What is meant by special smirks?

Quote from: nessalin on November 11, 2016, 03:46:45 PM
What is meant by special smirks?

When someone dodged your wrist-razor attack back in the day, you'd see something like "soandso smirks as he sidesteps your slice."


A brown carru stalks back a few steps and ferociously charges towards a war beetle.
A brown carru slams into a war beetle but is sent sprawling.
A war beetle rears back as it is slammed by a brown carru, throwing you off!
A war beetle smirks, then cleans its antennae.
A war beetle says in beetlish-accented sirihish:
   "That's what I thought."


Quote from: Riev on October 21, 2016, 02:03:51 PM
To this day, I love the "feature" that some agro creatures will target your mount first. SO GOOD.

I can only think of 1 set of creatures who do this in 1 spot in the game world.  I wish it was far more common, or at least the chance for it happening was.

Quote from: perfecto on December 29, 2016, 07:07:37 AM

Quote from: Riev on October 21, 2016, 02:03:51 PM
To this day, I love the "feature" that some agro creatures will target your mount first. SO GOOD.

I can only think of 1 set of creatures who do this in 1 spot in the game world.  I wish it was far more common, or at least the chance for it happening was.

The reason they don't is that war beetles and inix are vicious as hell.

If common aggro critters aggro'ed on your mount, your mount would utterly fucking destroy them.  The obvious play, then, would be to -intentionally- get your mount aggro'ed on by things you'd have difficulty killing yourself.  Also, warriors and rangers both branch very useful stuff from 'rescue,' so that provides another huge incentive to try to get your mount attacked.

Quote from: Synthesis on December 29, 2016, 11:21:37 AM

Quote from: perfecto on December 29, 2016, 07:07:37 AM

Quote from: Riev on October 21, 2016, 02:03:51 PM
To this day, I love the "feature" that some agro creatures will target your mount first. SO GOOD.

I can only think of 1 set of creatures who do this in 1 spot in the game world.  I wish it was far more common, or at least the chance for it happening was.

The reason they don't is that war beetles and inix are vicious as hell.

If common aggro critters aggro'ed on your mount, your mount would utterly fucking destroy them.  The obvious play, then, would be to -intentionally- get your mount aggro'ed on by things you'd have difficulty killing yourself.  Also, warriors and rangers both branch very useful stuff from 'rescue,' so that provides another huge incentive to try to get your mount attacked.

It seems like it would make sense for creatures who wouldn't give a shit at all though, like your mekillots, ankhegs, saltworms, and maybe even some kryl variants. If both you and your Inix are snack status it only makes sense it'd be an even toss up.

Quote from: Synthesis on November 11, 2016, 03:52:57 PM

Quote from: nessalin on November 11, 2016, 03:46:45 PM
What is meant by special smirks?

When someone dodged your wrist-razor attack back in the day, you'd see something like "soandso smirks as he sidesteps your slice."

I can't resist the urge to ask.. What's the successful rescue echo? Does it end with "Banzai!"?

A long time ago, if I recall correctly, it was "You charge into the fight.  Banzai!"  I may be thinking of another MUD, though.

Currently, the rescuer sees "You charge into the fight!"

For the rescued, it's something like "so-and-so darts in front of you and knocks you out of the way!"

Quote from: Synthesis on December 30, 2016, 11:09:47 AM
A long time ago, if I recall correctly, it was "You charge into the fight.  Banzai!"  I may be thinking of another MUD, though.

Currently, the rescuer sees "You charge into the fight!"

For the rescued, it's something like "so-and-so darts in front of you and knocks you out of the way!"

It may be any MUD starting off from stock Diku code..