• Characters may no longer compose notes while fighting or asleep.


• Mummy incubation period shortened from 5 days to 3 days.

Why can't they compose while asleep? It is a good thing to do with the downtime!

I guess there is/was some concern that characters were using notes to call for help in scenarios where that would be considered abuse.

Also, while the mechanics of notes in CF are probably a bit nonsensical in the first place, it just makes sense that characters who are asleep could not write notes/letters.

Notes are what people do when they have to spend a lot of time sleeping to recoup mana, hp, and movement. Now people are just going to go AFK more often. Clearly IMMs don't have to sleep and don't play mortals that do. Why not just punish the people who abused notes? If I use the newbie channel to ask a cabalmate to wake me are you going to change the way people use the newbie channel or punish my character?

How many times have we seen those being punished complain that if imms wanted us to know something was inappropriate they should make it impossible to do?

Sure, I mostly write notes when asleep but I have seen this abused first hand.

Why noy just put a x time delay in when the note is actually sent/received? X could be 10 minutes or even more or less. It would make it really hard to abuse notes then or so one would think.

I don't care about the note change, but if we are going for realism in any capacity...

Delayed action notes (I'd argue hour+) would make sense, considering the missive has to be dispersed amongst the recipients.

Hell, let's make a Theran postal system. Have a post office and couriers that run around delivering mail directly to character. now I can kill a courier and intercept messages too.

A good idea, although it could still be used to summon an organia rescue, for example.

Writing a note takes a while. Entering the note into the MUD almost certainly doesn't. I'm sure you'll manage.

To reiterate, it was the consensus of a number of immortals that notes while asleep doesn't make sense. That alone probably wouldn't have been enough for me to bother changing it, but since people apparently mis-use notes as well, this is where we've landed.

I will probably tweak the code so that notes can be listed/read while asleep which I think was a minor oversight (or laziness) based on how notes are coded. Otherwise, I'm happy with this change.

And behave yourself on the newbie channel, please.

nt