Body Markings

[TatteredShoeLace]

Even in primitive times Tattooing was used to mark warriors and prisoners and the such. What if a tool could be used on the fire pit to tattoo various things. Under Clothing, simply put "Star, Circle, Triangle....etc" or something. It'd need a small pick but bone or stone could handle that, iron would be best. Its a little hazy, I dont have time to overthink and elaborate, but feel free to discuss.

BTW, itd show up on char desc. "He/She has a small mark over her left shoulder of a Triangle" In Blojt Forest West that might mean 'thief' for Praetorians.

Better yet, make like a coin press stamp for patterens and the like for dynamicness.

[Talapus]

I would perfer branding. It would require the person to have a specific brand made out of steel, so new spawns couldn't be branding people very easily (as opposed to the tattooing, where I could just imagine a new spawn giving one of the old townspeople a tattoo without them noticing). Besides, in real life, branding was used more often then tattoos to mark criminals, and would allow a system very similar to the coin press (where there can only be one). Besides, when we start herding cattle and other animals, we need brands anyway!

[Slowness_Incarnate]

lmao...I can see this being very amusing..the places people would stick those brands or body markings..hilarious!

[Bran-Muffin]

Should work like a project, but if the person moves the project ends. Kinda like dragging.

Person being branded or tatooed would like say... 5% health.

I think it would be interesting to be able to tatoo a person, as well as brand someone.

[Snake_byte]

so new spawns couldn't be branding people very easily

1200-2: "You see a man in his twenties hit a man in his twenties with a red hot branding iron".

Ok, make it self mutilation

[Slowness_Incarnate]

lmao! this would be hilarious, I'd like to see it just for the comic effects.

[TatteredShoeLace]

I'd like to see it for practicality reasons. It isn't wild or too random, and I think PD could do it nicely somehow.

[Pie]

i like the idea.

[wichita]

Yeah. It sounds cool. We desperately need something to make characters more unique, aside from dynamic naming.

[Pie]

how about hight. or what you think they weigh. or if their buff. or if they have no special thing about them exept their height.

[west]

Pie, there is a post at the top of this forum called SUGGESTIONS LIST--READ HERE BEFORE POSTING

it is a great way to find out what's already been talked about. This game has been around for over three and a half years now, and many things have been suggested many times.

"A" for enthusiasm, though

[Pie]

its just to long for me. i get a hedace after i read the first reply.

[SekoETC]

Hey, (and someone probably said this already but I'm too lazy to read at the moment), even if tattooing only needed a bone needle, it wouldn't be something a newspawn could just do like punching a person. It takes several hours to make a tattoo in real life, so should it be in Cantr. A long project, and if the person walks away in the middle, there will be only a half finished pattern. So it seems you could tattoo unwilling people only if they're locked up.

[Schme]

It takes several hours in real life to make a tattoo with an electric needle. Making a tattoo with a hammer and needle takes damn near all day, and is extremly painfull. However, 5% health is rather unrealistic. It is exetremly painfull, but your not going to die of it.

Unless you do, but that's a whole other matter.


I can't say I like the idea of branding very much.

[AoM]

I think branding is simple enough to be implemented. Tattoos I feel are meant to be more dynamic, and therefore might be not a good idea to implement.