Neat little things

[Riev]

Warning. Using 'exits' to determine the viable exits from your room takes stamina.

[RRiplash]

Warning. Using 'exits' to determine the viable exits from your room takes stamina.

I had completely forgot about that.

Good lookin out.

[musashi]

Warning. Using 'exits' to determine the viable exits from your room takes stamina.

I had completely forgot about that.

Good lookin out.

Only when your visibility is reduced however.

[jmordetsky]

I like to use a two line prompt.

[HP:%h/%H|STM:%v/%V|STN:%t/%T]\n[%A|%e|%O|%s|%w]\n\n

Makes it nice and neat.

[HP:96/99|STM:123/145|STN:84/99]
[unarmed|late afternoon|neutral|standing|walking]

And keeps it nicely spaced with the text scroll.

[HP:96/99|STM:123/145|STN:84/99]
[unarmed|late afternoon|neutral|standing|walking]

If that's what you like.

That prompt is the bomb diggity.

[original]

heh, looking at the above prompt makes mine seem sad now. %h/%v/%t %w %L>

[Spoon]

I like to use a two line prompt.

[HP:%h/%H|STM:%v/%V|STN:%t/%T]\n[%A|%e|%O|%s|%w]\n\n

Makes it nice and neat.

[HP:96/99|STM:123/145|STN:84/99]
[unarmed|late afternoon|neutral|standing|walking]

And keeps it nicely spaced with the text scroll.

[HP:96/99|STM:123/145|STN:84/99]
[unarmed|late afternoon|neutral|standing|walking]

If that's what you like.

That prompt is the bomb diggity.

"Yoink!"


Nice one.

[AmandaGreathouse]

I like to use a two line prompt.

[HP:%h/%H|STM:%v/%V|STN:%t/%T]\n[%A|%e|%O|%s|%w]\n\n

Makes it nice and neat.

[HP:96/99|STM:123/145|STN:84/99]
[unarmed|late afternoon|neutral|standing|walking]

And keeps it nicely spaced with the text scroll.

[HP:96/99|STM:123/145|STN:84/99]
[unarmed|late afternoon|neutral|standing|walking]

If that's what you like.

That prompt is the bomb diggity.

"Yoink!"


Nice one.

Thanks. I always 'want' to use an infobar, but it usually leads to me not paying enough attention to my pcs stun to keep them conscious.

Neat little things: 'land', and 'vis'.

[Kol]

I like to use a two line prompt.

[HP:%h/%H|STM:%v/%V|STN:%t/%T]\n[%A|%e|%O|%s|%w]\n\n

Makes it nice and neat.

[HP:96/99|STM:123/145|STN:84/99]
[unarmed|late afternoon|neutral|standing|walking]

And keeps it nicely spaced with the text scroll.

[HP:96/99|STM:123/145|STN:84/99]
[unarmed|late afternoon|neutral|standing|walking]

If that's what you like.

I love to keep mine a simple one liner.

Prompt HP%H/%h ST%t/%T MV%v/%v %n/%A/%w/%e >

HP 100/100 ST150/160 MV65/100 Amos/armed/walking/early morning >

Makes it easy to scan, and easy to keep track off

[RRiplash]

prompt      HP:%h/%H | STA:%v/%V | STN:%t/%T\n     %A | %e | %s | %w\n>

     HP:100/100 | STA:110/119 | STN:98/98
     unarmed | dawn | standing | walking
>

I like this way, because the stats stand out, but I can also ignore it when I need to, and just read what starts at the left.

[Agent Noun]

prompt      HP:%h/%H | STA:%v/%V | STN:%t/%T\n     %A | %e | %s | %w\n>

     HP:100/100 | STA:110/119 | STN:98/98
     unarmed | dawn | standing | walking
>

I like this way, because the stats stand out, but I can also ignore it when I need to, and just read what starts at the left.

I like the way you think. I'm now using something similar, though I'll admit I like brackets of some sort around my prompts. Mine's lookin' like this:

Code Select Expand

   [ Name | HP: 103/103 | MV: 113/121 | ST: 105/105 ]
   [ unarmed | standing | walking | early afternoon ]
>

[spawnloser]

I still prefer mine:

Code Select Expand

xxx/xxx xxx/xxx xxx/xxx standing-walking-sirihish-southern (late afternoon)
xxx-ldesc : stands here.>
...or to better describe it...

Code Select Expand

h/H s/S t/T position-speed-language-accent (time)
m-ldesc>
h is current hp with H being the max, s for stamina and t for stun.  m for current mana.  I don't need max mana in my prompt.  For non-magickers, remove the 'm-' at the beginning of the second line.

[Agent Noun]

My normal prompt, when I'm not experimenting with other ones, is a little something like this:

Code Select Expand

< %n | HP %h/%H | MV: %v/%V | ST: %t/%T | %o/%a | %e >

I usually don't have much of a problem remembering if I'm standing, sitting, walking, or running, but I imagine the instant I take one of those for granted, I'll wish they'd been in my prompt.

For mages:

Code Select Expand

< %n | HP %h/%H | MP: %m/%M | MV: %v/%V | ST: %t/%T | %o/%a | %e >

With a fake name and some numbers, that ends up lookin' a bit like:

Code Select Expand

< Amos | HP: 105/105 | MP: 97/97 | MV: 120/120 | ST: 108/108 | sirihish/southern | late afternoon >

I dunno. I dig it. It's aesthetically pleasing to me, I suppose.

[Pale Horse]

Code Select Expand

%h/%Hh, %m/%Mm, %v/%Vv, %t/%Tt>%o %a>%w>%s>%O>%e

Code Select Expand

105/105h, 120/120m, 237/237v, 133/133t>allundean tribal>running>standing>blood hungry>late morning

My standard prompt with mana being left out or included depending on if my character is a gicker or not, of course.

[tortall]

Enough about prompts. Go get MUSHclient and use the infobar. :-D

Neat little thing:

This has been mentioned before, but it was MANY pages ago. You can sit ON things. Certain bars, chests, and such.

[TheSandman]

Something that probably gets overlooked-

help faq 12

How common are the various guilds?
----------------------------------

   There are sixteen guilds in Armageddon currently.  These guilds are
listed, in approximate order of frequency, below (the most commonly
encountered guild is listed first).

Warriors:
   The guild of warriors is a typically honourable crowd, whose chief
pursuit is that of a good fight.

Rangers:
   Desert wanderers, demiwarriors, who have a keen sense of direction
and who spend much of their time hunting and travelling.

Pickpockets:
   Con artists, excellent thieves, who can as easily steal the sword
from your side as they can walk down the street.

Burglars:
   Experts at breaking-and-entering, who plunder the homes of the
wealthy or rob tombs of the long dead.

Assassins:
   Hired killers, masters of the first strike, who are able to deal
quick deadly blows from the shadows.

Merchants:
   Those that deal in every-day trade, who are much quicker to the
tongue, than a blade.

Templars:
   The warrior-priests of the city-states, who are the embodiment of
the law.

Water Elementalists:
   Spellcasters with the power over life and death, who are the most
respected and honoured among the mages.

Stone Elementalists:
   Solid, solitary, these mages are able to call up the very strength of
the earth for protection.

Wind Elementalists:
   Mages of the air, adept at moving unseen and travelling great
distances with the utterance of a spell.

Sun Elementalists:
   Deadly, fierce combat-mages whose magicks sear the very life from the
bones of their enemies.

Lightning Elementalists:
   Mages of lightning, able to maneuver the paths of energy in quick blasts.

Shadow Elementalists:
   Secretive, elusive, mages that use the shadows in their struggle against
Suk-krath.

Void Elementalists:
   Hated universally, elementalists of Nilaz strive to oppose all the
elements.

Psionicists:
   Mindbenders that are able to manipulate the Way to serve their designs.

Sorcerers:
   Life-draining mages who gamble away health for power in the pursuit
of mastery over magick.

[spicemustflow]

No way pickpockets are ahead of assassins.

[spawnloser]

No way pickpockets are ahead of assassins.

You'd be surprised how many nobles are pick-pockets.  Seriously.

[jhunter]

I'm kinda shocked to see assassins and burglars higher on the list than merchants. Seems really odd to me.

[Pale Horse]

I'm kinda shocked to see assassins and burglars higher on the list than merchants. Seems really odd to me.

Seems to me as if the list is taking into account all those VNPCs who would fit into said guild, had they any.  There are probably a lot more Burglars, Assassins, Pick-pockets, etc, than there are Merchants..at least of the sort I think it's referencing.  The types that travel from city to city, town to town.  As for your city-bound, shop keeper type merchants..well, I couldn't really say, one way or the other.

[jcarter]

I'm kinda shocked to see assassins and burglars higher on the list than merchants. Seems really odd to me.

Seems to me as if the list is taking into account all those VNPCs who would fit into said guild, had they any.  There are probably a lot more Burglars, Assassins, Pick-pockets, etc, than there are Merchants..at least of the sort I think it's referencing.  The types that travel from city to city, town to town.  As for your city-bound, shop keeper type merchants..well, I couldn't really say, one way or the other.

This, I think, is pretty accurate. I believe it's a measure of VNPCs/population demographics as a whole. I don't believe it refers necessarily to someone's occupation either as much as what they excel at. That is, an unskilled laborer who constantly moves bricks all day, goes to the bar, and gets into fights more identifies with the warrior guild. The waiter at whatever high-end restaurant, who needs to be unseen and unheard, identifies closer to burglar or pickpocket. I could easily see shopkeepers fitting into pickpocket/burglar skillsets just due to the fact that they may be the sellers and not the actual crafters themselves. The list doesn't come out and say exactly how much of each though. There could be fifty psionicists to every one sorcerer, or fifty to forty-nine.

It's kind of fun going back and reading over the helpfiles again every once in a while. I really never grasped just how much certain docs gave away until I'd seen things in game and looked them over again.

[janeshephard]

Wait, there are more templars than elementalists? That looks wrong.

We must have a lot of low play time templars. That's the only explanation.

[Lizzie]

Jane you're discounting all those NPC templars who you see -frequently- whenever you walk around the cities. I can think of five uniquely sdesc'ed templar NPCs that hang around somewhere between the Gaj and Red's Retreat, alone. Then there's the half-dozen or more in the Nakki bazaar, plus the waterseller chick, plus the other half-dozen or so who walk around between Trader's and the Tor estate..

and that's just Allanak.

[jcarter]

It's not commenting at all on number of templars vs combined number of all elementalists. What it's saying is that there are more templars than Vivaduans. There are more templars than Rukkians, and so on.

It's also, as far as I know, a list of the demographics including virtual people. Basically, if every player in the game played Vivaduans and outnumbered all the PC and NPC templars in game, the list would still likely remain the same. It's just a breakdown of the demographics of the entire population.

[tortall]

Guys, this is not a discussion thread. If you want to discuss something here please take it to Random Arm thoughts. The neat little things get lost in this thread often enough without other chatter going on. Thanks. :-)


Neat little thing:

brief

brief room, brief combat, ect. Brief is AMAZING. Just uh.... Don't turn on brief room when you're in the wilderness. You might miss a hole.....

[Xagon]

Contrary, I have brief room on WHILE I'm in the wilderness. You might miss the bahamet.