While this is not the ideal situation, I agree that it happens that people, likely through lack of thought rather than malice, will disguise and have no description, before and after the function stopped working.Durvayas wrote: ↑Mon Aug 13, 2018 7:59 pmAh. Well mine was more broad in that I feel it has more relevance when -disguise does function. With the current limitations, it is effectively a moot point, given how broken it is right now, and will remain, until NwNX is functional again.Baron Saturday wrote: ↑Mon Aug 13, 2018 5:47 pmMy post was mostly relevant to the current situation in which -disguise doesn't function.
My point was that *description of character* is often a tool of last resort for people who haven't been given a better option. Are there people who use it egregiously to cheese? Sure, probably, but there is also a legitimate circumstance for its reasonable use.
I also agree that in this undesirable situation I feel it's a fair last resort to use "description of person," but only if you at least know their IC name (and my opinion doesn't really count). I'd probably err on the side of playing having been too caught up in the moment to remember important details until I saw them again later and recognized them.
This premise has come up before in disguise threads - at the time I suggested that I felt all characters should have certain basic information displayed in their description for other players to observe when undisguised (or if their disguise is beaten), as follows.
Race:
~Height:
~Weight:
Hair Color:
Eye Color:
Skin Tone:
This sentiment was not received well, as it "forces people" to RP something, but I really feel like it's only requiring them to display information about what they're RP'ing where appropriate (for example, that your character is a shield dwarf with tan skin approximately 4'4 and 140 lbs, black hair, and grey eyes).
I also feel like this is something that could be automated (the way your stats could be displayed) by setting these features in a detectable way that works with the disguise system (when it's fixed).
There's an older, locked thread that gets deep into this topic (disguises and descriptions) buried somewhere over the last year and a half, but I'm not motivated enough to find it right now.