Small Ideas - AIN'T NO COMBAT THREAD

Meyvitch

Put a label on bed furniture that says once it's put down, it takes root and can't be moved!

Lin

Most furniture actually can't be moved, unless by "bed furniture" you mean something other than your bed.

Eleanor

I think the comment is to have it noted somewhere that you can't move stuff. I'm sensing a story where an item was put down and had to be exploded because it couldn't be moved.

Meyvitch

It wasn't exploded. I dropped a bed outside Enorian trying to drag it to Duiran because Meyvi's only got one hand to pull on it, and I wanted Aren to help. And then it rooted there. Stupid oak bed.

Lin

Ha ha ha, that's hilarious. And now I wonder if the bookshelf I made for Ingram is still out by the cairn stone.

Haven

Can the AFFLICTION command list the affliction's effect too?

Affliction:      Stupidity.

Diagnose:        unnaturally stupid.

Cure message:    You aren't such a complete idiot anymore.

Herb:     Goldenseal.    Slice:       Liver.

Salve:    Nothing.       Poultice:    Nothing.

Smoked:   Nothing.       Tincture:    Nothing.

Special:  Nothing.

Effect: Chance for input command to be replaced by another.

affliction physical_disruption

Affliction:      Physical_disruption.

Diagnose:        Your balance has been disrupted.

Cure message:    Your balance returns to normal.

Herb:     Ginseng.       Slice:       Ovary.

Salve:    Nothing.       Poultice:    Nothing.

Smoked:   Nothing.       Tincture:    Nothing.

Special:  Nothing.

Effect: Prerequisite to class instakill.

affliction asthma

Affliction:      Asthma.

Diagnose:        afflicted by horrible asthma.

Cure message:    Your bronchial tubes open up and your asthma is cured.

Herb:     Kelp.          Slice:       Eyeball.

Salve:    Nothing.       Poultice:    Nothing.

Smoked:   Nothing.       Tincture:    Nothing.

Special:  Nothing.

Effect: Prevents smoking.

etc

Moirean

ESTEEM LIST or something - keep track of esteem in a list so we can look back at the ways people have given us esteem. Warm snugglies!

Rho

Support idea 2613! Pretty similar idea, already has 12 upboats.

Alastair

New syntax 'roomnum' - when executed tells you room name and room's vnum in a format that isn't incredibly terrible to track and capture like the map readout.

Seir

the ability to make helms if you have Tailoring/Forging. Just like you need Fumology and Furniture to make hookahs.

razmael plz

Edit: I'll probably message Becue about this, but the ability to describe armbands as vambraces.

Tza

Ilyon said:

SEARCHNEWS ANNOUNCE text

You know.. upon actually trying this, it doesn't seem to be a command. It's not mentioned in HELP NEWS either.

Does a search function exist now or not? *confused*

Lin

Alastair said:

New syntax 'roomnum' - when executed tells you room name and room's vnum in a format that isn't incredibly terrible to track and capture like the map readout.

The room vnum is passed to GMCP.

Haven

Tza said:

Ilyon said:

SEARCHNEWS ANNOUNCE text

You know.. upon actually trying this, it doesn't seem to be a command. It's not mentioned in HELP NEWS either.

Does a search function exist now or not? *confused*

It works.

searchnews announce burning

#719   - 11/20/2006 at 4:20   - Tydeus, the Parity

Recent Changes

- It is no longer impossible to die in a burning inferno (either via

#669   - 8/24/2006 at 1:25    - Tydeus, the Parity

Skill-related Fixes

- Illumination Fireblock will now always block burning (though not

#72    - 4/15/2003 at 19:43   - Varian the Celestine

Builders

Got an urge to vent your creative tide? Got area ideas burning a hole in

Tza

Aha! I'm a dolt, I must have typo'd. Thank you @Haven!

Iosyne

Tza said:

Ilyon said:

SEARCHNEWS ANNOUNCE text

You know.. upon actually trying this, it doesn't seem to be a command. It's not mentioned in HELP NEWS either.

Does a search function exist now or not? *confused*

I don't know whether you missed it or if someone else ninja-edited the help file, but it's in HELP NEWS.

SEARCHNEWS <section> <phrase>

 - Will search the section for the specific phrase or word.

Lanira

It'd be nice if we had a simple_def like we have a simple_diagnose (Can't remember if that's what it's actually called.) where the defense list just states the actual defense names instead of their flavor text.

Illikaal

A lot of them already show up with affliction_view. I just don't think it's all completed yet. 

Unless you're talking about the DEF command. Then yes, that'd be nice!

Moirean

Library updates. In particular:

LIBRARY TAG <book> <thing1> <thing2> <thing3> - allow you to add "tags" to books as topics the book is relevent to.

LIBRARY TAGS - show all tags that exist in the library.

LIBRARY SHOW <tag> - shows all books tagged with that word. Eg, LIBRARY SHOW POETRY

I know categories are supposed to do the above things, but the setup is dated. We have to manually shift things around and we can't cross-reference stuff. This seems like an updated, cleaner way to handle that. You could keep categories for a cosmetic display, or work the tag listing into how categories currently work.

LIBRARY SEARCH <keyword> <title> - shows all books with x keyword in the title or tag. Appending title will ONLY search the title.

LIBRARY AUTHORS <name> - shows books listed by author. Appending a name will show all books written only by that specific author.

LIBRARY EDIT - Some way to let us edit a book without having to resubmit it entirely. Changing a typo or bad formatting is a headache and removes the credit from the original author.

Along those same lines...

BOOK EDITOR <name> - allow someone else to edit your book. 

Alastair

There are not enough like buttons in the entire world to give the above post it's due credit. This should be done IRE wide.

E: Are. Not is. (Grammar)

Zun

Give shop owners a log of the various 'WARES' commands other players have used while in their shop. It'd give them a good idea of what players are looking for, and allow them to accommodate their customers.

Toz

Instead of giving you some weird-looking line that isn't of much use, can hits you do to yourself with disregarding up give the 3rd-person message so it's like you are hitting someone else? Hunting down lines is kind of a pain, if you don't have anyone willing to just sit there and let you hit them.

Instead of: 

You pump out at yourself with a powerful side kick.

<limb damage thing>

You connect to the torso!

Have it be:

You pump out at Kog with a powerful side kick.

You connect to the torso!

Xavin

While I get what you're going for, couldn't you just, uh, replace the 'yourself' with your target's name? Or is that not the same across all tekura attacks?

Daskalos

It would be nice, because then I could even test out offenses on myself :P

Moirean

@xavin:

Some attacks are oddly messaged and the swap isn't clear. Also, sometimes you want to test out offensive code and this would let you track this much easier.

Toz

Yeah it is buggy and not consistent - would love to be able to get hit lines and test stuff on myself instead of having to go grab someone to play dummy.

EDIT: would also like the limb damage line removed from when you hot yourself so I can code lazier. Or at least move it to after the full attack line instead of in the middle.

Aldric

Can we pleaaaaaaase have some sort of config option to hide all worn objects when you mutate into lycanthrope form? I made a liaison report about this before that was rejected on the basis that not everybody might want to do that (lol bears in dresses) so if it's something that can be config'd you cater to both parties! 

Giant werewolves and bears wearing the same clothing they just wore two seconds ago is ridiculous. Hell, wearing clothes in general in either of those forms is ridiculous.

EDIT: Simply hiding the items would be more convenient than making a trigger/alias to remove all of the things you're wearing, especially in terms of artifacts/resist rings. If you're trying to make logical sense from an RP standpoint, you'd have to remove those too, and thus lose the benefits for bashing/fighting.

Alastair

A serverside command separator. When afflictions are cured in a determinate order as they are here, for an aff offense every ms counts. A serverside command separator would allow classes like praenom and syssin and anyone else that relies on an heavy affliction offense to minimize the effects of clientside latency inherent to clientside separation of commands when doing things like 'envenom bastard with curare/hack target/dwhisper impatience epilepsy target' or what have you. This effect is especially pronounced on those that already suffer from latency issues due to distance from California.

E: (I think it's California? Either way, sorry guys in NZ. :[ )

Areka

Adding to the library ideas:

A way to set auto-renew to draw from bankaccounts.

A way to pay all fees without having to run to each library. 

A girl can dream!

Areka

I would love it if more skills were opened up for the types of weapons that can be used, it's such a pity that we have so many options and yet many aren't even touched save for slim RP purposes. We now have weapon families, even just opening skills based on those would be nice. Hargrargh more forging not less. 

Haven

Can we expand Delos to include NPC shops that sell player essentials at a much higher price?

Panties, thongs, and dresses in variety can be nice but sometimes I'm just looking for a tinderbox or an enchantment to be stocked too, ya know?