As it is, you need to click through a total of three different menus in order to see the following:
Someone’s health at a glance
Someone’s ID
Someone’s current equipment
Instead, I want to implement a rework of the examine (at least for other living beings that would have all these things applied) to simply dynamically refresh your ‘examine’ tooltip. If you’re close enough to see these details, it updates the examine box with that information automatically. As it is, you need to be close enough to strip someone in order to see what equipment they’re wearing, which doesn’t make any sense at all. The only way you would otherwise know someone’s equipment is if you know all the gear sprites at a glance. Needing to re-examine someone then quickly click their ID or health status is also unnecessarily clunky.
I feel like equipment not being visible outside of strip range makes sense. After all, would you be able to tell from a distance that someone’s wearing military webbing under their coat? Sprite-wise, the webbing is hidden - why would you at random become able to see it if you’re not close enough to open up their coat yourself?
The ID and health thing, though, does seem pretty reasonable, and could be good for QOL. The health status being shown would make a lot of sense IC, IMO - you’re close enough to get a good look at this person, so if they’re severely bruised you’d probably notice that quite quickly.
There’s already code in-place to account for equipment items being obscured by other pieces of equipment, so that’s a non-starter as far as concerns against it go.