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Author Topic: Wake up! + Ask about somebody + Group information  (Read 2092 times)

kontako

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Wake up! + Ask about somebody + Group information
« on: February 19, 2016, 11:00:19 pm »
Currently in my adventure, a town is surrounded by tents in which everyone is sleeping all day every day. As you can imagine it's quite hard to find anything out about what's going on without being able to speak to them. (Nothing I do wakes them up).

I propose a "Wake up" option in the conversation menu. I felt it should be a conversation option, rather than any interaction, as I don't want to accidentally wake people when I attempt to attack them, suck their blood, or want to walk over them.
The closest thing I could find to any similar suggestions was a past bug report.

Furthermore in the 'Ask about somebody' menu, under 'Ask about yourself', an option to 'Ask about them' should exist. I'm aware searching for their name and then asking about them currently provides the same response as the 'Inquire about listener's profession' option. However instead of this result, I'd like them to reveal what groups they're members of.

One last thing, when looking at (g)roups in the 'Q' menu (Adventurer log?) the ability to see the relations between a selected group and all of their contemporary groups would be helpful (Perhaps all groups the adventurer is a member of should be coloured different than groups they are not associated with to avoid confusion).

Thanks for reading!
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Quote from: NW_Kohaku on June 29, 2015, 11:33:25 pm
"Confederacy of Businesses"?! By Armok's Blood! These Communist animals are CAPITALISTS!
Quote from: Naryar on July 03, 2015, 03:07:53 am
"This town ain't big enough for the two of us, turkey"
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Fniff

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Re: Wake up! + Ask about somebody + Group information
« Reply #1 on: February 21, 2016, 11:05:58 pm »
This is some good ideas - not sure why no one's commented yet.

Oh well, I support these suggestions! I ran into said issues myself in adventure mode; I couldn't tell who belonged to what group, where the groups were based (or whom I belonged to), or get people to wake up without sleeping in their homes without their permission.
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kontako

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Re: Wake up! + Ask about somebody + Group information
« Reply #2 on: February 21, 2016, 11:28:54 pm »
Quote from: Fniff on February 21, 2016, 11:05:58 pm
This is some good ideas - not sure why no one's commented yet.
It's been so lonely. Thanks for replying.

Hopefully if these ideas get implemented I'll know whether 'Alt+y' means 'attack unsuspecting enemy' or 'massacre innocent villagers'.
If you or anyone else have any relevant suggestions or criticisms, please post them.
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Quote from: NW_Kohaku on June 29, 2015, 11:33:25 pm
"Confederacy of Businesses"?! By Armok's Blood! These Communist animals are CAPITALISTS!
Quote from: Naryar on July 03, 2015, 03:07:53 am
"This town ain't big enough for the two of us, turkey"
*gobbles menacingly*

Fniff

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Re: Wake up! + Ask about somebody + Group information
« Reply #3 on: February 21, 2016, 11:45:40 pm »
Quote from: kontako on February 21, 2016, 11:28:54 pm
Hopefully if these ideas get implemented I'll know whether 'Alt+y' means 'attack unsuspecting enemy' or 'massacre innocent villagers'.
If you have the right mindset, they're one and the same.

I can't come up with any ideas yet, but I'll get back to this. I'll probably come up with something next time I play DF.
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