Combine "watch direction" and "look direction

[Cavus]

Weather is nightmare of nonranger chars. I think there should be a way to decrease the damage. :-)

As everybody knows you should use "weather direction" as much as possible during a travel. It gets annoying with the addition of "look" command especially if you try to look at every direction.

Here, it comes. Why shouldn't we have weather command integrated with look command?
We should integrate it to "weather command" because people will want to use "look command" without any weather feedback.
Logically, if someone tries to figure out what the weather condition is in one direction, he has to "look" at in that direction.

What do you think?

[Angela Christine]

It sounds ok to me.


AC

[House Rising Sun]

A cool alternative or addition would be to include this sort of thing in the 'weather' command, and forget about weather [direction]. Meaning, tell the inquisitive player what the sky looks like on each horizon, if it's worth telling, instead of just overhead. This way you know that it's very hot, the sky is clear, the wind is blowing fiercely south, and the sky far to the north is clouded by a rolling dust storm, all in one command. If he's not smart enough to get the hell out of there, he'll know that it's hotter than two rats fucking in a wool sock, the air is filled with biting, blinding sand blowing south, and that's all. That would be so elegantly user-friendly it would almost sting.

To put the proper emphasis on the importance of weather conditions, go ahead and alert the wary traveller to the presence of a -dangerous- storm when he looks around the land as he's apt to do anyway, and also when he surveys the sky (all at once) using 'weather'. Let's just avoid having "the sky is clear" show up at every distance when we look [direction] on a clear day, or something annoying like that.

[Cavus]

My proposal is:

>weather west
to west there is sand wasts
[very far]
...J. Lo is standing here
[far]
...(1)...
*strange shadow*
[near]
...(2)...


Here we have two option:

First:

>weather west
to west there is sand wasts
[very far]
...J. Lo is standing here
[far]
Blinding storm hurls...
*strange shadow*
[near]
Blinding storm hurls...
A gortok is here


Second:

>weather west
to west there is sand wasts
[very far]
J. Lo is standing here
[far]
*strange shadow*
[near]
Blinding storm hurls...
A gortok is here



BUT FOR THE SAKE OF SIMPLICITY,
a trigger can be added to weather command which will trigger also "look" command. That means "second" option will be very very easy to implement.

[jmordetsky]

Yes. Without a doubt.

[Larrath]

It's also easy to just go to your client and making an alias that will check weather after you look in a room.
Making the weather command more informative is a good thing, but just combining look and weather seems pretty pointless to me.

[Cavus]

It's also easy to just go to your client and making an alias that will check weather after you look in a room.
Making the weather command more informative is a good thing, but just combining look and weather seems pretty pointless to me.

You're forgetting delays. When you put it to your client, you have to invoke 8 commands (4 looks, 4 weathers). While waiting for completion of 8 commands, a gith can come and eat you. lol

[Delirium]

>n
[Wait a few seconds to see if anything comes in at you]

>l w
>l e

[You're heading north, so check the weather northward before you go that way.]

>l n;weather north

Seems easy enough to me. I don't think combining them into one command is necessary.. though I do like HRS's suggestion of a weather command that shows where storms are on the horizon.

[Ghost]

Does not sound any bad, but I don't think it will be implemented.

Oh..  Having seperate commands also helps RPing the distance.

[joyofdiscord]

Oh..  Having seperate commands also helps RPing the distance.

Hmmm, more or less.  It helps in the sense that it makes everything take longer because you have to type a bunch of commands.  However, that takes time away from emoting the distance and describing how you're traversing it.  For those of us who enjoy roleplaying the distance and the pounding storms and all that, we either have to take twice as long, or else forego either the emoting or the looking.  I frequently choose a "pemote kank scurries on six sturdy legs over the soft sand" over a "l n;l e;l s;l w".  But I guess I'm kind of asking for trouble, there.