Re: Misc Thoughts / Ideas

From: James Turner (turnerjh@XTN.NET)
Date: 04/29/98


JWoodsIII <JWoodsIII@AOL.COM> writes:

> So set it to something like every 5th command. If they have a F key set up to
> do more than 3 it's probably just as bad as a trigger. Your choice...but it
> works fine in Federation. People do indeed die, and then learn not to do it
> anymore. You might not even have to do it by number...just set the amount of
> stuff the buffer can hold to a lower number and voila. Dropped commands.

This breaks a long-standing tradition in muds that if you type a
command then the mud responds to it.  Ignoring commands isn't a very
player-friendly way of handling other problems.  Like cutting
someone's fingers off because they don't use tissue paper ;)

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James Turner               turnerjh@xtn.net
                           http://www.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/~turnerj1/


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