Here are just some ideas/suggestions for desired QOL features. Other folks should feel free to piggyback on this with their own thoughts to keep the forums cleaner, if desired!
GENERAL LANGUAGE/PARSING
- There appear to be several different systems for lists, menus, boards etc. On some you can do 'n' for next which is great; for others you have to 'read page 2', etc. It'd be much easier to use if there was a universal display system across all of these multi-page entities.
- The first word in sdescs doesn't capitalize on many actions/emotes, which reads rather oddly.
- The lack of articles in sdescs for items creates a lot of weirdness - for example in my inventory I just have 'handset', etc. There's also issues with various items that need 'a pair of' appended - for example, 'a pair of knee-torn bleached jeans', not 'a knee-torn bleached jeans'. I'm also seeing a lot of people with duplicated articles because they didn't know not to write them themselves.
This would probably go a lot better if we just manually had to write articles properly into sdescs. Easy-peasy.
EMOTES/POSES
- Using color in emote/pose to separate dialogue from text would be very helpful. Could be a config setting if some people hate the idea.
- Adding punctuation at the end of emotes doesn't work well if there's dialogue at the end. Should probably remove that autofix.
- RP would be a lot easier to read with a default carriage return between lines.
- The 'to' command not including anything that makes it obvious it's verbal dialogue really threw me from an IC/immersion perspective. Perhaps it could at least be says to you instead of looking like it's dialogue over a radio channel?
QUALITY OF LIFE
- Helpfiles need examples with clearer syntax, especially for things like emote, pose, etc. where the syntax can be quite complicated. I know this'll be a work in progress due to alpha, but in general documentation is very difficult right now to follow/apply.
- Please, please add a 'where' style command so people can passively indicate where they're hanging out if they're open for RP. The main Nous channel is so full of goofy spam it can't be kept on always, and I prefer kind of being able to stumble into a place I know people'll be rather than ICly requesting every scene.
- Reiterating what was posted before - being able to set our own height/weight at chargen would reeeally be great.
- The examine command lets you see an item's uses, but it'd be really cool if it could give you a lot of other information. For example, the presence value of clothing, its worn messages, etc. If you had enough ability in Trade, it could allow you to perhaps tell the skill of the object's maker (if PC made). Etc, etc.
SKILLS/ATTRIBUTES
- It'd be handy to have some sense of XP return/expenditure. I have dropped all my XP thus far into Medicine, but with the progress bar only being visual, I can't tell if I've gotten any better at all, or how MUCH XP roughly it'll take to get better in a meaningful sense.
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