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I'm not sure if this idea has been proposed before, but I would love to see an interactive timeline that can be maintained and deemed canon by admins (or maintained by players with admin approval) that will show the timeline of major events in every org.  It would be a nice visual representation for all orgs to not only view their own history in proper context, but see how those events may relate to other orgs at the time. If possible, you could have references to quests, divine-approved books, NPCs, in-game events, guild visions, etc. Would people be interested in this?

As part of our ongoing inclusivity project, one of the things we've looked at is the diversity of our races that have skin. To do this, one of our wonderful volunteers has gone through and audited every single mobile in Lusternia that has skin. Yes, they are an absolute hero.

When they got to humans, they identified 179 human aliased mobiles in Lusternia. However, there are nearly 900 that are in the situation you describe - labelled just (wo)man/villager/similar. Adding an alias is a relatively simple process, but it is one that only some admin have (it's tied into higher level building permissions) so the number of people who can do it is limited. On top of the volume, that means this is actually a pretty daunting project to undertake. It's actually very easy for us to identify the 'problem mobs', the work is just in actually changing them all over. 

However, this absolutely isn't meant as a discouragement. With projects like this we sometimes choose to do them piecemeal/as they're brought to us, or we do it all in one go. We're currently managing a lot of big projects across the team, so the latter is a little unlikely right now (unless someone decides they are really keen to procrastinate some other work...). Which means posting here may still help, as it might inspire individual admin to fix little bits here and there!

You are also welcome to bug it in-game if a human is missing the human alias - suggestions as Xenthos is making would be more like an idea. The distinction of 'this creature should have this alias' vs 'I'd like it if this creature had this alias'.

Hope that helps!

It was brought to attention that it can be hard to find humans that respond to the noun 'human' - and I'm sure this is found in other races as well, though because humans don't have a central village outside of Stewartsville and Delport, it becomes more of an issue. So! This thread is hoping to find discrepancies across the board to have these NPCs updated to include the proper noun of their race for easy influence/hunting/crafting.

Duum - The unnamed humans in Duum, and potentially the named ones, are not listed as 'human' when probed. You have to refer to them as man, woman, or villager. This makes bashing Duum somewhat difficult with a gnomeweapon, or if you don't have something that automatically changes your target.

I'm Necroing this thread because I still think Floristry and Archaeology would be fun to have