[DGD] Forensics and dead actions

[Noah Gibbs]

  Yeah.  Simple things of the "this door has been forced" variety are a good
way to make sure it's limited.  I've also seen tracking systems where the last
two or three characters to pass through a room record who they were, where they
entered and where they left.  This allows simple tracking, though it could be
foolable by player backtracking in some cases (which is probably a feature ;-)

--- Par Winzell <zell at skotos.net> wrote:

> I think this sort of thing would only work if very deliberately limited. 
> Forensic actions should be explicitly registered by the object and should 
> probably be either of the "one shot" variety (this door has been forced open)
> 
> or, if it has state, implement some system (fifo or half life perhaps) to
> make 
> sure the vast hordes of people trudging through don't fill up storage.
> 
> You'd probably want to keep separate state in the player that remembers 
> forensics you've uncovered. The UI would feel a lot nicer if it didn't have
> to 
> "rediscover" things you already knew.
> 
> Zell
> 
> Noah Gibbs wrote:
> >   I've thought the same thing.  You'll need to figure out what former
> actions
> > are detectable when.  And you'll need to figure out how many to keep
> around. 
> > If every object remembers everything that happened to it since the
> beginning of
> > time, you'll find that each room, when "detectived" at, will show hundreds
> or
> > thousands of entrances and exits, objects being picked up and put down, and
> so
> > on.
> > 
> >   So the difficult part of the system would be determining what actions are
> > "interesting" in the sense of leaving useful traces.
> > 
> >   Also, if you have lots of NPCs that move around and do much of anything,
> > you'll very quickly have many thousands of old actions stored, or they'll
> erase
> > a lot of traces of PC actions, or both.  So you may need to take that into
> > account, too.
> > 
> >   But yes, there are some very interesting possibilities there, if you're
> > willing to do a lot of support work.
> > 
> > --- Shentino <shentino at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> I was just thinking of having actions in progress be actual objects,
> >> and then letting them hang aorund for those folks with forensics
> >> skills...sorta like a crime scene.
> >>
> >> Can anyone think of any "gotchas" I haven't thought of?
> >>
> >> Just seems like a straightforward way to make history.
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