It's no secret that many of us are longing for a better level of quality of life when it comes to our ability to role-play in the game. We've gotten many visual, and performance upgrades to the chat, and the way we write in the form of the RP bubble utility, and the wonderful new UI.

But we also still lack many of what most would call basic features, and likewise are there things which are currently very annoying to work with. This thread's purpose is to draw attention to which areas can improve, and why. From my own perspective, at least.

The Console Bar:


We've had this ever since the game launched, as far as I'm aware. Unfortunately, it's been showing its age for a long, long time now. Let's go over the bullet points:

Pros:
- Very simple to use.
- Since everything in the game is a verb, can be used to do a ton of helpful shenanigans.
- All the role-play utilities are compacted along it, giving easy access.

Cons:
- If this is your sole method of writing, big posts are suffering because you can't navigate it with your arrow keys. Your character will move around if you try, forcing you to navigate with the mouse instead by dragging along your text. This is especially annoying if you're scrolled all the way to the right from what you've written, and want to double-check for errors.
- To my knowledge, the buttons that automatically add the various commands to the console bar are never used by anyone. To me, it's a giant hassle because I swap between emotes, says, whispers, and looc almost every post I do.
- No spell-checker.

Solutions / Suggestions:
- Ideally I would want the console bar to be a toggle in the settings menu, and for it to be replaced entirely by a bar purely meant for role-play in some fashion.
- The buttons should all be changed to pop out the respective writing-boxes we get from merely typing in the command, instead of dropping the respective command in the bar.
- Potentially, a spell-checker based on IE's browser-settings could be made.


The Writing Box:


It's strangely under-utilized. Probably because it's a little janky to bring out in the first place, but it does its purpose very well despite how plain it looks.

Pros:
- Offers a simple, and easy way to write without hassling you with anything you don't need.
- Mercifully allows you to navigate using the arrow-keys, compared to the console bar.
- It does exactly what you would need it to do, and nothing more.

Cons:
- No way to know it exists other than being told, or discovering it by accident, as it doesn't appear unless you hit one of the prompts into the console bar without additional text.
- It does exactly what you would need it to do, and nothing more.
- No spell-checker.

Solutions / Suggestions:
- It would be nice to have integrated buttons for bold, and italics in this menu, as since those were added, they've been extensively used.
- Once more, a spell-checker would be nice. In this box more than any other.
- Though it isn't necessary, a neat UI update for it would be nice.


General Writing Hijinks:

There's a lot of small things that add up to a bigger evil here, some of which will be repeated here from previous threads:

Bold / Italics:


Currently, we use ` if we want to use any italics on our text. As one might expect, this is really annoying, because it creates accents on most vowels, meaning you have to actively account for it when you write, and this can lead to multiple attempts of getting it right if you're a big dumb-dumb like me. For bold, we use **, which is slowly getting more standardized everywhere likely due to Discord's influence.

My proposal here is to change the ` into a single * so we don't have to groan èvery` time we fail to write out a slanted word.


Paragraphs:


It's currently impossible to do line breaks in the game, and trying makes it look like this:

In regards to the new inventory system, I noticed if you attempt to eat a food and are "Too full to eat anything else" it will lock up your controls, movement ceases to work, but Shift+WASD still causes you to spin around.

How to recreate:

Buy two foods.
Eat one.
Attempt to eat the other.
Enjoy only spinning until relogging.

This now happens when you look into a fight happening inside a Camp and then stop. Either that, or it's what happens when an Eventmin forcefully stops combat.

The result is owmyeyes.

Sooo... I went to mine for a bit, got random encounter, there was that horse carriage top right. Didn't happen again, didn't remember to check if I could interact it before my mercs killed the jammer.

The red tint is from my screen filter, don't worry about it.

Update: Found more in camp of someone named "Tyrant". Fully background objects.

Despite completing and having the quest being counted as completed, after a relog, the quest shows up in the finished quests section but counted as incomplete. The stamp was also taken away and there is no way to re-complete the quest as Shael's dialogue acts as if you've already done their quest.

For comparison, Jammer Slaying 101 is complete and functioning normally.

• The lack of options to constantly gain more essence.
  

• The racial being quite hard to activate without the risk of taking a large amount of damage as well as how easy it is to run out.
  

• The racial either doesn't do enough or uses too much essence to operate.
  

Similar to this thread here https://neus-projects.net/forums/showthr...p?tid=7798 it seems that Fallenharn, the potential skill from Forgrint, is not using the weapon's Scaled Weapon Attack when in the tome's Spear mode.

You can notice the massive damage difference between each mode's uses of Fallenharn.

Weapon Shift (Forgrint) ON (Spear Mode)


Weapon Shift (Forgrint) OFF (Tome Mode)

Food Regeneration doesn't seem to be fully healing Homunculi by a single digit.

Post-Combat Food HP Regeneration becomes zero when the number is too small to be recovered, often leaving you in situations where your health ends like for example, 499/500 HP out of combat after fight ends, quite consistently. I think the code for food regeneration is something like (FoodRegen% - Max HP), and that math's result being affected by Homunculus Physiology, which is leaving some decimals that get rounded down. It's made to look good and less spammy, but it's affecting the mud people somewhat.

Best way to replicate: Have a Homunculi fight in dungeons for a bit, you'll see that you will never be able to recover your HP to 100% outside of hour ticks or Inn. Also when relogging this will happen too for some reason.

I think the best solution for this is just making their Physiology not apply to food HP regen in general.

Private too, sorry! This is my last private one, I swear.

I'll grace y'all with future cool public apps. A small spoiler for the next one: