[Feb '26] Improvements Feedback
Feedback thread for February 2026

I get your point about having to justify it IC, but my counter to that is now the player being justified to doesn't have to second guess or work out anything if someone's on the idle portion of the IC who list. They just get to know that in one case, they're not being lied to.

I'm not a big fan of people idling for hours, so I can understand where this comes from. But I'd personally much rather we shorten the allowed idling on moo hours to get rid of the constant awake people (which is much more harmful imo). Or if idle hours allowed before being kicked off the moo aren't going to shrink, then if someone hits a certain mark take them both off the sic who list completely and don't let them see any sic if that's possible.

But if the list is going to exist, I do think there should be a toggle option and that random NPC aliases should show up on on the idle portion too. You don't need @who and who to match up for that for it to be a potential problem. Just my two cents.

The player being justified to shouldn't be doing OOC thinking to determine if someone is lying to them or not. That is meta. People miss SIC messages all the time in the scroll from driving/combat/big conversations. That's a part of life in the city. People get busy. I don't think we need to make the player experience worse for everyone so that a few people don't have to, I dunno, deal with ignoring someone? Change your SIC alias if you don't want to deal.

But I wonder, instead of making a whole different sic category and potentially opening things up to meta issues (such as if a party decides to compare @who list)…

Why not just hide the idle players from SIC all together? Thus solving the problem. And they can re-appear as soon as they are un-idle.

So what is the difference? Better to just hide them from the list all together.

Just because someone isn't sending commands to the game every five seconds, or interacting with others 100% of the time they are logged in, doesn't mean they aren't paying attention at all.

While I don't have strong opinions about the change, I do think the assumptions that come with it are ignorant, and that it makes SIC even more like a chat room than it was before.

The issue we are solving is that people don't want to try and interact with people that aren't going to respond. I know I don't. It is a waste of time.

We don't encounter this much out in the world because it's fairly dangerous to be standing idle for hours on the street. You will likely be robbed. So it's not really an issue outside of the SIC.

If you care enough to not be seen as inactive, change your SIC alias. Or log out.

(Edited by Slither at 12:54 pm on 2/10/2026)

We took this step as one part of a way to help create more roleplay and economic opportunities for medics and doctors outside of one well-known and sought after high-end role.

At the moment, vaccines aren't cheap. If they were cheaper, I think a lot more players would be going to medical characters to get the vaccines as prevention, instead of just a cure for their sickness.

Secondly, at the moment knowledge of vaccines and diseases is pretty much entirely gatekept to medical or chemist characters. General people have no idea what vaccines are available, what diseases they treat against, or how much they cost. Having this info publicly accessible would make it a lot more tempting for people to get vaccines.

On top of that, having them carry over to a clone doesn't make much sense from an IC/world perspective: if they can, why can't Nanos that actually rewrite your DNA? New body, new(ish) immune system.