Celebrate Look Hemote!

[RogueGunslinger]

Laura look!

April 2nd, 2016

(DakNyrus)
-Look changes
  -Look <character> now treated as a hemote, includes any emotes attached to the command, and can be spotted with watch the same as hemote
  -Look <direction> shows items of sufficient weight.
  -Look <direction> does not show empty description for hidden items.
-Skill Setup changes for characters
  -Fixed issue with skill set up on characters for guild/subguild/race/starting location
  -Boosted psi skills on newbies
  -Fixed issue with languages getting correctly set by race
-Fix to messaging in disarm fumbling.

(The Shade of Nyrssalin)
-Updates to forage to account for all the subguilds changes, lately.

Woot, even fixed that "Nothing" bug I mentioned.

[Lizzie]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GwjfUFyY6M

[LauraMars]

it's....




it's real

[dravage]

Waits patiently to see Laura's reaction.

She beat me to it!

[Chettaman]

xD
This is so awesome. That is all.

lol, man. *edited to add
for real. This is awesome.

[Marauder Moe]

Command emotes also hemote?

[LauraMars]

[Vositus]

This makes me happy.

Way to go Laura and co.!

[Morrolan]

This makes me happy!

[RogueGunslinger]

Command emotes also hemote?

Yes. According to staff post, at least. Haven't tried in-game.

[Desertman]

[Hicksville Hoochie]

Staff, I don't like this idea. No one insta-looks back at me anymore. Plz 2 revert k? 

[Mazy]

No more walls of look spam during arr pee tees?

Yes please.

[Jingo]

I don't like the change. I don't like the way it changes the dynamics for stealth characters. I think it should be obvious when someone notice-observes you.

Example: If I'm wearing a hood, someone can look at me, check my mdesc, report me to a templar secret-psionically without me ever knowing.

[Norcal]

I don't like the change. I don't like the way it changes the dynamics for stealth characters. I think it should be obvious when someone notice-observes you.

Example: If I'm wearing a hood, someone can look at me, check my mdesc, report me to a templar secret-psionically without me ever knowing.

You can always just emote it if you really want it to be obvious. em looks at  !jingo with a smile.

[Jingo]

Yeah. But nobody will. Like everything, players will play it like secret-agent-man.

[Norcal]

Yeah. But nobody will. Like everything players will play it like secret-agent-man.

I will. Promise.

[Barsook]

OMG....YAY!

[Jingo]

Yeah. But nobody will. Like everything players will play it like secret-agent-man.

I will. Promise.

That's nice Norcal. Now get the other three-hundred and eight players to do it.

The more I think about it, the more this sucks for stealth characters.

[Thunkkin]

We're going to need at last eight polls to check how the playerbase feels about this.

[Norcal]

Yeah. But nobody will. Like everything players will play it like secret-agent-man.

I will. Promise.

That's nice Norcal. Now get the other three-hundred and eight players to do it.

The more I think about it, the more this sucks for stealth characters.

Great change by the way. Quite happy!

[Majikal]

Yeah. But nobody will. Like everything players will play it like secret-agent-man.

I will. Promise.

That's nice Norcal. Now get the other three-hundred and eight players to do it.

The more I think about it, the more this sucks for stealth characters.

All stealth characters get a skill for helping notice hemotes. See scan.

The watch skill helps you notice hemotes.

You should be watching people you're worried might notice you.

[manipura]

I don't like the change. I don't like the way it changes the dynamics for stealth characters. I think it should be obvious when someone notice-observes you.

Example: If I'm wearing a hood, someone can look at me, check my mdesc, report me to a templar secret-psionically without me ever knowing.

Yeah, I thought about this too.  There are times when I specifically want it to be evident that I'm looking at someone.  Now if I am giving someone a once over, from head to toe, which implies I'm openly looking at them, they only know if they are watching me?  Or scanning perhaps as well?  
Like Norcal said though, emote is there for people who want their looks to be seen.  So I will have to look at them, then emote openly giving them a once over.

I hope people can start to remember that with look being a hemote now, adding commands that aren't hemotes is sort of awkward and doesn't make a lot of sense.
Example:

Code Select Expand

look amos (waving exuberantly)
...shouldn't be happening.

All in all though, I support this change.  So even though I've mentioned a couple nit-picky things about it...don't jump on me Laura!!

Edit: because grammar is a thing

[Jingo]

Yeah. But nobody will. Like everything players will play it like secret-agent-man.

I will. Promise.

That's nice Norcal. Now get the other three-hundred and eight players to do it.

The more I think about it, the more this sucks for stealth characters.

All stealth characters get a skill for helping notice hemotes. See scan.

The watch skill helps you notice hemotes.

You should be watching people you're worried might notice you.

Not all of them.

And even with watch and scan there is still enough uncertainty to tip the scales here.

[Jingo]

I'd be in support of adding a "look brief" that changes looks into hemotes. So it can be toggled by those that don't like the change.