Minor suggestion - Boss monologue


Eva Destruction

 

Posted

I wasn't sure whether this belonged better here or in the Suggestions thread further down, but I figured it would get more exposure here from the appropriate section of the community. So here it is:

Allow Boss speech text to span multiple lines, in the same way many bosses in canon arcs speak in 2 or 3 bubbles at a time when unaware or initiating combat. A simple (I'd imagine) way to achieve this would be by parsing the text for newlines/<br>, which is currently allowed in the fields.

Example
Dr. Aeon is a boss in your arc, and you want him to have a mad scientist soliloquy such as:
-"Excellent"
-"My plan going as... well, planned"
-"Step one: Create NutriPaste"
-"Step two: Get people hooked"
-"Step three: Personal army!"
-"Muahahaha!"

In the field you would enter:
"Excellent<br>My plan going as... well, planned<br>Step one: Create NutriPaste<br>Step two: Get people hooked<br>Step three: Personal army!<br>Muahahaha!"

Rather than appear all bunched up in one bubble (along with the markup), it would be split up into smaller bubbles with a slight delay between them (e.g. 0.05-0.1 second per character).

Who knows, in the future it may even be possible to issue "stage directions", setting up emotes at certain lines.

Comments welcome!


Justice Hunter, 50 Inv/SS Tank

Slenszic, 50 Sword/Energy Stalker

MA Arc IDs: 1355, 2341, 2350

 

Posted

This would be nice, especially considering you can have more boss unaware text than will fit in the actual speech bubble. It all shows up in NPC dialogue, but the speech bubble cuts off.

And your example sounds much more like a mad scientist soliloquy than the wall of text we're currently limited to.


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