[MUD-Dev] Total Annilation of Downtime

[Sanvean]

On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 Daniel.Harman at barclayscapital.com wrote:
> From: J C Lawrence [mailto:claw at kanga.nu] 
  
> Ah, but is that because you care that they are looking at your
> equipment, or because whoever wrote the mud was silly enough to
> tell you that you were being inspected in language likely to get
> your back up? If instead of saying 'xxx has inspected your
> equipment' it said 'xxx glanced at you', I am certain there would
> be less people worrying.

We ran into a similar situation with the consider command, which I
now no longer ever see players using. The message it gives off is
something like "Blah eyes you morbidly," and the only time I ever
see it used is when an staff member is trying to be funny. Much of
the reaction was because it's a command that traditionally signifies
you're looking at the entitiy to see whether or not you can kill it
- but as time progressed, it became anathema because it just didn't
fit into roleplay well.

On a similar note, we did added the ability to attach an emote to
the look command, so you can do something like:

  look man licking her lips lasciviously

which produces something like

  Blah looks at you, licking her lips lasciviously

This was a big hit, and stopped the long threads on our discussion
board about how the look command shouldn't echo anything to the
target. I suspect on roleplay-intensive games like ours, that
anytime you allow people to customize basic commands like that, it's
going to meet with enthusiasm, and moves the command away from being
something mechanical.

Sanvean
http://www.armageddon.org
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