Temporarily Altering the Coverage Status of Armor on the Fly
Automated @idea from in-game

Was wondering if it'd be possible to temporarily alter the coverage of certain armor materials (and possibly other clothing articles) within the game (i.e. Xo3, mesh bodysuits, biohazard suits, etc.. basically anything that covers up the hands and chest/neck areas, or anything that covers the entire body). Something like.. you want to take the gloves off of your Xo3 or something to access a palm-reading door, or tug off the helmet part of a biohazard suit to scan your retinas on a door somewhere.. or you want to pull the neck coverage down to slap on one of those nifty healing patches . I dunno. Just a few examples and ideas. Anyone else have any thoughts on this?

Presently we have the low-end, and the uber-high end (in a one piece body suit with matching helmet).

The uber-high end shouldn't have ever been released without some middle gradients, and I'm of the opinion it has no business being a one-piece-covers-all, although that may be up for debate.

Also, armor degredation needs a refactoring.

If you want armor that's more fine grained in terms of coverage sooner rather than later, I absolutely invite you to get some materials and describe a set (one thats not a 1 piece bodysuit), and submit it for conversion to armor. What's really needed is some more realistic clothing items on both the low and mid-end: Bulletproof vest, flack jacket, leather gloves, etc.

That way you could remove just your gloves, or just your jacket.

I envision we'll eventually replace Xo3 with something more realistic and fine grained in terms of coverage,  yet compareable in terms of overall defense. In the mean time, the middle stuff is more important and takes priority, because it has a greater effect on a greater number of people.

As for having to strip someone to apply the patch... how do you see this changing anything? Either you give a command to change (someone else's) clothing coverage (!??!?!?!?!?!?!) or you give a command to strip it... which seams more realistic to you?

Would a 'rip' verb help, so you could tear the clothing off people regardless of what's covering it?

-Kevlar

P.S. Your neck isn't the only place a patch can be applied.

edit:

I've been looking for something to do with all this goddamned material.

(Edited by Aikao at 9:36 pm on Oct. 5, 2004)

Obviously you wouldn't be able to put it on if you were wearing a full set of xo3, or Judge armor.. or something like a skin tight body suit..but otherwise I see no reason

You crack me up, dude.

In the same breath, you list the exact reason, and then go on to say 'I see no reason...'.

Too damn funny.

-Kevlar

You just have to expose a major artery.

I hardly think that's asking alot...

As for a few ruining it for other people, you'd be singing a very different tune the first time we left it open, and your character died because something was left open, and someone got an unfair advantage because what they did was ICly questionable, but technicially allowed.

I can just immagine the guy armored to the gills on every place on his body (using small pieces of armor, nothing on the blacklist) just applying patches as fast as he can, headless of the fact that he's in the middle of combat with a katana in each hand.

Players have unanimously refused to police themselves, and it leads to no end of frustration for everyone when something questionable happens because everyone has a different view of what's possible and what's questionable.

The only option is to enforce the rules with code whenever the opertunity to gain an unfair advantage arises.

This is just one example.

-Kevlar

That's gotta do something, right?

Probably kill me.

EOL

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