Decay Messages

Aktillum

I hate this:

Message #2236       Sent by Achaea

2/18/16:41 A dust bomb has decayed to dust in your absence.

5460h, 4200m, 24900e, 18900w ex-

Message #2237       Sent by Achaea

2/18/16:41 A dust bomb has decayed to dust in your absence.

5460h, 4200m, 24900e, 18900w ex-

Message #2238       Sent by Achaea

2/18/16:41 A dust bomb has decayed to dust in your absence.

5460h, 4200m, 24900e, 18900w ex-

Message #2239       Sent by Achaea

2/18/16:41 A dust bomb has decayed to dust in your absence.

5460h, 4200m, 24900e, 18900w ex-rm

Message #2240       Sent by Achaea

2/18/16:41 A dust bomb has decayed to dust in your absence.

(goes on for like 2 pages)

Please make it this:

 Message #2240       Sent by Achaea

2/18/16:41 A random assortment of crap you weren't using anyways just turned to dust.

Kyrra

Kind of have mixed feelings on this because if you're not good at keeping track of things, knowing what you need to replace is much easier with those messages.

I think a generic one would be useful for grouped items like arrows, bombs, ammo? and the like that are kept in large quantities.

Eld

Kyrra said:

Kind of have mixed feelings on this because if you're not good at keeping track of things, knowing what you need to replace is much easier with those messages.

I think a generic one would be useful for grouped items like arrows, bombs, ammo? and the like that are kept in large quantities.

Arrows (outside a quiver) and ammo aren't groupable, which is part of the problem. Even for groupables, the decay times of individual items in a group are tracked separately; they're individual items, so they get individual decay messages. What would be nice, I think, would be a check for identical items decaying on a given tick, and consolidation into a single message - "You are dismayed as 50 chipped iconic shards decay to dust in your hands.", "30 black walnut vials have decayed to dust in your absence.". Vials raise a complication, since there's a message about the contents as well; maybe only consolidate those with the same contents.

Sena

Since it just gives item names and not IDs, no information would be lost by condensing items of the same name to a single message, like "10000 dust bombs have decayed to dust in your absence."

Or you could condense all decays to a single message ("10000 dust bombs, a turkey potpie, shadowy assassin trousers, crotchless panties, and 5 lobelia seeds have decayed to dust in your absence"), but that could get really long, and it could be difficult to see at a glance what decayed.

Eld

Sena said:

Since it just gives item names and not IDs, no information would be lost by condensing items of the same name to a single message, like "10000 dust bombs have decayed to dust in your absence."

Or you could condense all decays to a single message ("10000 dust bombs, a turkey potpie, shadowy assassin trousers, crotchless panties, and 5 lobelia seeds have decayed to dust in your absence"), but that could get really long, and it could be difficult to see at a glance what decayed.

Yeah, would prefer separate messages for each item description.

Xli

Sena said:

..., crotchless panties... have decayed to dust in your absence

You really should have used them before they decayed...

Trevize

msg delete decays confirm