I'd like some help balancing a character.

[Nofew]

I've got a character that's been in development for over two and a half years. I think Don't Starve is too easy, so I went and made a character that feels as much like a Klei original as I reasonably could while being harder to play. With any luck, I haven't made another Wes! I could use some help verifying that that's not the case.

Specifics! The character's name is Essas. To me, all Klei-made characters except Wilson have their own special perk and their own special pitfall, and their pitfall's always worse than their perk so Wilson ends up being the easiest to play. I felt it's important to keep that theme going with Essas.

His main gimmick is the ability to make chloroform and move it around in the air to put enemies to sleep. The benefits there should be relatively obvious! His main drawback is that he constantly goes insane. He has a cap of 600 and looses about 100 a day. His character-specific items require nightmare fuel, and constructing one of his items gives back 600 sanity. The idea is that staying insane for longer periods of time later allows him to stay sane for longer periods, but you better be sure you're ready to commit to being sane for a few days since it takes so long for sanity to drop back down again after.

I know on text it seems like that's horrendously unbalanced and mixed up, but it /actually works/. Trust me. It's one of those weird things that you just have to play to understand. It's just so mentally fatiguing and changes gameplay enough that it's really not reasonably possible to describe over text.

 

Now, my current issue is that I can't seem to get enough people to play together at once and make sure Essas doesn't get overpowered if he has 2-3 non-Essas players helping him survive, that he isn't annoying to other non-Essas players in terms of the amount of resources he needs, and that 3-4 Essases on the same server can actually survive together. Volunteers would be greatly appreciated!

 

If you're interested, please drop me a message or reply here and I'll get back to you. Essas isn't in the Workshop right now since I only get one chance for him to appear on the "new mods" page and I don't want to mess it up with a sub-par character. (If I can make him "private" somehow and the 'new mod' timer only starts once he's switched to public, please tell me!)

 

 

So there. o_o.

PS: I'm open to general tips on how to handle Workshop stuff like presentation and advertising. I have zero experience here and I definitely don't know what I'm doing. Even a little bit like "This is what happens once you upload to the Workshop, this is what happens when you go to update things" or something would be shiny!

[Arlesienne]

The concept intrigues me, so if you want some people to give a world with Essas a go, count me in.