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[GreatWyrmGold]

My hopes are that, due to the general nature implied in the title, this thread will be a thread where everyone can put all of their idea for improving interactions in one place to avoid Footkerchief's wrath. And to save him time, too.

I'll start with some of my ideas, in no particular order.

Spoiler: More Regional Interactions (click to show/hide)

Currently, regional interactions are limited to evil weather and evil-dead-raising. There's a bunch of different stuff I can think of. Good areas bringing the dead back to life. Savage areas causing creatures to suddenly grow in size or become anthropomorphic (possibly replacing normal giant/-man animals). Benign areas calming people. Of course, only one of those would be possible without adding more stuff to the code, but it's also the one I like the most.

Spoiler: What Happens to Shapeshifters' Stuff (click to show/hide)

Right now, when someone undergoes a body change, they drop all of their stuff on the ground. This is okay for a start, but things get really interesting if we think about them some.
A few basics I can think of:
Anything held should be held in the graspers of the new form, or dropped if the new form lacks graspers.
Anything worn that can be worn in the new form should continue to be worn, for now probably on a random body part of the appropriate type.
If clothing is being worn that the new form has no appropriate body parts for (like the gloves of a dwarf being turned into a cat), the clothing would just fall off.
If a creature's clothing cannot fit in its new form due to size decreasing (like a wereweasel), the clothing would just fall off--or, more exactly, the creature would fall out of the clothes.
Finally, if a creature could no longer wear clothes due to an increase in body size, there are many possibilities based on the garment in question. Caps and hats would just sorta fall off.Cloaks and the like might just fall off, with only superficial damage. Most clothes would be ripped, going from clothes to xclothesx, of from xclothesx to XclothesX, or from XclothesX to XXclothesXX (mangled clothing would not be further damaged); non-mangled clothes would probably fall off, as would mangled clothes if the size change is large enough. Armor (metal clothing items) would be damaged some, hurt the creature some (The +iron breastplate+ squeezes the wererhinoceros in the upper body, bruising the muscle, shattering the bone, tearing the left lung and tearing the heart!), and possibly fall off; I'm a bit unclear on what should happen. Metal's probably too tough to be terribly damaged, but I'm not sure.

Spoiler: Healing (click to show/hide)

Simple idea: Interactions or syndromes that heal. Two things come to mind: An arbitrary unit of healing, which heals so much bruising, fixes so many broken bones, cleans up so many scars, regrows so big of severed body parts, replaces so much blood, etc; or else have a certain amount of natural healing occur instantly.

Spoiler: Interactions and Items (click to show/hide)

The idea is basically to allow interactions to interface with items--e.g. an interaction that summons arrows, or one that consumes a unit of brains to increase one's intelligence. The latter can sorta be done, with boiling materials and stuff, but it's rather hacky and actually involves adventure-mode reactions. Actually, both do. The problems are that A. only adventurers can use them and B. any adventurer can use them. You can't let elves be able to summon oak arrows, or have a creature summon weapons to use. It's limiting, and would be nice to have changed.

I had some other ideas, but I can't remember them.

[Putnam]

A real simple one that I saw somewhere else on the forums:

An interaction that allows you to shoot a certain item in much the same way as a material emission, set up something like this:

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[CAN_DO_INTERACTION:FIRE_ITEM]
...
[CDI:ITEM:TRAPCOMP:ITEM_TRAPCOMP_LARGESERRATEDDISC:INORGANIC:STEEL]
...

The ellipses refer to other such tokens you would find in other CAN_DO_INTERACTIONs.

An example of how this could be used in modding:

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[CAN_DO_INTERACTION:FIRE_ITEM]
...
[CDI:ITEM:TRAPCOMP:KIENZAN:INORGANIC:KI]
...
Can you tell why I want this? :3

[Mrhappyface]

I want interacthons that can do physical damage other than through moving projectile.

[Eric Blank]

I'd like to expand on the targeting tokens and items the AI can use to decide when to use an interaction, and the number of effects an interraction can have.

Currently, I'd like the AI to be able to determine that a friendly (as well as neutral or hostile) creature is injured and use their interaction to invoke a beneficial effect in them. A USE_ON_FRIENDLY_INJURED token, perhaps.

I don't have any other specific suggestions or explanations for that at the moment for lack of ability to concentrate and forgot the rest of what I had in mind there.

However, I would like to see shapeshifting changed to reflect the caste or at least gender of the creature being transformed, perhaps such that if the target of the effect is of a caste with the [MALE] tag then when they transform they will use a caste of the species they transform into that also has the [MALE] tag (whatever comes first, perhaps?) I would also like to see a conditional statement that tries to find a caste with identical caste ID (e.g. if the target's caste is [CASTE:FEMALE_ELEMENTAL_MAGE] then it tries to find a caste in the creature they're transforming into with that same caste ID.) If that check fails, then it defaults to attempting to find a [MALE] or [FEMALE] tag to match the target's, and if that fails, it defaults to making their were-form's caste whatever the first caste declared by that species is. It would be wonderful if this replaced the caste variable in [CE:CREATURE:(creature ID):(caste ID)] with [CE:CREATURE:(creature ID):(AS_APPROPRIATE or SPECIFIC_CASTE):(caste ID)], such that you could define whether to let it choose the caste based on that functionality or whether you have a specific caste in mind you want it to use.

I would also suggest adding a tag that can be added to a CAN_DO_INTERACTION statement that allows it to be carried over when the creature transforms, such that they could retain a natural ability of their normal form in their were-form. Making it backwards-compatible where a werecreature could have a CAN_DO_INTERACTION statement that applies to those that are affected by it when not in their were-form wouldn't necessarily make sense because one can already just add that interaction to the curse as a CE_C_D_I statement.

I of course would like to see the issues with conflicting creature descriptions cleared up so a descriptor modifying (like hair color) on a werecreature overrides a modifier affecting the same thing on the target creature if they're shared, rather than crashing the game. That way a modder could force a werecreature to take on certain aspects. I suspect though that since this hasn't been done already, it's probably a very difficult problem to solve.



Getting interractions to interface with items is a definite yes for me. Having them use items like a reaction, perhaps, or consume an item before they apply an effect would be great.

Same with a generic healing effect. Just generically advance the healing of a specific tissue, or all in a given target part including the entire organism, to a certain extent, as if a certain amount of time has passed multiplied by the target's recuperation attribute (Or however the equations for tissue healing work currently, but it would ideally still work when the recuperation attribute has been modified by another effect.), but not advance infections (and perhaps even cure them). This could ideally be applied to tissues that don't normally recover from damage like nerves. Replacing entire body parts (or a tissue layer in a body part that has been completely lost) would almost have to be a different effect. (and if not, it would be nice for the purposes of modding to have a distinction between them.)

[GreatWyrmGold]

Hm, somehow that gave me an idea for some more secrets to add.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Healers: Would learn how to do interactions that are some form of healing. Healers would likely wander around, trying to help, maybe sticking in a temple dedicated to whatever god they got the secret from, maybe following some adventurer for a time. They'd teach anyone they could trust.

Summoners: Can summon random creatures or items, determined at the time the secret is. What they do varies by person and what the summoner can summon. Another plus is that interactions would need to be able to create creatures, which would have a lot of potential.

...I thought I had more ideas than that. I'll try to think of one or two per sphere later.

I also think the procedurally generated interactions should have more variation. For instance, some necromancers raise zombies without [NOTHOUGHT], some raise zombies that are fast but flimsy, some raise zombies that can infect others via bite; evil mists could create strong husks (although ideally not as though as they are now), or swift skeletal creatures (the muscles and fat and stuff would sorta rot off, leaving little but skin and bones), or bloated ones that explode into a cloud of evil mist; and so forth.

[knutor]

Rock Trajectory. 

It removes me from my emersive fantasy when I see a rock fly like an alien spacecraft across my region.  A catapulted object needs to change z-level and splatter.  Why have it in the game, if it brings to mind undwarf-like thoughts, of low flying saucers?  Knutor