Dying reports

[SekoETC]

881-4: <CANTR CHARNAME ID=23277> kills you using a sabre.

This is a small change but couldn't it be possible not to destroy the name records in the same second the character dies, so that the last moments would be a bit more readable? Just ID numbers look quite crude. Even "a man in his some-ties" would look better, since we are used to it.

[glitterdown]

Seems like the only interest here is so it's easier to CR breach. A character dies, he's sorta ... um ... dead. Why should it even tell you that you've died?

[SekoETC]

It's a turn report, just like any other. We could start calling all characters by numbers so there would be no problem.

[west]

It's not like any other because for whatever reason it doesn't show names.

[Bran-Muffin]

If it showed names it would be easier to tell if it was a cr breach after you character had been killed.

[kroner]

the character id's are actually more useful. if it said "a man in his twenties" for 5 different people, you couldn't tell which were the same person. what would be really good is if it had the id # and the name you had for them. but then, i never have gotten one of these, so what do i know?

[Pirog]

I would also like to see some names in the death report.

If you want to avoid CR breches, don't include the last events at all...as it is now it just get's annoying.

[Anthony Roberts]

I say the e-mails should still be received.

What if your character was killed, unfairly, based on a CR breach by another player? You'd need the e-mail to show proof of the events that happened, since the turn report won't give it to you (I don't think).

I agree, names should be offered, so you know who it is that did something. But the ID should also be placed with them, in case the report -is- needed for the Players Department, so much simplier to know the ID than to find the name and such (I think. I'm not PD >.>)

But I do understand why you people think it's useless. You get a message in game showing that your character died, and they mysteriously dissapeared from the character list (Oh my god! Where did my character go?!) - But, in my own opinion, you should still get it.

If you don't like it, add a filter that deletes it automatically from your e-mails. Simple.

[Pirog]

Well...I guess they are better than nothing.
But you still want to know who killed you. Or if others in your company survived the attack....

[creepyguyinblack]

The death report usually shows a day or two of events, so you can usually piece together who said what if you remember who had prior to death. And this occurs because the moment your character is killed, all their database information is deleted I believe. Including all the dynamic names for other characters. The code for death would have to be altered for any of this to be preserved for any amount of time.

[kroner]

Although I'm assuming the email is sent immediately also, so the order would only need to be switched between writing the report and clearing the character information from the database. It wouldn't really need to be preserved for any substantial amount of time after death.

[SekoETC]

Yeah that's right kroner, that's what I meant.

[Spectrus_Wolfus]

but if doing it that way and you think there's been a CR breach and you say "my char named joe blogs think the char he know's as jim dirt" the pd have no idea who you mean because that info has been stripped from the database

[kroner]

that's why you should get the id number still. and the name.

[Pirog]

Spectrus>

But the names must still be saved somehow, aren't they?
How about dead bodies for example...they still keep their names, right?