Drink all the spam!

[Taven]

Right now when you want to buy drinks for the bar, you have to buy them all, and then put them on the bar. It's spammy.

What if there was a command that bought the drink AND put it on the bar?

buy #01 for bar

You buy the mug of awesomez booze, and ask the server to put it on the bar.
The spiffy bartender pours a mug of awesomez booze and sets it on the bar.

Even better would be mass buying.

buy 10 #01 for bar

You buy 10 mugs of awesomez booze, and ask the server to put it on the bar.
The spiffy bartender pours many mugs of awesomez booze and sets them on the bar.

[Iiyola]

I dig this.

[ShaLeah]

I like it.

I prefer that there would be BULK options for the shit we buy a lot of. Like the flour and the wheat bundles and feathers.

Come on Naathvan!

[LauraMars]

Love it.

[InsertCleverNameHere]

Have made an IG "idea" suggestion about this before, actually. Totally wish it were possible.

[Barzalene]

What if  you could -
Buy [item] amos?

[Lizzie]

What if  you could -
Buy [item] amos?

That wouldn't work because there are times when there are more than one NPC merchant in the room, and that bit of code determines which NPC you are buying *from*.

[Qzzrbl]

Buy [item] <merchant> for {recipiant}

Still wouldn't account for all 'dat spam though.

I'm down with the OP.

[Refugee]

I'd definitely support some way to buy multiples of a thing.

[Barsook]

I dig this.

[i can haz mantis]

Can we have this yesterday please?

[Molten Heart]

I like it.

I prefer that there would be BULK options for the shit we buy a lot of. Like the flour and the wheat bundles and feathers.

Come on Naathvan!

And arrows.

[ShaLeah]

I like it.

I prefer that there would be BULK options for the shit we buy a lot of. Like the flour and the wheat bundles and feathers.

Come on Naathvan!

And arrows.

We should make our own thread.

[Barsook]

Can we also have "buy mug for Amos"?  It will tell the bartender to give the mug to Amos, not yourself. 

ETA: This code should act like the dealing cards code but with for person 1, person 2, and so on.

[Harmless]

>Buy jacket for amos

Leads to Amos receiving a jacket sized for him.

Think this has been suggested before, but I thought I'd post anyhow.

[janeshephard]

It's neat but there has to be a more general way of doing this across more commands.

Adding a multiplier to other commands to.

put 10 grain pouch

[Maso]

Multiples in general. Omg.

offer amos 10*bread [for] 1*sword

[i can haz mantis]

It's neat but there has to be a more general way of doing this across more commands.

Adding a multiplier to other commands to.

put 10 grain pouch

Yes, please.

[chrisdcoulombe]

That would be sweet. 

[Barsook]

I dig this.

[Refugee]

Eat 5 Ration - to take 5 bites.  Ever see the spam when the Byn gets ready to ride?

It would be nice in some situations where you really need to get some food in but it interrupts the flow of the RP to scarf down 4 belshun fruits.

[Barsook]

Is that a "eat all" command though?

[Refugee]

Eat all would be good too.  You wouldn't have to know how many bites in everything.

[Barsook]

It's more eat whole, not eat all.  It was a afterthought.

[FantasyWriter]

>consume stew
You eat all of the stew.

[Maso]

>consume stew
You eat all of the stew.

Or eat whole x. Either would work. Hate causing eating spam at the wrong moments.

[i can haz mantis]

>consume stew
You eat all of the stew.

Like this one... and if you'd be full before eating all of it you'd still have left overs:

>consume stew
You eat the stew until you couldn't possibly eat any more leaving a small portion.

[Barsook]

>consume stew
You eat all of the stew.

Or eat whole x. Either would work. Hate causing eating spam at the wrong moments.

Maybe both can be for this command.  And that echo is perfect, ICHM.

[perfecto]

seems like a fun little idea but.. no..

Yet another tiny miniscule "extra bit of work" for the imms to code, which we could very well do ourselves.. as we ROLEPLAY..

[LauraMars]

seems like a fun little idea but.. no..

Yet another tiny miniscule "extra bit of work" for the imms to code, which we could very well do ourselves.. as we ROLEPLAY..

We can't really roleplay out eating everything on your plate quickly without a lot of spam, which is what this idea is trying to address.  Personally, I like it - the "HRPT Spam Eatathon" or even just a regular RPT or Byn unit stew dinner spamfest of eat would be a lot less annoying and immersion breaking if such a thing existed, and would leave more room for actual story content to be seen instead of the scrolling screen of eat and drink spam.  As for the original suggestion, I'd say it's a good idea too, and also streamlines what usually ends up being a lot of spam.

I realize you have good intentions here, so please don't take this the wrong way, but can I request that we keep the discussion to the code idea?  You could probably say that "roleplay is the solution and don't waste staff's time" about nearly every code idea suggested on the gdb (and someone usually does).  However, we are actually not creating any extra code work for staff by simply talking about someone's suggestion, and code suggestions and discussion are why the Code Discussion forum exists.

Back on topic, my one tiny concern with the "devour" idea is people using it when it's not appropriate, but honestly the benefits of having it from a roleplay perspective far outweigh any weirdness of an inappropriate devour here or there, in my opinion.  The mass-quantity buy command I have no criticism for.