Random Tiny CODE Wants

[brytta.leofa]

That wouldn't be so easy.  The descs are stored in a file that I can easily access and parse.  The skills are not as much.  Also the conditional display of the 'how good' would have to be kept in synch between the game and the web tool (not a huge deal, but still something else to consider)

Just uncorpsify our beloved ex-characters and pop 'em into a secret, undisclosed location in the game (or on the testin' port or whatever).  Force them to type "skills."  Capture the output.  Run through webby magic.  How hard can it be?

Or if you want to really be cathartic, let us disconnect from our living character and connect to a dead one...but logging in puts us in a temporary, private, simply-furnished room that is wholly isolated from the game itself.  We can call it The Grieving Chamber.

[valeria]

Morg: In terms of what I'd find useful, it would be how many of each type of request (ie, Character Reports: total # , Player Kudos: total #) and then maybe total # of requests week by week, or at least by month.   

[Cindy42]

That wouldn't be so easy.  The descs are stored in a file that I can easily access and parse.  The skills are not as much.  Also the conditional display of the 'how good' would have to be kept in synch between the game and the web tool (not a huge deal, but still something else to consider)

Just uncorpsify our beloved ex-characters and pop 'em into a secret, undisclosed location in the game (or on the testin' port or whatever).  Force them to type "skills."  Capture the output.  Run through webby magic.  How hard can it be?

Or if you want to really be cathartic, let us disconnect from our living character and connect to a dead one...but logging in puts us in a temporary, private, simply-furnished room that is wholly isolated from the game itself.  We can call it The Grieving Chamber.

I dig this!

[Majikal]

Hunt to be effected by daylight in the same way that forage is.

Would make being a bastard in the dead of night more promising and a posse has to track their quarry before night on most days.

[X-D]

For watch direction to work on sneak.

IE, sneak should not automatically defeat watch direction whether you have the skill or not.


And on that note, For watch direction to see emotes.

[Xeran Van Houten]

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[Drayab]

Hunt to be effected by daylight in the same way that forage is.

Would make being a bastard in the dead of night more promising and a posse has to track their quarry before night on most days.

I like this one. Maybe not make it impossible, but make it more difficult. I like the idea of the night being extra dangerous for most because it's the preferred time for ne'er-do-wells to crawl out from under their rocks.

[Gunnerblaster]

Hunt to be effected by daylight in the same way that forage is.

Would make being a bastard in the dead of night more promising and a posse has to track their quarry before night on most days.

I like this one. Maybe not make it impossible, but make it more difficult. I like the idea of the night being extra dangerous for most because it's the preferred time for ne'er-do-wells to crawl out from under their rocks.

It's been awhile but I thought Hunt already works like this...?

[Drayab]

Maybe it does, but...

Skill Hunt                                                     (Perception)

   This skill involves the act of carefully searching the terrain that the
character is in, to find who has passed through the vicinity. Depending on
what environment the character is used to, their ability to find a quarry's
tracks will be adjusted accordingly. Rangers are best suited in the desert,
while in the cities they will be penalised. This applies conversely for
other guilds which might get the skill.
   Tracks are only left if something has passed through the location. Thus,
in order to track something accurately, one should know where the trail has
begun.

Syntax:
   hunt

Note:
   Light levels typically do not strongly affect the ability, but weather
conditions do. It is almost impossible to track someone through a
sandstorm, for example.  All stride & weight related messages should be
assumed to be relative to an average human.

Delay: before

I personally haven't noticed much effect, but the help file implies a modest penalty.

[Gunnerblaster]

Maybe it does, but...

Skill Hunt                                                     (Perception)

   This skill involves the act of carefully searching the terrain that the
character is in, to find who has passed through the vicinity. Depending on
what environment the character is used to, their ability to find a quarry's
tracks will be adjusted accordingly. Rangers are best suited in the desert,
while in the cities they will be penalised. This applies conversely for
other guilds which might get the skill.
   Tracks are only left if something has passed through the location. Thus,
in order to track something accurately, one should know where the trail has
begun.

Syntax:
   hunt

Note:
   Light levels typically do not strongly affect the ability, but weather
conditions do. It is almost impossible to track someone through a
sandstorm, for example.  All stride & weight related messages should be
assumed to be relative to an average human.

Delay: before

I personally haven't noticed much effect, but the help file implies a modest penalty.

It's not impossible to find tracks at night, in-game or in real life - given you have some good lighting in the area (ie: torch, strong moonlight with calm weather).

[Drayab]

Knowing nothing of tracking personally, I defer to those that know better. I just like night being the providence of ne're-do-wells. It just seems like common sense to me that it would be significantly harder to track at night, everything else being equal.

[Synthesis]

For watch direction to work on sneak.

IE, sneak should not automatically defeat watch direction whether you have the skill or not.


And on that note, For watch direction to see emotes.

Yeah, the watch function definitely needs to call checks vs. listen (or scan, I suppose) when someone is sneaking into a watched room.

[Gunnerblaster]

Knowing nothing of tracking personally, I defer to those that know better. I just like night being the providence of ne're-do-wells. It just seems like common sense to me that it would be significantly harder to track at night, everything else being equal.

You also have to take into account terrain. For example; it's infinitely harder to track someone through a forest, at night versus tracking them through a desert, at night.

[DesertT]

Yeah, so I found out that when they say you can only submit ONE mastercraft item per month, it does NOT mean one in January, one in February, one in March and so on.

I submitted on the 30th of January and even today, the 28th of February, I cannot submit another mastercraft item.

My want?

That 'the system' could differentiate between the actual months so that I could submit one item on the 30th of January, then turn around and submit another on the 5th of February.   

[Nyr]

It may be a little saddening to hear, but we did it this way on purpose, I promise--for the reason you indicated you want it.

[DesertT]

Nyr,

You are -all- about denying me.  

No tattoo.

No mastercraft.

No LOVE!!

[Cindy42]

Maybe it does, but...

Skill Hunt                                                     (Perception)

   This skill involves the act of carefully searching the terrain that the
character is in, to find who has passed through the vicinity. Depending on
what environment the character is used to, their ability to find a quarry's
tracks will be adjusted accordingly. Rangers are best suited in the desert,
while in the cities they will be penalised. This applies conversely for
other guilds which might get the skill.
   Tracks are only left if something has passed through the location. Thus,
in order to track something accurately, one should know where the trail has
begun.

Syntax:
   hunt

Note:
   Light levels typically do not strongly affect the ability, but weather
conditions do. It is almost impossible to track someone through a
sandstorm, for example.  All stride & weight related messages should be
assumed to be relative to an average human.

Delay: before

I personally haven't noticed much effect, but the help file implies a modest penalty.

It's not impossible to find tracks at night, in-game or in real life - given you have some good lighting in the area (ie: torch, strong moonlight with calm weather).

you remember aragorn in the second LOTR movie touching the ground, and (even if it was dark) touching the tracks might still good you clear enough indication that you don't need light.

"A hobbit lay here."

[Cindy42]

basically, i want hunt to stay the same.

and:

i would really like for the mount animals available for sale to be more random than two to seven different animals available; like: say this is the list.

1. a sunlon
2. a war beetle
3. a plains-ox
4. an inix
5. a mekillot-WTF

and then when you bought one the appearance is randomized from a pool of different sdesc/mdesc sets so that, for the most part, you could tell the different between your ox and someone else's ox. like yours is "the large, brown-black plains-ox" and their's is "the one-horned, shaggy plains-ox" or something.

[brytta.leofa]

and then when you bought one the appearance is randomized from a pool of different sdesc/mdesc sets so that, for the most part, you could tell the different between your ox and someone else's ox. like yours is "the large, brown-black plains-ox" and their's is "the one-horned, shaggy plains-ox" or something.

I love this.  Rather than having
   3. a war beetle,
   4. a cool war beetle, and
   5. an other cool war beetle,
make the only beetle option "a war beetle," but autogenerate a plausibly unique beetle for the purchaser.

I'd love to be able to purchase inix in more locations, too, but maybe it's good for the game that I can't.

[Synthesis]

and then when you bought one the appearance is randomized from a pool of different sdesc/mdesc sets so that, for the most part, you could tell the different between your ox and someone else's ox. like yours is "the large, brown-black plains-ox" and their's is "the one-horned, shaggy plains-ox" or something.

I love this.  Rather than having
   3. a war beetle,
   4. a cool war beetle, and
   5. an other cool war beetle,
make the only beetle option "a war beetle," but autogenerate a plausibly unique beetle for the purchaser.

I'd love to be able to purchase inix in more locations, too, but maybe it's good for the game that I can't.

I'd use something like the tattoo code or the custom clothing code so people could customize it.  Otherwise you'd get people sending in requests like "my dwarf's focus is to never touch anything green, but the code made me buy a green beetle! Can someone please make it a blue beetle instead?"

[Praetorian]

Odd little idea I had from the 'beep' portion of the nifty things thread:

Ping
The ping command can be used on another player, without breaking stealth or alerting the other player, for those that suspect the individual is linkdead and unable to respond to attempts at roleplay.

> ping muscular
The tall, muscular man appears to be connected to the game normally.

> ping short
The short, skinny man appears to be disconnected from the game.  Staff has been notified of their status.

If you ping someone that is indeed linkdead, then it sends a message to staff that a linkdead player is in a position where their presence demands interaction that they are incapable of doing.  This allows staff to note if someone is intentionally using ping feedback to oocly 'prey' on certain people, and if not allows them to force-log that individual out after the would-be interacter has moved on.

Example situation would be a PC guard in a clan barrack.  They SHOULD be at training, but physically aren't - if they were offline, then they are virtually at training, there's not repercussions about that.  If they are online then they are clearly skipping training and that might be a problem.  However, if their commanding PC pings them, and realizes that they are offline (disconnected) then its more to their discretion on how to treat it.  Gives them more information regarding an OOC situation without having to go to OOC communication within game.  Just a thought.

[Barsook]

Odd little idea I had from the 'beep' portion of the nifty things thread:

Ping
The ping command can be used on another player, without breaking stealth or alerting the other player, for those that suspect the individual is linkdead and unable to respond to attempts at roleplay.

> ping muscular
The tall, muscular man appears to be connected to the game normally.

> ping short
The short, skinny man appears to be disconnected from the game.  Staff has been notified of their status.

If you ping someone that is indeed linkdead, then it sends a message to staff that a linkdead player is in a position where their presence demands interaction that they are incapable of doing.  This allows staff to note if someone is intentionally using ping feedback to oocly 'prey' on certain people, and if not allows them to force-log that individual out after the would-be interacter has moved on.

Example situation would be a PC guard in a clan barrack.  They SHOULD be at training, but physically aren't - if they were offline, then they are virtually at training, there's not repercussions about that.  If they are online then they are clearly skipping training and that might be a problem.  However, if their commanding PC pings them, and realizes that they are offline (disconnected) then its more to their discretion on how to treat it.  Gives them more information regarding an OOC situation without having to go to OOC communication within game.  Just a thought.

I dig this.

[Reiteration]

Odd little idea I had from the 'beep' portion of the nifty things thread:

Ping
The ping command can be used on another player, without breaking stealth or alerting the other player, for those that suspect the individual is linkdead and unable to respond to attempts at roleplay.

> ping muscular
The tall, muscular man appears to be connected to the game normally.

> ping short
The short, skinny man appears to be disconnected from the game.  Staff has been notified of their status.

If you ping someone that is indeed linkdead, then it sends a message to staff that a linkdead player is in a position where their presence demands interaction that they are incapable of doing.  This allows staff to note if someone is intentionally using ping feedback to oocly 'prey' on certain people, and if not allows them to force-log that individual out after the would-be interacter has moved on.

Example situation would be a PC guard in a clan barrack.  They SHOULD be at training, but physically aren't - if they were offline, then they are virtually at training, there's not repercussions about that.  If they are online then they are clearly skipping training and that might be a problem.  However, if their commanding PC pings them, and realizes that they are offline (disconnected) then its more to their discretion on how to treat it.  Gives them more information regarding an OOC situation without having to go to OOC communication within game.  Just a thought.

I dig this.

I dig that dig, and the original idea.

[Synthesis]

It's already been said a hundred times that the game sucks at being able to tell whether a PC is linkdead or not.

If someone doesn't respond to you when you tell them, "Hey, jerkoff, get your ass to the sparring hall," how about you just assume they're linkdead?

[FantasyWriter]

I would love to be able to use the command "sap" with bare fists.