Viewable Character Descriptions

[Beet]

My proposal is a simple one: viewable character descriptions. 

With Eclipse being a relatively fast-paced roleplay environment, often character development is lost upon the way. I know that many of us have created back stories and have roleplayed our characters to have certain physical identifiers about them - whether that be how they look, how they speak or other general information you could gather by looking at a person. The problem currently is that there is no way of showing another person these characteristics without using /me and /do to everyone you want to show these to. I propose the implementation of a simple command to write a description of your character and then another for other players around you to view it.

By way of example, the command to write a description might be /setdescription. In this area, you have the ability to add your characters age, height, and unique identifiers like tattoos, scars, marks, and any quirks you may have. The command to then view these characteristics could be /look ID.

One is greater immersion. By being able to see the unique characteristics you have the ability not only to leave a personal mark on the people around you but have an enhanced way of interacting with people. One example I can think of moving forwards with my own character is the description of his tattoos, his fake jewelry and his accent. These things without such a command would 9 times out of 10 go entirely amiss. I can also see that this would be valuable for gang's and their activities. Gangs can roleplay having unique tattoos they use on their skin and can use it as more of a covert way to identify themselves with their criminal colleagues. This also then has the benefit for PD and SD to be able to roleplay looking at you and seeing such tattoos, which could be used to enhance the depth of their criminal investigations and criminal profiling. 

The second is easier user experience. Using /me and /do constantly even with the use of a macro is clunky and often impracticable to do. The use of viewable character descriptions allow users to describe their character without clogging up the often already fast-moving chat and means that players that wish to showcase their characters characteristics can do so in an easy, simple way. Right now, such instances where people interact like this are rare. 

The third and final main benefit of this system is greater social interaction. Players can pick up on a players characteristics in a quick, easy fashion using character descriptions in a way which would drive deeper and more meaningful interaction. The potential for players to then feed this into their roleplay to drive interaction depth and interest is potentially endless. You can more readily notice things about a person to ask them about, perhaps even mock them for marks on their neck from the embarrassing night out at Pacific Bluffs with the girl/man you'd rather forget.

I personally believe simple yet effective features like this are an excellent way of driving much more player to player interaction than is present at the current moment. It will enhance not only criminal and LEO RP but RP quality for the civilian populous as well.