Can the Ibrahim sphere exist outside of a med bed or medical facility? I.e., specifically, can a sphere be stolen?
TL;DRWhether a sphere can be stolen is deferred to gameplay and design; they suggest theft might happen only to NPCs as missions, not players, to avoid denying respawns.
That is an interesting question. Again, I do feel bad always deferring on this stuff. I feel like that's going to be dictated by gameplay and design, because it seems like it could obviously be rife for griefing, and it puts players in a weird position if they could be stolen and thus inaccessible and it makes someone die. I don't know what that would mean. Part of the original idea of it was just that it was something that would probably not be accessible to people as an item to carry around. But again, that's going to be dependent on the gameplay and the ultimate design and stuff like that, and what's fun and what's not.
Just like it's been inspiring players to imagine cool scenarios, we're hoping to also inspire our mission designers to imagine stuff and be able to work with them on what is fun, like Dave said.
Yeah, and maybe it's one of those things where the theft of Ibrahim spheres happens to NPCs, where it's a mission thing of, hey, somebody jacked my Ibrahim sphere, can you go get it back? But something that doesn't happen to players, just because you don't want to be denied that opportunity to respawn, because that would be a bit of a drag.
We always have a backup for that, so I guess it could be a weird thing, but yeah. Definitely have some ripples.