See shortdescs at distance

My idea is that you see someone's shortdesc if you look toward another room and see people in it, rather than their display name. Also, separate idea, but no point in making another thread, but I think disguised people's display name should be replaced by their shortdesc instead of the current disguise names now.

By Metekillot at May 17, 2018 12:29 PM

such as when you're looking through thermos?

By Grizzly666 at May 17, 2018 12:32 PM

In real life, you can look into another room, or down the street, and recognize people.

By Crooknose at May 17, 2018 1:28 PM

You can also look down the street and see someone who looks a lot like your friend and make a mistake, kinda like distance introduces some sort of potential for error in using sight to identify someone. No, Grizzly, I'm referring to the shortdesc when you 'look' at someone that's in parentheses beside their name, such as what you see when someone leaps from one roof to another.

By Metekillot at May 17, 2018 1:29 PM

Would make the use of binoculars, cybereyes, etc more useful to find people as well.

Im interested in this

By Dawnshot at May 17, 2018 1:31 PM

Which is what you see using thermos when you look in rooms or directions. So there’s kinda code already

Elsemoo has a feature where you only see their short desc and have to @memorize their name or something to see their actual name.

By Grizzly666 at May 17, 2018 5:45 PM

I don't know. I mean, the disguise skill is already less useful that I'd like and this takes away from some of it's usefulness. I think it's reasonable for you be able to ID someone a room over. Still, if this is a desired feature I would suggest that a roll be made and to determine if you only see a short desc or a name.

By Grey0 at May 17, 2018 11:36 PM

-	zxq	1m
-	BitLittle	2h
-	notloose	6h
-	Ameliorative	47m
a	Mench	11h	Doing a bit of everything.
And 14 more hiding and/or disguised

See shortdescs at distance And other shortdesc idea

See shortdescs at distance
And other shortdesc idea