Shattered Kingdoms

The relative easy fix of changing casting messages in the Different Magics thread got me thinking. Do any of you have suggestions, changes or pet peeves for easy ansi upgrades in the code that might improve relative game aesthetics?

My examples just RP that everything has a black background:

Ansi for spear of faith depending on alignment



Elementals

Have you seen the descs of elementals conjured in the dreamscape? They look awesome! Wish there was a quest or item that you could turn them to their dream counterparts much like there was a way back in the day for Yenko to turn air elementals to ice elementals. That said, please please please anisify regular elementals!



Spirit Aura/Devotion

Does it bother anyone that the two spells that give room echoes when you take damage, spirit aura and Aludra’s devotion are both the same ansi color? No? Just me...? OK, well, it makes sense for Aludra’s to be hot pink, but I always found it a bit strange that the spirits would chime in the color pink as they are flying through your enemies, maybe gray, brown, regular magenta?

Color Spray

I am not entirely sure about this one myself because of the annoying aspect, should color spray have blinking text when it does a critical hit/blind? Also, always felt the spell should be bright yellow or white rather than red.

Holy Word

Here is the old bait and switch, since this suggestion is not completely easy and would require some extra coding, but for being high level room effect spell of clerical magic that his or her god’s power channels through and leaves you exhausted, it kinda lacks a visual punch. I always thought it would be kind of neat that the spell would make an echo after casting and before the damage starts popping up where an actual holy word is spoken, the holy word would be called at random depending on the faith of the priest and each of the three spheres the god holds. As a rough draft:



Thoughts? Suggestions?

Color used in damage messages in mostly used as an informational aid and not thematically. For example: yellow is always reserved for a successful saving throw on the part of the victim, red is always reserved for death and white is always reserved for a completely ineffective attack (either a miss or successful magical resistance).

You can still turn air elementals into ice elementals in game.

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While undoubtedly true I don't see why it can't evolve into something more visually thematic in the form of chromatically intuitive eye candy.

So color them in client triggers. I have my own hits in gold to differentiate from generic grey of others' hits. Dodge, shield block, and parry are in similar but slightly different shades of blue (when I am not using nospam). No reason you couldn't color other lines of text. Oh, and I have the elements for elementals color coded too. So, don't really need an Ansi change per se.

Oh, and red is also reserved for natural attacks like tail whips, etc.

Can you post the highlights to color your own hits/dodges/actions in gold? That sounds handy.

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