Kev Milsom wrote:6) Only one private communication message shown per turn, saving on endless lines of 'You see Man in 20's talking to Woman in 40's' type, sprawling down the screen.
There are chracter that wish to be noisy and ones that wish for silence.
How about an awareness level.
Normal Awareness: Things like they are today.
Completely Aware: Chance to hear whispers. No progress on projects maybe needs subdivided. Can see personal events {eating, project done/start/switch, note writing {x writes/edits a note}, envelop stuffing {x puts a note in an envelop}, wear people are looking {x looks at people / objects / location/ activites}, attempts to enter locked buildings without a key or crowbar.
Concentration 1: No observation of people coming into town and buildings, pointing, trading/picking up/dropping resources/notes/objects {sight awareness down}. Speeds up projects.
Concentration 2: 1 + no whispers/no drag observation. More speed to projects. {hearing awareness down}
Concentration 3: Maybe a skill that needs to be praticed. Normal talk change to "You hear [chracter] say something". Hearing of lockpicking gone. More speed.
Meditation: Hear and see nothing except getting hit or all capitals "says to you". Faster healing. An art/a hard skill.
) But wouldn't concentration make it nearly impossible to get robot resource-gathering types into the rest of the game? Most people do most or all of their conversation while working on projects. A motivation not to talk and work at the same time doesn't sound like a good thing.
