Distinguishing Your Mount

[Voular]

Hello,
I had an idea.. since we already can name our mounts and it sort of sticks and we've had awesome code leaps with tdesc and so on I thought I'd make a suggestion. As it is now, mounts have fixed sdesc but can be titled. In a room however of 10 war beetles you can't tell which war beetle is yours except going "keyword TITLENAME" or trying to distinguish it with something packed on. What my suggestion is that you can same as "title" give your war beetle a customized sdesc. How far we take this is all up to the staffers. Perhaps it can be that a storebought war beetle is simply "a war beetle" then you can "stitle" it to "a dung-covered war beetle". This could be used for any animal, sunbacks and inixes and so on. I would say that this shouldn't be permanent, same as title - but for everyone who uses big clan stables this would really help in the whole everyone losing/borrowing your mount issue.

So instead of:

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A war beetle is reclining here.
A war beetle is reclining here.
A war beetle is reclining here.
A war beetle is reclining here.
A war beetle is reclining here.
A yellow sunback lizard is reclining here.


We can see:

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A battered war beetle is reclining here.
A three-legged war beetle is reclining here.
A beady-eyed war beetle is reclining here.
A spotted war beetle is reclining here.
A single-eyed war beetle is reclining here.
A fanged yellow sunback lizard is reclining here.


Or something similar?

[LauraMars]

I love this idea.

Please Morgenes please!

[Cutthroat]

This would be awesome.

[Rhyden]

Nice.

[Dahomey]

Or ldesc change?

[FuSoYa]

I endorse the shit out of this.

Brandon

[valeria]

I like this idea a lot, even if it's just something like getting to add one word.

[tortall]

OMG yes. <3

[The7DeadlyVenomz]

Hell yes.

[mansa]

As long as 'beetle' or 'mount type name' remains in the sdesc, I see very little difference between this and a customizable ldesc.

Though, -this- is cooler than a one-shot ldesc, as it would stick from room to room during the current playtime the player has.

Obviously, it would reset after the mount is stabled.

Thumbs up!

[Zoltan]

Two thumbs up. God damn it, being in a room with a dozen identical war beetles after a chaotic battle drives me nuts.

[jmordetsky]

Two thumbs up. God damn it, being in a room with a dozen identical war beetles after a chaotic battle drives me nuts.

Yea agreed. Love the idea - that said as an interim measure you can use title. Once you mount do: title Betty or title Rex and then you can use that keyword to target your mount. STitle would be WAY cooler though.

[Zoltan]

Two thumbs up. God damn it, being in a room with a dozen identical war beetles after a chaotic battle drives me nuts.

Yea agreed. Love the idea - that said as an interim measure you can use title. Once you mount do: title Betty or title Rex and then you can use that keyword to target your mount. STitle would be WAY cooler though.

Oh, I -always- use title. The problem is when some people don't. It only takes a few to throw things off. And then there's always the problem when someone hitches the wrong mount accidentally and you take five minutes trying to figure out who has what. It'd be nice to just go :points at ~dung-covered.beetle.

[Tzurahro]

You know, this is pretty sweet.  I know we can add tags (like dusty, or smelly) to object sdecs, so it might even be possible.  Maybe.  Has anyone used the Request Tool to submit this?  Or the "idea" command IG?

[Voular]

Nope. I presented the idea here, for input. I'll send it in through the request tool right now!

[MarshallDFX]

There is a small abuse potential.

*steal mount*
*change mount's sdesc*

What?  No- see?  Looks nothing like yours.

Should it be permanent perhaps?  Or have some timer before it can be changed again?  Or something?  Typo-ing would suck, but still.

[Gimfalisette]

Perhaps purchased mounts could simply have randomized sdescs instead. Give each mount 20 possible sdescs, perhaps with a little difference in rarity between them so some are "cooler" than others, and you get what you get by chance when you purchase the mount.

And/or add in the possibility of getting the mount tattooed or branded to make it unique-er.

I dunno. Mounts are one of those things in game I have little interest in, but I understand the annoying problem of having 10 identical-looking war beetles in the same room.

[brytta.leofa]

Mounts are one of those things in game I have little interest in

         


                                                                                                         

[MarshallDFX]

Mounts are one of those things in game I have little interest in.

Filthy necker.

[Gimfalisette]

Sorry, guys, I don't have much interest in a lot of the typical "ranger" archetype stuff, and I suspect I never will :/ A personal failing, yes.

[Reiloth]

Sorry, guys, I don't have much interest in a lot of the typical "ranger" archetype stuff, and I suspect I never will :/ A personal failing, yes.

what a loser.

Mounts are totally awesome!

...

[jstorrie]

Or have some timer before it can be changed again?  Or something?  Typo-ing would suck, but still.

How about you can only do it when you unstable/summon your mount (or, if a ranger, when you log in with it)? ie, only when the instance of your mount is loaded in-game.

[Dahomey]

There is a small abuse potential.

*steal mount*
*change mount's sdesc*

What?  No- see?  Looks nothing like yours.

Should it be permanent perhaps?  Or have some timer before it can be changed again?  Or something?  Typo-ing would suck, but still.

Abuse would be abuse, same as with tdesc.

However. To fix it, you can have it so you're only able to have the sdesc changed on the default sdesc, and once changed, can't change it until stabled.

[Gagula]

Perhaps purchased mounts could simply have randomized sdescs instead. Give each mount 20 possible sdescs, perhaps with a little difference in rarity between them so some are "cooler" than others, and you get what you get by chance when you purchase the mount.

And/or add in the possibility of getting the mount tattooed or branded to make it unique-er.

I dunno. Mounts are one of those things in game I have little interest in, but I understand the annoying problem of having 10 identical-looking war beetles in the same room.

Personally I like this, except maybe do a total of 60 words, in pairings or triplicate, just so that you don't have 3 smelly beetles, but rather large smelly beetle, dung-covered smelly beetle, and green smelly beetle

[mansa]

I would like to see the core concept extended to objects, too.