Blind skill/buff. You can't see anything!

[AngstPunk]

I've been looking into doing a blind (no vision) skill/buff. I thought this would be easy to have it start a hazard buff like poison, but, its not so much. The reach of visibility is pretty wide, with illuminate, nightvision, etc. Is there a simpler effect I am missing that I should look at?

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[Volte6]

The way I would approach this is:

1.) Modify internal/usercommands/look.go - It should consider a new sort of "modifier" named something like "visibility" - and add this to the visibility variable.

Example:

visibility += user.Character.Buffs.StatMod("visibility")

2.) Create a new buff called "blindness" - for example 40-blindness.yaml with a spec that looks like:

buffid: 40
name: Blindness
description: You can't see!
secret: false
triggerrate: 1 real minute
triggercount: 1
statmods:
  visibility: -10

3.) Anywhere darkness is overridden for some reason (might have to do a little testing/searching), take this into account and adjust the code.

---

Alternatively:

1.) Create a new "buff flag" here: internal/buffs/buffspec.go - call it "Blind" for example.

2.) Create a buff that applies that flag:

buffid: 40
name: Blindness
description: You can't see!
secret: false
triggerrate: 1 real minute
triggercount: 1
flags:
  - blind

3.) Check if they have the flag with user.Character.HasBuffFlag(buffs.Blind), and if so, treat them as unable to see, wherever that's needed, such as a the look.go file mentioned above.

[AngstPunk]

This is a great start. With this I can play with several ideas. Such as:

• Throwable potions. (Create/Buy a 'Darkness' potion to cause blindness.
• Allow blind on a crit from a weapon that might strike the eyes. (like a needle)
• 'Tainting' skill to maybe poison a potion or water source.
• Blind oneself to fight a 'Medusa' type being or resist an illusionary spell or something.

Anyway, thanks for the insights, always a pleasure.