Hi, Some days ago, we had an upset player, who complained about a feature that we have implemented. To 'simulate' a player's drunkness-level he does silly stuff, and his language becomes scrambled. Now, the player that complained is an autist (I'm no psychology expert, but the movie "Rainman" should give a good idea). Everytime drunkscrambling appeared, the player tried to figure out it's meaning, but couldn't. The player got a severe headache, and thoughts were circling around the words that couldn't be deceiphered. Our coders solved the problem by implementing a new affection CLEAR_TONGUES and an appropriate spell. What I wanted to point out is, that you have some kind of language scrambling in your code, may it be to simulate drunkness, or various races, please always leave a 'backdoor' for clear understanding of the language, because such players shouldn't be left out from our Mudding Community. Regards, Chris -- /----------------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Christian Loth | Meet me as the Shadowdancer in the | | Shadowdancer@unidui.uni-duisburg.de | REALM OF MAGIC | | http://www.geocities.com/Area51/ | telnet realm.zfn.uni-bremen.de 4000 | | Cavern/4593 | http://realm.zfn.uni-bremen.de/ | | "The road goes ever on and on!" - Bilbo Baggins | \----------------------------------------------------------------------------/ +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | | http://democracy.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list-faq.html | +------------------------------------------------------------+
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