Half-logged-in state

[prophnoran]

This came up in a discussion with Qethia re: mudding from the phone. To facilitate being logged in for just the purpose of chatting (a common use case for the game on phones), there could be a mode which is like being "half" logged in.

No timers that count down while logged in tick:

• no hunger/thirst
• no aquest timer countdown
• 'hours played' doesn't go up
• etc.

You can't do anything: movement, casting spells, etc. All you can do is:

• look at the room you're in
• read and write say for that room
• ooc, quote, and other channels
• tell and reply
• notes, qnotes, etc.

(It might be better for you to not even have say and look, because as written this idea requires us to communicate to other people in the same room that there is a half-logged-in player).

It needs a clever name and appropriate support on who.

[anhegofcherek]

This kinda ties in with the account system I was thinking of (#6) - if you're logged in to your account, but haven't selected a character yet, then boom, ooc access (plus probably notes etc. once they work with accounts and not characters) - I like it