Open request for quality of life improvements to the game.
Primarily looking for suggestions in the following areas:
- Syntax improvements.
- Feedback from success/failure messages on commands that would be more informative or provide more context to the reason for the success/failure. Such as changing, "You cannot lift that.", to, "You cannot life the dead body of the read-haired plumber."
- Added arguments to existing commands to better specify player intent on how they are trying to use the command.
- Reduction in typing, such as how some commands will auto-remove your gear before moving on to the next step, rather than giving an error of, "You must remove that first."
Please keep the thread on topic and be civil with one another.
Please do not attack suggestions posted by others.
The ability to set a long desc while seated, resting or crafting, OR an echo stating that you cannot set ldesc in one of those states. I would prefer the first but if it is not possible the second would be nice as a few times I have seen people post "It took me 3 years to realize set ldesc doesn't work while you are sitting," etc.
Can you fix it so that when you use a command like rescue/charge/trample/bash etc on a target that is not present, or does not fit meet the requirements of the skill to be used on them, there is no lag.
If I rescue someone that is not fighting right now, I still suffer the lag from the rescue skill as if I had attempted it.
I'd like for the KICK echo to be less specific. If I want to emote knee'ing somebody instead of actually doing a round house to the face....
Quote from: triste on January 19, 2021, 01:39:09 PM
The ability to set a long desc while seated, resting or crafting, OR an echo stating that you cannot set ldesc in one of those states. I would prefer the first but if it is not possible the second would be nice as a few times I have seen people post "It took me 3 years to realize set ldesc doesn't work while you are sitting," etc.
Hiding also.
Some of these are duplicates, but I'd just add them here:
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Change the quit message, "But you are too excited to leave just yet!"
Option:
Change it to -> "You can't leave so soon after you were recently in combat. Please wait a couple minutes." or "You are too excited from your recent combat and need a couple minutes to settle down before you leave." or something more polished than that.
***
Change "You're now wanted!"
option a: Someone heard or saw that illegal thing you just did, and you're now WANTED by local authorities!
option b: specify exactly what action was done to become wanted:
"You got caught STEALING, you are now Wanted!"
"You engaged in COMBAT, you are now Wanted!"
***
Please change the frown echo. Sometimes you want a quick canned social. I don't even know if it echoes properly to the room because it's something like 'What's bothering you?' That echo, that's what's bothering me.
***
I think it would be interesting if we had the option to change some of the emote symbols to /other/ keys on the keyboard.
This might make things easier for people with international keyboards or people using phones.
example:
I want to be able to do this:
remap ~ to 7
and then
emote waves to 7man
***
I'd like to have syntax take into account the word "in" when typing commands into the game.
>put sword in bag
>pilot wagon in argosy
>place dagger in table
This could be expanded for more "english like" commands, like 'from', 'in', 'on', etc.
>get sword from bag
>take dagger from table
Quote from: Hauwke on January 19, 2021, 03:20:27 PM
Quote from: triste on January 19, 2021, 01:39:09 PM
The ability to set a long desc while seated, resting or crafting, OR an echo stating that you cannot set ldesc in one of those states. I would prefer the first but if it is not possible the second would be nice as a few times I have seen people post "It took me 3 years to realize set ldesc doesn't work while you are sitting," etc.
Hiding also.
+1
I was one of those ignorant souls who thought I was setting a ldesc, and probably confused some folks while rp'ing around it. Yikes! =)
Allow us to say things to an unconscious PC/NPC. It's very flavorful.
Currently:
> tell amos You just had to keep pushin'!
Don't bother, he's sleeping.
Desired:
> tell amos You just had to keep pushin'!
(The tall, muscular man is not awake.)
You exclaim to the tall, muscular man, in sirihish,
"You just had to keep pushin'!"
Quote from: Saiseiki on January 19, 2021, 03:58:14 PM
Quote from: Hauwke on January 19, 2021, 03:20:27 PM
Quote from: triste on January 19, 2021, 01:39:09 PM
The ability to set a long desc while seated, resting or crafting, OR an echo stating that you cannot set ldesc in one of those states. I would prefer the first but if it is not possible the second would be nice as a few times I have seen people post "It took me 3 years to realize set ldesc doesn't work while you are sitting," etc.
Hiding also.
+1
I was one of those ignorant souls who thought I was setting a ldesc, and probably confused some folks while rp'ing around it. Yikes! =)
We can keep the idea that the thing you're sitting on is important by requiring you to include it in the ldesc.
>change ldesc sits here lazily at the bar
You are sitting on a grey stool at a black bar. You must include a black bar in your ldesc by using ~.
>change ldesc sits here lazily at ~bar
You are sitting on a grey stool at a black bar. You must include a black bar in your ldesc by using ~. A green ear bar is not a black bar.
>change ldesc sits here lazily at ~2.bar
Your new ldesc: the test PC sits lazily at a black bar
Is there anyway to include "look corpse's wounds" into an easier syntax?
Perhaps just automatically include it when you type 'look corpse" ?
Or maybe have a line item say "To view the corpse's wounds, type "look corpse's wounds" appended to the bottom of the corpse description?
Quote from: Brytta Léofa on January 19, 2021, 04:14:14 PM
Allow us to say things to an unconscious PC/NPC. It's very flavorful.
Currently:
> tell amos You just had to keep pushin'!
Don't bother, he's sleeping.
Desired:
> tell amos You just had to keep pushin'!
(The tall, muscular man is not awake.)
You exclaim to the tall, muscular man, in sirihish,
"You just had to keep pushin'!"
Yes, except ...
Desired:
> tell amos You just had to keep pushin'!
(The tall, muscular man is not awake.)
You exclaim to the [i]unconscious[/i] tall, muscular man, in sirihish,
"You just had to keep pushin'!"
Someone says something to you, but you are unconscious.
Quote from: DesertT on January 19, 2021, 01:57:45 PM
I'd like for the KICK echo to be less specific. If I want to emote knee'ing somebody instead of actually doing a round house to the face....
Yes. Normally, I'd just want kick to say, "You kick target" or "Your kick misses target" or "Your kick bounces off of ARMOR", etc.
I'd like to be able to add emotes to it.
>kick (lifting his boot and stomping)
Lifting his boot and stomping, your kick misses a grey mul.
Lifting his boot and stomping, your kick doubles a grey mul over in pain.
Lifting his boot and stomping, your kick is deflected by a silt-horror helm.
Quote from: triste on January 19, 2021, 01:39:09 PM
The ability to set a long desc while seated, resting or crafting, OR an echo stating that you cannot set ldesc in one of those states. I would prefer the first but if it is not possible the second would be nice as a few times I have seen people post "It took me 3 years to realize set ldesc doesn't work while you are sitting," etc.
I have changed ldesc while sitting, resting and crafting and it changes it. Unless what it tells me my ldesc is, is not accurate. I.e. if I do change ldesc and then check my ldesc in score, it shows what I changed it to. If this is just lying to me, then yeah that should also be fixed!
I don't know how to properly articulate this QoL but it has to do with crafting.
I have issues sometimes doing:
craft 2.item into whatever
(You can't find it!)
Or it initiates crafting, but then at the success/fail, I get the you can't find it.
Lots of great responses! Love the kick emote.
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Attempts at spam reduction.
put all.boots bag
You put five pairs of newbie boots into the brown bag.
Moving stuff around is so mind boggling spammy I never want to do it with other PCs around. Really anything to help reduce repeated spam messages like that would be great.
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Crafting seems to have come a LONG way since I last used it or I'm just really behind the times. But I'd still like something that would help me know what my character knows. I know a "here is all the things you can craft" isn't feasible for a variety of reasons, but some idea of what I could make given an item even if I am missing ingredients would be nice. Even if it's on just stuff that's easy for your character. Right now it seems crafting knowledge is very meta-gaming.
craft stone
You could make a smaller stone from that.
You think you could make a bone shafted hatchet if you had other material.
This would provide some direction, at least. Best idea I can think of. Maybe have to introduce a new flag, or skill cap to it so uber sekret vorpal swords don't appear here.
Was going to edit with additional thought on another spam reduction idea, but concerned with someone missing it after reading my post already. So here's some spam.
ep knife from nightstand
The tall, well-preportioned man brandishes the stabby knife from the wood nightstand.
or
wear shirt from bed
blah blah blah, get the idea I hope.
Give it a longer delay. But one command, one output. Could extend to wear and such. Allow for things like grabbing stuff off shelves or laying out clothes on the bed. Without extra lines being sent.
I love the spam reduction idea. On that, if there was a way to hide junking to the room unless maybe you emote attach to it.
Another crafting QoL: analyze doesn't do what the helpfile says, don't know if this is a bug or not. If its a bug, I can try to just request it, but it seems a mixture of the skill not working as intended, out of date helpfile (like many many others).
Next: lots of items have duplicate crafting recipes (adding alot of spam, and confusion). I.e. a certain item displays literally just duplicate prompts (usually at least 2). Some items create the same thing, but the "craft recipe" imply different.
> Sneaking/hiding NPCs can be very confusing to newer people using scan. I interacted with one thinking it was something magical because the shadow code is not intuitive. Perhaps an updated sdesc to clarify this... "A whatever shadow is hiding here." Kinda vanilla, but I'm not an idea guy.
Similar to reduction in commands. With crafting you can currently use things not in your inventory, if they are in the room. I'd like to see this expanded to boxes, crates, chests, etc.
Like... craft stone chest into whatever (gets the stone from the chest).
Another crafting suggesing.
Sometimes when I do craft <material> it says I can make something but when I do craft <material> into <keyword>, keyword being taken by things in the list from the craft command and it says no recipes matched. The list of things I can craft doesn't actually accurately tell you what you are making. Unsure why the mismatch is but it's confusing. I don't know if this is a bug that should be reported or how the craft command jumbles things up to provide something that's not accurate.
Adding to craft items, itd be nice of some items like skins, not to have the same sdesc if they are tanned or not. Know it's not really a code thing as a builder thing so maybe this is the wrong place.
An improvement to room capacity calculation. If I recall from what staff have said, rooms can/do have a hard limit put on the total weight they can contain.
Based on behavior, I think that check is currently:
- add up the weights of all objects in the room, including container contents.
- if total >= max: No, Amos, you can't drop that or put that in your locker.
The problem here is that dropping a large bag of stuff prevents people from using their lockers. It would be better if lockers remained usable and you couldn't drop the bag o' stuff in the first place.
My proposed solution: instead of summing the weights of all objects, sum the weights of all objects on the floor and the capacities of all top-level containers (lockers, chests, shelves, bags, etc., but not containers inside containers). This number should never be smaller than the current calculation, and it ensures that those containers can be used to their full capacity.
For bonus points:
- handle flexible containers (anything with keyword "bag"?) as though their contents are on the floor.
- do a single pass through the room db and update each room's capacity to be no smaller than the new calculation, so you don't get the dreaded picked-it-up-but-can't-put-down behavior.
... if lockers/trunks/chests/bags/containers could have their own volume instead of for some weird reason sharing the room's volume, I would be sooooo happy.
Like, so happy.
Having to somehow explain that you dropped a bag of stuff so nobody can use the chests in the room is the most jarring thing that makes no sense in any way you explain it.
When a container is not empty, offer it to a shopkeeper to see what they'll buy.
> offer bag shopkeeper
A tall, muscular shopkeeper looks through the contents of your large bag.
A tall, muscular shopkeeper says, in sirihish,
"Yeah, I could take [some/all] of that. I'll give you 123 sid."
> barter
A tall, muscular shopkeeper gives you 123 coins in trade for:
- a slab of meat (5)
- the disembodied head of the tall, muscular man (3)
- a rack of ribs
Actually a pretty big QOL improvement versus moving things around piece by piece only to find that Joe doesn't want any of them.
barter undo
Any sort of stacked, common, one-two actions would be great.
I.e.
instead of:
get a
>You get a.
put a b.
>You put a in b.
You could do:
get a into b
>You get a and put it in b.
Arrange All:
arrange all.bag Stacked in a corner, ~ are here.
Stacked in a corner, several bags are here.
There is a large combat lag on combat skills initiated on incorrect targets.
For example, rescuing someone that was just rescued.
But I think its combat skills in general.
This can be frustrating, and deadly (because you can be "timer locked" by repeatedly missing actions on targets that are being rescued, fleeing, dead, etc).
Uniform syntax for offering a ticket in a stable.
instead of offer ticket <whoever>, something like:
stable and unstable
rent and unrent
rent
default rents your hitched mount
with object rents that object
unrent
offers first ticket to whoever the stableperson is.
with no ticket in hand, error.
etc.
Quote from: Fernandezj on January 20, 2021, 01:02:40 AM
Uniform syntax for offering a ticket in a stable.
instead of offer ticket <whoever>, something like:
stable and unstable
rent and unrent
rent
default rents your hitched mount
with object rents that object
unrent
offers first ticket to whoever the stableperson is.
with no ticket in hand, error.
etc.
This. 100% this.
Quote from: Fernandezj on January 19, 2021, 11:05:44 PM
There is a large combat lag on combat skills initiated on incorrect targets.
Yes, puhleeze.
Related to:
Quote from: KittenLicks on January 19, 2021, 07:35:47 PM
Heya, fellow arm peeps! I have the misfortune of living in a place where the power often cuts out for hours on end, often with no warning or any real way to prepare. In a game with permadeath and wildlife that is not terribly understanding of my linkdeadness, this is pretty scary.
QOL suggestion: when any PC has been idle for 1 hour, automatically quit them out. If the location is one where they would have to "quit ooc", count it the same as a quit ooc.
(IIRC the game already stops ticking you towards "hungry" and "thirsty" after an hour idle.)
Some feedback to the visible (http://armageddon.org/help/view/Visible) command would be nice. Currently it just makes you visible without any message.
Eg.
vis
You are no longer attempting to hide.
Able to see analyze results of tablet in a shop.
Seen this crop up a couple of times now, IG and OOC confusion wise...
A "critical miss" can cause an unconscious anything to appear to 'dodge'. Bit confusing and perhaps a missed opportunity. Not sure if possible, but error message wording could be improved in the case of either any critical miss or if a miss is rolled against something unconscious/asleep. A different message more along the lines of "X completely and utterly misses".
When I've seen this IG, people tend to never manage to RP what happened occurred, I assume because they can't figure out the correct way to interpret what just happened. Would be fun to see some of those epic fails played out.
Going back to crafting... For crafting objects in general the whole interface seems cluttered, lots of line carries, as mentioned previously some duplicates of the same item for no discernable reason.. I don't know a good way to improve it but I'd like an overall cleaner, more clear system.
I'll come back and edit when I think of some ways to improve.
Quote from: Fernandezj on January 22, 2021, 12:26:33 PM
Going back to crafting... For crafting objects in general the whole interface seems cluttered, lots of line carries, as mentioned previously some duplicates of the same item for no discernable reason.. I don't know a good way to improve it but I'd like an overall cleaner, more clear system.
I'll come back and edit when I think of some ways to improve.
I was just thinking about this. Couple things that would be nice. One, get rid of "from that" at the end. Try to make sure that the description of what you make is actually the item(probably a weird builder thing but sometimes they don't match.) I'd possibly move the "what it needs" to a separate line. I'd also add the item(s) you are trying to craft at the top. Sometimes I use the wrong keyword and that would help let me know what happened. Just clearer output.
From a large piece of wood you could make ...
1) a couple of smaller pieces of wood
[woodworking, manageable, needs a saw]
2) a simple box
[woodworking, manageable, needs a saw]
I'm not sure if it's something wrong with the GDB or if it's me and I've been hacked like a grandma, but when I try to PM some people here a captcha shows up, and even after clicking the checkbox in the captcha it says:
Quote
The following error or errors occurred while posting this message:
The letters you typed don't match the letters that were shown in the picture.
Well that's weird, there wasn't a field for me to enter letters for the Captcha. So if nothing else, the error message is borked, but it also looks like the whole thing is borked. Please fix this if you can and thank you in advance. I only logged in to this GDB to send a message and the GDB couldn't do the hecking thing.
Quote from: LXXXVIII on January 22, 2021, 09:26:04 PM
I'm not sure if it's something wrong with the GDB or if it's me and I've been hacked like a grandma, but when I try to PM some people here a captcha shows up, and even after clicking the checkbox in the captcha it says:
Quote
The following error or errors occurred while posting this message:
The letters you typed don't match the letters that were shown in the picture.
Well that's weird, there wasn't a field for me to enter letters for the Captcha. So if nothing else, the error message is borked, but it also looks like the whole thing is borked. Please fix this if you can and thank you in advance. I only logged in to this GDB to send a message and the GDB couldn't do the hecking thing.
Please create a bug report in the request tool about any issues, as some staff don't read all the threads in the GDB.
Quote from: Brytta Léofa on January 20, 2021, 08:48:52 PM
Related to:
Quote from: KittenLicks on January 19, 2021, 07:35:47 PM
Heya, fellow arm peeps! I have the misfortune of living in a place where the power often cuts out for hours on end, often with no warning or any real way to prepare. In a game with permadeath and wildlife that is not terribly understanding of my linkdeadness, this is pretty scary.
QOL suggestion: when any PC has been idle for 1 hour, automatically quit them out. If the location is one where they would have to "quit ooc", count it the same as a quit ooc.
(IIRC the game already stops ticking you towards "hungry" and "thirsty" after an hour idle.)
+1, particularly if it's configurable. Some people wouldn't want this feature at all, other people might even want to set the timeout to fifteen minutes if they know they are on a bad connection. It really sucks to get disconnected on people and you literally can't do anything about it if you have bad/no cell reception and your landed internet goes out.
Have some NPCs echo *once in a while* that they are discussing things with customers.
the herbalist nods to a customer, discussing some technique regarding herbs.
And use that type of echo as a reminder to players that you can "discuss topics" with npcs in order to use their talk scripts.
Quote from: mansa on January 29, 2021, 10:54:42 AM
Have some NPCs echo *once in a while* that they are discussing things with customers.
the herbalist nods to a customer, discussing some technique regarding herbs.
And use that type of echo as a reminder to players that you can "discuss topics" with npcs in order to use their talk scripts.
Alternatively, and additionally, make sure you can actually discuss things with every NPC.
Quote from: The7DeadlyVenomz on January 29, 2021, 01:12:26 PM
Quote from: mansa on January 29, 2021, 10:54:42 AM
Have some NPCs echo *once in a while* that they are discussing things with customers.
the herbalist nods to a customer, discussing some technique regarding herbs.
And use that type of echo as a reminder to players that you can "discuss topics" with npcs in order to use their talk scripts.
Alternatively, and additionally, make sure you can actually discuss things with every NPC.
I feel like this could be done with some sort of "rumors table" divided by class/caste.
Like
allanak_commoner talble
And it might have stuff about the bazaar, quarters, rumors, etc.
That way it could be updated centrally instead of loading topics onto every NPC.
Adjust the watersellers to be more intuitive for newer players.
Have a warning for the server backups before they happen. It's the #1 question asked on Discord.
Lowering the AFK timer to around 30-40 minutes where it starts to pause your hunger/thirst.
Forcibly boot out someone from the game if they are afk for more than an hour.
>craft <item>
1) a <item> from that. [<skill type>, <difficulty>, needs a fire, needs a smoothing]
is it possible to change "needs a smoothing" to "needs a smoothing tool" ?
Quote from: mansa on February 03, 2021, 02:22:35 PM
>craft <item>
1) a <item> from that. [<skill type>, <difficulty>, needs a fire, needs a smoothing]
is it possible to change "needs a smoothing" to "needs a smoothing tool" ?
Agreed! I would also want to throw in the idea of a cleaner interface like instead of:
You could make...
1) a whatever. [craft, difficulty, needs a smoothing] Something more elaborate like:
You could make...
===============================================================================
Armormaking Difficulty Tools
1 | whatever item | difficult | smoothing, fire
2 | whatever item | manageable | sharpening
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Toolmaking
3 | whatever item | manageable | polishing
===============================================================================
Quote from: Fernandezj on February 03, 2021, 02:35:44 PM
Agreed! I would also want to throw in the idea of a cleaner interface like instead of:
You could make...
1) a whatever. [craft, difficulty, needs a smoothing]
Something more elaborate like:
You could make...
===============================================================================
Armormaking Difficulty Tools
1 | whatever item | difficult | smoothing, fire
2 | whatever item | manageable | sharpening
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Toolmaking
3 | whatever item | manageable | polishing
===============================================================================
That would be so sexy.
Quote from: Fernandezj on February 03, 2021, 02:35:44 PM
You could make...
1) a whatever. [craft, difficulty, needs a smoothing]
Something more elaborate like:
You could make...
===============================================================================
Armormaking Difficulty Tools
1 | whatever item | difficult | smoothing, fire
2 | whatever item | manageable | sharpening
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Toolmaking
3 | whatever item | manageable | polishing
===============================================================================
Add to this that you should be able to look at tools and see what they are used for, such as smoothing or sharpening, etc.
Quote from: The7DeadlyVenomz on February 04, 2021, 03:26:33 AM
Quote from: Fernandezj on February 03, 2021, 02:35:44 PM
You could make...
1) a whatever. [craft, difficulty, needs a smoothing]
Something more elaborate like:
You could make...
===============================================================================
Armormaking Difficulty Tools
1 | whatever item | difficult | smoothing, fire
2 | whatever item | manageable | sharpening
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Toolmaking
3 | whatever item | manageable | polishing
===============================================================================
Add to this that you should be able to look at tools and see what they are used for, such as smoothing or sharpening, etc.
I think assessing covers that last bit.
It would be really cool if when we get a list of possible crafts, it would mention not only which tool is required to make it, but whether or not that tool is currently within reach inside the room that we are in.
Quote from: Hauwke on February 04, 2021, 03:53:44 AM
I think assessing covers that last bit.
Some do, but some don't, and I can't tell if that's because you don't the skill, or because there's no blurb attached to it. Because I have never accessed many tools, it could be because I don't have the relevant skill, too. Whatever the case, I think it would good to see what a tool did, even if you do not the skill. Adding that to the assess you get when viewing it in a store would be good too.
Quote from: The7DeadlyVenomz on February 04, 2021, 09:37:28 AM
Some do, but some don't, and I can't tell if that's because you don't the skill, or because there's no blurb attached to it. Because I have never accessed many tools, it could be because I don't have the relevant skill, too. Whatever the case, I think it would good to see what a tool did, even if you do not the skill. Adding that to the assess you get when viewing it in a store would be good too.
You assess a stone rasp...
...it is primarily made of stone.
...looks useful for smoothing or polishing.
...appears to be of decent quality.
If it doesn't say "looks useful for", then as a tool it doesn't count as a "smoothing or polishing" WHEN REQUIRED FOR THE RECIPE.
You assess a pair of etched bone scissors...
...it is primarily made of bone.
...might be used for fabricworking.
...appears to be of above average quality.
If it says "might be used for", it will give a bonus to the named skill, but is not a tool when the recipe requires one.
If it doesn't have these lines, its a RP-tool. I agree, it could be re-worked a little to be more obvious.
Looking at "help tools" it is informative...but also not.
If Riev or someone wants to try to redo it to something they think will help players understand the various uses tools can be put to, I'll work with them to update the helpfile.
*Sorry, can't hope with making the code clearer personally, as I don't code, but I can change the helpfiles to be more clear at least!
Quote from: Riev on February 04, 2021, 10:11:58 AM
Quote from: The7DeadlyVenomz on February 04, 2021, 09:37:28 AM
Some do, but some don't, and I can't tell if that's because you don't the skill, or because there's no blurb attached to it. Because I have never accessed many tools, it could be because I don't have the relevant skill, too. Whatever the case, I think it would good to see what a tool did, even if you do not the skill. Adding that to the assess you get when viewing it in a store would be good too.
You assess a stone rasp...
...it is primarily made of stone.
...looks useful for smoothing or polishing.
...appears to be of decent quality.
If it doesn't say "looks useful for", then as a tool it doesn't count as a "smoothing or polishing" WHEN REQUIRED FOR THE RECIPE.
You assess a pair of etched bone scissors...
...it is primarily made of bone.
...might be used for fabricworking.
...appears to be of above average quality.
If it says "might be used for", it will give a bonus to the named skill, but is not a tool when the recipe requires one.
If it doesn't have these lines, its a RP-tool. I agree, it could be re-worked a little to be more obvious.
Is this also the case regarding tools for weirder skills I'm told have tools for them? Like poisoning, bandagemaking, direction sense, scanning? I've never seen any explicit text stating a tool would be helpful for any of these. Or would you only see it for crafting skills and all other skills are hidden in the description?
Quote from: gotdamnmiracle on February 04, 2021, 02:12:00 PM
Quote from: Riev on February 04, 2021, 10:11:58 AM
Quote from: The7DeadlyVenomz on February 04, 2021, 09:37:28 AM
Some do, but some don't, and I can't tell if that's because you don't the skill, or because there's no blurb attached to it. Because I have never accessed many tools, it could be because I don't have the relevant skill, too. Whatever the case, I think it would good to see what a tool did, even if you do not the skill. Adding that to the assess you get when viewing it in a store would be good too.
You assess a stone rasp...
...it is primarily made of stone.
...looks useful for smoothing or polishing.
...appears to be of decent quality.
If it doesn't say "looks useful for", then as a tool it doesn't count as a "smoothing or polishing" WHEN REQUIRED FOR THE RECIPE.
You assess a pair of etched bone scissors...
...it is primarily made of bone.
...might be used for fabricworking.
...appears to be of above average quality.
If it says "might be used for", it will give a bonus to the named skill, but is not a tool when the recipe requires one.
If it doesn't have these lines, its a RP-tool. I agree, it could be re-worked a little to be more obvious.
Is this also the case regarding tools for weirder skills I'm told have tools for them? Like poisoning, bandagemaking, direction sense, scanning? I've never seen any explicit text stating a tool would be helpful for any of these. Or would you only see it for crafting skills and all other skills are hidden in the description?
For direction_sense you get the message when you wear the item.
I.e.
wear sunslits
You fit your sunslits over your eyes.
Covering your eyes with sunslits protects them from harsh weather.Assessing is somewhat unclear that its coded to that skill:
...will protect your vision when worn over your eyes.
Ah! Yes, I forgot about that. That's pretty recent, I recall.
Any word on the others? Poisoning is one I recall staff mentioning having tools, but I've never found one.
Quote from: gotdamnmiracle on February 04, 2021, 02:38:05 PM
Ah! Yes, I forgot about that. That's pretty recent, I recall.
Any word on the others? Poisoning is one I recall staff mentioning having tools, but I've never found one.
Still investigating this one in game, but there seems to be items that would imply being good for these things. Just haven't been able to buy them and try.
Quote from: Brokkr on February 04, 2021, 11:05:47 AM
*Sorry, can't hope with making the code clearer personally, as I don't code, but I can change the helpfiles to be more clear at least!
This really hurt my eyes to read. :'(
I've idea'd this in game, but I'll post it here too so maybe someone can expand on it.
I think it would be really helpful if, when 'Viewing' an item in a shop, said item's price is repeated.
Quote from: slipshod on February 04, 2021, 09:18:01 PM
I've idea'd this in game, but I'll post it here too so maybe someone can expand on it.
I think it would be really helpful if, when 'Viewing' an item in a shop, said item's price is repeated.
This also that when you offer and item, it plays back what time is being offered in case of mistarget, E. G. "You offer a large sack of flour"
Also, I think you should be able to see if you can craft something from something in a shop via view. You're able to view it, often the shop descriptions lend themselves to you being able to get close, touch, pick up, items... You'd know if you could make something from it. Even if it just said "You think you could make something from that"
Add to that, when you view an item you can craft, "You think you could make this". You would have to buy it to figure out what all you might need to do so, but you know that there is a new recipe there behind the pay wall.
Quote from: The7DeadlyVenomz on February 05, 2021, 10:05:44 AM
Add to that, when you view an item you can craft, "You think you could make this". You would have to buy it to figure out what all you might need to do so, but you know that there is a new recipe there behind the pay wall.
No!
Shops describe items as being scattered around on tables and racks. Its not like they are in cages. You'd be picking them up, possibly touching them, I'd much rather you be able to just analyze shop inventories.
If we cant get shop-analyze, then yes, some "crafteable" hint, would be a good conciliation. But fight for shop analyze!
I disagree. Not all shops are described equally, and I imagine some of the more expensive and we'll guarded shops might not take kindly to you doing that. Realistically, you might have to deconstruct an item to see how it's made, so we've already got a lot of slack around analyze.
Not that anyone ever actually roleplays this out (well, I don't, at least!) but this would be a good time to point out that the analyze helpfile says:
QuoteThis should be role-played as a timely undertaking, as much studying of the object is needed as well as a knowledge of the skill employed in crafting it.
So presumably the idea is that you don't have the time to do that if you don't actually own the object, picking it up and giving it a once-over isn't enough.
Quote from: The7DeadlyVenomz on February 05, 2021, 10:05:44 AM
Add to that, when you view an item you can craft, "You think you could make this". You would have to buy it to figure out what all you might need to do so, but you know that there is a new recipe there behind the pay wall.
Quote from: Maso on February 05, 2021, 05:53:08 PM
Not all shops are described equally, and I imagine some of the more expensive and we'll guarded shops might not take kindly to you doing that. Realistically, you might have to deconstruct an item to see how it's made, so we've already got a lot of slack around analyze.
And that's why I said I'd like to see just a blurb about "
You might be able to craft this." But more than just the concept that you can't deconstruct things in the shop, I think you should have to OOCly go on and give up some of that coin to cop that new recipe. Anything that is a coin sink makes me happy, as a coded effort to keep me poor.
To counter what I said before....RE. analyze...If an item is super simple to make (e.g. one ingredient and...low difficulty) maybe you could analyze it in store? So there's a mix of "You think you could make something like this" and "You think you could make this out of X" depending. Either way, some suggestion would definitely be good.
No. You're all clinging onto helpfile nonsense. The helpfile is wrong.
No one looks at a dried yellow flower and spends the better part of a the day roleplaying that this was probably from a NOT dried yellow flower.
Most of the helpfiles are wrong. Deciding that a bracer, made of leather, could probably be made from leather is not a phenomenal experience.
Analyze used to have skill levels, that would probably be in line with what you all are wanting, or hoping for in terms of "intentional pay walls".
Give analyze skill equivalent discoveries. You might be a master chef, you can't backwards engineer a master dish without analyze. Solved.
Quote from: Fernandezj on February 06, 2021, 03:00:56 AM
No. You're all clinging onto helpfile nonsense. The helpfile is wrong.
No one looks at a dried yellow flower and spends the better part of a the day roleplaying that this was probably from a NOT dried yellow flower.
Most of the helpfiles are wrong. Deciding that a bracer, made of leather, could probably be made from leather is not a phenomenal experience.
Analyze used to have skill levels, that would probably be in line with what you all are wanting, or hoping for in terms of "intentional pay walls".
Give analyze skill equivalent discoveries. You might be a master chef, you can't backwards engineer a master dish without analyze. Solved.
I just wish analyze returned an echo that something lacks a recipe instead of just bumping. It makes me feel pretty confused and rarely use it.
Quote from: Fernandezj on February 06, 2021, 03:00:56 AM
Analyze used to have skill levels, that would probably be in line with what you all are wanting, or hoping for in terms of "intentional pay walls".
Explain your source on this.
Quote from: Riev on February 06, 2021, 08:18:19 PM
Quote from: Fernandezj on February 06, 2021, 03:00:56 AM
Analyze used to have skill levels, that would probably be in line with what you all are wanting, or hoping for in terms of "intentional pay walls".
Explain your source on this.
I mean it "has" skill levels, like its just always locked at apprentice level.
If it actually went up, or down, could have items that require a better analysis, more thorough, to figure out.
A complexity level if you will.
> crawl n
For those times when for whatever reason you can't, or don't want to, walk. Can be done from a sitting position. Would be verrrrry slow. Like, 'you have time to emote' slow.
Edited to add:
The obvious application here is inebriation, but how about...If somewhere in the mortally wounded range (say between 0 and -4) there's a small chance of being mortally wounded but also conscious and able to 'crawl' (drag yourself). I think that would be pretty damn cool. Obviously, if you move there should be a chance that whatever mortally wounded you might finish you off...but maybe make it a % chance that they will spot you, so you have a chance to drag yourself out of there...and probably still die...but you had a glimmer of hope.
A way to tell at least what realm a tablet is in (or other form of cure) without the brew skill. Maybe just a NPC you pay a small fee to.
Let's have the old analyze messages back. From the helpfile:
Analyze
(Crafting)
This command allows a person to examine an object and attempt to decipher what materials went into its creation. It is useful in taking a finished product and breaking down its components, so one could make another like it. This should be role-played as a timely undertaking, as much studying of the object is needed as well as a knowledge of the skill employed in crafting it.
Analyze will yield one of the five following results:
An uncraftable item (You get no echo at all)
An item you don't have the coded skill to make. (You cannot tell how that is made)
An item you have the skill to craft. (A list of the products you need to craft it)
Items you can make, but your skill is not yet high enough. (You're unsure how that's made)
Items you can't make, because they are clan specific. (You do not recognize its craftsmanship)
Right now, you only ever get one message, You cannot tell how that is made. This was changed maybe a couple of years ago as part of an effort to streamline the output of the game (?), but helpful information got lost, and the helpfile doesn't reflect what is happening in game anymore. It frequently comes up in #help on discord because it confuses new crafters. If an item isn't craftable because of an OOC problem (there is no recipe), players should know that instead of going on some futile search for the right tools or attempt to increase their crafting skill.
A little more than QOL, but:
Threaten with a crossbow: if you threaten someone while wielding a crossbow (ready to shoot, nothing in secondary hand), combat initiation should give you a zero-delay shot.
> threaten amos
You steady yourself and take aim...
You begin threatening the tall, muscular man with a scary-ass crossbow.
Now there's a reason to choose crossbows!
wear all <container to get clothes/equipment from>
remove all <container to put it in>
(guys I don't even mudsex anymore; clothes are still cool)
I mentioned it in a previous post but I realized it was a secondary thing and was unclear.
When checking to see what you can make using the craft command, it'd be nice if the list that is displayed is the actually sdesc of the item to be made. Currently I don't even know how some of the descriptions pop up.
if I craft log, I might get "a smooth plank" but when I actually craft it I get "a plank of agafari"
This is confusing as sometimes it seems like I might have choose the wrong option and makes me really weary of using materials and getting something I didn't exactly expect. Which I already accept is going to happen sometimes as some sdescs make me think Cool I'll like that, then when I make the item and view the ldesc I'm like, oh this isn't what I wanted. But I don't know a good way around that one.
Quote from: Brytta Léofa on February 07, 2021, 04:58:42 PM
wear all <container to get clothes/equipment from>
remove all <container to put it in>
(guys I don't even mudsex anymore; clothes are still cool)
Dress and undress would be amazing for utility... and enabling people to easily change outfits means more people are going to sink money into more outfits. Good for the game!
If you go over the character limit with an emote...for it NOT to go through...and bounce it back at you so you can fix it. :<
Or increase limit. But probably just the former. Or just a little increase.
Quote from: Maso on February 08, 2021, 02:19:27 AM
If you go over the character limit with an emote...for it NOT to go through...and bounce it back at you so you can fix it. :<
Or increase limit. But probably just the former. Or just a little increase.
Ooo! Yeah, that'd be good.
For each crafting skill to have a separate crafting helpfile called:
"<CraftingSkill> examples"
And to contain 5 examples of novice crafting recipes, and 3 examples of apprentice crafting recipes.
All stablehand NPCs to have the keyword 'stablehand' so that it's consistent and easier to make an alias.
The command:
stable
Should duplicate all the functions of the rent command.
In addition, if you type >stable mount, the game should respond with something that indicates to to specify which NPC you want to 'stable/rent' your mount with.
In a similar vein of standardized keywords, I'd like to see all rawhides tagged with something like an "untanned" keyword, even if its not in the sdesc.
Some hides are very similar, or identical in tanned/untanned form, making it confusing to deal with.
That way "craft untanned" will always work where "craft hide" can sometimes be all over the place.
Quote from: Fernandezj on February 08, 2021, 07:00:12 PM
In a similar vein of standardized keywords, I'd like to see all rawhides tagged with something like an "untanned" keyword, even if its not in the sdesc.
Some hides are very similar, or identical in tanned/untanned form, making it confusing to deal with.
That way "craft untanned" will always work where "craft hide" can sometimes be all over the place.
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly7s0wv84v1rn95k2o1_250.gif)
Quote from: mansa on February 08, 2021, 11:02:44 AM
The command:
stable
Should duplicate all the functions of the rent command.
In addition, if you type >stable mount, the game should respond with something that indicates to to specify which NPC you want to 'stable/rent' your mount with.
Okay, but is there ANY place in the game with multiple stablehands in the same room? I'm guessing not.
Can we make "rent <mount> <npc>" and "offer ticket <npc>" default to <npc>=the only valid NPC in the room?
Quote from: Fernandezj on February 08, 2021, 07:00:12 PM
In a similar vein of standardized keywords, I'd like to see all rawhides tagged with something like an "untanned" keyword, even if its not in the sdesc.
Some hides are very similar, or identical in tanned/untanned form, making it confusing to deal with.
That way "craft untanned" will always work where "craft hide" can sometimes be all over the place.
Yeah, I'm with this one.
That phenomenon of picking up a bag, then getting
There is no more room for it here.
when you put it back is driving me crazy. It was fitting in the room before, why can't I put it back after picking it up?
It's a massive annoyance, especially when you don't even own the bag and have no intention of stealing it. Or when you clean up, get rid of some stuff, only to run into the problem again the next day, after someone else in your clan saw this as an opportunity to bring in more. Please, please fix this.
Quote from: Nao on February 09, 2021, 02:44:33 PM
That phenomenon of picking up a bag, then getting
There is no more room for it here.
when you put it back is driving me crazy. It was fitting in the room before, why can't I put it back after picking it up?
Quote from: Brytta Léofa on January 19, 2021, 06:48:11 PM
My proposed solution: instead of summing the weights of all objects, sum the weights of all objects on the floor and the capacities of all top-level containers (lockers, chests, shelves, bags, etc., but not containers inside containers). This number should never be smaller than the current calculation, and it ensures that those containers can be used to their full capacity.
For bonus points:
- handle flexible containers (anything with keyword "bag"?) as though their contents are on the floor.
- do a single pass through the room db and update each room's capacity to be no smaller than the new calculation, so you don't get the dreaded picked-it-up-but-can't-put-down behavior.
Maybe like assess room or assess -v here would give information about a room's storage capacity in addition to other features:
> assess here
... The room has a pleasant smell of fresh oil, worked leather and the
faintest twinge of sawdust crosses one's nostrils as well.
... it is sparsely populated. //For crim code?
... it is very spacious. //For hide?
... can be opened and closed to the south. //For exits that are closeable.
... could probably hold around 21970 stones.
... it is about half full.
... there is a fire here.
Oooo.
Yes.
Although 'assess room' had a different function now, a new arguement for assess to accomplish this would be baller.
Quote from: Brytta Léofa on February 09, 2021, 02:55:54 PM
Quote from: Nao on February 09, 2021, 02:44:33 PM
That phenomenon of picking up a bag, then getting
There is no more room for it here.
when you put it back is driving me crazy. It was fitting in the room before, why can't I put it back after picking it up?
Quote from: Brytta Léofa on January 19, 2021, 06:48:11 PM
My proposed solution: instead of summing the weights of all objects, sum the weights of all objects on the floor and the capacities of all top-level containers (lockers, chests, shelves, bags, etc., but not containers inside containers). This number should never be smaller than the current calculation, and it ensures that those containers can be used to their full capacity.
For bonus points:
- handle flexible containers (anything with keyword "bag"?) as though their contents are on the floor.
- do a single pass through the room db and update each room's capacity to be no smaller than the new calculation, so you don't get the dreaded picked-it-up-but-can't-put-down behavior.
I don't care how you sum it up as long as it's consistent. If you can't put something back into the same place right after picking it up, the roomway this is calculated isn't consistent. The weight hasn't changed, if it fit before it should fit afterwards, but it doesn't.
Quote from: rinthrat on February 09, 2021, 05:12:50 PM
Quote from: Brytta Léofa on February 09, 2021, 02:55:54 PM
Quote from: Nao on February 09, 2021, 02:44:33 PM
That phenomenon of picking up a bag, then getting
There is no more room for it here.
when you put it back is driving me crazy. It was fitting in the room before, why can't I put it back after picking it up?
Quote from: Brytta Léofa on January 19, 2021, 06:48:11 PM
My proposed solution: instead of summing the weights of all objects, sum the weights of all objects on the floor and the capacities of all top-level containers (lockers, chests, shelves, bags, etc., but not containers inside containers). This number should never be smaller than the current calculation, and it ensures that those containers can be used to their full capacity.
For bonus points:
- handle flexible containers (anything with keyword "bag"?) as though their contents are on the floor.
- do a single pass through the room db and update each room's capacity to be no smaller than the new calculation, so you don't get the dreaded picked-it-up-but-can't-put-down behavior.
I don't care how you sum it up as long as it's consistent. If you can't put something back into the same place right after picking it up, the roomway this is calculated isn't consistent. The weight hasn't changed, if it fit before it should fit afterwards, but it doesn't.
You (the person) are a container. The room was likely nearing full or full. You entered, making the room OVER weight. You pick something up, it can't be placed back down. There's no clean way around that.
You know, Fernandezj, I never thought about that. Make the room simply not take into account PCs and NPCs and the issues should be solved.
I thought the problem was that the bag will be put down lighter and emptier, the room accepts the bag at this weight. Things are then added to the bag, using the bags capacity as the check, not the rooms. Then the bag is picked up and can't be put down at it's increased weight.
Quote from: Maso on February 10, 2021, 01:53:34 AM
I thought the problem was that the bag will be put down lighter and emptier, the room accepts the bag at this weight. Things are then added to the bag, using the bags capacity as the check, not the rooms. Then the bag is picked up and can't be put down at it's increased weight.
This also happens with bags in containers. Take the bag out of the locker, change nothing, can't put it back because the room is over capacity. But you can't add anything to a container inside a container.
Even better: sometimes this can be solved by picking up something else from the ground, putting that on a table, then putting the original bag back to where it came from.
Theres alot of things at play with containers but something I've seen which has led to alot of overcapacity save room fun.... Is that many containers after being saved and the server resets/comes-back-after-a-crash, don't add their potential carrying capacity to the room. Interacting with them causes them to start adding their capacity. So the moment you touch that trunk your clanmate thought it would be a good idea to stuff with Large Bags - you just reduced the rooms capacity by like 2000 stone. Also, sometimes bags do not reduce their "weight" even after they have lost everything inside of them for room calculations. So that empty bag adds like 90+45 or whatever because it doesn't think the weight changed.
Let us look at bodies (equipment and wounds on a body) while they're strapped to a mount.
Quote from: Delirium on February 08, 2021, 09:43:54 AM
All stablehand NPCs to have the keyword 'stablehand' so that it's consistent and easier to make an alias.
Could all jewels (garnet, amber, jade, diamond) get a singular keyword so you can specify
-forage stone for jewels-? It's tedious right now having to throw away every chunk of rock.
Quote from: gotdamnmiracle on February 10, 2021, 10:04:22 PM
Quote from: Delirium on February 08, 2021, 09:43:54 AM
All stablehand NPCs to have the keyword 'stablehand' so that it's consistent and easier to make an alias.
Could all jewels (garnet, amber, jade, diamond) get a singular keyword so you can specify
-forage stone for jewels-? It's tedious right now having to throw away every chunk of rock.
+1 to this yes so much please. I always try forage stone for gems because I feel like it should work. Please do this one.
In addition to the suggestion of "get all.boots chest" just echoing once, "Amos gets many pairs of boots from a chest."
Some sort of way to get a specific number of an item. "get feather.2 chest" ... "Amos gets a pair of feathers from a chest."
Syntax I don't necessarily like, but can't think of better things. But if this is get and put, would clean up so much spam.
Yes, please! Can we have a echo for multiple items and have a way to take only a certain number also?
Also eat all.meat (or any food keyword) and have an echo of stuffing it in in your mouth?
If you're watching a shadow that you spotted with scan, you can shoot at it from another room. However, you can't throw anything at it. You always get a message like 'Nobody like that to the west', even if you're watching the shadow and can spot it every single time you look in that direction. Targeting with another ranged weapon skill other than throw works just fine. I think this is a bug, since this used to work even with throw, then suddenly stopped working one day.
Let change language work when you're in delay from an action, like say/tell/think does. Right now, you can't use it if you're in delay from walking/attacking and it makes for bizarre situations where you need to ask someone you're following to stop walking so fast so you can remember how to speak Allundean. ;D
Possibly could design something like a thin 'gemed' circlet of obsidian. Wear location for hair. Can RP having it on under a helm. Replaceable gems, having gems for various links/blocks.
Any thoughts on this?
Quote from: Cordon on February 17, 2021, 07:54:34 AM
Possibly could design something like a thin 'gemed' circlet of obsidian. Wear location for hair. Can RP having it on under a helm. Replaceable gems, having gems for various links/blocks.
Any thoughts on this?
Kind of like ability to color, but instead of dying, you imbed gems and get a 'gemmed' adjective to an item. Or bejeweled, if you use multiple?
Am I understanding this correctly?
When you age and your endurance goes up, HP never goes up with it. You might age from poor to good endurance and still be stuck with that minimum HP roll you got starting out. This sucks.
It'd be nice if the 'stop' command also interrupted foraging/crafting/etc.
Quote from: Nao on February 17, 2021, 06:30:34 PM
When you age and your endurance goes up, HP never goes up with it. You might age from poor to good endurance and still be stuck with that minimum HP roll you got starting out. This sucks.
Ooo ... that
does suck.
Quote from: Nao on February 17, 2021, 06:30:34 PM
When you age and your endurance goes up, HP never goes up with it. You might age from poor to good endurance and still be stuck with that minimum HP roll you got starting out. This sucks.
If that's really the case you could probably submit it as a bug.
Suggested from Discord:
Have the game echo back exactly what sdesc of items you're using when you're looking to craft an item.
>craft feather 2.feather 3.feather
Using:
a red-dyed feather
a blue-dyed feather
a silver-dyed feather
You can craft the following:
#1 - a triple-twist colorful feather hat.
#2 - a red, blue, and silver feather twist.
>craft feather 2.feather 3.feather 4.feather 5.feather
Using:
a stiff white feather
a stiff white feather
a stiff white feather
a stiff white feather
a stiff white feather
You can craft the following:
#1 - a small bundle of white feathers
Quote from: mansa on February 18, 2021, 10:35:48 PM
Suggested from Discord:
Have the game echo back exactly what sdesc of items you're using when you're looking to craft an item.
>craft feather 2.feather 3.feather
Using:
a red-dyed feather
a blue-dyed feather
a silver-dyed feather
You can craft the following:
#1 - a triple-twist colorful feather hat.
#2 - a red, blue, and silver feather twist.
>craft feather 2.feather 3.feather 4.feather 5.feather
Using:
a stiff white feather
a stiff white feather
a stiff white feather
a stiff white feather
a stiff white feather
You can craft the following:
#1 - a small bundle of white feathers
I'd probably want to adjust the output like this:
>craft feather 2.feather 3.feather
Using: a red-dyed feather, a blue-dyed feather, and a silver-dyed feather -
You can craft the following:
#1 - a triple-twist colorful feather hat.
#2 - a red, blue, and silver feather twist.
>craft feather 2.feather 3.feather 4.feather 5.feather
Using: 5 stiff white feathers -
You can craft the following:
#1 - a small bundle of white feathers
... but I do love the idea 100%, and any iteration would be awesome.
Crafting outputting what is being crafting would be wonderful. So I second Mansa's post. Third? Fourth?
I think the main benefit would also be for when the crafting fails. Due to crafting shifting item order around. Sometimes it's hard to know what you are targeting and it get confusing when something should be working and it's not. An echo that says what I'm trying to craft with would be wonderful.
Negative keywords while foraging would be wonderful.
>forage wood -fuckwood
Saves a lot of junking for scenarios when you want everything BUT the knotty piece of fuckwood.
'value -market (object)'
Returns a numerical value that gets closer and closer to the coin value of an item at the nearest vendor with more success.
Helpful for merchant characters to guess the local coin value of an item on the fly while the player is in mercantile RP.
Hack isn't usable while mounted and it makes zero sense as disarming and riposting require closer proximity than hacking does. Fix pls.
Can the value skill have a boost based on your crafting skill for the item your valuing?
Most of the "master" crafting subguilds don't have value. It'd be really nice that if you were a master crafter you could perhaps accurately value the goods you create.
Also unsure if connected to value or not, but a characters seemingly inability to gauge weight or how much an item holds seems weird, and varies by SOO much each check. if it is value, the fact that value is not given to many people except the "merchants" I'm not sure this should be connected to it. Nor do I think it should fluctuate much if at all. Be wrong sure. But be relatively consistent.
In shops...for > view <item> to also play back the sdesc of said item along with the mdesc and the rest of the info.
A way to "link" a container so that it's always the first item in your list based on it's keywords. So for example "link bag". Now that bag is always going to be 1.bag for you no matter where in the room it is. So you could put all your crafting materials in it, and craft from that without having to fight with searching through containers. Obviously this link would go away when you left the room with your linked container.
Quote from: Halasturd on February 26, 2021, 10:02:26 AM
A way to "link" a container so that it's always the first item in your list based on it's keywords. So for example "link bag". Now that bag is always going to be 1.bag for you no matter where in the room it is. So you could put all your crafting materials in it, and craft from that without having to fight with searching through containers. Obviously this link would go away when you left the room with your linked container.
> title bag lootbag
NAME command that helps you remember names. Two different uses:
1. adds (name) to kinds of objects - every time you see an object of that kind, the name you gave it is appended.
2. adds (name) to specific PCs/NPCs whenever their sdesc is visible (so not when hooded, visored, masked, etc.).
Does not persist across characters, but perhaps previous characters' name assignments could be viewed on the website (like bios are). (It's an interesting snapshot, and you know you're going to be keeping some of those plant names in a text file otherwise.)
> name plant bimbal
You now know a twisted, wiry cactus as 'bimbal'.
> look
You're In The Dessert [NEWS]
So much sand.
A twisted, wiry cactus (bimbal) clings to the sandy sand.
> name red pantera
You now know a brutish, red-maned humanoid as 'pantera'.
> look
A brutish, red-maned humanoid (pantera) stalks across the dunes.
> name muscular amos
You now know the tall, muscular man as 'amos'.
Man, with this I wouldn't even NEED a MUD client. I could just dial ginka with my brain.
The option for verbose room descriptions, which include the weather, lighting conditions (and possibly sources), and population (in a room that is flagged as having a population level):
Stonecarver's Road, Adjoining a Small Plaza [E, W]
The rounded flagstones of Stonecarver's Road, the ragged cracks
separating them barely visible beneath the layers of sand and dirt, lead
through the Commoner's Quarter, winding through a ramshackle collection of
mud brick houses and hide tents. The air is still and thick, dense with
both the city's odors and the constant clamor of its inhabitants.
The sun and one moon brightens this area considerably. There is a slight
breeze blowing from the west. It is very hot today. There are a few people
passing through the area.
A tarp hangs from the northern wall, staked into the ground at an angle.
The lanky, dark-haired boy is standing here.
This would also be an appendage to the LOOK DIRECTION command, which I'd like to note, I wish were reversed in order of the rooms seen:
To the north is the Main Bazaar. Torchlight brightens this area dimly. There
is a heavy wind blowing from the north. It is a cool night. There are almost
no people passing through the area.
[Near]
Nothing.
[Far]
A slim, brown-haired merchant walks here, a pack on her shoulder.
[Very far]
Nothing.
Short Descriptions for doors:
You open the heavy, bone-banded, oak door.
You close the set of towering, red-painted gates.
If possible, looking into rooms that echo to other rooms. And checking that the MUD only sends one thing per action. Instead duplicating things. It gets spammy.
I've been struggling to articulate this issue, and I think an example is best.
Imagine you're playing a Byn sergeant and one of your runners took your beetle and ended up with your saddlebags.
They tell you that they left them on their cot in the barracks.
The barracks has ten cots. Their cot is cot number 7.
Sergeant walks into the barracks and looks around to see which cot has his giant packed saddlebags atop it.
QuoteKey saddlebags all
On a stanky canvas cot:
1.saddlebags - Sarge's saddlebags
I wish it somehow showed that they were on cot #7. One still has to go down the line with looking on each cot to find out which it is.
I understand the code challenge here when the scenario is different and so many keywords could be at play.
For example, a Salarr display room with 4 display cases. Two are dark wood and two are light wood.
The Agent wants to see at a glance which case has the half-giant hauberk. It is in the first light wood case, which is the third case overall. So...
QuoteKey hauberk all
In a light wood display case:
A half-giant sized hauberk
Key case all
In the room:
1.case - a dark wood display case
2.case - a dark wood display case
3.case - a light wood display case
4.case - a light wood display case
If the ordering could show us that it was in case #3 here, that only works if we use the keyword 'case' alone, since it's in 3.case but 1.light.case.
And if there are other 'light' or 'dark' or 'wood' containers in the room, those keywords could get mixed up with any "fix" to this.
I don't know if I've made this clear or if anyone else has similar issues, but there it is.
Edited to add:
There could also be issues if, in the above example, the Agent was holding a scroll 'case'. Now if the "fix" here shows us the hauberk is in 3.case in the room, it's not 3.case when Agent tries to 'get' it, now is it?
For the directions code to not take players outside of a city, round the outside and back in again. I have no idea how this is coded...but I imagine there are a couple of possible options for implementing this?
1. Do not allow the directions code to consider rooms outside of the city?
OR
2. Assign a difficulty-to-traverse value for room types, and have the directions code use that to calculate the 'easiest' route from to A to B rather than the 'shortest' (number of rooms)...I assume the 'difficulty-to-traverse' concept exists already with MV penalties so...
We could just give random PCs the chance to intercept psionic messages? Either by accident or on purpose. Then you could have your skullduggery and people could have their QOC improvement. Cake's better when you get to eat it.
change ldesc for hitched mounts....
Quote from: Maso on March 17, 2021, 07:02:04 AM
change ldesc for hitched mounts....
I would LOVE this. The one time my mount had a different ldesc was a staff animation and i've been envious ever since
Not sure if it has been brought up, but increased functionality for the text editors (boards, drawing, writing). Being able to add blank lines at a certain point, delete lines without .c-ing the lot and starting again...these would both make me far more inclined to invest time as it is a painful chore at the moment!
For extra super bonus points, being able to insert lines of text at a certain point.
The way I've seen these done elsewhere is having the lines numbered on the left, ie
Quote
1] The green monkey is among us.
2] However we will cope?
3] Kill it!
4]
Then you could type, for instance
Quote.d 4
To delete the 4th line
Or
Quote.l 1
To add a blank line before the first.
Or...
Quote.i 3 Should we feed it monkey nuts?
To insert a line before line 3, and add that text. So you'd end up with....
Quote
1]
2] The green monkey is among us.
3] However we will cope?
4] Should we feed it monkey nuts?
5] Kill it!
This would make writing board posts, tdescs, drawing, scribbling, and all sorts easier. No idea how hard it would be, but it'd raise my QoL a lot <3
(excuse the monkeys, I've just been reading a primatology paper :) )
>craft large.chunk 2.large.chunk branch 2.branch bundle into bundle.arrows
You can add blank lines in the editor by having it contain a single space.
You can also do it by hitting enter between lines. But that doesn't solve the problem of after reading it, going "Urgh, this needs tidying up to be attractive/readable!", and having to start from the top again! It is a QoL thing, and hence in this thread...I think it would be nice to fix errors and tweak layouts without deleting the lot :)
.dl 1 or something deletes that many lines too. No need to .c
Quote from: Kyviantre on March 20, 2021, 12:06:17 AM
You can also do it by hitting enter between lines. But that doesn't solve the problem of after reading it, going "Urgh, this needs tidying up to be attractive/readable!", and having to start from the top again! It is a QoL thing, and hence in this thread...I think it would be nice to fix errors and tweak layouts without deleting the lot :)
Quote from: Hauwke on March 20, 2021, 01:01:37 AM
.dl 1 or something deletes that many lines too. No need to .c
What you're looking for is .d# where the editor will delete # lines from the bottom. It makes it easy if you notice you made a mispelling or something in the last line so you can just .d1
Oooh, is that a thing? That's useful to know, thank you!
More tools for dealing with room/container capacity. For instance:
> weight room
The current room currently holds 1234 stone, and can hold a maximum of 1000 stone.
In the room:
234 stone - items on the ground
500 stone - a big baobab crate and its contents
500 stone - a big ol' table and the items on it
> weight table
The table weighs about 100 stone.
On the table:
400 stone - many big baobab branches
> weight me
You weigh about 70 stone.
5 stone - an obsidian helmet
3 stone - a bone sword
1 stone - chalton leather boots
etc.
> weight mekillot
It probably weighs about 700 stone, or about 10 times what you weigh.
Quote from: Brytta Léofa on March 20, 2021, 03:08:56 PM
More tools for dealing with room/container capacity. For instance:
> weight room
The current room currently holds 1234 stone, and can hold a maximum of 1000 stone.
In the room:
234 stone - items on the ground
500 stone - a big baobab crate and its contents
500 stone - a big ol' table and the items on it
> weight table
The table weighs about 100 stone.
On the table:
400 stone - many big baobab branches
> weight me
You weigh about 70 stone.
5 stone - an obsidian helmet
3 stone - a bone sword
1 stone - chalton leather boots
etc.
> weight mekillot
It probably weighs about 700 stone, or about 10 times what you weigh.
Being able to pin down what the problem items are, when trying to clear up a store room, would be AWESOME!
implement some sort of coup de grace style command that doesn't invite the same level of delay as kill :-*
Quote from: Khorm on March 21, 2021, 02:32:41 PM
implement some sort of coup de grace style command that doesn't invite the same level of delay as kill :-*
Reduce the
kill command delay if the target is immobilized and not humanoid.
Or just don't stop fighting something when it is mortally wounded unless you have mercy on.
I enjoy the stoppage, means that you can do a final emote, how you finish it off. Also works for other players.
Quote from: Hauwke on March 21, 2021, 11:47:14 PM
I enjoy the stoppage, means that you can do a final emote, how you finish it off. Also works for other players.
Some (most) of us can type substantially faster than that delay takes.
Typing speed has little to do with it. If they are in negatives, then you have time for a final emote and for them to do a final emote. It takes longer than a second to type out a full emote and then get a response to it.
Quote from: Hauwke on March 22, 2021, 12:29:58 AM
Typing speed has little to do with it. If they are in negatives, then you have time for a final emote and for them to do a final emote. It takes longer than a second to type out a full emote and then get a response to it.
You're talking about something different. The OP said non-humanoids. They don't usually emote back at you. And the post-kill lag is much longer than a second.
Quote from: Delirium on March 21, 2021, 06:43:10 PM
Or just don't stop fighting something when it is mortally wounded unless you have mercy on.
Unless I'm misremembering, I pretty regularly get disengaged from combat when the critter goes down, even with mercy off. Maybe this is only happening in group combat...I'll have to
do some research.
Quote from: Hauwke on March 22, 2021, 12:29:58 AM
Typing speed has little to do with it. If they are in negatives, then you have time for a final emote and for them to do a final emote.
None of us are talking about PKING you MONSTER.
#joke
You get disengaged when you knock something unconscious, critical, etc. Sometimes your last damage will kill it, in which case it's dead. Other times it will just be critically or mortally wounded, or unconscious, at which point one has to re-engage with the kill command to slay it.
A 'slay' command for non-humanoids would be nice to insta-kill carru and the like, I agree. I don't think there's any danger or point to the delay when it comes to hunting, really, that would be negated by the slightly-less-time taken.
Quote from: LindseyBalboa on March 22, 2021, 11:17:04 AM
You get disengaged when you knock something unconscious, critical, etc. Sometimes your last damage will kill it, in which case it's dead. Other times it will just be critically or mortally wounded, or unconscious, at which point one has to re-engage with the kill command to slay it.
A 'slay' command for non-humanoids would be nice to insta-kill carru and the like, I agree. I don't think there's any danger or point to the delay when it comes to hunting, really, that would be negated by the slightly-less-time taken.
I'm assuming this is why every well-traveled route is littered with almost-dead critters. It's not that folks don't have mercy off. It's that it's an extra step and you weren't even intentionally hunting.
Related
QOL improvement:
What if you could move (without using flee) whenever your opponent is reeled? (i.e. as though you were no longer in combat.) Is that an unbalancing change?
Rationale: kagor #27 attacks me. I hit it. It reels from the blow. I don't care about finishing the fight/killing it, so I just move on.
QoL request:
In the 'rinth, have VNPC scavengers snatch up items left by dead bodies that have disappeared. The rinth can quickly end up full of half screens of equipment in every room, even from NPCs killing one another. Also it makes it really hard to stay poor, to the point where nobody bothers gathering up fallen equipment to sell. That loot should be sought after and disappear quickly in rinthi streets!
I mean like even an IC day would be fine, so dropped stuff wouldn't just be auto disappeared in the streets.
flee into <enterable>
flee into wagon
flee into tent
etc.
Quote from: Brytta Léofa on March 22, 2021, 03:33:32 PM
Quote from: LindseyBalboa on March 22, 2021, 11:17:04 AM
Related QOL improvement:
What if you could move (without using flee) whenever your opponent is reeled? (i.e. as though you were no longer in combat.) Is that an unbalancing change?
Rationale: kagor #27 attacks me. I hit it. It reels from the blow. I don't care about finishing the fight/killing it, so I just move on.
That is actually possible already. If you reel someone, they're no longer in combat with you. Problem is you're in combat with them. So if you reel them and then disengage, you can move on. You can even time it to reel/disengage/backstab although that requires some seriously perfect timing. Really helps with sparring newbies. You reel someone and disengage. The combat is over.
Refresh quit ooc if you walk through a room you are allowed to quit in
You hear a young woman's voice shout from the east in sirihish:
"Hey - I've got the best steaks in the Commons for just a few sid!"
You hear a woman's voice shout from the east in sirihish:
"Hey - I've got the best steaks in the Commons for just a few sid!"
You hear an older woman's voice shout from the east in sirihish:
"Hey - I've got the best steaks in the Commons for just a few sid!"
You hear an ancient woman's voice shout from the east in sirihish:
"Hey - I've got the best steaks in the Commons for just a few sid!"
Include the age descriptor shown in to shouts and listening from other rooms, just to add some approximation to who's speaking.
Reducing the movement penalty for walking in certain areas of the game.
Difficult: 8 Movement Points (Silt Sea, Volcano)
Hard: 6 Movement Points (Heavy Forest, Canyons, Sewers/Tunnels)
Medium: 4 Movement Points (Grasslands, Less Forest/scrub, Salt Flats)
Easy: 2 Movement Points (Outside-Roads)
No-Problem: 0 Movement Points (Cities/Indoors)
A 'kudos' command that tags any character you can see for kudoing. This saves staff the step of looking up the player account for your request.
> kudo amos
They're not here.
> cast 'wek un teleport to amos'
Sure. Magick swirls about your face.
> kudos amos
To send kudos for 'the tall, muscular man', go to: http://armageddon.org/kudos/compose?hash=12342
> kudos figure
To send kudos for 'the figure in a dark hooded cloak', go to: http://armageddon.org/kudos/compose?hash=39528
Any number of ways this could work. One of the simplest is: generate URLs, as above, that start a kudos request with a token attached that uniquely identifies the targeted character. Doesn't need any added state on the server. Straightforward to make the tokens hard to exploit (for e.g. comparing character identity): make it a hash based on kudoer, kudoee, and salt=rand(0,20) - then given the kudoer just do exhaustive search of all possible characters and salt.
For those of us who log everything, easy to search for places you've tagged someone. For those who don't log...it would be nice to actually maintain a list of intended-but-not-sent kudos. But whatevs.
Quote from: Brytta Léofa on April 03, 2021, 06:31:12 PM
A 'kudos' command that tags any character you can see for kudoing. This saves staff the step of looking up the player account for your request.
> kudo amos
They're not here.
> cast 'wek un teleport to amos'
Sure. Magick swirls about your face.
> kudos amos
To send kudos for 'the tall, muscular man', go to: http://armageddon.org/kudos/compose?hash=12342
> kudos figure
To send kudos for 'the figure in a dark hooded cloak', go to: http://armageddon.org/kudos/compose?hash=39528
Any number of ways this could work. One of the simplest is: generate URLs, as above, that start a kudos request with a token attached that uniquely identifies the targeted character. Doesn't need any added state on the server. Straightforward to make the tokens hard to exploit (for e.g. comparing character identity): make it a hash based on kudoer, kudoee, and salt=rand(0,20) - then given the kudoer just do exhaustive search of all possible characters and salt.
For those of us who log everything, easy to search for places you've tagged someone. For those who don't log...it would be nice to actually maintain a list of intended-but-not-sent kudos. But whatevs.
I like this a lot.... but also some way to flag a moment in the logs for staff if they do need to search would also be good. Not too long ago I wanted to send kudos to someone who I couldn't identify at all and I wouldn't have been able to tag them with "kudos x" either.
When you contact while already contact/barrier'd it should not make you suffer ten stun points and merely just remind you that you are in contact with someone else/barrier'd.
When you try to psi while not in contact it does not cost stun.
https://gdb.armageddon.org/index.php/topic,56722.msg1059084.html#new
Add an EXECUTE command that is only usable on beings that are stunned/incapacitated.
It doesn't need to do any extra damage, but Please Please PLEASE let it Not have the lag of the Kill command.
Current Scenario: kill critter
round / round / round / round ...
critter gets incapacitated
fight stops even though mercy is off
player has to type kill critter AGAIN in order to actually KILL THE CRITTER!!
Lag ensues for no real reason
player waits .....
FINALLY, player gets to dismount, skin, blah blah blah
Ideal Scenario: eliminate the KILL lag when a creature is incapacitated!!
::) :o ;D
Quote from: DesertT on April 10, 2021, 12:18:48 AM
Add an EXECUTE command that is only usable on beings that are stunned/incapacitated.
It doesn't need to do any extra damage, but Please Please PLEASE let it Not have the lag of the Kill command.
Current Scenario: kill critter
round / round / round / round ...
critter gets incapacitated
fight stops even though mercy is off
player has to type kill critter AGAIN in order to actually KILL THE CRITTER!!
Lag ensues for no real reason
player waits .....
FINALLY, player gets to dismount, skin, blah blah blah
Ideal Scenario: eliminate the KILL lag when a creature is incapacitated!!
::) :o ;D
This please.
Remove the canned emote 'thank' or otherwise change things so 'th Does anyone use thank?' will work for 'think ....'
Quote from: SpyGuy on April 13, 2021, 10:09:06 PM
Remove the canned emote 'thank' or otherwise change things so 'th Does anyone use thank?' will work for 'think ....'
I think this is good. I've never, ever used 'thank'. I never even knew it existed. While I don't think as much as I think I should, any attention to the command is good.
Maybe go ahead and remove all of the canned socials that get little to no use? Pretty sure 90% of my usage of any of them has been accidental.
Quote from: Brytta Léofa on April 14, 2021, 02:11:46 AM
Maybe go ahead and remove all of the canned socials that get little to no use? Pretty sure 90% of my usage of any of them has been accidental.
Except nod. We need a three word command that indicates acquiescence to the words spoken.
(but remove the time delay)
Agreed about nod.
Also make shake, shake ^me head not shake something?
Yeah, agreed about shake. Heh.
We already have a reduced number of socials, however, and I wouldn't mind keeping them.
I never noticed a delay to them. If there really is one, though, yeah, kill that. All a social is, is a shortcut for an emote.
To add to the ideas herein, however:
Crawl
This method of movement allows you to move even if you are too drunk to
walk, or, at the cost of stun, too tired to walk, run, or sneak. It
requires you to be in the resting position, and is the slowest of all
the various methods of movement. While you are at this speed,
you do not recover health, stamina, or stun points.
Quote from: The7DeadlyVenomz on April 14, 2021, 07:32:11 AM
CRAWL
Yes!! Please!! I think I put this one a few pages back already. And sometimes I want to crawl...just because...my character is too lazy to actually get up. But also when drunk, definitely when drunk. Definitely when exhausted. Perhaps also when seriously injured.
Maybe crawl takes you into minus movements...and if you stop crawling you can recover up to 0 again?
Oh ... damn. I didn't mean to steal, Maso. My bad.
Quote from: The7DeadlyVenomz on April 14, 2021, 07:32:11 AM
I never noticed a delay to them. If there really is one, though, yeah, kill that. All a social is, is a shortcut for an emote.
If you've ever tried to nod at someone while riding or, really, doing anything at all besides standing or sitting around doing nothing or crafting, you will notice the delay. It's on the same command queue system most things are. I know you cannot use socials while you have movement queued up. It's really annoying.
I think the concern here isn't that nod has a pre or post-delay to the command, but its part of the queued action system. Whereas emotes can be done at any time, nod requires you to 'have an action', in DnD terms.
I did not know that. Huh.
A canned 'nod' is useful as an indicator that your command delays have worn off and you're good to keep going.
It's a little meta, but it's something I've seen used to good effect a lot in bigger groups.
Apologies if this has been mentioned already but...
If there are 5 bags in a room and I type 'k feather all' I'd like it to return which bag the feathers are in. Currently it will just give you the containers sdesc so if all bags/weapon racks/whatever are identical you then need to try 'get feather bag' 'get feather 2.bag' etc. to find which bag it's actually in.
Request: an outfit code. This solves a real problem, by making it easier for people to codely reflect their state of dress, making them more or less vulnerable. It also makes it easier to change clothes and wear different outfits, meaning people can spend more money on clothes and use those items more easily.
"Undress (armor / clothing / all)"
Removes all your armor, or clothing, or everything, all at once.
"Dress (outfit name) (here / container)"
Wears the items in a created outfit list. Without an argument pulls from inventory.
Then some simple outfit creation system. Something as simple as:
Outfit Add (Item) - adds an items to an outfit list
Outfit Remove (item) - removes an item from an outfit list
Outfit View (outfit) - shows items in an outfit list
Outfits - lists outfits
Quote from: LindseyBalboa on April 15, 2021, 06:54:05 PM
Request: an outfit code. This solves a real problem, by making it easier for people to codely reflect their state of dress, making them more or less vulnerable. It also makes it easier to change clothes and wear different outfits, meaning people can spend more money on clothes and use those items more easily.
Quote from: Barsook on April 15, 2021, 06:55:59 PM
MEGA +1
MEGA +2
I don't WANT to wear armor all the time. I wear armor all the time because I don't want to spend 5 minutes changing out and another 5 changing back in for every 20 minute "night at the club."
Don't care how it's done, but please make changing clothes easier.
Quote from: Brytta Léofa on April 15, 2021, 07:07:39 PM
Quote from: LindseyBalboa on April 15, 2021, 06:54:05 PM
Request: an outfit code. This solves a real problem, by making it easier for people to codely reflect their state of dress, making them more or less vulnerable. It also makes it easier to change clothes and wear different outfits, meaning people can spend more money on clothes and use those items more easily.
Quote from: Barsook on April 15, 2021, 06:55:59 PM
MEGA +1
MEGA +2
I don't WANT to wear armor all the time. I wear armor all the time because I don't want to spend 5 minutes changing out and another 5 changing back in for every 20 minute "night at the club."
Don't care how it's done, but please make changing clothes easier.
Create an alias. Sure, it's tedious, but you only need to type one command to remove a list of equipment.
the ability to filter out forage results. like instead of forage stones for sandstone you could forage stones without sandstone and stop picking up millions of pieces of sandstone that you're just going to either immediately junk or drop.
It would be wonderful if quit ooc refreshed upon passing through a room you can quit in.
Quote from: Lotion on April 23, 2021, 02:14:01 PM
It would be wonderful if quit ooc refreshed upon passing through a room you can quit in.
+1. The "hang on, lemme quit out here real quick" jig doesn't add anything to the game.
Quote from: Cabooze on April 16, 2021, 04:02:46 AM
Quote from: Brytta Léofa on April 15, 2021, 07:07:39 PM
Quote from: LindseyBalboa on April 15, 2021, 06:54:05 PM
Request: an outfit code. This solves a real problem, by making it easier for people to codely reflect their state of dress, making them more or less vulnerable. It also makes it easier to change clothes and wear different outfits, meaning people can spend more money on clothes and use those items more easily.
Quote from: Barsook on April 15, 2021, 06:55:59 PM
MEGA +1
MEGA +2
I don't WANT to wear armor all the time. I wear armor all the time because I don't want to spend 5 minutes changing out and another 5 changing back in for every 20 minute "night at the club."
Don't care how it's done, but please make changing clothes easier.
Create an alias. Sure, it's tedious, but you only need to type one command to remove a list of equipment.
I know this was meant to be helpful, but this is a thread asking for quality of life improvements, which is antithetical to asking players to learn how to do things or make work-arounds to accomplish fairly standard code in a lot of games... Which means accessibility for non-savvy players, which means more clothes will be sold, which means more armor might be sold, which are all really viable money sinks. Also having a command in game promotes a culture of 'don't wear armor and hold weapons if you wouldn't be,' instead of having two players that have aliases made up for realism purposes.
Quote from: LindseyBalboa on April 23, 2021, 07:07:47 PM
I know this was meant to be helpful, but this is a thread asking for quality of life improvements, which is antithetical to asking players to learn how to do things or make work-arounds to accomplish fairly standard code in a lot of games... Which means accessibility for non-savvy players, which means more clothes will be sold, which means more armor might be sold, which are all really viable money sinks. Also having a command in game promotes a culture of 'don't wear armor and hold weapons if you wouldn't be,' instead of having two players that have aliases made up for realism purposes.
Plus, an in-game command can behave much better than a client-side alias: it can can access objects by ID rather than by keyword. (This has definitely nothing to do with my irrational hate for doing MUD client scripting.)
The first MUD I played (Deathwish? named Azure Odyssey at the time I think?) had this and it was cool. It might have been the coolest thing about that MUD, since it was really just a big H&S Diku. :D
Not the same MUD, but basically:
Quote from: http://erionmud.com/helpfiles.php?keyword=eqsets%20equipment%20sets&show=true
Syntax: eqset list (<name>)
eqset wear <name>
eqset save <name>
eqset rename <old name> <new name>
eqset delete <name>
This feature allows you to create up to 3 equipment sets that can be
quickly worn with the command 'eqset wear <name>'. To create a new set,
wear the equipment you want in the set and type 'eqset save <name>'. For
example, 'eqset save defensive' for a set of defensive equipment. To update
a set that already exists, wear the equipment you want to be in the set and
save it as usual. It will ask you to confirm as it will overwrite the old
set.
The command 'eqset list' will list your sets by name, and 'eqset list
<name>' will list what items are in a particular set.
Items in a set can be placed inside bags or simply be in the inventory.
When you type 'eqset wear <name>', it will silently remove your current
equipment and wear items from the desired set.
Add role descriptions to keywords for sponsored roles.
Ie, templars automatically have the templar keyword, Byn sergeants
have Byn Sergeant added, GMH agents have 'agent' or 'dealer'
keywords, other well-known roles have them added.
If I can randomly psionically contact to an elf on the other side of
the world, it seems to me that if I just wanted to reach out to a
random templar or merchant, I'd be able to with mixed results. A
new arrival to the city should be able to 'contact byn sergeant' and
have one in his mind, it's no different than trying to 'contact dwarf'
or 'contact green eyed.' Mores specific than those, actually.
If it's dark and someone has a light source and enters a room next to you, you're alerted to the light source.
"To the north, you can see a flickering light."
Quote from: LindseyBalboa on April 24, 2021, 03:22:01 PM
If it's dark and someone has a light source and enters a room next to you, you're alerted to the light source.
"To the north, you can see a flickering light."
If you watch a direction you will see this.
If someone lights a torch two rooms away the east while you watch east you will see
far to the east something filled with yellow light
As I was writing it I was only 90% sure this wasn't a thing. Thanks!
Allow us to choose certain words to not be mangled by language code. This especially comes into play for made up IC words such as prala, prada, yajah, etc. If an elf says yajah in allundean or sirihish it would still ICly sound the same.
example syntax
tell man (^me words flowing together as #me speaks quickly) You're just a ^yajah^. I'm not going to give you a cure for free. Give me a good reason to not wait until you're dead and take your nice boots.
Quote from: Veselka on April 27, 2021, 01:45:51 AM
Quote from: Lotion on April 26, 2021, 07:50:11 PM
Allow us to choose certain words to not be mangled by language code. This especially comes into play for made up IC words such as prala, prada, yajah, etc. If an elf says yajah in allundean or sirihish it would still ICly sound the same.
example syntax
tell man (^me words flowing together as #me speaks quickly) You're just a ^yajah^. I'm not going to give you a cure for free. Give me a good reason to not wait until you're dead and take your nice boots.
This is a great idea.
Have the "poison" delay come after the game informs you that you can't poison your boots, or whatever other thing you've miskeyed.
Quote from: Barsook on April 27, 2021, 05:04:32 AM
Quote from: Veselka on April 27, 2021, 01:45:51 AM
Quote from: Lotion on April 26, 2021, 07:50:11 PM
Allow us to choose certain words to not be mangled by language code. This especially comes into play for made up IC words such as prala, prada, yajah, etc. If an elf says yajah in allundean or sirihish it would still ICly sound the same.
example syntax
tell man (^me words flowing together as #me speaks quickly) You're just a ^yajah^. I'm not going to give you a cure for free. Give me a good reason to not wait until you're dead and take your nice boots.
This is a great idea.
Quote from: The7DeadlyVenomz on April 28, 2021, 09:51:24 AM
Quote from: Barsook on April 27, 2021, 05:04:32 AM
Quote from: Veselka on April 27, 2021, 01:45:51 AM
Quote from: Lotion on April 26, 2021, 07:50:11 PM
Allow us to choose certain words to not be mangled by language code. This especially comes into play for made up IC words such as prala, prada, yajah, etc. If an elf says yajah in allundean or sirihish it would still ICly sound the same.
example syntax
tell man (^me words flowing together as #me speaks quickly) You're just a ^yajah^. I'm not going to give you a cure for free. Give me a good reason to not wait until you're dead and take your nice boots.
This is a great idea.
I love this idea.
Edit to add: This could also work for things like "Shhhhh!" or "Aiiiiii!" or other sounds people produce that wouldn't be garbled based on what language you speak.
I know it opens a hole to circumvent language code, but you could technically do that with an emote anyway, and we also have drawing which could easily be abused to pretend to write, etc.
Love this. I think that certain words should probably be codified - ie, yazah, yajah, prala, bahak, etc, as mentioned.
Words that are in documentation as part of that language should be auto-translated.
And then on top of that, the ability to add others, like repeating someone's name back to them or learning language RP.
Quote from: Lotion on April 26, 2021, 07:50:11 PM
Allow us to choose certain words to not be mangled by language code. This especially comes into play for made up IC words such as prala, prada, yajah, etc. If an elf says yajah in allundean or sirihish it would still ICly sound the same.
example syntax
tell man (^me words flowing together as #me speaks quickly) You're just a ^yajah^. I'm not going to give you a cure for free. Give me a good reason to not wait until you're dead and take your nice boots.
We already had this in the past with capitalization.
Example:
You say, "My name is JACK."
They see: "Mx xxxx xx JACK."
The staff removed it.
Quote from: LindseyBalboa on April 28, 2021, 02:31:53 PM
Love this. I think that certain words should probably be codified - ie, yazah, yajah, prala, bahak, etc, as mentioned.
Words that are in documentation as part of that language should be auto-translated.
And then on top of that, the ability to add others, like repeating someone's name back to them or learning language RP.
I think simply allowing players to specify parts of a say to be ungarbled would be the most elegant solution, and it would allow allow people who make up their own words for a virtual tribe or whatnot to also bypass language without having to ask staff to allow their fake words to become real fake words too and then probably get told no.
Rather than just toggling, could we add additional functionality for:
nosave combat on
nosave combat off
Quote from: mansa on April 29, 2021, 01:26:22 PM
Rather than just toggling, could we add additional functionality for:
nosave combat on
nosave combat off
The ability [for experienced combatants] to hit a sparring mate without WTFBBQing them would be a game changer in a good way.
Quote from: Brytta Léofa on April 29, 2021, 01:46:35 PM
Quote from: mansa on April 29, 2021, 01:26:22 PM
Rather than just toggling, could we add additional functionality for:
nosave combat on
nosave combat off
The ability to hit a sparring mate without WTFBBQing them would be a game changer in a good way.
nosave combat already exists - it's just it's a toggle.
Do you remember when 'listen' was just a toggle? And then it got the ability to type 'listen on' in addition to just 'listen' ? That way you don't turn it
off when you didn't want it off.
nosave combat should toggle back to 'off' when you log off.
There use to be a serious problem with silt skimmers. If three characters boarded a silt skimmer, the first one aboard defaulted to the pilot. These three characters sail into the deep silt and are attacked. If the pilot is killed and the other two defeat the attacker, there was no syntax/code for one of the surviors to assume the position of pilot without stepping off the skimmer which can't be done in deep silt. Having a command to move into the pilot position without stepping off would be very helpful.
Yeah. That skimmer bug was nightmare fuel out there. Also just really annoying when a crew member is afk when you are exploring an island and the captain steps back on and is unable to pilot the skimmer, even though the crew member wouldn't have actually changed location on the skimmer they default to captain and stay that way.
1) RE: Sleight of Hand
Allow the commands :
Ready <weapon> <sheath/container>
Stow <weapon> <sheath/container>
Currently the command only works with weapons sheathed on belt.
The added problem with this current scenario is : you usually have your heavier weapons sheathed on your belt, and your lighter weapons in sheaths - and because the command defaults to belt weapons - you end up getting the error "that weapon is too heavy, surely someone would notice."
Make it so the weight of the weapons being readied/stowed are proportional to the strength of the PC. AFAIK, currently it's set to a static weight limit for all races regardless of their strength.
2) Listing items in shops
Allow for items to be viewed by wear_location :
list armorer <neck>
Quote from: Blackjack on May 04, 2021, 05:19:52 AM
1) RE: Sleight of Hand
Allow the commands :
Ready <weapon> <sheath/container>
Stow <weapon> <sheath/container>
Currently the command only works with weapons sheathed on belt.
The added problem with this current scenario is : you usually have your heavier weapons sheathed on your belt, and your lighter weapons in sheaths - and because the command defaults to belt weapons - you end up getting the error "that weapon is too heavy, surely someone would notice."
Use
draw <weapon> <sheath>
sheathe <weapon> <sheath>
It still uses sleight of hand if you have the skill.
(The syntax is still inconsistent and the above stuff should be added.)
Quote from: rinthrat on May 04, 2021, 06:27:05 PM
Quote from: Blackjack on May 04, 2021, 05:19:52 AM
1) RE: Sleight of Hand
Allow the commands :
Ready <weapon> <sheath/container>
Stow <weapon> <sheath/container>
Currently the command only works with weapons sheathed on belt.
The added problem with this current scenario is : you usually have your heavier weapons sheathed on your belt, and your lighter weapons in sheaths - and because the command defaults to belt weapons - you end up getting the error "that weapon is too heavy, surely someone would notice."
Use
draw <weapon> <sheath>
sheathe <weapon> <sheath>
It still uses sleight of hand if you have the skill.
(The syntax is still inconsistent and the above stuff should be added.)
It works for sheaths, but not for scabbards. You can ready a weapon sheathed on back too, such as a blowgun.
Quote from: Alesan on May 04, 2021, 10:53:51 AM
Quote from: Blackjack on May 04, 2021, 05:19:52 AM
2) Listing items in shops
Allow for items to be viewed by wear_location :
list armorer <neck>
Yes please.
A million times this. Please. Yes.
Quote from: Inks on May 04, 2021, 07:30:33 PM
Quote from: rinthrat on May 04, 2021, 06:27:05 PM
Quote from: Blackjack on May 04, 2021, 05:19:52 AM
1) RE: Sleight of Hand
Allow the commands :
Ready <weapon> <sheath/container>
Stow <weapon> <sheath/container>
Currently the command only works with weapons sheathed on belt.
The added problem with this current scenario is : you usually have your heavier weapons sheathed on your belt, and your lighter weapons in sheaths - and because the command defaults to belt weapons - you end up getting the error "that weapon is too heavy, surely someone would notice."
Use
draw <weapon> <sheath>
sheathe <weapon> <sheath>
It still uses sleight of hand if you have the skill.
(The syntax is still inconsistent and the above stuff should be added.)
It works for sheaths, but not for scabbards. You can ready a weapon sheathed on back too, such as a blowgun.
It shouldn't work for anything not in a sheath or on your belt, and it should be by item type, or a fixed weight. The idea is to ready a weapon to use - I dislike the idea that you might be able to ready your
longsword of wounding +7 without me noticing.
Quote from: The7DeadlyVenomz on May 04, 2021, 07:54:11 PM
Quote from: Inks on May 04, 2021, 07:30:33 PM
Quote from: rinthrat on May 04, 2021, 06:27:05 PM
Quote from: Blackjack on May 04, 2021, 05:19:52 AM
1) RE: Sleight of Hand
Allow the commands :
Ready <weapon> <sheath/container>
Stow <weapon> <sheath/container>
Currently the command only works with weapons sheathed on belt.
The added problem with this current scenario is : you usually have your heavier weapons sheathed on your belt, and your lighter weapons in sheaths - and because the command defaults to belt weapons - you end up getting the error "that weapon is too heavy, surely someone would notice."
Use
draw <weapon> <sheath>
sheathe <weapon> <sheath>
It still uses sleight of hand if you have the skill.
(The syntax is still inconsistent and the above stuff should be added.)
It works for sheaths, but not for scabbards. You can ready a weapon sheathed on back too, such as a blowgun.
It shouldn't work for anything not in a sheath or on your belt, and it should be by item type, or a fixed weight. The idea is to ready a weapon to use - I dislike the idea that you might be able to ready your longsword of wounding +7 without me noticing.
It should definitely work for knives sheathed in boots, but I don't think scabbards should be able to be readied from. It is confusing to not have this documented, though.
It would be so nice to be able to see how many uses a seasoning item has before emptying.
I have one. Containers that can be opened and closed should always show that status.
Look self
Wearing a quiver.
g arrow quiver
the quiver is closed
Look self
Wearing an open quiver.
think Damm elves will rob me for sure.
close quiver.
Or maybe only show one status, Being open or closed, one can just assume the other. I would say show when open as closed should be its normal status.
add in various nosave items to prompt.
things that you would turn on/off for whatever reasons and not want to forget about.
Add an echo that shows us when we can quit out after being too excited to leave after combat. Spamming the quit command is a bit odd and I don't see a problem with just telling people when they can leave after sparring their friends for a bit.
Allow us to unhitch a mount and hitch it to someone else similar to subdue release
Quote from: Lotion on May 07, 2021, 06:53:47 AM
It would be so nice to be able to see how many uses a seasoning item has before emptying.
I believe the assess command shows this information.
A really nice "quality of life" addition would be :
Transfer <item> <source container> <target container>
Instead of : get <item> <container> + put <item> <container>
ex: trans arrow quiver backpack
This would allow PCs who have low agility/too many items in inventory, to by-pass that limit and simply move an item from one place to another.
It would reduce typing 2 commands to one command, and if desired, the spam to the room/viewers could also be removed entirely.
ex : the average human moves some items around.
Another good one would be :
wear <item> <source container>
ex: wear shirt backpack
Instead of : get <item> <container> + wear <item>
And just like you can do : put <worn item> <container> without having to first remove it, getting it into your inventory, and then putting it into the target container, this could also by-pass the inventory and straight go from the container to the wear_location.
@incognito one good workaround if you have three open slots is
get all.foo container.1
put all.foo container.2
SEE and HEAR personal psi commands akin to think,feel,remember, for personal hallucinations
A HELP COLOR CATEGORIES file that, well.. Lists all the categories you could colorise. Right now it's a guessing game more than anything else.
I'd like to be able to target exit covers in emotes.
e.g.
emote stands in front of ~gate, sassily waggling a finger side to side.
Quote from: slipshod on May 16, 2021, 05:37:27 PM
I'd like to be able to target exit covers in emotes.
e.g.
emote stands in front of ~gate, sassily waggling a finger side to side.
Allow exits to have short descriptions, such as '
a tall gate', or '
a thick, styrax-wood door'.
A nearly-exact copycat command of subdue called carry, which does not flag you as a criminal if you fail it. Like subdue, it would have a nosave status, but if you are resisting carries, the person who tries to carry you, and you, will get a silent message about you not accepting carries, with no echo to the room. It would also not trigger criminal code.
The muscled mul begins carrying the little half-giant.
The muscled mul walks west, carrying the little half-giant.
The muscled mul stops carrying the little half-giant. (Same echo whether the mul releases the half-giant, or the half-giant flees the carry.)
The muscled mul stands here, carrying the little half-giant.
That person is too big for you to carry.
You are too big to be carried by that person.
Quote from: The7DeadlyVenomz on May 17, 2021, 06:19:15 PM
A nearly-exact copycat command of subdue called carry, which does not flag you as a criminal if you fail it. Like subdue, it would have a nosave status, but if you are resisting carries, the person who tries to carry you, and you, will get a silent message about you not accepting carries, with no echo to the room. It would also not trigger criminal code.
The muscled mul begins carrying the little half-giant.
The muscled mul walks west, carrying the little half-giant.
The muscled mul stops carrying the little half-giant. (Same echo whether the mul releases the half-giant, or the half-giant flees the carry.)
The muscled mul stands here, carrying the little half-giant.
That person is too big for you to carry.
You are too big to be carried by that person.
This. Please this. Its always extremely unfortunate when someone new to the game loses a character when trying to help their drunk buddy back home.
I dig this! ^^^
Quote from: Jarvis on May 17, 2021, 06:26:04 PM
Quote from: The7DeadlyVenomz on May 17, 2021, 06:19:15 PM
A nearly-exact copycat command of subdue called carry, which does not flag you as a criminal if you fail it.
This. Please this. Its always extremely unfortunate when someone new to the game loses a character when trying to help their drunk buddy back home.
This is super smart.
threaten charge
for the drunk think I usually ask them to set nosave subdue through ooc. i've not yet had someone lie that they had nosave subdue on
While mining, add an echo for when you deplete your deposit of obsidian/glass/granite/sandstone/whatever.
Being able to open, close, get and put items in containers while resting. I have never been resting IRL and unable to do these things.
Quote from: Krath on May 18, 2021, 04:38:09 PM
Being able to open, close, get and put items in containers while resting. I have never been resting IRL and unable to do these things.
At least those that are on you - I am fine if you have to stop resting to get something from the container across the room. But those that are on you should be accessible, agreed.
+1 to carry command just for the immersion improvement to the echo in those situations.
One rough bit of jade = a rough bit of jade
Two rough bits of jade = a couple rough bits of jade
3-5 rough bits of jade = a few rough bits of jade
But why the fuck isn't 8 rough bits of jade a byte of jade?
Fully consistent fall warnings. There are at least three kinds:
(1) By naming convention:
> look s
South of here is Over the Edge.
[Near]
Nothing.
(2) When you look <direction>; e.g.:
> s
Some Place [N, E, S, W]
Sand. Scrub. Rocks. It smells like dust and sweat.
> lo s
To the south, the dessert plunges into a vast crevasse. Do you feel lucky?
[Near]
Nothing.
(3) When you enter a room with fall-danger exits; e.g.:
> s
The ground crumbles and falls away treacherously to the south!
Some Place [N, E, S, W]
Sand. Scrub. Rocks. It smells like dust and sweat.
> lo s
South of here is A Crumbly Edge.
[Near]
Nothing.
My choice would be "everything follows method #1 + method #2" (consistent naming of fall rooms; consistent warning when you look). I find #3 easy to miss. But making everything consistent, one way or another, would help this player's cognition.
For triple bonus points: a mode-toggle that can prevent you from attempting to enter climb rooms (similar to how follow currently stops you when the leader enters a climb room).
Obviously there's a game design aspect here...some people find this kind of random danger fun. So that's a decision to be made. (If we wanted to play up the danger, making everything less consistent would be more to the point.)
I can't help but add onto people's ideas at times because it spurs on my own creativity on a subject:
Some falls shouldn't be able to be seen. Direction-sense should have an extra effect on whether or not you can see certain falls in the distance. Pit falls in the desert should be harder to notice compared to the edge of a cliff.
Pit falls should randomly generate throughout the desert regions. The sands always shift, new crevasses form and fill over time.
Let us use GUARD NONE while seated or whatever. Being unable to START guarding somewhere while seated seems fine, but being unable to cut it out is a bit annoying.
Similarly, let us guard a direction even if the current room lacks such an exit. Some critters instaflee, and it'd be nice to guard a direction in advance to keep them from just zooming past you.
(sorry for the repeat from another thread)
I was a bit jarred from the message it echoed to me:
You can now quit.
I think there might be a better message.
Your recent combat excitement has worn off. You can now quit normally.
Hey, can the Kadius furniture shop rotate with the months too? Some staples are cool and good to have all the time tho.
On that point, can the Kadian shop in Luir's do the same?
The ability to separate/filter crafts by clan.
Make the chase command, y'know, work? Make it so the chaser doesn't become too dumb to follow a guy who types flee
to add onto the newly added ability to search by wear location (which fucking rules):
allow searching by damage types, since this information can be pretty hard to decipher by looking at item sdesc and the added convenience would be great either way.
allow searching by etwo, unless that's already covered by ep/es in some fashion.
thank you kindly.
Quote from: mansa on May 23, 2021, 11:58:59 AM
(sorry for the repeat from another thread)
I was a bit jarred from the message it echoed to me:
You can now quit.
I think there might be a better message.
Your recent combat excitement has worn off. You can now quit normally.
Something more in character would be good I think.
Like, "Your pulse slows down as the excitement from past combat leaves your system." or some flavor.
Quote from: Pariah on May 26, 2021, 11:10:41 AM
Quote from: mansa on May 23, 2021, 11:58:59 AM
(sorry for the repeat from another thread)
I was a bit jarred from the message it echoed to me:
You can now quit.
I think there might be a better message.
Your recent combat excitement has worn off. You can now quit normally.
Something more in character would be good I think.
Like, "Your pulse slows down as the excitement from past combat leaves your system." or some flavor.
The current message, when you try and quit, is "You are too excited to quit.", so it would make more sense if it contained that flavour.
Would be nice to have a visual BEEP option for folks who (whether due to hearing loss/absence or computer sound issues) can't hear it.
*beep*
Quote from: Brytta Léofa on May 27, 2021, 01:32:08 PM
Would be nice to have a visual BEEP option for folks who (whether due to hearing loss/absence or computer sound issues) can't hear it.
*beep*
+1
Add brief inventory for silencing rearranging inventory messages.
Add brief equipment for silencing rearranging equipment.
remove the tentmaking skill and just put those recipies into toolmaking and let dune trader start with clothworking
all saves as toggles
A command for crafted items that tells what other items are used with it.
For example if a widget is made with a bone widge and a stone gidget.
It would be cool if once you crafted the bone widget you could do something like:
Analyze Widget:
This is made with a short length of bone, in conjunction with a hand sized black rock, it will create a widget.
I can't tell you how long I run around with a random weapon or armor part in my inventory and never figure out what to craft to create the finished product.
have incapacitated mobs bleed out over a (short) period of time.
there can be a lot of just mortally wounded scorpions/snakes/kagors just shitting up the beautiful scenery.
Quote from: Khorm on June 05, 2021, 01:01:46 AM
have incapacitated mobs bleed out over a (short) period of time.
there can be a lot of just mortally wounded scorpions/snakes/kagors just shitting up the beautiful scenery.
I like this.
Devour.
Again.
;D
devour stew
a line in assess (maybe just verbose assess) on items that can be crafted with themselves into dye
Quote
assess -verbose black.smooth.stone
bla bla bla
could be used to make dye
bla bla bla
Let me poison things while sitting down. It makes no sense that my PC needs to be standing up to poison an arrow.
Make rats immune from justice, so that when one bites me the whole platoon of soldiers doesn't charge the rat, going "Away from Allanak Scum!" like someone just tried to murder a noble.
From Discord:
There is supposedly a drawing bug, where if you don't "look" at your own drawing after creating it to set the skill level.
Whoever looks at the drawing first sets its skill level. It's weird, it's known, it's a feature
A proposed fix is a forced "look" at the end of the drawing sequence to have it apply to the correct owner.
Can we please be able to open/close containers while seated resting.
Quote from: Incognito on June 20, 2021, 08:34:31 AM
Can we please be able to open/close containers while seated.
I believe you can, just not while rested. Resting is essentially laying on the ground sprawled out.
I've noticed lots of guards/npc staff etc will sometimes wander away from their assigned areas.
Like the cook who ends up in the street.
The guard with a ldesc of surveying the rowdy bar but is in an alley.
A gate guard who came outside to kill a scrab and now lives outside the gate amassing corpses of violent wildlife...
I normally will wish and let staff know, and someone who has the juice comes along and eventually moves them back to where they belong, but it got me thinking. What if NPCs were coded to where they should be, like a home room they are supposed to occupy.
Say the Gaj is room 1 and X guard is supposed to be there, but he chases a criminal out four rooms away and loses the criminal or kills him. he's now sitting in the alley.
What there was a command that players could use, that's logged of course, to do like returnhome guard, which causes the guard to head back to their home room?
I have no idea how hard this would be, or if it could just be a generic message like the burly dwarven militia member returns back to where he came from and poofs back to home room.
But that way staff wouldn't need to be involved with every gate guard who gets lost or npc that wanders outta the area they are supposed to be in.
Syntax could be like quit ooc message:
returnhome guard He's the gaj guard, somehow ended up in an alley.
And of course if someone abuses it, punish and take away, rain hellfire all that.
But I think that would definitely be a good idea and easier way of players "cleaning up" the world of oddities like a cook standing in the street.
A nice thing to have would psionics not breaking crafting as well.
Quote from: Pariah on June 20, 2021, 10:03:28 PM
A nice thing to have would psionics not breaking crafting as well.
I'm really with this one.
It would be nice if there was an input/escape character to add new lines to the editor when pasting.
I.e:
(in editor)
"Blahalbhalblahblahl"\n
"Blaahalbhalahafa"\n
would input a line break between those two lines of text.
Or in keeping with the current spirit, if I pasted into the editor:
"Blahalbhalblahblahl"
.n
"Blaahalbhalahafa"
.n
Etecetecetc
Would come out:
"Blahalbhalblahblahl"
"Blaahalbhalahafa"
Etecetecetc
Is the issue that you can't add a newline just with enter? I think you can?
If it is about pasting multiple lines of text, as a general PSA you can already achieve this in most mud clients. Agreed it would be nice IG but there might be a constraint with the maximum input buffer size (AKA why emotes get truncated).
But quick heads up that you can do this is most major mud clients, Mudlet, TinTin, etc. It's invaluable so of your client doesn't support it you might want to shop around.
I use Mudlet and pasting in:
Blockoftext.
Blockoftext.
Produces in the editor:
Blockoftext.
Blockoftext.
If there is some other setting, I don't know what it is. :'(
The default separator in Mudlet is ; so I think you can do something like this with a BLANK SPACE after the sepator.
my humps; ;my humps my humps my humps
And get
my humps
my humps my humps my humps
I hate logging into Arma while I am at work but I just did to test this in Mudlet. You can also change the ; default to something else in settings/preferences.
Awesome, thank you!
A command that shows what (if) you are ep, es, or etwoing, without having to check your entire eq list.
Quote from: Delirium on June 25, 2021, 12:11:36 PM
A command that shows what (if) you are ep, es, or etwoing, without having to check your entire eq list.
Maybe expand the "armed" prompt token for this feature?
Quote from: Alesan on June 25, 2021, 01:43:18 PM
Quote from: Delirium on June 25, 2021, 12:11:36 PM
A command that shows what (if) you are ep, es, or etwoing, without having to check your entire eq list.
Maybe expand the "armed" prompt token for this feature?
Problem is you might be wielding two things. You might also be wielding things that aren't weapons.
I just wanna see what I'm holding so I can switch as need be without eq list spam.
Quote from: Delirium on June 25, 2021, 02:04:04 PM
Quote from: Alesan on June 25, 2021, 01:43:18 PM
Quote from: Delirium on June 25, 2021, 12:11:36 PM
A command that shows what (if) you are ep, es, or etwoing, without having to check your entire eq list.
Maybe expand the "armed" prompt token for this feature?
Problem is you might be wielding two things. You might also be wielding things that aren't weapons.
I just wanna see what I'm holding so I can switch as need be without eq list spam.
To make this more broadly useful, you could create a command where you type in a location and it gives you whatever you're equipped with at that location. Have to have some special syntax for hands since you can wear and hold things with hands.
>hands
In your right hand is a gleaming obsidian mace.
In your left hand is a dragon-carved beetle-shell shield.
>ears
In your left ear is a bone stud.
In your right ear is a ivory earcuff.
Quote from: The7DeadlyVenomz on June 25, 2021, 03:17:00 PM
>hands
In your right hand is a gleaming obsidian mace.
In your left hand is a dragon-carved beetle-shell shield.
>ears
In your left ear is a bone stud.
In your right ear is a ivory earcuff.
Y E S
Quote from: Delirium on June 25, 2021, 04:54:03 PM
Quote from: The7DeadlyVenomz on June 25, 2021, 03:17:00 PM
>hands
In your right hand is a gleaming obsidian mace.
In your left hand is a dragon-carved beetle-shell shield.
>ears
In your left ear is a bone stud.
In your right ear is a ivory earcuff.
Y E S
Quote from: Barsook on June 25, 2021, 05:22:16 PM
Quote from: Delirium on June 25, 2021, 04:54:03 PM
Quote from: The7DeadlyVenomz on June 25, 2021, 03:17:00 PM
>hands
In your right hand is a gleaming obsidian mace.
In your left hand is a dragon-carved beetle-shell shield.
>ears
In your left ear is a bone stud.
In your right ear is a ivory earcuff.
Y E S
an indication under maybe assess that will tell you if a weapon can be flipped and maybe to what damage type. please.
Quote from: Khorm on June 27, 2021, 12:28:37 PM
an indication under maybe assess that will tell you if a weapon can be flipped and maybe to what damage type. please.
Or even a line under the main description:
[Out-of-Character: This item can be flipped to change it's weapon type]
Concerning consent - I would like to have a simple consent flag for myself I can set to ALL, so someone can just 'check consent' without asking and know that my PC is fine with anything you could possibly throw at them. I know it's been mentioned before, but I don't want it to be all cluttery with I consent to this and not that stuff. Just looking for those who want to consent to anything to have the option of not having to answer every time.
give the option to fail or crit fail abilities. like a flip of stats that determine fail vs succeed.
like whoops i crit failed bandage u dead. whoops you wanted this precious iron ingot turned into a sword it fell off a cliff.
some plausible deniability around skills that can turn scenes in other directions.
I know this has been asked before but let value tell you what skills an item might help with(as a bonus by how much, a little, decently, a lot):
value gloves
- You think <item> would help with <skill> <a little>
- You think <item> would hinder with <skill> <a lot>
Not sure if brought up before, but assessing/comparing the weights of two things in hands, should not be hard for anyone.
Doesn't make sense to me I can't know if one rock/sword/etc. is heavier than the other held.
I would like to see the value command allow for determining weight more accurately for those without the value skill.
Edit to add: Or, at least, a "compare" command. This sword is heavier than that sword, sort of thing.
When an NPC corpses decay all the gear inside them should be disappear with it instead of dropping and littering rooms with their stuff.
I THINK items left on the ground in the desert eventually become hidden, but are still in the room, and can be foraged or searched for.
This would be a good feature to add in crowded city rooms. Like the items in the rinth may still be there, but you'd have to rediscover them.
all foods that obviously need a fire and not just a rock to dry on, require the fire tool
Quote from: Dresan on June 28, 2021, 02:27:36 PM
When an NPC corpses decay all the gear inside them should be disappear with it instead of dropping and littering rooms with their stuff.
Instead of corpses decaying like they do, I'd rather see them go through stages, with descriptions of why they are in that stage. There's some pretty neat stuff that could be done to facilitate their demise, like changed ldesc, and spawned beasts.
The corpse of the tall, dark man lies here.
The corpse of the tall, dark man lies here, partially ravaged.
[spawns 1-5 randomly aggressive vulture NPCs in wilderness, 1-5 randomly aggressive Rat NPCs in cities].
The corpse of a ravaged human lies here.
[Same spawned NPCs]
A human skeleton lies here, stripped of meat and organs.
[stays until reboot/disposal, randomly partially destroys gear on it][/i]
Quote from: The7DeadlyVenomz on June 28, 2021, 07:29:24 PM
Quote from: Dresan on June 28, 2021, 02:27:36 PM
When an NPC corpses decay all the gear inside them should be disappear with it instead of dropping and littering rooms with their stuff.
Instead of corpses decaying like they do, I'd rather see them go through stages, with descriptions of why they are in that stage. There's some pretty neat stuff that could be done to facilitate their demise, like changed ldesc, and spawned beasts.
The corpse of the tall, dark man lies here.
The corpse of the tall, dark man lies here, partially ravaged.
[spawns 1-5 randomly aggressive vulture NPCs in wilderness, 1-5 randomly aggressive Rat NPCs in cities].
The corpse of a ravaged human lies here.
[Same spawned NPCs]
A human skeleton lies here, stripped of meat and organs.
[stays until reboot/disposal, randomly partially destroys gear on it][/i]
This is awesome, and do consider clues to demise still in this, to a point.
I think PC corpses persisting through reboot would be fun.
There could be a lot of plot progression/generation from finding old corpses/skeletons in caves, or ahead of something disastrous.
Some special items might not be lost eternally that way, etc.
I just want the Rinth not to look like
>n
>There is 15 items in this room cause npcs were battling to the death
>n
>There is another 15 items
>e
>There is 10 items in the room
Yeah, understandable.
As far as getting rid of bodies, ideally, you could use the bury command on them in appropriately-terrained rooms.
If Pagelength and Color options could be account based and not character based that would be super convenient.
Possibly some type of options in the original menu when you log into the account prior to hitting E to enter your character?
I wouldn't mind aliases being account based too. I know I can do it client side but I play on a few devices so use in game aliases. Would have to delete a few between characters but there's a lot that would be kept the same for me.
A warning that you will soon get linkdeaded for inactivity and then another message that you were linkdeaded for inactivity would be really useful on characters that need to spend a lot of time waiting
Make tattoos stay worn/visible on corpses.
Much like the on shoulder/over shoulder locations, on face and over face. So paints can be worn under a mask and such. :)
Please.
Quote from: ShaiHulud on July 04, 2021, 01:48:55 AM
Much like the on shoulder/over shoulder locations, on face and over face. So paints can be worn under a mask and such. :)
Please.
Please make an "on face" and "over face" yes.
Quote from: LindseyBalboa on July 04, 2021, 12:20:47 PM
Quote from: ShaiHulud on July 04, 2021, 01:48:55 AM
Much like the on shoulder/over shoulder locations, on face and over face. So paints can be worn under a mask and such. :)
Please.
Please make an "on face" and "over face" yes.
If your character is suffering from dehydration and you have been afk for more than 10 minutes they should just automatically drink from any liquid container they are wearing or have in their inventory so that people don't die from dehydration while afk
Quote from: Lotion on July 04, 2021, 06:03:28 PM
If your character is suffering from dehydration and you have been afk for more than 10 minutes they should just automatically drink from any liquid container they are wearing or have in their inventory so that people don't die from dehydration while afk
Don't quote me, but I believe that going linkdead or idling out stops thirst and hungry until back active again.
So the only time this would really help is if you're already super thirsty/hungry and idle afterwards.
If you're already actively dehydrating then the idle timer doesn't save ytou
Quote from: Lotion on July 04, 2021, 07:42:03 PM
If you're already actively dehydrating then the idle timer doesn't save ytou
Then you were already dangerously dehydrated to begin with and you deserved to die. Always drink till your stomach can't contain any more and fill up on food.
Quote from: Pariah on July 04, 2021, 07:44:44 PM
Quote from: Lotion on July 04, 2021, 07:42:03 PM
If you're already actively dehydrating then the idle timer doesn't save ytou
Then you were already dangerously dehydrated to begin with and you deserved to die. Always drink till your stomach can't contain any more and fill up on food.
This really isn't true, it can take less than 30 minutes to enter starvation/dehydration territory, just from being outside in some areas.
Quote from: betweenford on July 04, 2021, 08:12:36 PM
Quote from: Pariah on July 04, 2021, 07:44:44 PM
Quote from: Lotion on July 04, 2021, 07:42:03 PM
If you're already actively dehydrating then the idle timer doesn't save ytou
Then you were already dangerously dehydrated to begin with and you deserved to die. Always drink till your stomach can't contain any more and fill up on food.
This really isn't true, it can take less than 30 minutes to enter starvation/dehydration territory, just from being outside in some areas.
Totally understand that, but honestly there are placed in the game that physically hurt you simply by standing in them.
That's not to say that going to such a dangerous or hazardous place should have coded safeguards for if you lose your link.
You can easily go from "not thirsty" to dying of dehydration in under 30 minutes.
Since Analyze is a static skill (ie you can't raise it) based on whether you have a certain skill or not, and further based on the level of said skill - could we have it changed at chargen from (novice) to (master).
It's not a big deal, but after you've mastered your craft skills, for Analyze to still continue appearing as (novice) is jarring.
A way to send hemotes that are automatically visible to other characters targeted in them for stuff like nudging someone with an elbow or kicking someone's shin under the table (also probably has applications for flirting)
Quote from: Lotion on July 05, 2021, 09:17:25 AM
A way to send hemotes that are automatically visible to other characters targeted in them for stuff like nudging someone with an elbow or kicking someone's shin under the table (also probably has applications for flirting)
Would be nice, yes. Bonus points for a small chance for them to *not* notice it
Butcher NPCs that accept animal corpses for a small payout and sell whatever skins off that creature in an attached shop.
Butcher shopkeeper who gets more than just the meat in the butchery meat shop....... So all that sunback hide doesnt vanish into the aether.
Quote from: Incognito on July 05, 2021, 07:41:33 AM
Since Analyze is a static skill (ie you can't raise it) based on whether you have a certain skill or not, and further based on the level of said skill - could we have it changed at chargen from (novice) to (master).
It's not a big deal, but after you've mastered your craft skills, for Analyze to still continue appearing as (novice) is jarring.
Or make it like the accents and not have a skill level?
I was just wondering today how it might be if the talk code wasn't limited to just tables.
Perhaps talk could also just be involved with a group of people. Codewise maybe using "follow". Don't know feasible it'd be currently, but I think it'd be interesting to have groups or clumps of people talking instead of just at tables and not hear everything about a large room or exterior area.
Quote from: creeper386 on July 06, 2021, 02:23:24 PM
I was just wondering today how it might be if the talk code wasn't limited to just tables.
Perhaps talk could also just be involved with a group of people. Codewise maybe using "follow". Don't know feasible it'd be currently, but I think it'd be interesting to have groups or clumps of people talking instead of just at tables and not hear everything about a large room or exterior area.
The idea of locational actions (like approaching people) is done in other games, seems more complex than a lot of the current code.
An alternative, or starting point, would likely be with the table code. i.e. on a simple level you could have "an open space" in a room (thats actually a table). Which might play out like:
> e
A Crowded Courtyard [N, S, E, W]
This is a crowded courtyard.
> look tables
At 1) an open spot off to the side:
many open seats.
At 2) an open spot off to the side:
many open seats.
> stand at 1
You stand at an open spot off to the side.Next person enters the room:
> e
A Crowded Courtyard [N, S, E, W]
This is a crowded courtyard.
The tall, muscular man is standing at an open spot off to the side.
> look tables
At 1) an open spot off to the side:
The tall muscular man, and many open seats.
At 2) an open spot off to the side:
many open seats.This would basically involve adding a generic series of "tables" to different rooms based on some category, or how rooms are categorized. Like wilderness might have different descriptions than city rooms, etc.
When using the functionality of "look canvas table" (or any illustration objection) it would be nice if it displayed the first illustration on that object and not just the object's mdesc. For use in display cases, tables, and framed paintings.
I'm not against that idea Fernandezj.
I'm just thinking having a talk option among a group of people walking together. Especially in exterior or large rooms would be nice to indicate size and space that doesn't really currently exist.
Like I've seen muds that have rooms gridded out depending on their size and you ahve to move within the area of the room to interact with people. And that's probably to complex and not what I'm interested in either.
Would be convenient to set certain words to never mangle per character. By default would include your name
If someone starts scanning it echoes to the room but if someone starts scanning and then just types "scan on" repeatedly to keep it up there's no way to know they're scanning. Whether or not someone is scanning should show up in their assess.
Quote from: Lotion on July 14, 2021, 04:31:49 PM
If someone starts scanning it echoes to the room but if someone starts scanning and then just types "scan on" repeatedly to keep it up there's no way to know they're scanning. Whether or not someone is scanning should show up in their assess.
You want the game to reply with something like:
"You are already scanning." ?
Quote from: Lotion on July 14, 2021, 04:31:49 PM
If someone starts scanning it echoes to the room but if someone starts scanning and then just types "scan on" repeatedly to keep it up there's no way to know they're scanning. Whether or not someone is scanning should show up in their assess.
Scanning is a timer action that I believe is tied to the skill. So it eventually wears off and when they type scan on after that point, it will display the Dude is scanning message again.
I don't think by spamming scan on removes this, so I'm not sure what you're asking for here.
If your scan lasts 15 minutes and they type scan on within that, nothing happens as they are already scanning. After 15 minutes the first time they do it will say Dude scans the area or whatever it says. Certain classes and skill level might have shorter or longer scan active windows, but as a guy who uses it almost constantly on most characters it always rescans the room visibly when I type scan on after it expired. I normally can tell because I learn that my stun might be 100/100 but while scanning and listening be 89. So once I see the stun progress farther than that, I do LISTEN ON SCAN ON.
I think the idea is if you are not in a room when someone types of the scan command, you have no indication if they are actively scanning.
And from that: the QoL improvement would be a way to discern if a person is actively surveilling their surroundings if you missed the fact that they used the skill in a room before arriving, with the implication being that "scanning" is an active sort of thing that a person might notice (if not, maybe tie it to watch).
If its not meant to be a skill that anyone would notice, then maybe no active echo at all.
Quote from: Fernandezj on July 14, 2021, 10:00:17 PM
I think the idea is if you are not in a room when someone types of the scan command, you have no indication if they are actively scanning.
And from that: the QoL improvement would be a way to discern if a person is actively surveilling their surroundings if you missed the fact that they used the skill in a room before arriving, with the implication being that "scanning" is an active sort of thing that a person might notice (if not, maybe tie it to watch).
If its not meant to be a skill that anyone would notice, then maybe no active echo at all.
I like the idea that it not be a room echo, but instead something you can notice or assess someone to find out, like watch. Great idea.
NPC regen is ridiculous. If they flee from you there should be a 30 second delay MINIMUM before they start regenerating again so that by the time you sneak back up to them they haven't regenerated half of their hitpoints.
Maybe even take away their fear status after they regen to full to represent some kind of reset
Nosave for the guard command, primarily meant for guarding exits (but would have fun implications for guarding people/things)
ON: Automatically fail every guard check
CLAN: Automatically fail every guard check if the "attacker" shares a clan with you
OFF: Attempt every guard check, even if the "attacker" shares a clan with you
Gone are the days when someone clan dumps you inside a compound so that they can guard an exit, now they can just set nosave guard off.
Introduce the possibility to have a shared bank account at Nenyuks, for a maximum of 2 PCs.
For example, if there are 2 PCs, player1 and player2, when both PCs are present in the bank, either one could use the command:
add <player1> <player2> joint
Joint account : Both PCs retain their individual accounts. A third, joint account is created which is accessible by both PCs (similar to a clan bank account).
While checking balance, player1 would see:
You have 3000 coins in your bank account.
You have 2000 coins in your joint bank account with player2.
While checking balance, player2 would see:
You have 1000 coins in your bank account.
You have 2000 coins in your joint bank account with player1.
Withdrawing all money from the joint account and using the command "close joint" would close the joint account permanently. This would not require both PCs to be present in the bank - and could be done by either PC at any time - thereby creating possibilities of cheating/theft/infidelity.
PCs would not be allowed to have more than one joint account at any given time.
In case either PC died, their individual account would get forfeited by Nenyuk, as usual, but the joint account would continue to remain active as long as the other PC was alive.
Other commands would be :
withdraw <amount> joint
deposit <amount> joint
A global toggle by which imms can turn off mount emotes during RPTs.
The short, pale man is standing here, with you.
A large war beetle stands here with you, carrying the short, pale man on its back.
A blurb only you see, if someone is following you, not shadowing you.
If you are following someone else;
The short, pale man is standing here, ahead of you.
A large war beetle stands here ahead of you, carrying the short, pale man on its back.
list <merchant> category slashing
PLEASE?
Most everything else is pretty nice now with search and wear locations. Weapon merchants are toxic still.
Please introduce a command like "assess opponents" so you can see who is fighting you.
>assess opponents
The yellow gith is fighting you.
The brown gith is fighting you.
The sleek black anakore is fighting you.
And/Or change the tagline when mounted fighting to echo who you are fighting. Right now, it just shows that you are mounted, and it does not show who you are fighting while you are mounted. So the ONLY indication you have of who is fighting you is a) when they swing at you/attack you, which is easily lost in spam, and b) the primary attacker, if you check your prompt/stat/score.
So, instead of what we currently have, which is this:
The burly woman is here, riding a hot pink inix.
The slender man is here, riding an orange beetle.
A yellow gith is here, fighting the slender man.
Have it show:
The burly woman is here, riding a hot pink inix, fighting a yellow gith.
The slender man is here, riding an orange beetle, fighting a yellow gith.
A yellow gith is here, fighting the slender man.
The way it is now makes it insanely difficult to parse combat when everyone is mounted.
Let half-elves that look like elves start with master allundean so they can actually pass as elves.
Make all bows shoulder-wearable, please.
craft meat into steak
You begin crafting a chalton steak from a flank of chalton meat you are
carrying.
You start preparing some food.
count coins pack
Your concentration falters...
There are 273 coins in a bone-studded backpack.
I don't think the count command should put the kibosh on crafting, since it can make checking containers for more stuff a right pain.
Give an additional perk to city elves
Let them start with Sleight of Hand - cap at advanced.
Ability to cancel and flush an applied for Character.
I recently misread a class/subclass and literally did a class and subclass that had the exact same skills, tossed in a request but it was approved before anyone ever saw it.
So Kudos as hell for getting to the application so fast, but would be nice to be able to flush our own pending characters without making staff deny them or later storing them, what I'm waiting for right now.
A way to look at list items by price or maybe only show a range of prices?
Currently, there are situations which tell you the sex of the speaker, such as dark nights and so on. Then there are other situations where that doesn't happen.
In any situation where the sdesc is obscured or when the sex isn't revealed due to garbing, you should get an indicator of the voice speaking to you.
Rather than a "faint shape says, in sirihish", it should be "a faint shape says, in masculine/feminine/androgynous sirhish".
When you can see the sdesc of the speaker, or, when they are, for instance, "a male in a mask", this wouldn't be nessessary.
Quote from: The7DeadlyVenomz on July 24, 2021, 11:05:44 AM
Currently, there are situations which tell you the sex of the speaker, such as dark nights and so on. Then there are other situations where that doesn't happen.
In any situation where the sdesc is obscured or when the sex isn't revealed due to garbing, you should get an indicator of the voice speaking to you.
Rather than a "faint shape says, in sirihish", it should be "a faint shape says, in masculine/feminine/androgynous sirhish".
When you can see the sdesc of the speaker, or, when they are, for instance, "a male in a mask", this wouldn't be nessessary.
Along this same vein of darkness and the hindrances of it...
Say you're going east to "go cave" for the night. If you're in darkness you can't see the cave to enter it. However if you're in a sandstorm you can't see in, both vision restricted, you can.
Also it's unrealistic, my buddy is blind, had a car accident and severed his optic nerve in one eye and lost physically the one. So needless to say he can't see shit.
However he maneuvers around by sound and touch with near Daredevil precision. If I know there is a cave, I feel that I should be able to still navigate in the darkness into it by feel, or at least give me the same chance as typing east gives to potentially stumble around.
As it is now you lose all senses in darkness beside hearing for some reason, causing me to pull a torch to enter the cave to just put it away a second later. So I feel it's unrealistic and annoying all bundled into one.
A command to check what is foragable in a room. Like:
Forage check
You spend some time checking the area and discover hints of:
Rocks
Food
Branches
Artifacts
It'd be nice if the "look tables" code gave some better idea of what tables are what. Right now when you look tables, you can't sit 4.table because maybe it's really the second table just fourth on the list of tables. Or maybe an option to sit 4.tables and it'd sit you at the fourth "table" in the look tables list.
l tables
At 1) a stone table
a couple of empty seats
At 2) a stone table
a couple of empty seats
At 3) a stone table
a couple of empty seats
At 1) a stone bench
a couple of empty seats
At 2) a stone bench
a couple of empty seats
Add the "bullet" keyword to every object that can be used as a sling bullet.
When you're not a crafter and you just want some doggone chuckin' rocks...
Someone probably posted this in the thread before but it got mentioned on discord and I need this:
An OR command for forage. So you can 'forage for diamond or emerald' and auto junk all trash stones
Make sweeping a room get rid of ALL the sawdust instead of someone having to spam 50 piles swept up to clear it.
Quote from: Pariah on July 28, 2021, 12:44:42 AM
Make sweeping a room get rid of ALL the sawdust instead of someone having to spam 50 piles swept up to clear it.
Easiest is to sweep more often. Leave a room to dirty will be harder to clean than one maintained.
But sure, a 'sweep room all' would eliminate some spam.
Filling worn liquid containers would be so wonderful. Countless times on tribal characters that wore the carru waterskin on their neck/throat so that it was always accessible I had to remove it after killing a shik and then wear it again which felt very annoying.
You can pour into worn liquid containers.
Currently "craft XX" shows you what you can craft. IE:
"You could make...
=========================DIFFFICULTY======TOOL=====
1) a few whatever very easy | none"
Very simple change, pleased add the item you are attempting to craft to the 'you could make.' IE:
"From XXX, you could make....
=========================DIFFFICULTY======TOOL=====
1) a few whatever very easy | none"
That's it. Thanks!
"Commandeer" command to allow someone to take over steering of a skimmer without whatever position you embarked on determining the order of captains the whole way through. Also the way standing to swap positions is stated on the helpfile didn't work last time I tested it but a "commandeer" command would be great.
Quote from: Inks on July 30, 2021, 01:37:33 PM
"Commandeer" command to allow someone to take over steering of a skimmer without whatever position you embarked on determining the order of captains the whole way through. Also the way standing to swap positions is stated on the helpfile didn't work last time I tested it but a "commandeer" command would be great.
commandeer -- a command that uses the pilot skill to contest control of a vessel. If the pilot of the vessel is incapacitated, the command automatically succeeds. If the pilot is not incapacitated, the takeover has a chance to succeed based on the two characters' pilot skills. On critical success or failure, one person may be knocked off the vessel. If the takeover is not contested because the pilot is incapacitated or has toggled nosave commandeer, there is no chance of anyone being knocked off.
nosave commandeer -- automatically permit anyone who uses the commandeer command to take control of a vessel you are currently piloting.
Really, we could stand to redo wagon and skimmers completely. Make sure the hitching code is popping and that all wagons use it, making sure skimming makes sense.
Stop typing REST while on a mount from stopping you WATCHING a direction.
I can understand if you type it while standing and change positions yourself from standing to rest, or sitting to rest. But to have it turn off what while sliding off your mounts back is sorta annoying.
I have a feeling it's simply tied to the rest verb and that's why it functions how it functions, maybe have a different command to make your mount rest to avoid that? I dunno.
Totally a really low thing, but I'd love more options for various clothing items to reveal clothes/tattoos that would be covered by them.
Like being able to roll up sleeves to show arm tattoos. Probably not relevant for armor. Maybe make it so it cuts off any benefits of the clothing.
Quote from: creeper386 on August 01, 2021, 08:35:10 PM
Totally a really low thing, but I'd love more options for various clothing items to reveal clothes/tattoos that would be covered by them.
Like being able to roll up sleeves to show arm tattoos. Probably not relevant for armor. Maybe make it so it cuts off any benefits of the clothing.
Yes, and to reiterate, on face/over face!
Can the allanaki gem be worn in a special slot (dangling from throat for example), so that gemmers don't lose a wear-slot.
Quote from: Incognito on August 02, 2021, 02:14:13 PM
Can the allanaki gem be worn in a special slot (dangling from throat for example), so that gemmers don't lose a wear-slot.
I think I recall myself on my old account asking this, and what it came down to is it's in that slot because NOTHING covers it up. They don't want a gemmed to be able to run around with a scarf on all the time to cover the fact they are a baby eating witch.
I sorta wish there was a way to cover it temporarily but that is call for the design folks and how they want gems to work.
I'd enjoy being able to see my stats before I make a full physical description, even if I have to have a 'work in progress' description till I'm in game, so I don't make scrawny AI strength teens or 'about to die of the plague' AI endurance ones.
I wish there was a way you could trade your reroll potential for a +1 or +2 to a stat. Sucks when all of your stats are great except one being 'meh' and you either reroll and lose your decent HP or suck it up and hopefully keep 2-3 hp
Could we make brewing herbs have one common keyword, like HERB or something so we could do:
Get all.herb thing
Put all.herb thing
It's so annoying because there might be four blossoms, but then three blossom (non-plural) same with leaves and leaf etc etc.
Maybe some random word that doesn't really exist in items yet, like Medicine or flora or something.
When you log out with a mount hitched, please make the mount still hitched when you log back in. :)
Add pre-approvals for 1-2 apps.
You can submit the app for a future character and it can pre-approved.
When your current character dies you can instantly use that older approved concept (if you wish) and don't need to wait for another approval process.
If something is "empty" it should go down the keyword hierarchy.
So for e.g. if you have two waterskins in your inv and one becomes empty, it should automatically be a deprioritised keyword. When you next do "drink waterskin" you will then drink from the full waterskin instwead.
Have "look <item> table" return a line break between the msdesc of the different items.
Have "look <item> table" default to looking at the item(s) on the table, instead of looking at the item in your inventory if you're wearing an item with that keyword.
Make where the shopkeeper keyword falls between "list <shopkeeper> <item>" and "buy <item> <shopkeeper>" consistent.
I can think of many emotional emotes that are not a think or feel, for e.g. "you look forward to" "you're excited about" "you're concerned regarding" "you're anticipating" - many of these can be "recast" as thinks or feels but it's just so much easier to maybe have an emote that goes "mebe look forward to" "meis excited about" "meis concerned regarding" etc
I love the think, feel, and remember commands. Love them.
Can I be greedy and suggest an imagine command, as well?
>imagine (anticipation) an imagine command!
>remember when you couldn't remember.
Quote from: Delirium on August 07, 2021, 12:44:45 AM
I love the think, feel, and remember commands. Love them.
Can I be greedy and suggest an imagine command, as well?
>imagine (anticipation) an imagine command!
>remember when you couldn't remember.
I think Remember would be interesting to have a semi-permanence. Similar to how Mood works some things will reset it like being reeled in combat or passing out drunk or logging out and you will have to reset it. I think it would be especially good for Half Giants but also for others.
> Change Memory to Tell Lord Oash that Lord Templar Borsail says 'Yes'
> Remember
You remember Tell Lord Oash that Lord Templar Borsail says 'Yes'
(Some time later after drinking in the Gaj that led to a drunken brawl)
Lord Oash is here.
>Remember
You remember nothing.
> Say (after bowing) His Shadow Lord Oash.
:D
This was brought up by oggotale in another thread, I think by accident:
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It's very annoying that the mount name comes first when you're on a mount in a room.
Much easier to identify people if the figure came first, then the mount.
The notion that instead this:
An inix is here, being ridden by the tall muscular man.We have something like this:
The tall muscular man is here, riding an inix.
Change this game echo for a 'pick' error:
Do you plan to pick it with your fingers? You'll need some lock picks.
to
"You cannot find <input from player> to pick. See 'Pick' or 'Break' helpfiles for more details."
Quote from: Fernandezj on August 07, 2021, 02:50:31 PM
This was brought up by oggotale in another thread, I think by accident:
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It's very annoying that the mount name comes first when you're on a mount in a room.
Much easier to identify people if the figure came first, then the mount.
The notion that instead this:
An inix is here, being ridden by the tall muscular man.
We have something like this:
The tall muscular man is here, riding an inix.
Thank you, yes that's it.
We should be able to include the weather info in our prompt (or atleast some part of it)
Seems intuitive since our character would "immediately" feel the changes in the weather, as opposed to having to check for it.
Quote from: oggotale on August 09, 2021, 10:05:28 PM
We should be able to include the weather info in our prompt (or atleast some part of it)
Seems intuitive since our character would "immediately" feel the changes in the weather, as opposed to having to check for it.
Would be cool if it worked like:
100hp / 120 mv / 200 mana / Clear-Storm-Windy>
Weather info in prompt? Reminds me of that mean girls character who can tell when it is currently raining. Weather (direction) is the more useful tool already in game imo.
I'm fine with more prompt options of course.
I have a request I have wanted a long time, an ldesc clearing option which will restore ldesc to default ldesc for whatever you are currently doing.
Quote from: Inks on August 10, 2021, 08:29:18 PM
Weather info in prompt? Reminds me of that mean girls character who can tell when it is currently raining. Weather (direction) is the more useful tool already in game imo.
I'm fine with more prompt options of course.
I have a request I have wanted a long time, an ldesc clearing option which will restore ldesc to default ldesc for whatever you are currently doing.
Isn't this what "change ldesc none" does? I've always used it that way, and the helpfile suggests it works that way.
Example(s):
> change ldesc is here, playing the flute.
> change ldesc none
Reverting to code-generated ldesc.
Quote from: Inks on August 10, 2021, 08:29:18 PM
Weather info in prompt? Reminds me of that mean girls character who can tell when it is currently raining. Weather (direction) is the more useful tool already in game imo.
I'm fine with more prompt options of course.
I have a request I have wanted a long time, an ldesc clearing option which will restore ldesc to default ldesc for whatever you are currently doing.
If you're indoors the weather prompt would give you the default output as "you can't feel the weather from in here"
Pretty sure your char can immediately tell when it's raining outdoors when it's raining and they're outdoors haha.
I had no idea about change ldesc none. Cheers m8.
I'd love for watch to actually be useful. Like if I'm watching a certain directly when moving. I'd like to see the look prompt of osmething is that direction.
watch south
e
Room Desc Stuff
Watching south you see
[Near]
Scary &**$&$^ Mek
Quote from: creeper386 on August 12, 2021, 04:40:39 PM
I'd love for watch to actually be useful. Like if I'm watching a certain directly when moving. I'd like to see the look prompt of osmething is that direction.
This would be a great QOL feature for everybody doing the typical Byn y'all-watch-directions routine.
> say (belching ferociously) Sarge, I got eyes south.
> watch south
You follow the war-torn, muscular man and ride east.
Moar Desert [NSEW]
It's sandy af guys.
Far to the south, you see: A barb-tailed spidermite bustles along here.Now you can talk, emote, etc as you go rather than spamming "look south" on every move.
Make corpses lifted from the pile decay slightly slower, please. Enterprising people from a certain poor man's district might be able to make some cash then.
I would love to see more regional tamable animals in the game.
Something that looks like an oversight when kanks were removed, You used to be able to find kanks in the red desert, Sunbacks elsewhere in the south and erdlu (ridable ones) In a few other areas.
Now, there is like 1 inix in a certain area then pretty much every other tamable inix and one other animal are all in another area.
I was just looking at class help files and there are several that say "May eventually tame mounts" Hey thats great, oh wait, pretty much are no mounts to tame.
Oh, and a few ox, but they do not count, ox are horrible.
Quote from: X-D on August 13, 2021, 06:50:17 PM
I would love to see more regional tamable animals in the game.
Something that looks like an oversight when kanks were removed, You used to be able to find kanks in the red desert, Sunbacks elsewhere in the south and erdlu (ridable ones) In a few other areas.
Now, there is like 1 inix in a certain area then pretty much every other tamable inix and one other animal are all in another area.
I was just looking at class help files and there are several that say "May eventually tame mounts" Hey thats great, oh wait, pretty much are no mounts to tame.
Oh, and a few ox, but they do not count, ox are horrible.
I agree with this 100 percent. Well, there's Aurochs too, but they are ... uhm ... not something you commonly wander across. But yeah, more tamable beasts. And versions of those, too. Rather than just
the inix, the black inix and the grey inix and the pale inix and ... actually, there's a beast thematically perfect for the south.
Turn the drov beetle tamable.
Quote from: Patuk on August 12, 2021, 05:40:00 PM
Make corpses lifted from the pile decay slightly slower, please. Enterprising people from a certain poor man's district might be able to make some cash then.
Make all PC corpses last a while longer. Stumbling across a corpse is always good for an RP hook. Besides, it's dry as hell, they're going to last a bit.
Analyze showing if an item is craftable and what skill even if you don't have that skill but no more information aside from that for those who lack the skill required to make the item would be nice
"remove all" for outfit changes..
Quote from: Maso on August 19, 2021, 06:28:16 AM
"remove all" for outfit changes..
Funny way to say mudsex. ;)
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My idea: Much like location worn listing as recently implemented, allow list filtering in stores by weapon type (bludgeoning, slashing etc).
Example: List (merchant) slashing.
Gates should close at the end of dusk not the beginning. Give people a little extra time to get into the city for RP.
Quote from: Inks on August 26, 2021, 11:07:20 AM
Having the gates open will actually mean less tavern rp, not more, if you prefer a serious answer instead of a joke which missed the mark.
Due to less people being in the tavern at the same time.
I'd disagree with that. Luir's doesn't close its gates and when it's populated I've generally found there to be people in the tavern at nights. The tavern RP was just an example anyways, the quality of life part for more is more that I don't see how locking down the cities for 1/3rd of the day helps anything. Closing the gates while it's dark makes sense IC but why an hour before it gets dark?
i'd rather type `wear thing throat` rather than `wear thing about throat` and i can never remember if it's `wear thing hair` or `wear thing in hair` and swear that it changes sometimes
Quote from: Lotion on August 31, 2021, 06:06:10 PM
i'd rather type `wear thing throat` rather than `wear thing about throat` and i can never remember if it's `wear thing hair` or `wear thing in hair` and swear that it changes sometimes
Same, but waist/about waist.
Combat commands with a post-delay should not incur a delay if they're unable to fire. Rescue is a big one.
Can we have just left and right hand in equipment slots and have "primary" either determined at character creation, by the code or choice. Still have wield and hold work the same for primary and secondary but just have the emote not say wield and hold.
It'd be nice if the poison command didn't require you to be standing. I'm unsure what that is there to prevent, but I've always thought applying poison to something is far more a 'sitting' activity than something you'd have to be standing to do.
Quote from: Patuk on September 08, 2021, 03:57:27 PM
What?
He's agreeing with you, but being a smartass about it, instead of just reposting your comment. :)
Would it be possible to set up mercy and nosave to be directly set instead of just toggleable?
I feel like being toggles makes it way easier to mess something up and lead to big issues based on an OOC problem.
My preferred option would be something like below.
nosave <option> <on | off>
mercy <option> < on | off>
I live here now.
Having items in inventory or wielded/held/etwo prioritized over other worn slots. I run into it a lot, or see a good amount of other people remove gear or weapon on belt when trying to place something from inventory or hands into a container.
Add a moniker "This character looks talkative" to the ldesc of every NPC that has discuss topics on them.
Having your max HP restored via recovering from poison should also restore your current HP by that same amount.
By the same token, effects that increase your max HP/stun/stamina should do the same. Makes little sense why you would wait to catch your breath immediately after suping up with magick/spice
Change the taste command for brewing items to something else.
Can we get a mercy toggle that is mercy on UNLESS they flee?
As in, Your intent is to not kill, but you do not want them to get away either. And would rather them morted, or worse then to get away.
You can do this already. Mercy kill and mercy flee are separate settings.
QuoteYou can do this already. Mercy kill and mercy flee are separate settings.
Um...NOPE.
kill:
When a player has 'mercy kill' turned on, they will try and hold back
blows that might kill their opponent and will refrain from attacking
unconscious opponents altogether.
flee:
If you toggle 'mercy flee' on, you will not try and attack someone who
is fleeing from you.My request is:
QuoteCan we get a mercy toggle that is mercy on UNLESS they flee?
I even explained it just so I would not get people saying it can already be done.
Here:
QuoteAs in, Your intent is to not kill, but you do not want them to get away either. And would rather them morted, or worse then to get away.
But let me try again, I want a mercy toggle that if the one you are fighting does NOT attempt to flee you will try and NOT kill them.
But if they do flee you still WILL take that parting shot...EVEN if it morts or kills them.
Mercy Flee is only to not try and attack on a flee, that is it, it does not turn mercy on otherwise. The EXACT opposite of what I want.
UNLESS, Mercy kill does that already...If so the help files need to be updated to say so. But so far, I am not seeing it in practice.
So, I want one that will take the swing(s) on a flee, EVEN if it means killing outright.
The ability to add personal keywords to items and the ability to add a "history" note to an item that can only be seen by staff and perhaps through an ability available only to specific mages/psionicists. Most players would be able to see notes they left on their titled item but not notes left by other people. The history entry could be severely limited in character length so that it doesn't get excessive. I'm imagining something like this:
title sword Sting
>You have named a humming glowing obsidian sword Sting.
addnote Sting Belonged to the hobbit Bilbo.
>You have added a note to a humming glowing obsidian sword.
viewnotes Sting
>[Tue Sep 7 11:56:10 2021] [Bilbo] Belonged to the hobbit Bilbo.
Because god DAMN have some of my PCs had some epic things with epic history.
Not even weapons... the most innocuous looking item could have a whole heap of historical meaning.
Staff could also use these notes to mark quest related items so their purpose and story don't get Lost In The Void.
Custom embroidery on to any item made from cloth material types in a similar vein to the drawing skill. Adds the embroidered item state to the item, which already exists.
Be able to do certain stuff whilst sat down, e.g.
- poison something (it makes little sense to me that you can't apply poison to an object while sat down.. personally I would have a harder time with delicate work like this whilst stood up)
- plant/steal - not saying it would be easy, obviously you wouldn't be hidden, but you should be able to attempt slipping your hand into someone's pocket whilst you're sat next to them at the bar.
- there's probably other weird stuff you can't do while sat down..
Quote from: Maso on September 30, 2021, 10:33:14 AM
Be able to do certain stuff whilst sat down, e.g.
- poison something (it makes little sense to me that you can't apply poison to an object while sat down.. personally I would have a harder time with delicate work like this whilst stood up)
- plant/steal - not saying it would be easy, obviously you wouldn't be hidden, but you should be able to attempt slipping your hand into someone's pocket whilst you're sat next to them at the bar.
- there's probably other weird stuff you can't do while sat down..
Bandage
Teaching.
Quote from: X-D on September 22, 2021, 05:08:33 PM[spoiler=snip]
QuoteYou can do this already. Mercy kill and mercy flee are separate settings.
Um...NOPE.
kill:
When a player has 'mercy kill' turned on, they will try and hold back
blows that might kill their opponent and will refrain from attacking
unconscious opponents altogether.
flee:
If you toggle 'mercy flee' on, you will not try and attack someone who
is fleeing from you.
My request is:
QuoteCan we get a mercy toggle that is mercy on UNLESS they flee?
I even explained it just so I would not get people saying it can already be done.
Here:
QuoteAs in, Your intent is to not kill, but you do not want them to get away either. And would rather them morted, or worse then to get away.
But let me try again, I want a mercy toggle that if the one you are fighting does NOT attempt to flee you will try and NOT kill them.
But if they do flee you still WILL take that parting shot...EVEN if it morts or kills them.
Mercy Flee is only to not try and attack on a flee, that is it, it does not turn mercy on otherwise. The EXACT opposite of what I want.
UNLESS, Mercy kill does that already...If so the help files need to be updated to say so. But so far, I am not seeing it in practice.
So, I want one that will take the swing(s) on a flee, EVEN if it means killing outright.[/spoiler]
mercy on will turn both mercies on, you will attack neither fleeing or unconscious enemies
mercy off will turn both mercies off, you will attack both fleeing and unconscious enemies
mercy kill will toggle mercy kill. If it was on it will turn off, if it was off it will turn on.
mercy flee will toggle mercy flee. If it was on it will turn off, if it was off it will turn on.
What you want is the result of either
mercy off + mercy kill OR mercy on + mercy flee
You would probably get an even better result than you'd expect. Let's say the enemy is one hit from critical and you are dual wielding. What I would expect to happen (never seen this happen, but the game acts in predictable ways most of the time.) is your first hit would send them into critical as they flee and then you would show mercy and not give the finishing blow. Your enemy would be in the next room over on the verge of death and then you can do whatever you were gonna do.
An imagine personal psy command akin to thinkfeelremember
Players quitting out or logging in to a room should leave tracks visible to those with the hunt command.
Sorta wish peek would show some tattoos.
Quote from: Maso on October 13, 2021, 02:01:42 PM
Would also help you to consider if you wanted to settle there with the chance they might log in (/return to their previous campsite).
Prevent some awkward situations where you're just gicking about and someone logs in on top of you.
The ability to poison items covertly using sleight of hand would be really useful.
Sleight of hand successes changing them from hemotes to semotes when the user is hidden, invisible, or otherwise unseen.
Have ride give your mount resistance to being bashed and when your mount gets bashed count it as a ride fail.
We seriously need more passive ride fails so that people don't have to tame hundreds of animals just to max the skill on stalkers.
Not sure if this has already been suggested, but...
Being able to cook up to five of the same items into 5 separate iterations of the cooked version.
E.g. craft meat 2.meat 3.meat 4.meat 5.meat into some pieces of cooked meat (5x a piece of cooked meat)
As a bonus, being able to cook 2-4 would produce 2-4 iterations, but I'd settle for either 1 at a time, or 5 at a time.
I would like the ability to sit on people.
If Amos is sitting....
You sit in Amos's lap.
If Amos is resting....
>sit amos
You sit on Amos's belly.
If Amos is standing...
You leap upwards and straddle Amos.
Because everyone sits differently, I propose extremely complex sitdescription syntax.
Lastly you should be able to have sit trains.
Amos is sitting here.
Talia is here, sitting in Amos's lap.
Lord Templar Fale is here, sitting in Talia's lap.
A small gortok is here, sitting in Lord Fale's lap.
Could we have the option to change the color of psionics/way messages to be different than the color of thinks and feels?
'sto' should default to 'stop,' not 'stow.' I make an alias every time but it'd be great if I didn't have to. Stopping is a lot more important and time-sensitive than stowing.
Give Minstrel the same boost to picking up accents/stuff that Bard gets.
Mundane subs already only require you have the karma available, you don't spend it on the sub anymore.
'Smoke pipe all' like how we have 'eat food all'
Let us feed spice to our mounts.
Quote from: MeTekillot on November 07, 2021, 08:57:18 PM
'Smoke pipe all' like how we have 'eat food all'
TIL
Quote from: MeTekillot on November 09, 2021, 02:27:23 AM
Let us feed spice to our mounts.
Poison cures too, if that's not currently implemented.
An "after" command that waits for you to do an action that requires concentration to complete before doing more stuff
hide
after
east
craft rock into nipple.ring.foot
after
psi I'm replying to a way I received while in the crafting delay
Make the four parade field rooms the byn has be codedly outdoors with a movement cost of zero and some reasonable ride penalty so that there's more to codedly do on desert survival days other than archery range stuff. Sure, if there's a sarge logged in you are probably going to have something to do, but that is rarely the case.
Please update the 'map tuluk' helpfile and the directions command there.
I want to be able to title items like we can title mounts. Keywords assigned only to that specific loaded version of the object.
>title songbird Tweety
>title maul Smashy
flay code that allows us to remove skin containing tattoos/scars from bodies (or maybe even unconsious/critical victims) to get an item that contains information about the tattoo/scar from the body and the location the skin was flayed from
Quote from: Evilone on November 21, 2021, 06:18:55 AM
Off the top of my head I cannot remember the levels of intoxication, but once you hit the level intoxicated a smell is added to the character, and a timer begins which is similar to the duration of getting from drunk to sober, or once sober, the smell is cleared, and for every other drink beyond intoxication, the alcohol timer refreshes.
sniff amos
Amos smells of alcohol.
This already happens??
Idea'd this in game, but when you are asleep and you type 'wake' it automatically returns a 'look' at the room.
Same for when you come to from being knocked out.
It would stand to reason when you wake up and open your eyes, you see what is around you without having to consciously do so.
it would be so fun and cool if every form of self inventory manipulation could be done covertly with sleight of hand
non exhaustive list of examples
* poison a weapon
* load a blowgun
* wield a weapon from your inventory
* put on a wearable
* remove a wearable
* raise/lower hood
* get a weapon from a quiver into either your ep or es slot
the only self inventory manipulation i can think of off the top of my head this probably shouldn't apply to is smoking spice (but i think snorting spice covertly could be conceivably reasonable, although usually if a hidden person is snorting spice they are probably about to type bash or kill and staying hidden isn't super important but is still useful)
This is ... A novel concept but it might prove to be interesting.
Have the Mud up on a different port. Completely devoid of all NPCs and all the areas considered 'difficult to access' off grid.
Have people able to login into the mud with builder privileges. There, they can make items, build rooms, change stuff, etc. And then offer for review. If stuff looks good and actions inside the game were performed to make it happen IG, staff can make these things life.
Thoughts?
Fix HELP MAP TULUK, and fix the DIRECTIONS command for those in the walls. Opening the city didn't come out of the blue, it has been open for months now, so I have no idea why both are borked
Decrease the upper time limit on tailoring. Nobody wants to wait 3 hours for their blue bandana to get resized or their helmet tailored. There's no actually interesting plots created by forcing people to wait for tailors. At best the ticket gets stolen and the thief gets a helmet in 3 hours, at worst someone just logs out and doesn't interact with the game for 3 hours
display a message when a skill is branched
It would be convenient if skill timers could store three or so charges of skillup and expended one on a failskillup so to reward longer play sessions and reduce a sense of fomo that people can sometimes have from missing a timer.
Allow us to see our coded gender in either score or stat. Useful in Hall of Kings to ensure your app didn't get borked
Quote from: Lotion on December 01, 2021, 07:09:11 PM
Decrease the upper time limit on tailoring. Nobody wants to wait 3 hours for their blue bandana to get resized or their helmet tailored. There's no actually interesting plots created by forcing people to wait for tailors. At best the ticket gets stolen and the thief gets a helmet in 3 hours, at worst someone just logs out and doesn't interact with the game for 3 hours
Oh but the plot thickens when the stolen ticket helmet doesn't fit the thief!
So he has to get the helmet resized.. but guess what happens to his ticket..?
Aside from all those unbelievable plot twists I've always thought that "capable" Tailors should have this ability/skill.
I'm sure it boils down to a hard-coded issue that would be a nightmare to alter, but shorter wait times.. I bet that wouldn't be all too difficult to change?
Color should be turned on by default for new accounts/new PCs.
Alright, I thought this mud had what I am going to suggest, but I cannot find it, must be another mud.
But "No receive" Needs to be a thing.
A toggle so your PC will not take things handed to them.
Either the person gets a message of Dude refuses or it just falls to the ground.
Plant would work as normal of course.
'Nosave receive'
Make mounts arrangeable or commandable to change their ldescs.
Make it so soldiers can toggle whether or not others get auto-flagged for crimcode when they're present for sparring, or being sparred with by non-soldiers.
What if.. When new players joined the game they were put through a simulation that makes them do a bunch of stuff like, mining, foraging, talking, emoting, etc and until they passed this simulation they couldn't get into the game. Allow them to do it before their char is created so they can say Yay or Nay. Draw weapons, the whole shabang. And then have them read up on the city background so they understand, then the race they plan to choose.
Quote from: Rogerthat on January 01, 2022, 06:18:53 PM
What if.. When new players joined the game they were put through a simulation that makes them do a bunch of stuff like, mining, foraging, talking, emoting, etc and until they passed this simulation they couldn't get into the game. Allow them to do it before their char is created so they can say Yay or Nay. Draw weapons, the whole shabang. And then have them read up on the city background so they understand, then the race they plan to choose.
I've jokingly suggested that to help present players to the 'Rinth they should get mugged in char gen to prepare them, it was mostly a joke about having a more intuitive tutorial.
I'd love this sort of thing and I'd be willing to help write something related to this if some staffer ever wanted to do the code, which is always the hardest part.
Tiny thing. For tell, talk, and say, can we get a period added to the end of the verbal bit, if no other punctuation is provided?
When you are in a room and it's dark/stormy/sandy and for whatever reason you can't see specifically who is talking, I think it'd be nice to add some type of: "a faint shape says, in a woman's voice" or "'a man's voice comes from a faint shape as they say '....' in a southern accent" sort of like when someone shouts from another room or when you overhear someone speaking from another room.
Quote from: Lotion on December 04, 2021, 09:58:55 PM
It would be convenient if skill timers could store three or so charges of skillup and expended one on a failskillup so to reward longer play sessions and reduce a sense of fomo that people can sometimes have from missing a timer.
This would be a super nice QOL change that feels like it'd promote longer RP sessions. It's pretty easy to slip a day, or days while conversing with people.
Request: Please make GET/PUT/GIVE (NUMERICAL VALUE) default to the first keyed currency in your inventory/container.
I.E. Put 200 backpack just automatically will see if you have 200 <currency objects> in your inventory and store them.
In the case of multiple currencies, just make the player do as the system is now: put 200 <currency type> <container>
A beg for mercy command.
Now that analyze has been reworked (awesomely, by the way) I'd like to see it moved to perception and raised from novice just like any other perception skill would be. You don't have to be a crafter to try and analyze something, and it seems reasonable one's perception would play a role in being able to notice things like what materials something might be made from, and even recognizing the style or symbol of a particular House, which is what analyze has been expanded to.
Quote from: ArmaJunkie on January 16, 2022, 12:50:36 PM
Now that analyze has been reworked (awesomely, by the way) I'd like to see it moved to perception and raised from novice just like any other perception skill would be. You don't have to be a crafter to try and analyze something, and it seems reasonable one's perception would play a role in being able to notice things like what materials something might be made from, and even recognizing the style or symbol of a particular House, which is what analyze has been expanded to.
What does this add other than another layer of crafter head ache?
This isn't meant to be antagonistic sounding I legit want to know your thoughts. It's already annoying to get a hold of an item so I can break that shit down and throw it into the crafting doc where it will rest for eternity, having to grind up Analyze along with leather working makes my butt hurt.
Not meaning for it to be a grind. In fact, if it could just be fixed at N/A or -- would be preferable to me over any skill level. My goal with this idea is only to stop it from sitting on the craft skills glaring novice back at me forever.
:)
It would be such nice QoL if your mount could regen stamina while you were wilderness quit if it was fed at the cost of no longer being fed. Currently the only way to regen mount stamina while logged out is stabling it which really sucks.
Have the weather command also show if a room has the nomount flag. It's incredibly annoying trying to explore climbable areas only to find the cliff your mount fell down is nomount after it doesn't follow you up 4 times and then you mount it to go up to test if it is nomount which also entails a needless risk of falling in the event that you got unlucky four times in a row.
Keyrings should answer to the keyword 'keys'
I can't count how many times I had a few drinks as a leader pc, and thought i lost my keyring because i was typing 'keys.'
I've said before I think, but make "on eyes "and "over eyes" different locations. So I don't have to remove my eye makeup to wear sunslits. Please.
Quote from: Fredd on January 27, 2022, 06:38:15 PM
Keyrings should answer to the keyword 'keys'
I can't count how many times I had a few drinks as a leader pc, and thought i lost my keyring because i was typing 'keys.'
"Key" is a keyword for them, but I do agree with you. I don't think it bleeds from real life.
Quote from: Barsook on January 28, 2022, 08:56:34 AM
Quote from: Fredd on January 27, 2022, 06:38:15 PM
Keyrings should answer to the keyword 'keys'
I can't count how many times I had a few drinks as a leader pc, and thought i lost my keyring because i was typing 'keys.'
"Key" is a keyword for them, but I do agree with you. I don't think it bleeds from real life.
Not all answer to 'key' either. It might depend on the specific keyring?
There weren't that many of them, so now they will all answer to 'keys' at least. I can't make any promises for future keyrings.
Quote from: Usiku on January 28, 2022, 02:55:29 PM
There weren't that many of them, so now they will all answer to 'keys' at least. I can't make any promises for future keyrings.
Thank You!
"whisper me" should not break hide. (A chance of detection would be fine!) Don't punish muttering-to-self, which is more involving of others than "think" is.
"whisper person" should not break hide, but should show your sdesc to the person you're whispering to. Maybe a chance of being overheard at master listen.
Quote from: sucre on February 01, 2022, 11:49:31 PM
Quote from: ShaiHulud on January 28, 2022, 06:47:21 AM
I've said before I think, but make "on eyes "and "over eyes" different locations. So I don't have to remove my eye makeup to wear sunslits. Please.
Quote from: Brytta Léofa on January 30, 2022, 09:34:27 PM
"whisper me" should not break hide. (A chance of detection would be fine!) Don't punish muttering-to-self, which is more involving of others than "think" is.
"whisper person" should not break hide, but should show your sdesc to the person you're whispering to. Maybe a chance of being overheard at master listen.
Dittoing both of these.
Didn't we used to be able to do this? I swear I have distinct memories of talking to people while I was hidden, and they couldn't see me. But those are some pretty old memories.
I think it would be helpful if when you fired an arrow at someone who had that flag set on them that prevents ranged attacks from having success, a message should state that you missed because there is no way you can hit the target. Or possibly you should get the message before you waste the arrow. I'm not put out if I lose an arrow trying to hit the unhittable, but emptying a quiver on some mobile only to find out that it wasn't hittable makes me nonplussed.
In general, if something is failing because it's administratively barred, I would like that to be more obvious.
Quote from: conte on February 03, 2022, 02:54:00 PM
I think it would be helpful if when you fired an arrow at someone who had that flag set on them that prevents ranged attacks from having success, a message should state that you missed because there is no way you can hit the target. Or possibly you should get the message before you waste the arrow.
You don't think you could hit a skeezy lookout gith; they have too much cover.Yeah, I didn't know there were un-shootable NPCs until someone finally OOCed me last year. Is there a really solid reason that feature exists today? (Right, it prevents guards from being slaughtered with arrows. But why is that good? Could we have a scripted or staff-triggered response instead?)
Having a script that obviously echoes your ranged attack raises an alarm that sends the sentries into cover could be an elegant solution... Or has the archers at the gate start shooting back.
Quote from: Fredd on February 02, 2022, 02:48:13 AM
Quote from: sucre on February 01, 2022, 11:49:31 PM
Quote from: ShaiHulud on January 28, 2022, 06:47:21 AM
I've said before I think, but make "on eyes "and "over eyes" different locations. So I don't have to remove my eye makeup to wear sunslits. Please.
Quote from: Brytta Léofa on January 30, 2022, 09:34:27 PM
"whisper me" should not break hide. (A chance of detection would be fine!) Don't punish muttering-to-self, which is more involving of others than "think" is.
"whisper person" should not break hide, but should show your sdesc to the person you're whispering to. Maybe a chance of being overheard at master listen.
Dittoing both of these.
Didn't we used to be able to do this? I swear I have distinct memories of talking to people while I was hidden, and they couldn't see me. But those are some pretty old memories.
Maybe to someone who has really bad scan? I know a few Kadian dwarves did this to me back in the day to tease me in the compound, but afaik, now it always breaks.
when you have a mount hitched and you enter a room that is tagged as not allowing mounts to enter (such as up certain cliffs) please give an echo about how the mount cannot follow you because you are enter a room tagged as nomount. It is rather OOC but also a lot of the nomount rooms don't make much sense from an IC perspective so there is nearly zero risk of immersion breaking because it will already have been broken. The amount of times where my mount doesn't follow me into a climb room when I'm partway up a cliff and I need to mount my mount and try to take an up/down exit to know for certain that it's tagged as nomount and risk fucking failing
IMHO it would also be cool if there were expanded renter controls for an apartment. Like if every lease could have an 'alpha' tennant, who could add or kick people off of the lease. And if more than two people could rent the same room.
We're supposed to be poor? Existing controls are somewhat "all or nothing".
Steal and Plant should work for open items in the room ie: An open chest, things laying on a table, a shelf.
This is one that I always found odd. I can steal from within your pack, but I can't steal from off a table?
I can plant an item in the middle of the room quietly, but I can't plant evidence on someone's desk?
It's not going to open up a whole world of RP, sure. But it will make some things possible, and expand other types of scenes I can think of.
The limiter of 'open' is there simply because I find it a little hard to believe you can open a chest and steal out of it without drawing any sort of attention. But I once saw a half giant with max hide. So not everything needs to make sense :)
Unlatch, latch, and palm are the commands you're looking for.
Quote from: Delirium on February 16, 2022, 02:50:22 PM
Unlatch, latch, and palm are the commands you're looking for.
Ah shit, i forgot palm was the command for tables. I knew about latch and unlatch. That's also how you open door without breaking hide.
Completely spaced on Palm though, TY!
You know that noise thats made when you unlock a door, i think the listen skill should be able to pick that up if it does not already if your in the same room as the door or even depending on skill level. Whos with me?
Quote from: Rogerthat on February 17, 2022, 10:54:42 PM
You know that noise thats made when you unlock a door, i think the listen skill should be able to pick that up if it does not already if your in the same room as the door or even depending on skill level. Whos with me?
Ooo, that'd be nice. Especially, to me at least, if it didn't tell you which door. Just you're listening and you just get a message in your mudclient going 'you hear a soft click'
Also if you search for something. And you notice something is buried I do believe you should be able to find it 10x easier.
Quote from: Fredd on February 16, 2022, 02:37:49 PM
Steal and Plant should work for open items in the room ie: An open chest, things laying on a table, a shelf.
You can use the steal command targeting an item in the room to attempt to put it into your inventory without being noticed, and I swear it also works on containers.
Quote from: Rogerthat on February 17, 2022, 11:04:55 PM
Quote from: Jihelu on February 17, 2022, 11:00:38 PM
Quote from: Rogerthat on February 17, 2022, 10:54:42 PM
You know that noise thats made when you unlock a door, i think the listen skill should be able to pick that up if it does not already if your in the same room as the door or even depending on skill level. Whos with me?
Ooo, that'd be nice. Especially, to me at least, if it didn't tell you which door. Just you're listening and you just get a message in your mudclient going 'you hear a soft click'
Absolutely thats what im talking about right there.
I 100% support this.
Quote from: Lotion on February 18, 2022, 01:25:17 PM
Quote from: Fredd on February 16, 2022, 02:37:49 PM
Steal and Plant should work for open items in the room ie: An open chest, things laying on a table, a shelf.
You can use the steal command targeting an item in the room to attempt to put it into your inventory without being noticed, and I swear it also works on containers.
I know about room stealing. I was more thinking about on tables. The docs read a lot like how it used to be used, to move things around your own person silently (like palming out spice to plant on an elf) I had completely forgot that it's also used for containers in the room (like tables) The help file could use a touch more clarity I guess.
The breakdown between steal and sleight of hand is a bit surprising IMO. I think it
should be as follows:
steal skill = touching another person:
- steal/plant <stuff> <person> (as currently)
- latch/unlatch <person>'s <container> (instead of using the sleight of hand skill)
sleight of hand skill = touching only objects or yourself (lol):
- palm/slip <object> <container>
- steal/plant <stuff> room, and the command should be "palm/slip <stuff> room" rather than "steal" or "plant"
- latch/unlatch <container/direction>
please allow someone to turn off the default soul emotes. every time I've used yawn was by accident and one time I yawned by accident and thought it was a mindworm and roleplayed accordingly because I didn't realize that mistyping 'y
' when I mean 'u' would cause me to do some random canned emote
Quote from: Brytta Léofa on February 18, 2022, 07:35:17 PM
The breakdown between steal and sleight of hand is a bit surprising IMO. I think it should be as follows:
steal skill = touching another person:
- steal/plant <stuff> <person> (as currently)
- latch/unlatch <person>'s <container> (instead of using the sleight of hand skill)
sleight of hand skill = touching only objects or yourself (lol):
- palm/slip <object> <container>
- steal/plant <stuff> room, and the command should be "palm/slip <stuff> room" rather than "steal" or "plant"
- latch/unlatch <container/direction>
There is some weird overlap between steal and sleight of hand.
You CAN palm items that are on the floor in a room, but you CAN'T (at least no way I have found) slip items onto the floor in a room. It strikes me that some of this overlap is due to the prior class system and how the stealth skills were spread.
I feel like there was another point of overlap I can no longer remember but my brain is a giant sieve.
Quote from: Mercy on February 19, 2022, 05:04:22 PM
Quote from: Brytta Léofa on February 18, 2022, 07:35:17 PM
The breakdown between steal and sleight of hand is a bit surprising IMO. I think it should be as follows:
steal skill = touching another person:
- steal/plant <stuff> <person> (as currently)
- latch/unlatch <person>'s <container> (instead of using the sleight of hand skill)
sleight of hand skill = touching only objects or yourself (lol):
- palm/slip <object> <container>
- steal/plant <stuff> room, and the command should be "palm/slip <stuff> room" rather than "steal" or "plant"
- latch/unlatch <container/direction>
There is some weird overlap between steal and sleight of hand.
You CAN palm items that are on the floor in a room, but you CAN'T (at least no way I have found) slip items onto the floor in a room. It strikes me that some of this overlap is due to the prior class system and how the stealth skills were spread.
I feel like there was another point of overlap I can no longer remember but my brain is a giant sieve.
This is because you used to not be able to use sleight of hand for much more then getting something from your pack. Staff have since expanded upon the skill to make it more useful. So the help file could use a bit of clarity, and it's interactions probably cleaned up a touch too.
Assessing a bow could be much clearer about how weak/strong its pull is relative to your strength. It would make bows easier to sell PC to PC as I've found those to be frustrating transactions.
It would be nice if a piece of gear that has more than one wear location automatically gets worn on another if the first is already occupied by something else. Right now it just says, 'you already wear something on that location'
Have the Great Merchant Houses sell bundles of their full sets.
Just a matter of breaking open the package and the buyer will have all 239247934 pieces that come with it.
Have the 'analyze' and the 'value' output show for items in shops so that we can see if we think we might be able to craft them, and how much they weigh, etc. while in the inventory of the shopkeep.
Justification: I generally assume when people are shopping they aren't simply looking at a list, but walking into the shop and seeing/picking up/evaluating the actual objects for sale. Shops aren't Amazon; they're more like
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/78/e8/04/78e8044bb83b78acb7898f499ec139bb.jpg)
Quote from: SpyGuy on February 22, 2022, 12:59:41 AM
Assessing a bow could be much clearer about how weak/strong its pull is relative to your strength. It would make bows easier to sell PC to PC as I've found those to be frustrating transactions.
You estimate its draw weight to be about 35 stones.
Would it be possible to allow us to "taste" spices/seasonings. Seems kind of odd that the only way to find out what a seasoning tastes like is to use it on some food.
Quote from: Mercy on March 01, 2022, 02:27:08 PM
Would it be possible to allow us to "taste" spices/seasonings. Seems kind of odd that the only way to find out what a seasoning tastes like is to use it on some food.
Many of the seasonings/spices have helpfiles. Bloodroot does, for instance, and it says what it tastes like:
https://armageddon.org/help/view/Bloodroot
Actually, it looks like most of them have information:
https://armageddon.org/help/view/Seasonings
A command like 'tattoos' that shows a current list of all your PCs scars and tattoos
Since we can empty (solid) containers into others, can we please fill (solid) containers from other solid containers?
It could work like 'get all X.container' except that in addition to every get, there is a put.
'fill X.container Y.container'
would send:
get 1. Y.container
put 1. X.container
with an echo like:
You move 1.object from Y.container to X.container
until either Y.container is empty, X.container is full, or the operation is interrupted.
..or a command 'move' that works like above on 1 object.
'move <object> <current container> <destination>
Be able to arrange all objects sharing a keyword in a room.
arrange all.rock in a circle.
You arrange a small grey rock.
You arrange a small grey rock.
You arrange a small grey rock.
Shown to room as:
A few small grey rocks are here, in a circle.
Multi-command aliases. (Did this already get proposed and shot down as too scripty?)
alias ll look north | look east | look south | look west | look up
Hidden things should REQUIRE search to use.
Last time I checked, all you needed was 1 dude with search 15 years ago, and suddenly you know where all the spots are and how to open them for eternity.
This makes search almost useless.
Quote from: Fredd on March 17, 2022, 01:40:13 PM
Hidden things should REQUIRE search to use.
Last time I checked, all you needed was 1 dude with search 15 years ago, and suddenly you know where all the spots are and how to open them for eternity.
This makes search almost useless.
100%.
I'm not sure if this is what you had in mind, but it would be a simple change to check for search skill > 0 when trying to enter a hidden entrance. You don't have to discover the keyword with every character, but by damn you've got to actually have the search skill.
Quote from: Brytta Léofa on March 17, 2022, 01:55:00 PM
Quote from: Fredd on March 17, 2022, 01:40:13 PM
Hidden things should REQUIRE search to use.
Last time I checked, all you needed was 1 dude with search 15 years ago, and suddenly you know where all the spots are and how to open them for eternity.
This makes search almost useless.
100%.
I'm not sure if this is what you had in mind, but it would be a simple change to check for search skill > 0 when trying to enter a hidden entrance. You don't have to discover the keyword with every character, but by damn you've got to actually have the search skill.
That would be 100% exactly what I was thinking.
Also: I just thought of this in Disc...
We have weapon skills currently unused in the game. And we have two militaries that could use with a little more 'their own feel' to them. What if we gave say, The Arm of the Dragon tridents after reaching Private, and the Sun Legions polearms?
Please to allow all as a junk keyword, and junk things in containers.
I want to be able to junk all.kindling chest.
if a room literally says it has a pile of rocks, dont make forage rock hard to get stones from that pile, or make that pile able to be targeted somehow? I find it silly you cant forage for rocks, when the desc has a pile of rocks.
Beast Talker subguild: Part of the Psionist guilds.
Karma: 1 maybe 2
Powers: no or very limited ability to effect humanoids with psionics (aka, humans, elves, h.elves, dwarves,muls, and Mantis)
The ability to call, and control animals. including the ability to use the "Command" command on them to guard, follow, emote, ect.
The ability to take over and control animals like rats remotely (This is what I'm picturing the bread and butter ability to be)
Pros: This looks like a lot of fun, and it is a hole in the game that could use filling.
Cons: Someone's gonna fill animal holes, likely day 1.
A targeted hidden emote, where the target will see it, but it could be missed by others in the room.
I'd just like wielded weapons to have priority over sheathed weapons for remove and emotes.
Some sort of 'all' designation when crafting so i don't have to type
craft 1.slice 2.slice 3.slice 4.slice 5.slice into (item)
instead: Craft all slice into (item)
Here's a wild one...
craft with no arguments shows you a list of everything that you can craft using only items in your inventory.
>craft
From a bunch of bunchgrass, you could make...
1) a simple basket from that. [basketweaving, effortless]
2) a sturdy basket from that. [basketweaving, effortless]
3) a well-fashioned basket from that. [baseketweaving, manageable.
From a length of bone and a bitchin' auger, you could make...
You could make...
4) a polished bone flute. [instrument making, difficult]
>craft #4
Notes fly through the air as you begin machining.
This is both a nice craft-discovery mechanism (I've got this stuff; what can I make?) and a crafting shortcut (I don't have to type the recipe every time). It's limited for craft discovery by not referencing items outside your inventory, so you can't just type it in a storeroom and FIND ALL THE RECIPES.
Quote from: creeper386 on January 19, 2021, 06:27:55 PM
Another crafting suggesing.
Sometimes when I do craft <material> it says I can make something but when I do craft <material> into <keyword>, keyword being taken by things in the list from the craft command and it says no recipes matched. The list of things I can craft doesn't actually accurately tell you what you are making. Unsure why the mismatch is but it's confusing. I don't know if this is a bug that should be reported or how the craft command jumbles things up to provide something that's not accurate.
Adding to craft items, itd be nice of some items like skins, not to have the same sdesc if they are tanned or not. Know it's not really a code thing as a builder thing so maybe this is the wrong place.
You can craft by number.
So if you do craft wood and see
1: A cup
2: a bowl
3: a cup with a cityscape carved into it.
You can do "craft wood into #3"
This prevents keyword mixups.
please allow us to use the steal verb "plant" to put pebble items into peoples' boots. it would cause them minor discomfort in the form of -1 movement point every time they walk into another room but the effect can be removed by removing the boots and putting them back on
Talk, if you're not sitting at a table to turn into say.. Probably already been said but it's been the bane of my existence for 16 years now.
When your bash gets cancelled by threaten it should put you into a delay and make you sit
Here's one for our newer players:
When you join a clan, you should know the DIRECTIONS to the compound. No, character origin shouldn't matter in this, it's playability that matters.
I don't know if there is a pointer to the Newbie rooms in the Hall of Kings but I think it would be good to have one besides the 'look map' and maybe a pointer for that too.
I think it would be cool if there was a staff sponsored role for an Explorer. ICly, its a badass solo character that wanders the edges of the world and boldly goes where no man has gone before.
OOCly, they are a room builder, who, after meeting a certain quota for new wilderness rooms written/built, they may return to the known, along with (staff approved) treasures and stories from their travels.
Quote from: Patuk on April 18, 2022, 03:41:17 PM
Here's one for our newer players:
When you join a clan, you should know the DIRECTIONS to the compound. No, character origin shouldn't matter in this, it's playability that matters.
+1
I've actually recently run into this IC, where it may have been helpful. The scene turned out fine without it, but I'm still new enough to remember being completely overwhelmed when starting out. Having one less factor in "mental stack" could be helpful.
(I'm still mulling over ways to address some of what the half-dozen friends I've tried to get on Arm. have told me, in terms of barriers to entry. So frustrating, 'cause I know they'd
love this darn place and its stories if they could get to them!)
Quote from: Saiseiki on April 19, 2022, 12:06:28 PM
Quote from: Patuk on April 18, 2022, 03:41:17 PM
Here's one for our newer players:
When you join a clan, you should know the DIRECTIONS to the compound. No, character origin shouldn't matter in this, it's playability that matters.
+1
I've actually recently run into this IC, where it may have been helpful. The scene turned out fine without it, but I'm still new enough to remember being completely overwhelmed when starting out. Having one less factor in "mental stack" could be helpful.
(I'm still mulling over ways to address some of what the half-dozen friends I've tried to get on Arm. have told me, in terms of barriers to entry. So frustrating, 'cause I know they'd love this darn place and its stories if they could get to them!)
I'm all for this Joining a clan should give you new points of interest to target for Directions. This should include the Noble Estate and Barracks for that Noble House. There's no reason not to.
You should be able to deposit (ONLY) coins into other people's accounts.
Is it a QOL suggestion to ask that maybe the steep drop off and degradation of stats at certain advanced ages be assessed and maybe lessened? Because if so, that's my request for today.
Quote from: Gentleboy on April 19, 2022, 08:27:29 PM
You should be able to deposit (ONLY) coins into other people's accounts.
+1 But this would likely need it's own QOL coding bump of having a register, so you can tell if someone actually paid you or not.
when someone does if they have a custom ldesc arrange the corpse in a similar way
change ldesc lies here with blood coating the area around his mouth from which a bit of his own guts hang
the tall muscular man's body lies here with blood coating the area around his mouth from which a bit of his own guts hang
Quote from: sucre on May 02, 2022, 12:35:59 PM
Is it a QOL suggestion to ask that maybe the steep drop off and degradation of stats at certain advanced ages be assessed and maybe lessened? Because if so, that's my request for today.
I would agree. Where's my fantasy trope of the jacked geezer?
Quote from: Fredd on June 07, 2022, 12:33:15 PM
Quote from: sucre on May 02, 2022, 12:35:59 PM
Is it a QOL suggestion to ask that maybe the steep drop off and degradation of stats at certain advanced ages be assessed and maybe lessened? Because if so, that's my request for today.
I would agree. Where's my fantasy trope of the jacked geezer?
Dear god yes. It is WAY too punishing. I want to keep stat degradation, but right now it is weighted too far in the "makes it unplayable" realm.
Quote from: Delirium on June 07, 2022, 12:49:18 PM
Quote from: Fredd on June 07, 2022, 12:33:15 PM
Quote from: sucre on May 02, 2022, 12:35:59 PM
Is it a QOL suggestion to ask that maybe the steep drop off and degradation of stats at certain advanced ages be assessed and maybe lessened? Because if so, that's my request for today.
I would agree. Where's my fantasy trope of the jacked geezer?
Dear god yes. It is WAY too punishing. I want to keep stat degradation, but right now it is weighted too far in the "makes it unplayable" realm.
Oh, good. I'm glad I'm not the only one. I'm gonna quote bump this because I think it's important!
Stat degradation makes sense, but I've seen examples of it being downright wonky. Someone who has been physically active their entire life is unlikely to wake up one day and suddenly have poor strength or endurance, or hell, any of our stats.
A gentler slope toward impotence would be much appreciated!
Quote from: sucre on June 07, 2022, 05:38:08 PM
A gentler slope toward impotence would be much appreciated!
This is why I will never hire you as my aide.
Joking aside, +1 to this. As a gladiator slave who trained all his life (virtually) woke up being unable to wear his armour, this.
When you give a stablehandler a ticket instead of offer it, they give it right back,
"Uuuuh, that's not how it works."
Quote from: Gentleboy on June 07, 2022, 10:17:53 PM
When you give a stablehandler a ticket instead of offer it, they give it right back,
"Uuuuh, that's not how it works."
It would be nice if npcs in general had nosave receive disabled, especially ones where you want to specifically offer/sell them things rather than give.
When I'm on a furniture and I change position, I almost always want to remain on the furniture. Sometimes this happens by default and sometimes it doesn't.
i.e.:
sit cot
rest --> I want to rest on the cot, not stand up and rest on the floor
sit --> I want go back to sitting on the cot
sleep --> I want to sleep on the cot etc etc.
Again, I think this works with some furniture and not for others (even if the furniture supports both sitting and resting).
The, like, one exception ever is that I probably always intend "stand" with no arguments to detach me from the furniture, like:
stand bar --> standing at the bar yo
stand --> You push away from a boxy boxy bar.
Quote from: Brytta Léofa on June 17, 2022, 07:57:01 AM
When I'm on a furniture and I change position, I almost always want to remain on the furniture. Sometimes this happens by default and sometimes it doesn't.
i.e.:
sit cot
rest --> I want to rest on the cot, not stand up and rest on the floor
sit --> I want go back to sitting on the cot
sleep --> I want to sleep on the cot etc etc.
Again, I think this works with some furniture and not for others (even if the furniture supports both sitting and resting).
The, like, one exception ever is that I probably always intend "stand" with no arguments to detach me from the furniture, like:
stand bar --> standing at the bar yo
stand --> You push away from a boxy boxy bar.
In the former case, I believe that only happens if said furniture is unable to support such a position. For example you wouldn't be able to recline on a chair so rest will make you rest on the floor. With a large bed however, it puts you to rest on the bed itself.
Please remove angks from the tablelands. They prevent any new indie tribal PC who has spent their entire life in the tablelands from living in the tablelands without paying an unreasonable tax in cured.
QoL fix.
If you have a weapon in primary or secondary hand slots, have it targeted first over worn items with the same keyword. 99.99% of the time I am referencing a dagger it is the one I am holding and not one on my belt.
Be able to analyze objects too heavy for you to pick up.
Quote from: LindseyBalboa on June 20, 2022, 05:03:01 PM
QoL fix.
If you have a weapon in primary or secondary hand slots, have it targeted first over worn items with the same keyword. 99.99% of the time I am referencing a dagger it is the one I am holding and not one on my belt.
+1
I put my belt weapon into the training weapon rack too often
alllow the arrange command to be used while sitting or resting. it is a flavor command that does not have any true code impact
if we can be trusted to emote while unconscious or dumbstruck and not do ninja flips we can be trusted to arrange things while sitting and not be unreasonable about it
Allow changing movement speed from any position.
Using the 'teach' command to teach someone a language gives the recipient a much larger chance than usual (I'm talking a 15% chance, or perhaps a range thereabouts based on their wisdom) to branch the language on their skillsheet. The bonus would be attached to a timer so that it can't be spammed (timer ticks down whether logged in or logged out). The recipient still has the usual chance of branching the language through hearing it spoken, but the bonus to learn can only happen once every, say, 180 minutes.
This would give roleplayed lessons an actual benefit.
I've had characters receive regular lessons in a specific language for an RL year and never branch it, and I've had characters randomly branch incredibly rare languages after hearing it maybe three times. It seems so incredibly random right now.
It makes it hard to RP around.
allow the flip command to be used while seated/resting, teach too
Allow whispers to be heard by dying PCs.
I want to be able to whisper something to a dying PC.
Allowing only whispers to be heard means that someone who's dying won't hear you talking about everything but you do have the option to clue them in on why they're about to be dead.
I think it would make a sudden death a little more impactful and easier for the victim if, after backstabbing someone with mercy on, I could kneel down and whisper "Your blood will feed the ancients and bring down Allanak's walls."
Or whatever.
Let 'offer' take multiple arguments for multiple items to be sold at once, but without the ability to haggle.
Don't let shops buy partially used items (torches and soaps). Some seem to get reloaded at reboots - remove those.
allow players to target inanimate objects (e.g. plants) with whisper and tell. it's very awkward to have to do "whisper me (to into ~weird.lucky.charm) Something superstitious that I always say before going on a Byn contract."
Be able to see if a dead body had inks not in the main description.
Expand "grab" to include access to containers? (grab shovel sack)
Grab currently exists as a get/hold command:
Grab (Items)
This command is identical to the 'hold' and 'es' (q.v.) commands, and
can be used interchangeably with them except in certain very special
circumstances. It will attempt to place the named object into your
character's secondary hand, if possible.
Syntax:
grab <object>
grab (<message>) <object> [<message>]
Example:
> grab lantern
> grab (raising the glass and lighting the wick) lantern [and holds it up]
See also:
command emotes, ep, equipment, es, etwo, hold, remove, rp, rs, wield
Allow editing your own rumor board posts for up to one IC day.
And this is more than a QoL improvement, but: language-specific views of the rumor board.
...default language is sirihish for most rumor boards.
...you can e.g. "write board mirukkim" to write a message visible only to people with that language.
...you can only create a rumor in a language you speak.
...you can only "hear" rumors written in a language you speak.
When I'm trying to kill something and I have mercy off, I always want to keep hitting it until it's dead.
Sometimes when a critter goes unconscious you have to initiate combat again, and again, and again (if you're doing wimpy damage), until it's actually dead.
Quote from: Brytta Léofa on July 05, 2022, 10:06:19 AM
When I'm trying to kill something and I have mercy off, I always want to keep hitting it until it's dead.
Sometimes when a critter goes unconscious you have to initiate combat again, and again, and again (if you're doing wimpy damage), until it's actually dead.
I would love to know why the game works this way. It's been a thorn in my side for forever.
stamina point regeneration should be changed so that if you would regen to full while not sleeping you instead regen to full-1
currently you can regenerate to full-1 if you are missing exact enough stamina to regenerate to that amount and mechanically encouraging players to reduce their stamina by up to 11 points so that they regenerate to a higher value is absurd