Wishlists and Scripts

[manonfire]

More scripts for the NPCs!. If you crowdsource the work, we could have a multitude of different scripts for basically every NPC in the game.

- Shopkeepers would trudge home for the day, pockets loaded with coins, a ripe target for an observant thief that's learned their daily pattern.
- Prostitutes would turn tricks in hovels.
- Gangs of muggers would lurk in southside alleys and attempt to mug passers-by (this would also give the Arm something to do on a regular basis instead of standing around in taverns, hooded, emoting how observant they area - it also opens up the idea of having roving NPC gangs that are aggro-flagged against militia members)
- Magickal accidents for gemmers. Why not have a krathi occasionally nuke himself into a pile of ash?
- Scripted executions. Occasionally you'll see a HG soldier drag some poor sap down to the pit and toss him in. Bonus points if he shouts RESISTANCE IS USELESS.
- NPC villains that threaten the cities. Some decrepit Nilazi shitlord that flings a horde of undead scrab at the city every now and then. Let's face it, everyone loves choppin mothafuckas up with bone swords. Eventually, it culminates with some heroic sortie by an amalgamation of PCs into the lair of X where they strike him/her down with great vengeance and furious anger and gather up all the sweet loot.

The possibilities are endless.

[ShaLeah]

1.   More room echoes in more places.
2.   More NPCs talk.
3.   Independent living made a bit harder.
4.   Crafting flagged regional, so that Nakki people (unless in a GMH and thereby schooled in all regions) can't make Tuluki items and vice versa.
5.   The return of lost things (kanks, halflings).
6.   A whole new world. (by world I mean area, either the city states taking over more land, reopening places or whole new areas that fit into the scene)
7.   The segregation of magick wielders from the general populace in Allanak. Keep them gicks where they belong.
8.   More visible slave NPCs. with their masters.

Just make submissions open.

In effect allow everyone to send in any description of an item/npc/texty thing they would like to see in the world. And just pick and chose. Give credit when something might be implemented that's not to spoilery. And then you'll have a big reservoir of npc descriptions/items and so on you can go pick and chose from when you need/feel in the mood.

/end of thread

I counter with hellz no:
9.   Items added to the game be a result of in game work (through the master craft system, an actual PC making things) not ooc submissions.
10. The return of devotions, enforced by PC Templars and soldiers.
11. A visible governing body led by PCs in Red Storm (maybe even other places)
12. The opening of all clans inside a city, let the chips fall where they may and let the best House win. Bring the people back to the cities!
13. The Master Craft limit raised to three per IC within a clan per PC MCer.
14. That northern nobility personal relationship restriction lifted.
15. Luirs stop being so cushy and secure. Someone take over them fuckers.


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[Quirrilicious]

More often updated rumor scripts with barkeeps.

I think it would be kind of neat to do away with rumor boards at all and instead have a way to tell an npc a rumor and be able to interact with one to hear said rumors.

[manonfire]

Can we shrinkray Allanak now?

If this was a serious comment, what would you shrinkray? Unlike Tuluk was up until today, most of the most frequently traveled parts of Allanak don't involve walking down giant roads to nowhere. In the commoner's quarter, you can't really remove rooms easily off of Theyak's, Stonecarver's, or Miner's Road, since they mostly all have shops hanging off of them. Merchant's Road east of the Bazaar gets a little long, but it has to be so to match up with the Noble's Quarter. And if you're a noble or servant and complaining about the walk back and forth from your cushy estate... well, 1) take your cushy job with great pay and silks and suck it up, or 2) let Oleupata and I know and we'll gladly cut your PC's legs off to ease the pain.

The west side of Allanak is fine. The east side is a monument to inefficiency.

Here's how you fix Allanak in three simple steps.

1) Rotate the entrance to the Noble's Quarters 90' clockwise so it's facing Arena Road. You'll cut down on a metric fuckton of travel time and still retain the relative inaccessibility of the Quarter, since it's away from the heavier population centers.

2) Delete that pointless stretch of Merchant's Road heading northward from the Merchant's Gate, and move the gate so that if you're traveling east on Merchant's Road, you'll dead-end at the gate.

3) Get rid of the offshoot that houses the GMH estates and attach those rooms to Merchant's Road as northern T-junctions.

I made a picture to illustrate!

Reposted cause it's apt for this thread.

[Norcal]

Sorry for the double post. 

I would also like to see NPC beasts akin to durrit and bamuk close to Allanak and Tuluk.  These animals are a lot of fun for newish hunters but can still kill you if you are not careful.  They do not run away when you enter a room, and they do not try and eat you when you enter a room.

Also I do not agree with making life for independents harder.  Given the size of the virtual population, most of them would not be working for GMH. If you look at the room echoes  on the commons in Tuluk, it seems clear that there are many many crafters buying raws and many hunters and grebbers selling them.  Players should have the option of playing into this without any nerfs.

[Delirium]

>close tent
>open tent

[KankWhisperer]

Gith stop vanishing.

[FantasyWriter]

Gith stop vanishing.

God, yes, please. Especially since NPCs can be scripted to flee now.

[MeTekillot]

Gith vanishing is a Find out IC thingiisn'tit?

[The7DeadlyVenomz]

Gith vanishing is a Find out IC thingiisn'tit?

... no.

[HavokBlue]

it was when I played a Kuraci

[MeTekillot]

I thought a staffer once said that was code working as intended.

[James de Monet]

Are you proposing to move the Noble's Quarter? I ask because you didn't mention that, but where you have it on your map is not exactly where it is in Allanak's current geography.

[RogueGunslinger]

Can we shrinkray Allanak now?

If this was a serious comment, what would you shrinkray? Unlike Tuluk was up until today, most of the most frequently traveled parts of Allanak don't involve walking down giant roads to nowhere. In the commoner's quarter, you can't really remove rooms easily off of Theyak's, Stonecarver's, or Miner's Road, since they mostly all have shops hanging off of them. Merchant's Road east of the Bazaar gets a little long, but it has to be so to match up with the Noble's Quarter. And if you're a noble or servant and complaining about the walk back and forth from your cushy estate... well, 1) take your cushy job with great pay and silks and suck it up, or 2) let Oleupata and I know and we'll gladly cut your PC's legs off to ease the pain.

The west side of Allanak is fine. The east side is a monument to inefficiency.

Here's how you fix Allanak in three simple steps.

1) Rotate the entrance to the Noble's Quarters 90' clockwise so it's facing Arena Road. You'll cut down on a metric fuckton of travel time and still retain the relative inaccessibility of the Quarter, since it's away from the heavier population centers.

2) Delete that pointless stretch of Merchant's Road heading northward from the Merchant's Gate, and move the gate so that if you're traveling east on Merchant's Road, you'll dead-end at the gate.

3) Get rid of the offshoot that houses the GMH estates and attach those rooms to Merchant's Road as northern T-junctions.

I made a picture to illustrate!

Reposted cause it's apt for this thread.

This guys posts are good. YES PLZ.

[Molten Heart]

Put the jail closer to the criminals.

[FantasyWriter]

I thought a staffer once said that was code working as intended.

They have, but "Working as intended" does not necessarily mean IC.

[manonfire]

Are you proposing to move the Noble's Quarter? I ask because you didn't mention that, but where you have it on your map is not exactly where it is in Allanak's current geography.

When I made that, I didn't have enough time to get every little thing right. It was just to illustrate the changes I suggested.

[The7DeadlyVenomz]

it was when I played a Kuraci

In the middle of a fight, with no echo of any sort what so ever? That was an IC thing?

[Is Friday]

Gith stop vanishing.

Gith stop vanishing.

Gith stop vanishing.

Gith stop vanishing.

Gith stop vanishing.

[Incognito]

Some of these have been mentioned by others in the post already....

1) Southern mount for HGs (in Nak and Storm).

2) A more robust buy/sell system for crafted/foraged items - esp stones/gems/clothing.

Here are a few more than come to mind :

3) Tone down tailoring costs for HGs.

4) Lockable tents (or rudimentary huts) - for outdoor settlements.
It really can't be that difficult ICLY to fabricate four walls and a roof, and put a small lock on a door on Zalanthas. And let's face it - just because your domicile isn't in a City-State, really shouldn't mean that you have zero security.

5) Hire-able NPC guards.
A pavilion where one could go and hire NPC guards in the major City-States.
Something like - you pay less for human/elf/h-elf, a little more for a dwarf, a bit more for an HG and even more for a mul.
You could hire them for a day, or a month, or a year.
If you don't take the NPC guard back to the pavilion and renew the hiring fees, he'll disappear.

6) More lockable containers - lockers, footlockers, dressers, cupboards, weapon's racks, chests.

7) More sheaths (various locations) and boots with sheaths - really - these aren't that hard to make ICLY - and there's no reason to continue to keep them on a "limited" basis. Its not like sheaths are like the items which used to have "fighting scripts" - and were thus "regulated". Just having items to stash your weapons in shouldn't be a big deal on Zalanthas.

A "pat-down" command for AoD and Legion PCs - to search other PCs for specific items. i.e. pat-down Amos for spice, or, pat-down Amos for <keyword>. This will definitely add a new dimension to smuggling and other fun RP possibilities.

9) More availability of portable tent-type shops - I know there is 1 clan that actually sells this item, but its hard for PCs from another geographical location to even get to those PCs.
It'd be great for crafters/grebbers/merchants to invest in one of these and set up shop near the taverns, and just display their wares. Haggling and buying/selling could be handled ICLY.

10) Merge Pickpocket and Burglar into one Rogue guild - to round off the guild in a more comprehensive manner overall.

11) Ability for mounts to raise their climb skill over time.

12) Extended Sub-guilds to be made available via regular application process (If deemed fit, overlapping sub-guilds could be made obsolete).

[Desertman]

I do want to see the code worked for mounts so that when you do stable/unstable them they don't come out code-wise as a new mount "item".

This would allow for things like your mount specifically becoming a "better mount" over years of use.

I can see myself having a fair bit of fun with playing a mount tamer/trainer/seller or people paying more for mounts owned by "so and so" because they know it is well trained and adapted to whatever purpose they need it for.

It would also make for some variation in mounts that isn't so sporadic. Some sunbacks would be stronger or weaker or have more endurance than others, and it would just depend on the stat roll of the mount when you bought it initially....it wouldn't change every single time you take them out of the stables.

Your mounts could even "age" and gain/lose stats over time just like PC's do.

[Desertman]

I do want to see the code re-worked for mounts so that when you do stable/unstable them they don't come out code-wise as a new mount "item".

This would allow for things like your mount specifically becoming a "better mount" over years of use.

I can see myself having a fair bit of fun with playing a mount tamer/trainer/seller or people paying more for mounts owned by "so and so" because they know it is well trained and adapted to whatever purpose they need it for.

It would also make for some variation in mounts that isn't so sporadic. Some sunbacks would be stronger or weaker or have more endurance than others, and it would just depend on the stat roll of the mount when you bought it initially....it wouldn't change every single time you take them out of the stables.

Your mounts could even "age" and gain/lose stats over time just like PC's do.

[Kevo]

Dwarves that pull you around in carts for a certain amount of coin.

[Beethoven]

I wish there was some (coded) way for PCs to become tattoo artists.

[Norcal]

I wish there was some (coded) way for PCs to become tattoo artists.

+1. Tattoo skill.  Yet I imagine that would mean all tats would need to be craftable, and that would mean a  lot of retrofit. Still...I think that skill alone would bring in lots of new players.

[Beethoven]

It would be so cool if you could subdue a person, or have another person subdue them, and then forcibly apply a tattoo.

Although I bet that would lead to fresh tattoo artists that no one wants to risk their literal hides on twinking up their novice tattooing skill in the 'rinth. 

[James de Monet]

It would be so cool if you could subdue a person, or have another person subdue them, and then forcibly apply a tattoo.

Realistically, nothing is stopping you from doing this! You just need some RP, a little staff notification, and a victim whose player is engaged.

[LauraMars]

Although I bet that would lead to fresh tattoo artists that no one wants to risk their literal hides on twinking up their novice tattooing skill in the 'rinth. 

5 years later...

I lost karma for training my tattooing skill while sparring.  I don't want to say I disagree with staff's decision. I  understand where they're coming from. At the same time, is the code that realistic?  I can only tattoo unconscious or subdued people against their will?  How else am I supposed to train my skill - not everyone wants to be tattooed by the PC tattoo artist, especially when they're just starting out.  Sometimes they want to use NPCs.  Sometimes there's another tattoo artist PC in the city who is awesome at emoting and gets more business - and then I'm faced with a choice.  Tattoo my unconscious sparring partners (bludgeon weapons ftw), or never raise my skill. Kind of like the problem male whores have now that Nathvaan has implemented the mudsex skill. 

It was in character.  I don't want to give away too much IC information, but my character was a psychopathic dwarf.  He WANTED to tattoo his sparring partners, his focus was to tattoo everyone in the entire world.  So what if he tattooed them more than once? I feel like my voice isn't being heard.  But at the same time I respect staff's decision.

[Patuk]

The subdue skill could use some improving no matter how you look at it. A way to tie people up and the ability to place a knife to the throat of the helpless so interrogation can be possible would be sublime.

[Beethoven]

As far as tattooing people non-codedly, it would help if the necessary equipment was available IG. As far as I know, it isn't, but then again, I don't know very far.

[valeria]

Tattooing people non-codedly and... equipment?  Ever see a person with a prison tattoo?  There's knives and ink available in both city states.  Go to town.  Will the results look pretty?  Again... ever see a person with a prison tattoo?

[Beethoven]

True. I still think it would be nice if there was stuff that was actually designed for tattooing, even if it never gets coded, which it probably won't.

The heavily inked, brutish man says, out-of-character, "Remember to turn nosave tattoo off!"

[James de Monet]

I could be crazy, but I feel like I have seen tattoo tools IG before.

Also, I got the best lol out of this.

5 years later...

I lost karma for training my tattooing skill while sparring.  I don't want to say I disagree with staff's decision. I  understand where they're coming from. At the same time, is the code that realistic?  I can only tattoo unconscious or subdued people against their will?  How else am I supposed to train my skill - not everyone wants to be tattooed by the PC tattoo artist, especially when they're just starting out.  Sometimes they want to use NPCs.  Sometimes there's another tattoo artist PC in the city who is awesome at emoting and gets more business - and then I'm faced with a choice.  Tattoo my unconscious sparring partners (bludgeon weapons ftw), or never raise my skill. Kind of like the problem male whores have now that Nathvaan has implemented the mudsex skill. 

It was in character.  I don't want to give away too much IC information, but my character was a psychopathic dwarf.  He WANTED to tattoo his sparring partners, his focus was to tattoo everyone in the entire world.  So what if he tattooed them more than once? I feel like my voice isn't being heard.  But at the same time I respect staff's decision.

[valeria]

I've seen tattoo tools, but they were very specific tools of very specific PCs who can add coded tattoos to other PCs, rather than something for general consumption.  Unless you're thinking of something else, in which case I may be crazy.

[The7DeadlyVenomz]

- more tamable mounts, and "pets" that would have to be stabled, like gortok or jackals or quirk etc

[Bushranger]

- more tamable mounts, and "pets" that would have to be stabled, like gortok or jackals or quirk etc

Half-elf should need to be rented in stables instead of allowed to quit out in taverns.

[Norcal]

It would be good to have some sort of storage locker arrangement for folks that have to take breaks from Arm longer than the period for which you can rent an apartment. There are probably not many of us, but it would be nice.

I don't know though. There may be some kind of code issue that prevents the creation of a locker system.

[ShaLeah]

It would be good to have some sort of storage locker arrangement for folks that have to take breaks from Arm longer than the period for which you can rent an apartment. There are probably not many of us, but it would be nice.

I don't know though. There may be some kind of code issue that prevents the creation of a locker system.

Doesn't Nenyuk do this?

[Norcal]

I think that is more for just a couple items. I was thinking like a chest full of items. But really, I'll have to look IC.

[BadSkeelz]

People accumulate too much crap as it is.

[Voular]

Just put all your valuables in a bag and log off. I know it's sort of meta and whatnot. But if you know you're going away for like a RL year or something and don't wanna store and don't wanna lose your silk pantaloons.. Then that's a way to do it?

[RogueGunslinger]

With how often my PC's die I just really can't care about "storage". I don't even use the bank.

[Reiloth]

#hardcoremode

If only you could stash your money in your apartment.

>hide coins mattress

[KankWhisperer]

#hardcoremode

If only you could stash your money in your apartment.

>hide coins mattress

It seems like you could just rename bury command 'stash' for indoor rooms.

[Reiloth]

Yeah, it'd be cool if it fed off the 'hide' skill, or some variation of it and palm.

Counter skill would be 'search' (which is under-utilized as it is).

I think I mentioned this somewhere on the GDB, maybe in conjunction with the return of 'trap'. Aha, found it.

http://gdb.armageddon.org/index.php/topic,47721.msg833891.html#msg833891

[Rhyden]

Not sure if it's been mentioned yet, but I always thought it would be cool if random NPC gladiators were loaded into the arena for occasional entertainment.

[The7DeadlyVenomz]

Not sure if it's been mentioned yet, but I always thought it would be cool if random NPC gladiators were loaded into the arena for occasional entertainment.

Yeh. This should happen every couple of IC days, along with a plethora of varied messages and stuff. The script could take into account whether there was a PC in of x ranking in x clan in x room, likely the noble stands AND the room you summon the NPCs from, and kill itself, to help keep PC run arena events running smoothly.

[Riev]

Not sure if it's been mentioned yet, but I always thought it would be cool if random NPC gladiators were loaded into the arena for occasional entertainment.

Yeh. This should happen every couple of IC days, along with a plethora of varied messages and stuff. The script could take into account whether there was a PC in of x ranking in x clan in x room, likely the noble stands AND the room you summon the NPCs from, and kill itself, to help keep PC run arena events running smoothly.

This would be pretty great actually. Load two aggro mobs, have them go at each other. Have them (or the room) fire off a few emotes/echoes... I'd watch.

[Reiloth]

Not sure if it's been mentioned yet, but I always thought it would be cool if random NPC gladiators were loaded into the arena for occasional entertainment.

Yeh. This should happen every couple of IC days, along with a plethora of varied messages and stuff. The script could take into account whether there was a PC in of x ranking in x clan in x room, likely the noble stands AND the room you summon the NPCs from, and kill itself, to help keep PC run arena events running smoothly.

This would be pretty great actually. Load two aggro mobs, have them go at each other. Have them (or the room) fire off a few emotes/echoes... I'd watch.

It'd be like the Southern equivalent to the "Tonight's Show is about to start in the Entertainment Hall" ala the Sanctuary.

[Saellyn]

Yeah only way cooler because death is happening.

[valeria]

I really do wish we had more three-dimensional cities.  Every time I have a character that's able to get onto the roofs, I'm just a little disappointed with how limited the experience is.

[Reiloth]

I really do wish we had more three-dimensional cities.  Every time I have a character that's able to get onto the roofs, I'm just a little disappointed with how limited the experience is.

go to da labyrinth yo

[QuillDipper]

Roofs would be amazing.

[BadSkeelz]

More entries to the sewers while we're at it.

[Patuk]

Make the 'rinth more livable by allowing people to forage for bodies at Meleth's. The templarate is unlikely to care, since it rids the city of the smell of rot.

Locking and unlocking doors while fighting really, really, really should not be possible. Even opening and closing them seems like a dangerous thing to do while someone is trying to chop your head off.

[QuillDipper]

Give open and close the same advantage that picking an item up does, make locking impossible.

[RogueGunslinger]

I was in a situation once where I was in an apartment with the door closed and locked, about to interrogate two burglars who had broken into it. They picked the lock on the door and ran out before I could react.

That really pissed me off.

[Reiloth]

Make the 'rinth more livable by allowing people to forage for bodies at Meleth's. The templarate is unlikely to care, since it rids the city of the smell of rot.

Locking and unlocking doors while fighting really, really, really should not be possible. Even opening and closing them seems like a dangerous thing to do while someone is trying to chop your head off.

Shit, at Meleth's? How about make the entire Labyrinth forgeable for body objects that have random loot on it.

For bonus points, grep from the list of items that have gone into the 'junk pile' from being left out too long.

[Patuk]

It's not so much about what the people had on them as it is about the dead bodies themselves.Call it 'rinthi salting.

[RogueGunslinger]

There are plenty enough bodies in the 'rinth, in my experience. If you're low on cash and food and can't find any, make a couple.

[Reiloth]

There are plenty enough bodies in the 'rinth, in my experience. If you're low on cash and food and can't find any, make a couple.

What about the people who aren't murderers, and just scavengers?

It'd be a nice dynamic if the people who weren't training backstab could make a living there, too.

[Gimfalisette]

What about the people who aren't murderers, and just scavengers?

It'd be a nice dynamic if the people who weren't training backstab could make a living there, too.

I played a PC who just lived off of scavenging stuff in the 'rinth. She was no killer.

[RogueGunslinger]

There are plenty enough bodies in the 'rinth, in my experience. If you're low on cash and food and can't find any, make a couple.

What about the people who aren't murderers, and just scavengers?

It'd be a nice dynamic if the people who weren't training backstab could make a living there, too.

I think you underestimate just how many bodies end up there. Cadavers were never something hard to find in the 'rinth. Also lots of newbies go there to die, so sometimes you get like 800 coins with the corpse.


I mean, sure it would be cool, 'scavenge corpse'. But it seems pointless to me in that place of all places.

[Reiloth]

I was thinking more that it would be a cool flavor thing, considering you can sell the bodies somewhere in the 'Rinth.

I think it depends who is playing there, as to how many bodies show up -- The last time I played there, bodies were actually very scarce.

[Gimfalisette]

I wish that midden heaps spawned rotten fruit and useless broken crap. But as with dung-sweeping, you'd get gross if you took stuff off the heap.

[Patuk]

Useful or not, Meleth's has a shitton of bodies nobody southside cares about after they're stripped clean.

[RogueGunslinger]

I was thinking more that it would be a cool flavor thing, considering you can sell the bodies somewhere in the 'Rinth.

I think it depends who is playing there, as to how many bodies show up -- The last time I played there, bodies were actually very scarce.

Log in around 5 AM next time, before they wither.  


Jokes aside, yeah, sometimes the 'rinth can be very empty. And lonely. And then you see someone and they're like; sneak/hide/creep-away. It's weird because it's right next to 'nak, where there are TONS of people playing.

Maybe I should make my 'rinthers more approachable.

[Delirium]

Code to handle multiples of objects without having to interact with them one by one.

238497 feathers, I'm lookin' at you.

[WithSprinkles]

238497 feathers, I'm lookin' at you.

238497 feathers look back at you, unruffled.

[Taven]

Code to handle multiples of objects without having to interact with them one by one.

238497 feathers, I'm lookin' at you.

They're done some stuff with feathers to make handling large volumes a little easier.

I just wish you could barter in bulk. I don't want to convince the merchant that I want the price to be X coins 50 times for item awesomela. I want to convince him the price can be X one time, then buy 50 awesomela all in one transaction.