Posted by Talnic on December 10, 2000 at 03:00:17:

In Reply to: I don't know why I answer questions like this posted by Nepenthe(IMM) on December 10, 2000 at 02:01:24:

I hope this will be changed a bit, and if not if you could explain why you'd want it this way...

I got halted up with someone who could word me in my group, and I was trusting my group.
The mage turned into a lion and killed me. Before I died my groupmate tried to word me,
but I "couldn't convince myself to trust them" and that was the end of that.

I only just barely see why morale would determine if you let someone in your group cast on
you. Bad mood or not, if you just "gt slow me please" you're expecting to be slowed by X,
and probably shouldn't beat the crap out of them. Perhaps there could be a command like
"trust dave" which would let dave cast on you for the next hour or two. In all honesty,
some characters would never turn on a groupmate for something like that. I don't see a sphere
peace healer ever being that grumpy. I could see them being jumpy to the "you can't convince
yourself to trust.." point, but that's as far as it would go. And I don't think anyone would
turn down a word of recall when they're about to die.

I know you're still working on it, and I don't mind a random death like above while it gets
worked out. Can you give us general ideas about what you'd like morale to do? If players
know what you want out of morale, we can try to report cases where odd things seem to happen.

For example, when in battle, I can see your groupmate having trouble casting word on you,
because one or both of you is moving around (fighting), or he tried to avoid your spell like
it was something his enemy had cast... But I don't see a person plain not trusting his own
group over the people who are attacking him.

I can see how well you trust someone based on things like how long you've been grouped, etc, but
I'd think little things would make that nearly impossible to code well... Like, if I get slept by
a necro, I don't want to suddenly not trust my groupmate of 100 hours because he murders me to wake
me up.

Follow Ups:

• Re: Well, it doesn't do nothing... (text) Cyradia(IMM) 07:06:10 12/10/2000 (9)
  • Re: Well, it doesn't do nothing... (text) Talnic 22:56:22 12/10/2000 (0)
  • For the record I can spell "Talnic" and I tried to word him about 5 times /nt Aluria 08:37:04 12/10/2000 (7)
    • and he only got the echo once? Cyradia(IMM) 09:06:58 12/10/2000 (6)
      • He was asleep/nt aluria 18:55:14 12/10/2000 (0)
      • I failed healing sleep on a Cabal mate 9 times in a row. He died to bleeding n/t Zygander 11:01:53 12/10/2000 (4)
        • Re: I failed healing sleep on a Cabal mate 9 times in a row. He died to bleeding n/t Cyradia(IMM) 12:08:49 12/10/2000 (3)
          • Wait no, let cyradia continue jumping off the deep end accusing the players of being utter FUCKING morons, instead of accepting what they say.... Graham 03:31:30 12/11/2000 (1)
            • Kilt on too tight? Cyradia(IMM) 16:43:34 12/11/2000 (0)
          • Yes n/t Zygander 12:19:49 12/10/2000 (0)

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