Quality of Life Upgrades MEGATHREAD - V1

[Deleted member 2552]

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Edits:
- Removed Automated rolling
- Revised "Vort Dispel"
- Revised "Radio Scrambler" to "Device Scrambler"
- Added Smuggling Tree
- Suggested Nerfing Crafting

Added a few new additions to the mega-thread. After some discussions with others and consideration I think these few are a little more fleshed out.

 

[Deleted member 2552]

You don't have to type in immense detail to be engaged. That is my precise argument. HL2RP is an ever-changing medium, and the elitist mindset and conservatism is what drives new players away.

I have no problem with text RP and am more than capable of doing it. But Willard is not built around that idea. Very few servers are. (Plus, the best RP experiences I've ever had have been on servers with excellent automation so that the staff team could focus on the story.)

There is a very good reason that public servers with little or no scripting that promise "awesome RP freedom" die within two weeks. New players are not looking to type everything out anymore. That is not what this medium is for. You have a 3D space to RP in. Use it. You may not like it. I may not like it. But it's the truth. Public servers can no longer stick to the "old ways" and survive.

Move to a private server or another game, adapt to the change, or die.

Reading back on this, while a lot of people disagree with this, personally it's something we should standby. While a detailed /me and typing can be interesting it's the visuals and interaction that really put it all together, the glue.

At the end of the day, it's a game. People want to have fun, get in the way of it and the players will drop. While we should consider automation i'd rather not have it overtake everything.



The best bet for me would be having it automate status debuff effects (the ones recently added in the megathread) that play once in a while with audible sfx and apply to readying weapons, consuming goods, and other menial but crucial tasks.

 

[Atle]

Reading through these are quite big changes that take up considerable development. I'm gonna say no to this atm as we have other priorities and a backlog to go through

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