Tweaks to permanent descriptions

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I am overall onside with separating a vanity description from your actual physical description, and ensuring that all players can be described ic-ly for things like legal rp, mug retaliation, etc.

However, I feel like the way the descriptions look is not great, and there's maybe a conversation to be had around how realistic some of the info in them is.

I don't believe the average person can perfectly guess the height and weight of an individual just from a glance, or even by "taking a closer look"

So the two parts of my suggestion are:

1) Simplify the way the descriptions are laid out because I feel like the generic sentence that currently exists is not very good (for reference it is: A gender stands before you at around height and weighing around weight. The have Color hair and Color colored eyes.) I have attached an idea of how to simplify it a bit - I'm sure there's probably a better/more aesthetically appealing middle ground though!

2) Edit physical descriptions to be more vague, rather than just using the word "around" in there. My suggestion for that would be to have set ranges of heights and weights, and possibly even for eye and hair colors - these could be: Short (5'0-5'6)/Average(5'7-6'0)/Tall (6'1-6'6) or similar for heights. For weight it could be Light Build, Medium Build, Large Build - Idk how to distribute that as I don't really use lbs. For hair color it could say Dark or Light - but hair color is generally easy to discern so this one isn't as important. - This actually makes sense roleplay wise as it then relies on players using their actual brain to estimate how tall someone is when describing them to another person, and is something some people will be more experienced and accurate in, just like in real life. 

Another idea would be to add a limited set of options to use for your characters physical description if you so choose. These could be things like Tattooed, Scarred, Tanned, Pale - things like that. Just to slightly set people apart that bit more.

Here's an example, but again I am sure others might think of an even better way to display it.

[Bullets]

Just do this, screenshot from falloutRP.  They just have a locked area of the desc and the rest is free use, this could also be an opening to having permanent damages/features to your character, like you can call an admin to add it and make it say "has a missing finger" or "has a scar on their right eye" for example.  I believe the Chinese have a tattoo parlor and it could also be a thing where if they get a tattoo it would make it an identifiable feature on them.

Edited 1 hour ago by Bullets

[oykot]

When you are wearing a mask the closer look thing still works which is stupid masks are supposed to hide your identity. Also if you're wearing blacked out glasses (male 09) it should hide your eye color.