Important Class and Item Info Should Be Displayed

[Stavrdaf]

There are two categories of important information that should be displayed to players in order for them to better understand classes they plan to buy or are playing:

Class Characteristics
When viewing class info (left clicking on class sign) things like player size, speed, health and hunger should be included in the description. Speed and health are most important as they directly impacts combat interactions and are important to know before buying a class. Size is already indirectly visible in class display stands at lobbies but still nice to have along with hunger. A 'characteristics' category can be put in class description to accomodate these values.

Item Characteristics
Can also be used in general but specifically for unorthodox food items (that are not the same as the minecraft food items) like lembas bread, maggoty bread, cooked venison etc. There should be info on their item regarding what they do, how much hunger or saturation they restore and how quick it is to eat. If numbers are not given then a more general description of their effects should be added either serious or more lighthearted.
E.g Maggoty Bread: More filling than Manflesh but harder to chew

I am aware that things like speed, health and hunger are displayed in the wip EmpireWar wiki but it would be nice to have something in game too unless that defeats the whole purpose of the wiki

 

[Grissum1]

We are looking to make classes more descriptive in the way of summarizing what the class does in a concise form instead of just displaying pure stats without much context. However I think displaying all of these stats is a good idea as well. However, I'd have to ask, for the items, how do you think items like food should be described? Currently, the biggest challenge I see is displaying it while being as short and concise as possible to fit the rest of our information in this, just so it doesn't feel like bloat to the user. Same with class characteristics.

 

[Stavrdaf]

I have to say that when viewing class info having armour appear twice both in items and in armour section seems redundant. Armour should just appear once in the armour section and the rest of the items in the items section, or everything should appear in the items section.

As for class characteristics a section called 'characteristics' (gold title like 'items' and 'armour') displaying the 4 characteristics shouldnt be bloated if you make the above adjustment. Characteristics can be like 26 Health /tab 20 hunger /tab etc or all in one line with icons and numbers like 26 ❤, 20 , 0.5 , 1.1 . Emojis should appear as black and wide and not have color so they wont feel out of place

As for food item descriptions statistics are more concise than text and can be displayed the same way as class characteristics with numbers and texts or numbers and emojis. For example 5, 6, 2 (hunger, saturation, eating speed). Using purely text description, on the other hand, is more abstract and less concise than numbers
You can see more info about the food item in the class description in chat by hovering over it. As such it doesnt bloat chat and info is hidden unless choosing to view it.