I sent this in to the Beta email but I figured I would post here too for the community to weigh in:
I sent this in to the Beta email but I figured I would post here too for the community to weigh in:
The upgrades are fine as they are, there really isn't any need to clarify anything as I see it.
As for how the power works, here's an example: You and your group are in combat, chasing after two guys, and they split off in separate directions - you've lost them. You kick off Seek and using the base power, get some solid rough ideas of where one of them presently is. So then you use the upgrade, and now you've got a a rough idea of where the other one currently is as well. Then you decide to commit a force die so you can keep better tabs on both of them, getting new flashes every time they move somewhere new or make a drastic change in course. That's essentially how it works.
The use of the word "track" isn't a way of breaking upgrades apart from the base power. "Track" is just a short term so they don't need to repeat "... gain insight into the general location or direction of a person or object previously encountered, regardless of current distance." in each upgrade that applies to it.
Besides, if "tracking" only applied to the continued insights of the person/object, then there's issues where Duration couldn't even function since it specifically says "... to continue tracking..." So if the base power itself was not tracking anything in the first place, then Duration would have nothing to continue tracking.
Also if you follow the descriptions of the power it doesn't say you can really "track" with it anyway, except for that one upgrade. Sounds more like "you sense they are that way...somewhere" or "you get a flash of him roaming the aisles of a department store."
The upgrade just allows you to "track" by getting regular updates when they move. So "Now you see him running through a stock room.......now a loading dock..... now he's in a dark place with lots of shipping containers" would give the players a clue that he's ducked out the back of the store and slipped aboard a truck.
You'd need the magnitude upgrade to get more "A store manager nearby him is wearing a green shirt and a nametage shaped like a cartoon Grootox with a huge smile."
Sometimes I think this power should be called "Pinpoint", rather than "Seek". I like the specificity of the word "pinpoint", which suggests homing in, requiring precision (such as with the shatterpoint mastery upgrade), rather than the general wishy-washiness that "seek" implies.
Also, changing the name of this power would help bring some variety and get some distance from the "Seer" specialization and the "Seeker" career. Too much "see-" words for my tastes.