Cleanliness

[Spoon]

I think its fine in most cases for people to care about the condition of people's clothes. What's the point of having this implemented if we're supposed to ignore it?

[joyofdiscord]

I don't think anyone's suggested that everyone just ignore the features altogether.  It's a question of how to respond to them.  It gives you an opportunity to make the particular setting you're in real and appropriate.  If you're in a noble estate, your clothes are probably codedly clean and things look nicer.  

You go into commoner squalor and things can be filthy, often visibly so.  You have to respond appropriately for your location, and from the Gaj on down, that response is probably going to be "eh."  Except in the worst of cases, like a layer of shit going up the legs of someone's pants.  Not even just coating the bottom of their boots.

In the Barrel, blood on multiple clothing items might wrinkle a few noses.  Anyone who complains about a regular "stained" (which indicates the worst has been cleaned off) or even "sweaty" is being a snoot, IMO.

Cleanliness code also gives you conversation hooks ("You sure are sweating/bloody, what you been doing?  Been trouble?" seems far more appropriate for 90% of Zalanthans then "Oh dear, how dreadful.  How dare you pollute the sight with your tasteless display.").  There are millions of ways to respond to dirty clothes besides turning up one's nose like an American socialite at a cocktail brunch (Though that may be appropriate for a -few- characters.  Probably not your character.  Unless you have a signet ring and guards, it just probably isn't your character.  And even they will probably consider the place they are in.  It's worthless to try to scrub down the Gaj or even the Barrel.).

All this IMO of course.

[Maybe42or54]

Well, as we know they -are- non- changing tags.

One your boots are dusty, the wind and your moving around wont change that like IRL.

For one of my Previous PCs in the Byn, he entered the latrines the day before he got promoted to trooper and then just shit wherever he was, he didn't spend much time in the Byn Compound.
Since he got "smelly" that day, and didn't clean his boots, 4 RL months later, he still had those smell boots and everyone was still RPing them like they were smelly boots. Even though, to me, they were clean. If the wind and sand can rip the flesh from my bones, then it can easily take shit off the side of my boots, right? Not Codewise, no, but doesn't it make sense?

Argue my point all you want, there are points against your thoughts of this situation, but I will read your posts about it.

What I suggest, Tags that slowly evaporate.

[Dalmeth]

No offense, but that shit really stays. Dustiness can get caked on, and mildewy shoes can stay smelly long after you dry them out.