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Topic subjectWhere command enhancement request.
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67475, Where command enhancement request.
Posted by Tac on Wed 31-Dec-69 07:00 PM
Current Output (while not blind):

People near you:
(PK) Marner The Arched Gates of the Great Academy


Desired new Output (while not blind):

People near you in 'NAME OF AREA':
(PK) Marner The Arched Gates of the Great Academy

So in this case, 'The Academy'

I don't know if most modern clients/shells/whatever will do html links, but I suspect they could. I might suggest having a link to the wiki map of the area, but I'm not sure if that will work for sure or not.

I believe there is already code to do this attached to an item, so presumably a low coder work change.
67499, Bad proposal, clearly not worth it on both merit and work required.
Posted by -flso on Wed 31-Dec-69 07:00 PM
Implementation-wise, there is no rock-solid html link mud protocol spec.
They'd have to write code to work on top of telnet negotiations and negotiate something like MXP which is pretty ####ing #### to begin with, and a nightmare to implement correctly.

I agree with Isildur's points too.
67500, RE: Bad proposal, clearly not worth it on both merit and work required.
Posted by Isildur on Wed 31-Dec-69 07:00 PM
I don't think he was proposing a protocol change. He just wants the command-user's current area echo'd when he uses the "where" command.
67501, Was referring to the last part, html link and so on.
Posted by -flso on Wed 31-Dec-69 07:00 PM
nt
67491, Is disperse going to be or already is an Entropy power?
Posted by TJHuron on Wed 31-Dec-69 07:00 PM
Could see that influencing the imms decision to do this along the same lines of teleport
67492, RE: Is disperse going to be or already is an Entropy power?
Posted by Orsil on Wed 31-Dec-69 07:00 PM
Disperse is an active spell. I had it used on me several times in Galadon.
67493, Is it illegal? Nt
Posted by TJHuron on Wed 31-Dec-69 07:00 PM
Nt
67495, RE: Is it illegal? Nt
Posted by Orsil on Wed 31-Dec-69 07:00 PM
That is something I would say you should find out IC.
67490, They had this in the mud I came from.
Posted by Athioles on Wed 31-Dec-69 07:00 PM
Can confirm it's nice to have.

Who gives a #### about teleporters?
67477, RE: Where command enhancement request.
Posted by Isildur on Wed 31-Dec-69 07:00 PM
Don't like this. Makes it trivial to find out where you are if you teleport into a room you don't recognize.

Not to mention birds, which can see people in multiple areas at the same time.
67479, RE: Where command enhancement request.
Posted by Tac on Wed 31-Dec-69 07:00 PM
>Don't like this. Makes it trivial to find out where you are
>if you teleport into a room you don't recognize.

Ok. How many rooms does it usually take you to determine what area you are in? How useful did you find sight of the damned? Why doesn't Clairvoyance give Room Name... ever? (not 100% sure on that one)... Because the reality is, for a veteran, a single room name is, in the vast majority of cases, enough for you to know what area you are in. This change isn't meant to benefit a veteran player. You don't need it. You already know what are you are in.

>Not to mention birds, which can see people in multiple areas
>at the same time.

The bird's area is "The Skies Above Thera", or "The Skies Above the Past" or whatever, so non-issue. It doesn't report the other people's area, just your own, so even with eyes of the eagle you don't get to see where they are.
67476, RE: Where command enhancement request.
Posted by Jhyrbian on Wed 31-Dec-69 07:00 PM
Your favourite hockey team blows.
67478, Did not know was a hockey player...
Posted by Tac on Wed 31-Dec-69 07:00 PM
But thanks?
67480, At least he wasn't named Emelin. NT
Posted by TMNS on Wed 31-Dec-69 07:00 PM
NT
67484, RE: At least he wasn't named Emelin. NT
Posted by Jhyrbian on Wed 31-Dec-69 07:00 PM
The only time Emelin shines if when someone is trying to sneak up the boards on him and he has enough time to line up that monstrous hipcheck, I'll never hate him because of that alone.
67485, Cool, have fun losing in the SFs or earlier.
Posted by TMNS on Wed 31-Dec-69 07:00 PM
We'll keep loving ThePhil and playing with Cups.
67486, RE: Cool, have fun losing in the SFs or earlier.
Posted by Jhyrbian on Wed 31-Dec-69 07:00 PM
Whatever bro, you guys meet us in the playoffs and you're going to see Phil, Geno and Sid on the IR.
67487, All of this is moot in a world where Connor McJesus exists. n/t
Posted by Seriphax on Wed 31-Dec-69 07:00 PM
nt
67489, First off, Chara or Neil will goon Price. Or even Kreider again.
Posted by TMNS on Wed 31-Dec-69 07:00 PM
2nd, good luck scoring goals after Max gets hurt.

C) We've been able to win with half the D on the IR already. Letang is the most important player on the Pens, and ####ing Schultz is a somehow performing as a poor man's Letang.

Oh, you're also losing to Ottawa or Toronto or the NOSE (may actually win MVP...no joke). And we might not beat Washington (spoiler: Ah who is joking we will and we'll probably lose to the Leafs in the Conference Finals somehow and then Calgary will sweep them).

67483, That was my first thought n/t
Posted by Seriphax on Wed 31-Dec-69 07:00 PM
Nt