Posthumous Turn Reports

[madfish]

I suggest that you should get a turn report from the day following the death of one of your characters from the last location they were at.

At the moment you never find out what happens following your characters deaths and any attempt to do so is a CRB. So I think one last turn report would be good closure on a characters life. In my opinion there is nothing worse than being told a character, who you put a lot of effort into, is dead by a cold message on the player page. It's like, "oh that's that then." I just think it would be nice to know how your characters death effected other people in the immediate aftermath.

[Doug R.]

There is no easy way to do this, since turn reports are character-centric. Once the character ceases to exist, you can't generate events for it.

[madfish]

wouldn't be that difficult. I think I might make an application for the programming department. Every suggestion here seems to need to be easy to implement or it's cast aside. Counter productive imo.

[SekoETC]

It would just need to change something to include recently deceased people as listeners

[Doug R.]

Ok. I have no objections to this.

[Chris]

At the moment you never find out what happens following your characters deaths and any attempt to do so is a CRB.

No. Post a request for anyone currently in such-and-such town to PM you. Then in PM, ask for a report of the day or two after your character's death. If you don't mention the death in your public post, you don't even have to wait four days.

[EchoMan]

One of the things that are kind of well designed about Cantr is that characters doesn't get deleted on death. So the algorithm for finding characters who should be subjects of events only have to be extended (beyond living characters) with dead characters that died within 1 (2?) day(s) of the event. Of course this will add more processing to an already choked Cantr, but there are worse calculations being done everywhere, so I don't see it as a big issue.

[EchoMan]

At the moment you never find out what happens following your characters deaths and any attempt to do so is a CRB.

No. Post a request for anyone currently in such-and-such town to PM you. Then in PM, ask for a report of the day or two after your character's death. If you don't mention the death in your public post, you don't even have to wait four days.

And what if you don't like to play OOC? You don't know anyone playing a char in that town? People don't want to out their characters? OOC is like the plague, get rid of it all... :p

[Chris]

And what if you don't like to play OOC? You don't know anyone playing a char in that town? People don't want to out their characters? OOC is like the plague, get rid of it all... :p

I am not against the suggestion. I was just saying that contacting other players is not necessarily a CRB, which was a claim made in the OP. Given the time we may have to wait for an approved suggestion to get into the game, it's an option that people should consider — an option that is already available, however imperfect.

[Okud]

When your character dies, you can choose to turn him into a ghost, that can go in and out of locked buildings and spy on everyone. If the character dies a violent death, it can move things around and generally haunt the location.
Edit: oh, and also start diseases.

[EchoMan]

That's an insanely good idea. 10 days of ghost-time after death ftw!

[Doug R.]

*waits for Piscator's veto...*

[madfish]

The ghost thing sounds cool, ...although the picking up items part is a bit OTT .

[Wolfsong]

I'd say a big no to ghosting around - there's too much potential abuse there. Posthumous Turn Reports might be okay, though, if only posting a very short period after your death.

[Piscator]

Weeell... I wouldn't mind passive ghosting around very much. If you don't like it, you can just ignore it. I'm just a bit concerned about players being able to get information they would otherwise not be able to get. Abuse of information is hard enough to prove as it it is and a player who just lost a character might be more inclined to commit a CRB to avenge his character's death than he'd usually be.

Moving items would go a bit far and would also not be very useful in my opinion. Moving stuff from one room to another seems a bit pointless except for annoying the living. Apart from that, this could be seen as another attempt to discourage killing of characters even more.

I guess we could collect the corpse's turn reports for seven days (or until it is buried) and then send them collectively to the player. This would give him a chance to review the events after his character's death, but would delay information about on-going events and would also give him enough time to calm down.