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Topic subjectprompt idea
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34210, prompt idea
Posted by Isildur on Wed 31-Dec-69 07:00 PM
Make it so that you can put a compact version of the "group" command's output in your prompt (probably following a carriage return). The major use case would be healers. Putting it in the prompt saves them some spamming of the "group" command.

Or, alternately, have separate flags for hp/mana/move, but make it so the only class that can use them is healers and then only on the person they've communed that "bond" thing on (or dark pact for evils).
34236, Haven't you played long enough to know these things without looking?
Posted by laxman on Wed 31-Dec-69 07:00 PM
Seriously at this point most of the current playerbase has been playing close to ten years. If you don't have a feel for when people are getting low by just watching combat then you have wasted a lot of time playing this game.
34220, 'Aware' commune.
Posted by Marin on Wed 31-Dec-69 07:00 PM
Might be better off allowing a healer to be 'aware' of (one and only one) when a person drops below certain thresholds. If I'm bleeding wounds then the healer gets a pecho indicating it...next round I'm gushing blood, another pecho, and so forth.
34218, Seems performance intensive for a prompt
Posted by Zulghinlour on Wed 31-Dec-69 07:00 PM
You basically have to walk the character list and figure out if anyone is in your group, then add it to the prompt. And the prompt shows literally millions of times.
34268, How it was done in another mud
Posted by Void on Wed 31-Dec-69 07:00 PM
Prompt shows only the health of the LEADER of group.
Not exactly sure how it was done.
P.S. I always thought it was not in the prompt to make healer more 'aware'.
34273, RE: How it was done in another mud
Posted by Daevryn on Wed 31-Dec-69 07:00 PM
That's kind of where I'm coming from, at least -- I don't think the healer class should be more bottable.
34214, Eh
Posted by sleepy on Wed 31-Dec-69 07:00 PM
I think I could possibly buy giving healers an extra supplication to have it, but not everyone, considering pallies with the hope virtue get a supplication akin to it.
34217, RE: Eh
Posted by Isildur on Wed 31-Dec-69 07:00 PM
I kind of feel like if you can get the same information by just spamming a lot, then it should just be given to you by default instead of coming in the form of a special skill/spell/commune.
34211, RE: prompt idea
Posted by yr_blues on Wed 31-Dec-69 07:00 PM
i know healers would use this more than most, but other characters (bards come to mind) go into a "no autoassist" mode and keep the party healthy/buff'd/etc.

i think it's a really useful prompt idea if it's doable.