Pass-by Viewing

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I’ve noticed an interesting new trend across several of my characters.

Folks will pass by, seemingly traveling through. Yet occasionally, I’ve caught up to them or bumped into them elsewhere, only for them to be ‘looking at’ my character by the time I enter the room. I’ve noticed it several times now where I don’t get the yellow ‘looking at you’ bar on their character in the room list before they leave the room on their merry way.

Is it a server delay issue, on either end? Or are these folks working some black magic to take a look at characters they don’t recognize, without it being seen that they’re taking a look at said characters?

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Also, on vertical/mobile view, it’s easier just to keep looking at the person if you hid the panel to see the main room than it is to reopen the view panel and then hit the small “stop looking” button (which I didn’t initially realise was even a thing).

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I didn’t even know this was a thing. Been here four days and I’ve never seen a “someone is looking at you” notification.

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Perhaps people know you well enough by reputation? :smile_cat:

It’s a yellow line next to their user box in the room’s listing of occupants.

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Yknow that character flaw in Ironclaw about “Bad Reputation?”

I used to love that flaw for my characters… until I found out how shitty it is when it happens to you. Blegh >:P

Yellow line next to their user box… I’m sorry… you mean the user box in the room you’re in? What’s the yellow line indicate?

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When the yellow line is present, that character has your character’s profile selected for viewing - but not necessarily expanded/visible. You may often see it as you or they enter the room and they check tags. Likewise you can be seen doing this, too.

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Ahhh… wow… I would have never have known that. That’s extremely subtle. An icon with an eyeball on the char’s right bottom corner would be more apparent! Iconography is important.