to use but not impossible
If you have code stitching but you have code sight this allows to stitch together beings and objects code while they are still intact but this causes a lot problems especially if your doing it to beings, they end up like a chimera or something more horrific (think of a amalgamates but without be slimy/melted) and with objects you just get some duct tape and add you knife with a stick and that’s basically it.
If you have code editing but have death code, you can (still working on it)
There are some other abilities you get when having Code editing or Code stitching
-Stun (movement set to 0)
There are also some Rare abilities you can get
They both have a small chance of getting
-Command Like Ctrl C and Ctrl V
We also changed OVERWRITE to make it more balanced
OVERWRITE is a form of code editing that is much faster than regular beings with that power, it has the same restrictions as code editing, now it requires stamina/mana to use, it’s cost is depending of what it’s changing, and it’s not perfect while it cannot cause as much mistakes as manual code editing still can have some flaws
