Examining corpses

[wulf]

I see that we can now examine dead bodies. Out of morbid curiosity, one of my characters has just taken a look at two in the town where he is currently residing, both of which yield the description:

This body seems to be older than a year. The cause of death is not visible.

One of the bodies in question belongs to someone who died only yesterday - certainly less than a year ago. Am I misinterpreting the information or is the examanation returning false results?

Wulf

[Sunni Daez]

I would be thinking it means older than 21,since we spawn at age 20 but I could be wrong...

[TatteredShoeLace]

Well no one has died since implementation. If I were Jos I wouldn't research the bodies histories to individualize their deaths, but just give a generic line until the new ones come up. I expect to see "cuts all over" and "looks very thin" and "clicked the X button".

[Sunni Daez]

Yep even better thought!!

[formerly known as hf]

I think I've just worked out the line added for timed out / unsubscribed accounts...

I like it

[rklenseth]

I would be thinking it means older than 21,since we spawn at age 20 but I could be wrong...

No, it's a description of how the old the body is since death.

[west]

If a 20-year-old body is unburied for 20 years, it'll be a 40-year-old body.

It's true. Thus knowing whether the body is a newspawn who died 20 years ago or a 40-year-old who died two days ago is helpful.

[kinvoya]

I saw one that said the person died of a heart attack. So now we know that Cantrian's have hearts and can die of at least one physical ailment.

[SekoETC]

But when someone starts a burying project and doesn't finish it (and there are lots of those), you can still see the corpse but not examine it. Where's the sense in that?

[mortaine]

The ability to examine corpses comes exactly 1 day after someone died in front of me and I really needed to determine the cause of death. Dangit.

[west]

I saw someone die today of starvation, and when I looked, it said, "shows clear signs of starvation". So that works.

[Sunni Daez]

I would be thinking it means older than 21,since we spawn at age 20 but I could be wrong...

No, it's a description of how the old the body is since death.

just a wild guess!

but I never was good at that sort of thing!

[Jos Elkink]

One of the bodies in question belongs to someone who died only yesterday - certainly less than a year ago. Am I misinterpreting the information or is the examanation returning false results?

No that was a tiny bug I just realised later yesterday ... Now the old ones will simply not say anything about how long ago death took place, only those that died since yesterday.

[cantrlady]

I wish we could see it on the older bodies..think of the good role-playing that could come from finding out that a councilor had been murdered - that would have been worth it dragging all those bodies in Krif instead of burying them.

[west]

Assuming, of course, that one had.