Gwylifar2004-11-11 18:38:40
I always found it a bit odd that I'm walking around using or wearing something every day and never noticing whether it's shiny and new, or about to fall apart, unless I take the time to examine it in detail. It'd be nice if we knew things were going to fall apart before they did, but there's no good way to do that now. Here are two proposals that I think should be easy to implement and not consumptive of system resources but would solve the problem.
1) (preferred solution) Give us a command that scans over all our inventory (ideally including things inside containers) and lists anything that's going to decay in the next ten months, in a format like this:
A shining steel broadsword #12345 has 8 month(s) of usefulness left.
2) (if that's too much work, particularly the nested-containers aspect) Give us a command like PROBE but which *only* reports the months left, instead of the whole description and if it's a container the contents, in the same format as above. Then we could make aliases that do it on all our important things. (We could now make such an alias to PROBE everything, but the few lines you want to see are in the middle of so much other stuff, like container contents, that it's almost useless, and script-gagging the rest isn't easy.)
1) (preferred solution) Give us a command that scans over all our inventory (ideally including things inside containers) and lists anything that's going to decay in the next ten months, in a format like this:
A shining steel broadsword #12345 has 8 month(s) of usefulness left.
2) (if that's too much work, particularly the nested-containers aspect) Give us a command like PROBE but which *only* reports the months left, instead of the whole description and if it's a container the contents, in the same format as above. Then we could make aliases that do it on all our important things. (We could now make such an alias to PROBE everything, but the few lines you want to see are in the middle of so much other stuff, like container contents, that it's almost useless, and script-gagging the rest isn't easy.)
Neale2004-11-11 20:03:57
Set up a script that will highlight, in red, "It has x months of usefulness left." where x<10. Then probe everything and scroll through the spam looking for red.
Unknown2004-11-12 00:07:39
out of interest: What happens when something decays and it is holding other objects? Do the objects fall to the ground, the inventory or die with the object? *clutches his gold*
Qaletaqa2004-11-12 00:18:07
If your pack decays all items fall into your inventory that were once in the bag.
Gwylifar2004-11-12 15:03:58
QUOTE (Neale @ Nov 11 2004, 04:03 PM)
Set up a script that will highlight, in red, "It has x months of usefulness left." where x<10. Then probe everything and scroll through the spam looking for red.
I've already done precisely that: it's what I was referring to in the last part of my post. Those lines become part of about five screenfuls of stuff, particularly since PROBE on a container shows the container's contents as well. But a command that only showed that one useful-life-left line (and added what the item was in that line), as in my second suggestion, turns that color highlight from barely-worthwhile to a lifesaver, and couldn't take more than a few minutes to implement. Still can't identify things inside containers, of course, but it'd be way better than what we have now.
