What is your idea?

My idea is that a person hears whatever the whisper was to be, even if the shooter misses.  

Has your idea already been suggested in some form or another before? (Check the Suggestions forum for past threads with ideas the same or similar to yours.)

No

What does your idea entail?

That a person would get a notification alongside SOMEONE TRIED TO WACK YOU saying "they said XXXXX"

How can your idea be successfully implemented into the game as it stands?
What major changes would be needed to make your idea work?

I think it would be reasonably easy to code - but I don't know...  I'm not a coder.

What is the positive impact of your idea?

Allows for the shooter and wouldbe victim to say/hear what would otherwise be lost forever.  Adds intrigue and a bit of drama

What is the negative impact of your idea?

Can't think of any, except a burden on the coder

How may your idea affect the rest of the userbase?

I think it would encourage more use of whispers and people to pay more attention to them

Sounds good to me. 

Bumping this idea - anyone any thoughts? 

Could this be tied into vision/stealth in any way as well? 

Better/worse chance of seeing the shooter/hearing what they say when the trigger is pulled

-1.

This screams of only being brought up so that JohnFareham can see who he pissed off and is now shooting at him. It’s been well over two years since this suggestion was brought to the table with zero support and this is brought up now?

Seems a bit convenient to be honest.

-1, I'm personally against this.

Whispers are a chef's kiss for the attacker. It can be something to confuse the killed, insult the killed, inform the killed, to send a broader message, etc. I think because you're sure whoever reads your message is dead, you are much more emboldened to put something interesting/outrageous in it.

If there is the risk that the victim survives and hears your whisper it brings the following issue with it: Even if you stealthed on the attempt, the victim can use the whisper to potentially identify you.

This makes putting in a whisper risky, which makes it less likely for people to put something interesting/outrageous in there or to even use it at all.

So I think it would only result in more mundane whispers, or even worse, less whispers than before. This is bad because whispers are a mechanic with user-written content, which is cool.

It’s been well over two years since this suggestion was brought to the table with zero support and this is brought up now?

Seems a bit convenient to be honest.

Fareham (besides a recent outlier) has had characters with a low survival-time for a long time. I don't see how the timing is convenient.
We vote the same, but for different reasons.

Wellerman - I'd keep it simple.  Someone tried to WACK! You.  As they tried, you hear them whisper *******'

JamesBaxter - play the ball, not the man.  The assailant might well want the victim to know who it was or why it was.  The assailant could as easily NOT whisper, rendering your point moot.

HenryArold - I think that this suggestion would increase whispers.  People taking a 1% shot would.  People giving pro shots would. People might want to whisper something to suggest it was someone else doing the shooting. 

It's that blank canvas thing - there's an option available and a multitude of options available. Or not. 

I always leave whispers.  Always have done and always will. 

I think once this feature was active, it would prove popular and interesting.  I also think, though Squishy can advise, that this would be easier to code than other suggestions, making life easier for the admins and giving the user base a new feature to play with. 

This is a great idea, realistic, unobtrusive and JamesBaxter seems to hate the idea so it is therefore AOK in my book.

Seems to stand to reason that if you hear the whisper if they hit, you would definitely hear it if they miss.  It is a fairly low impact feature as all one would have to do if one did not wish to utilize the feature is to not leave a whisper (which, lets be honest, is the norm around here anyway).

I would also be all for a standardised whisper option, much like the dying breath feature, whereby you could save your whisper to be put out there on EVERY shot you take.

-1

Henry said it all. 

Isabella - would you comment on my rebuttal to Henry? 

Why would I? You cannot even say ty when gaining a credit that is gifted nor accept an OC invite whilst active.  

+1 for me.  I think this option is better than what Rocky came up with.  More choice. 

Big ole +1 from me with that change.

In terms of realism I thought the whisper was something spoken over your body as you slowly bleed out on the ground? Shots aren't usually fired from a distance where you'd be able to hear someone unless they're shouting, which would just alert anyone around that you're trying to murder someone, surely? 

I think we should have one single whisper for any outcome.

I Imagine that you are saying it, as you surprise them and shoot them in the back of the head.

Yoda - but they can do that now?  And also, even if that was possible, doesn't that just mean that gameplay would have to adjust to meet that new challenge, and isn't that potentially a good thing?