Tracking

[Kinaed]

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Syntax: Look <#.tracks>

If you have the track skill, you will see the tracks of those who have
recently passed by a room.  The more skill you have, the better you are
able to identify and examine old tracks. 

SPEC - Track Skill

When a player walks through a room, they leave an invisible, rot-death item
in their wake called 'tracks'.  Tracks die out after 1 OOC hour.
Tracks indicate which direction the player was going, the height and weight
of the player, like this: 
 
     A set of tracks leading <direction> is here.
 
"look 1.tracks" will give the item's short desc, which would have been
generated upon creation to look something like this:

These tracks are of a <man/woman/child> approximately <weight+load> lbs in
weight, and approximately 5'4 in height.  The tread leads in <direction> direction.  

The ability to see tracks depends on how much time is left before rotdeath
of the tracks occurs.  So, if the tracks have X amount of time left one
their one-hour timer, the tracker needs the following skill: 

<internal code players probably need not know>

Sneaking players do not leave tracks.
Tracks are not left indoors or in city/street sectors.

[Amdair]

Err...


If tracks aren't made by sneaking people, or indoor rooms, or city streets, this skill is virtually useless, given our Lithmorran central focus. ._o

Maybe it could be much harder to detect tracks left by sneaking individuals, or in city streets / indoors? There's usually something that denotes passing, even if its incredibly sublime and difficult to pick up, without much training or high perception.

[Estelle]

As an avid sneaker myself, I do think it is reasonable to have a chance of detecting sneaking people's tracks if a character has at least Grand Master in track. Ditto for city streets.

[Kinaed]

The issue with having it in city streets is that the object backlog could get to be so great it crashes the game, albeit I suppose we could just limit the amount of tracks allowed per room.

[Callista]

That would ICLy make sense, to limit the number of tracks in a room. I mean, just because you track someone to Church Square, you'd assume that with all the traffic in and out, it's much easier to lose the trail...right?