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    One of the things that I've often thought would be handy is an in-game notes utility. Sure, I can use Notepad or Textedit (or whatever) to record where shops, pools, altars, etc. are between game sessions, but it would be nice if I could just type Alt N and notes for that specific character would pop up.

    Of course, I'm not a programmer, so I don't know if this would be a lot of extra effort or would dramatically reduce the art of JADE and/or ADOM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fifthflavorquark View Post
    One of the things that I've often thought would be handy is an in-game notes utility. Sure, I can use Notepad or Textedit (or whatever) to record where shops, pools, altars, etc. are between game sessions, but it would be nice if I could just type Alt N and notes for that specific character would pop up.

    Of course, I'm not a programmer, so I don't know if this would be a lot of extra effort or would dramatically reduce the art of JADE and/or ADOM.
    Even if there was a feature like that; I would not use it. Here are three reasons:

    1. I have a favorite text editor, Vim. It's a lot more comfortable than anything else.
    2. I want to be able to read/write the notes when I'm not playing (e.g. when posting here).
    3. I want to be able to search (and possibly reformat the results) through my notes (possibly the notes from different chars) effectively. Means, I want to be able to use unix tools to do the job (grep...).
    4. What if your character dies, but you want to write a postmortem?
    5. I backup my char often, and I want to keep *all* backups, in case I want to jump back later to test something. Here, being able to grep through the notes from outside of the game is very handy to determine which savegame I want to load.

    Anyway, you might just make a shortcut to open your favorite text editor with a specific textfile pre-loaded.
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    Ah yes, all good points.

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    You could just have ADOM open the registered text editor. System calls are easy to do.

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    The nice thing would be about the bookkeeping that you would not need to take care of yourself anymore, equally like leaving fullscreen mode. Especially when you play 7th char a day...
    When the char dies, the file dies. It can remain in the flg if you like, or you create another dump on dying...

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    I churn through characters, so I like the idea of a notepad attached to the character.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sgeos View Post
    I churn through characters, so I like the idea of a notepad attached to the character.
    What if you could write things down(assuming your character is literate) on a blank scroll that can be read later?

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    Quote Originally Posted by RndmNumGenerator View Post
    What if you could write things down(assuming your character is literate) on a blank scroll that can be read later?
    This is an awesome idea. A notepad book (10s?) would also be really nice.

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    From a role-playing standpoint, a notebook in the game would be incredibly overpowered - paper tends to be pretty rare in such scenarios... like hundreds of blank scrolls held together in a convenient binder (free packet of stickers with part one).

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    The gush of water hits you! Your blessed diary is totally drenched! You die...

    I like the idea of writing notes on blank scrolls, it could add even more to the game (mute but literate? write a message on the blank scroll to talk to someone. Mute and illiterate? draw pictures!).
    Last edited by Sadface; 04-06-2009 at 05:41 PM.

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