Report 1063

Report #1063
Skillset: Skill: BodySnatching
 Org: Ebonguard Status: Completed Aug 2013
Furies' Decision:
Solution 1+2 if they can easily be done.
Problem: Interacting with player corpses is extraordinarily difficult. They can
only really be referred to as "corpse". It is not possible to (for example) use
IH XENTHOS in order to see the ID # of the Xenthos corpse- you must instead do
IH CORPSE and then MORE through the list of all possible corpses (conceivably a
few hundred) in order to find the right ID in order to interact with that body
specifically. Sometimes IMMOLATE CORPSE also does not correctly work on the
body (it thinks there is no corpse in your hand, until you drop the NPC corpses
and pick up just the player corpse as well). While this behaviour is a bug,
it's one that is difficult to track down, and the entire thing can be solved by
simply making player-corpse-targeting more user friendly.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #1: Make it so that only player corpses can also be
 identified by "body" as well as by "corpse". This
 way you can GET BODY, IMMOLATE BODY, II BODY, IH
 BODY, DECAPITATE BODY and so on- without it trying to
 manipulate NPC corpses. This would allow for a much
 more streamlined version of targeting, while still
 allowing players the ease provided by all NPC corpses
 being gettable with 'corpse'.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #2: Allow IH XENTHOS / II KELLY / other variations to
 also include "The corpse of Xenthos" and "The corpse
 of Kelly". This would also greatly improve
 interaction with bodies.
Player Comments:
---[Xenthos on 8/12 @ 00:39 writes]:
I am unsure which is more difficult technically, so I am providing a couple of
different options.
---[Enyalida on 8/12 @ 00:56 writes]:
Both are good.
---[Shuyin on 8/12 @ 17:42 writes]:
Sure
---[Ushaara on 8/13 @ 15:53 writes]:
Supported.
---[Kio on 8/13 @ 20:49 writes]:
Both solutions 1 and 2 supported.
---[Zynna on 8/17 @ 18:31 writes]:
Supported
---[Siam on 8/19 @ 17:00 writes]:
Supported
---[Wobou on 8/20 @ 10:17 writes]:
I support both.