Additions to Locdesc

[InsertCleverNameHere]

I had a thought, I believe it may have been discussed, or something similar before, but couldn't find the thread. The new(ish) "change locdesc" command is really nice for adding your own scars, but I think it'd be cool if they either gave the man more options, or added another man with a different set of options. Injury options. In addition (since you may not be injured forever depending on the nature) giving him a 'blank' locdesc, that will remove said injury. I think this is a good idea, because then if you've an injury (as opposed to a healed scar), you needn't make it a point to repeatedly mention it to someone when you emote, so people know it's there. I think it would be a wonderful enhancement, and I don't know anything about coding, but it seems like it'd be able to use the same thing the scar and tattoo code does. And eventually when your injury is played out or healed, you could use the blank, or the appropriate scarring to replace it.

So say they were to add another man.. His options could start here..
1) injury removal placeholder
2) a faint purplish bruising
3) heavy black and blue bruising
4) a bruised, black right eye
5) a bruised, black left eye
6) two black eyes
7) a scab-crusted cut
.... then further down the line we get more severe
20) a wicked looking gash
21) a few wicked looking gashes
22) several wicked looking gashes
23) a fresh, painful patch of burnt skin
24) a weeping, infected looking gouge

[SpyGuy]

I really like this.

[Dalmeth]

It might be easiest to attach a general time limit to these changes, so that their removal is automatic.  Then again, I don't know the resources that would take.

[MorganChaos]

Love. Yes please.

Perhaps add evidence of thirst, starvation, and a few stages of pregnancy, cause those are other things I hate emoting, but I think you'd have to use different code than this.

[LauraMars]

Several stages of pregnancy?

The rosy, black-haired woman removes a sleeveless blue tunic, revealing a large round stomach.

[Ghost]

Good idea, InsertCleverNameBecauseMineIsNotSoSmart.  This is so awesome it is crying out its awesomeness.

[Vesperas]

I love this idea, too.  Timer or not, this would be a great relief and would actually encourage me to roleplay longer-lasting injuries past "full health" much more often -- many times, I simply forget to emote, or run out of ways to tell the room without getting redundant.

Several stages of pregnancy?

The rosy, black-haired woman removes a sleeveless blue tunic, revealing a large round stomach.

This could be awkward, having to remove clothing, particularly in later stages. LoL.  I don't know how much coding it would require, but it could instead attach the description to the bottom of the desc or another reserved wear location or some such, where it would be completely obvious despite worn equipment (barring cloaks).

[Nao]

Great - morgag chaos additions, too.

[InsertCleverNameHere]

Instead of adding a pregnancy locdesc addition..  Maybe the common clothing shop could just start carrying a few cheap 'maternity dresses' or shirt/pants combo's. *shrug* And Kadius could carry some higher-priced pregnancy-wear, of course.

[Marauder Moe]

Tdesc!

Though, this would be an acceptable interim addition/solution as it wouldn't require new code.

[Cale_Knight]

I still don't like tdesc, but this idea is extremely cool.

[moab]

Yes please.

[MorganChaos]

Of course, tdesc would solve all my pregnancy problems.

Maternity dresses is an interesting idea.

But to keep it with this idea:

##) evidence of starvation (something like a protruding belly, bony limbs, and discolored skin)
##) evidence of thrist (dry, cracked skin and maybe some weakness in the limbs)
a small bump in the abdomen (3 months)
a bump in the abdomen (4 months)
a rounded, pregnant belly (6 months)
a very pregnant belly (8 months)

[Delirium]

A pregnancy 'tattoo' seems horribly awkward.

You still have to emote it sometimes, unless you're going to wander around stripping your shirt off every five minutes.

So, I say leave it to be emoted out.

[Cegar]

the slender, petite woman is here
-she is carrying a baby

[John]

A pregnancy 'tattoo' seems horribly awkward.

You still have to emote it sometimes, unless you're going to wander around stripping your shirt off every five minutes.

So, I say leave it to be emoted out.

I ask this: What can it hurt? I figure if injury "scars" are going to be added to the list of scars we can have, might as well add one or two for pregnancy (after all, AFAIK the proposal doesn't actually mean any additional code).

[Jherlen]

Injury scars and pregnancy are different animals by far.

A scar doesn't need to be emoted constantly, and doesn't have nearly as big an effect on a PC's appearance, usually. It also looks fine when you see "The person removes their gloves, revealing a scar." I'm all for many different types of scars that follow this model.

"The person removes their shirt, revealing a pregnant belly" just reads, well, dumb, to me.

If we were really set on having coded ways to show pregnancy, I think a better solution would be to append a line to someone's desc, before their eq list. Something like "The so and so woman appears to be in the early stages of pregnancy." This could be addable like scars are, just not displayed in the same way.

But I'm with Delerium, just let it be emoted out.

[Cegar]

Refer to my post on the bottom of the first page.

[jcarter]

Refer to my post on the bottom of the first page.

She is carrying a baby, in that context, would generally be assumed that she is literally carrying a baby in her arms. That also really doesn't work like a scar, since scars don't show up underneath the sdesc. The only things that do are big items in inventory (she is carrying a fat belly; steal fat belly) or spell effects (cast 'mon un vivadu knockem upem').

[Cegar]

It was just a joke...


I thought it was witty =(

[The7DeadlyVenomz]

You could add decay to the items, giving a message along the lines of, "You realize (injury) is gone. This would work fine as a timer, and should already be in the game.

I like this idea plenty.

[InsertCleverNameHere]

Personally, I don't really see pregnancy, starvation and such fitting in to the concept I propose, but maybe that's just me. Because the effects of long term starvation and dehydration, I would think, ought to be things you add into your main description. And pregnancy is a different in that not everybodies pregnancy follows the same stage/timeline RL, even among humans. If you're suffering the effects of long term starvation/dehydration, I'd say put it in a main desc. Pregnancy could be covered by the type of clothes (if they'd add some maternity items) and emotes. *shrug*

[MorganChaos]

Personally, I don't really see pregnancy, starvation and such fitting in to the concept I propose, but maybe that's just me. Because the effects of long term starvation and dehydration, I would think, ought to be things you add into your main description. And pregnancy is a different in that not everybodies pregnancy follows the same stage/timeline RL, even among humans. If you're suffering the effects of long term starvation/dehydration, I'd say put it in a main desc. Pregnancy could be covered by the type of clothes (if they'd add some maternity items) and emotes. *shrug*

It doesn't, totally, but it was an idea I figured I should throw out there. *shrug*

[flurry]

Chiming in a little late, but I wanted to say that while I think the stages of pregnancy thing is a neat idea, on reflection I agree it's awkward and not all that useful (how often is anyone going to see it anyway?).

But since we're on the subject of scar-code and pregnancy, there's always stretch marks.