How to write readable logs?

Here’s how I write my logs, I copied it from somebody at some point because I thought it looked really neat and concise. What do other people think? I want to write the most readable logs possible.

[n1 heal 4|DNR][n2 heal 4|SUCCESS][n3 reanimate 5|SUCCESS]

[n1 deb 5|ATTACKED BUT IMMUNE][n2 deb 2|IMMUNE][d3 POISONED BY ASSASSIN][n3 ATTACKED & HEALED|REDIR ATTEMPT|OCC ATTEMPT]

Pretty readable. One suggestion might be to clarify if you heal them from attack, poison, or bleeding.

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My Name The My Class
N1-
N2-
N3-
and so on and so on

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Try [ N1: 4 - DNR ] [ N2: 4 - Attacked ]…

Use just a number for your primary Ability and use spaces and different punctuation everywhere like what I just showed.

[Name] the [Class]

N1: Action #, Result /
N2: Action #, Result /
N3: Repeat

In my opinion, adding brackets or different marks within your logs makes it look too busy. Adding a slash at the end of your night can help tell them apart, but it’s not really needed because you’ve got the N# to do that for you. Also, it’s probably not beneficial at all to have day logs.

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Oh man this is easy

[Name] the [Class]
| N1: [Target] - [Result]
| N2: [Target] - [Result]
| N3: [Target] - [Result]

When copied and pasted it’s pretty easy to read:

Ivo Bardolf the Princess | N1: 1 - Kill/Off | N2: 16 - Spec/Invest | N3: Wisp 7 - 3 & 5 visited | N4: 4 - Supp/Soc

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Totally off topic, but is anyone else trying to figure out if you Deb 5 on n1 and got attacked, but immune… Why are you not debbing 5 on n2 and 3 as well?

I always make it like this. Let’s say I’m Physician…

N1: Heal [6] (red. to 4, DNR) |
N2: Heal [3] (success) |
N3: Rezz [2] |
N4: Heal [2] (occupied) |
N5: Jailed |

Copypasted that’s:

N1: Heal [6] (red. to 4, DNR) | N2: Heal [3] (success) | N3: Rezz [2] | N4: Heal [2] (occupied) | N5: Jailed |

That’s double spaces on either side of the “|”, but it doesn’t show up as clearly on the forum.

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Just put the tube at the start of each line

It looks the same when copy-pasted, but much cleaner in your actual journal

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I outed him and we executed him the following day lol :wink:

Just put the tube at the start of each line

Is the vertical bar | the tube?

That makes me feel a bit better then. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Thanks for this, I’ll try it