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Improving Imperian
As my work hours begin to reduce once more after Christmas period, I'll again have time to start playing with Imperian's code.
Similar to other threads in the past, I'm looking for improvements to the player's general day-to-day life. This thread is not the means to propose skill revamps or classlead categorized changes, but simple ideas that will make Imperian more fun.
If you have any suggestions, want to see improved usage from a command or have a new idea, please reply in the thread and over the upcoming weeks I'll implement those I can.
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You say, " to bob what makes you think that?"
As opposed to this:
You say to no one in particular, "What makes you think that?"
Just and idea.
Being able to, for example
i vial
and see
You are holding:
125 golden rose vials, 2 yeti bone vials
You are wearing:
You have 57 types of items in the Rift.
You possess 271 items and are carrying no gold. <-- Perhaps changing this number to reflect how many items of the searched are in your inventory.
I know ii (thing) exists, but I've found myself trying to search by just i before.
Hopefully there are some better ideas for things to code, but I thought I'd put that one out there.
99 vials, 2 keys, 5 glaives, 2 bows, 22 randomitem
Not sure if this is within the breadth of the thread's limitations - I would like a 'step down' function that opens an election without the person themselves being in it.. you know, for stepping down from their position as GM or city leader. So many times have elections been thrown by idiots not reading news or thinking they are jokers for voting for the one dude who does not want the job or is running as a placeholder. To be honest, can we just loosen the election start criteria so we don't need to waste gold nudging people to run SIMPLY to start the process?
"On the battlefield I am a god. I love war. The steel, the smell, the corpses. I wish there were more. On the first day I drove the Northmen back alone at the ford. Alone! On the second I carried the bridge! Me! Yesterday I climbed the Heroes! I love war! I… I wish it wasn’t over."
Vashir: I've added "bowl" as a target alias to all soup items.
"On the battlefield I am a god. I love war. The steel, the smell, the corpses. I wish there were more. On the first day I drove the Northmen back alone at the ford. Alone! On the second I carried the bridge! Me! Yesterday I climbed the Heroes! I love war! I… I wish it wasn’t over."
For II, you can use "ii titled <thing>" to do a string search, the old ii functionality.
the claims are stated - it's the world I've created
Vashir: I've added "shadow" as a target alias.
‘Every sword’s a weight to carry. Men don’t see that when they pick ’em up. But they get heavier with time.”
Here's a few ideas I had:
Let us have a SENTMSGS folder.
And: CARAVAN LEAD (towne).
Can the dwarven ironworkers in Antioch (example: dwarf30234) be "de-programmed" so that they stop ogling female characters, please? They do so whenever a female character enters a room. It's annoying and pointless.
Trade
Caravans: A way to do a quick summary of all the townes available to those outside of trade. I pestered Lio for a script that did it but it requires me to be a trade aid. Its so convenient for planning caravan routes for multiple stops though. This is the output as it exists for me with the script. Something like this would be awesome.
Kragge: Ore:4 Lumber:2 Total: 6
Trevka: Crop:4 Livestock:3 Total: 7
Blackthorne: Rock:4 Lumber:16 Total: 20
Cetara: Crop:1 Ore:2 Total: 3
Annona: Crop:2 Livestock:3 Ore:4 Total: 9
An overall look at trade in general would be awesome, but that is a huge deal in and of itself and would require a long term plan, so I imagine it is outside the scope of this.
Bashing
Been shot down in the past, butI'll bring it up again. Unified targeting terms inside of individual areas.
First Wold Problems
Cluttered inventory - Over the years due to promotions and whatnot, i've accumulated a fair amount of stuff that needs to be in my inventory to function. Could these be made to function as long as they're on my person but in my pack. I'm thinking stuff like the inkpots, rolled scrolls, anchor, paw-print badge etc. If not that, could you make something I can attach them to like a keyring that i can buy
Artifact list owned - I have some artifacts I redescribed ages ago. I uh, sometimes forget which is which. Would it be possible to add another line to artifact list owned (between the # and name) that shows the relevant base artifact number that you use to purchase them.
Drains - a skill that shows you what defenses you have up that are draining mana, alternatively highlight them a different colour in defs.
Tarot decks - Make them hold more or just make them larger in general. Less stocking of decks, more stocking of individual cards. Me carrying 22 decks is annoying.
the claims are stated - it's the world I've created
We could just set it as a 'REGENERATION' read out, similar to resists or resists reports - it shows you what precisely is affecting all of your regeneration in positive or negative ways, including room effects, blessings, defenses, artifacts, runes, skills, etc. Keeping with the general theme of transparency in the past few years, we should even be leaning towards you giving us precise numbers for the purpose of more data for balance discussions.
The endurance/willpower regeneration formula is kind of a trainwreck, precise numbers might not be terribly helpful.