How do you log?

Started by mangler, July 16, 2008, 02:16:49 PM

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July 16, 2008, 02:16:49 PM
Hi, this must sound really noobish, but i've never logged before, and never really wanted to, but I can see it could be useful, how do you guys do it? Do you have MUD clients with a logging ability? There have been some seens i'd really like to record, but havn't able to because I don't no or have anything which will let me do so     :(
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July 16, 2008, 02:18:25 PM #1
Generally your client has some manner of logging capability. As for specifics and techniques, you can probably find some in the archives.

I've been meaning for a while now to make a logging macro that kicks in after the mantis-head and includes the date and character name.
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July 16, 2008, 03:08:40 PM #2
Cheers.. I only had a really old MUD client which I hadnt updated for ages, just downloaded a new one, thanks.
Someone says: I imagine the festivities have worn you thin... Well good. I plan on leading patrols over the next month, that would turn even your shriveled manhoods into sturdy poles of destruction.
July 16, 2008, 04:59:01 PM #3
If you set your scrollback far enough, you don't really HAVE to log a whole session just to save the scene. You can scroll up - hold your mouse over the first line, scroll down to the end, which will highlight all the text. While your mouse is held down with your right hand, do CTRL-C with your left hand. Some clients automatically UNhighlight you if you let go of the mouse so keep it held, it's good practice anyway :)

That will copy everything highlighted to clipboard. Then open notepad or word or whatever other text thing you want to use, and CTRL-V to paste everything copied back out again.

It's really just 2 very easy steps: COPY/PASTE
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July 16, 2008, 05:11:14 PM #4
Real men log with a pencil and notepad.
July 16, 2008, 05:14:41 PM #5
Quote from: Yam on July 16, 2008, 05:11:14 PM
Real men log with a pencil and notepad.

Real men have better things to do with their time.
There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men. -George Eliot
July 16, 2008, 05:17:08 PM #6
Like NASCAR.
July 16, 2008, 06:49:34 PM #7
I use an axe.
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July 16, 2008, 06:52:53 PM #8
Quote from: Tisiphone on July 16, 2008, 02:18:25 PM
Generally your client has some manner of logging capability. As for specifics and techniques, you can probably find some in the archives.

I've been meaning for a while now to make a logging macro that kicks in after the mantis-head and includes the date and character name.
Mine's set on a trigger for Welcome to the world of Zalanthas! (which is after the mantis head) and it records the date/time. For character name... that's all in the text file name itself.
July 16, 2008, 07:49:29 PM #9
I adopt five year olds and force them to remember everything. One child for every two hours of gameplay.
July 16, 2008, 07:54:11 PM #10
Quote from: Qzzrbl on July 16, 2008, 07:49:29 PM
I adopt five year olds and force them to remember everything. One child for every two hours of gameplay.

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July 16, 2008, 08:28:53 PM #11
Quote from: Mood on July 16, 2008, 06:49:34 PM
I use an axe.

Me too.  On Arm I usually forget to log.
July 16, 2008, 08:56:30 PM #12
 :D Man you guys come up with some funny stuff considering this post wasn't ment to attract any -at all-
Someone says: I imagine the festivities have worn you thin... Well good. I plan on leading patrols over the next month, that would turn even your shriveled manhoods into sturdy poles of destruction.
July 17, 2008, 08:55:58 AM #13
I used to use the log function on Gmud...now I just copy and paste chunks into notepad as I go.

Means that if I get -really- enthralled, I might miss the end of a log, but it means I can vaguely edit out the junk (craft spams, local echo, barrier spams, everyone else talking...*coughs*) as I go.
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July 17, 2008, 06:24:04 PM #14
I use atlantis, which is a client for mac os x.


It has a HUGE scrollback buffer. So I don't log anything, I just play.


If something interesting or buggy or dumb happens that I need proof of, I just tell it to log all scroll back and save to a file, then it logs scrollback and any other text, it's very nice.

I used to log every session, it adds up quick.. most of my logs are .rtf format are are at least 1MB in size.
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July 17, 2008, 06:27:27 PM #15
Quote from: cyberpatrol_735 on July 17, 2008, 06:24:04 PM
most of my logs are .rtf format

This strikes me as very silly.
There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men. -George Eliot
September 07, 2008, 08:19:29 PM #16
I always mess up logs cause of zMud. There should be a way to Save Buffer and Append to Log in one step. I always miss some stuff in between my buffer and when I started appending.
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September 07, 2008, 08:38:04 PM #17
I automatically log every session in a notepad doc. Doesn't take up too much space, generally.
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September 07, 2008, 09:20:39 PM #18
September 07, 2008, 09:22:55 PM #19
Portal has a 'log incoming text to file' option.  The boring part is editing out the movement spam so it gets down to the good parts.  But if I try to manually log, I miss stuff, so ah well.
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September 09, 2008, 12:35:56 AM #20
Almost never and I regret it.
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