Make destroyed furniture destroyed forever

Started by I love cats, January 29, 2025, 12:59:15 PM

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I love cats

It's absurd after an IG act of destroying property or an accidental fireball in your room you can just repair everything. I think player destroyed furniture should be permanently destroyed.

Whyleth

I don't really agree with this because there's a lot of sort of historical things around the server people want to keep around. I do wish there was like an option to pay for permanent deletion of something that costs like 2-3 times the repair cost or something, because there's furniture destruction requests which you then have to babysit and hope someone isn't a good samaritan and repairs it.

VanillaPudding

Things are already destroyed if a reset happens. I think if you REALLY want to destroy something you can get dm oversight. If not, it's also fair that things can be repaired :)

IKeepForgettingMyUserName

There are fireball acolytes in the Krak that will destroy PCs that are hostile to them in seconds. I think it's necessary to keep repairs.

Mia

The system is fine, the player side culture is mostly fine, but a few spoiled apples spoil the bunch.

That is, players need to stop repairing things they don't have a good IC reason to repair. And give that option the reverence it deserves; how much time and effort, and how much money it really costs to restore a piece of artwork. You know all the things that happen when you press on that convenient button. If you aren't the owner, you must have dang well loved this piece of furniture.

I think a "Spite Repair" of furniture that isn't yours is toxic ooc behaviour 95% of the time.

Egon the Monkey

I'll note that it's free to destroy things and expensive to create or repair them. Given that, the free action should be a weaker move. It's also damn near impossible to defend items, so the best you can hope for is a lucky witness. Most of the time, blowing up furniture just isn't interesting PvP.

I think Wyleth has it. If you want to destroy something beyond hope of repair, you should have to pay for it.

Also that if you're repairing something, you might do it purely to spite vandals. Especially for items like the way-markers that some PCs think are religiously significant.

Walrus Warwagon

I still think furniture must be hard to destroy, so you'll need to commit to the action, it must be interruptable in some way, and work one piece at a time.

Dredi

I think at least making them not vulnerable to AOE but only direct attacks/spells might be a good call, so there has to be intent.