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Re: Thank you!

THANK YOU WHOEVER FIXED/CHANGED IT SO YOU CAN CONCEAL COSMETIC TATTOOS AGAIN TY TY TY TY TY

Re: Mildly Irritating: Aetolia's Pet Peeves

I don't like vagueposting, but I also don't think the specifics of this situation merit sharing, especially as I am trusting that the people involved were not doing this on purpose and just made a mistake. I think, however, it still has value as a pet peeve (and a general guideline, frankly) to post here. Please do not ask me for more details as I find the situation personally and particularly gross and have no interest in being a gossip about it.

Please, please, p l e a s e for the love of all the gods ever worshipped by humanity, do not ambush me (or other people) with specific real life RP themes either in private without checking in OOC first, or in public channels accessible by many people. I have dealt with some of these things IRL and there is no faster way to ruin my day than to bring them up in RP, where I am trying to enjoy myself by pretending to be an angry and stupid pointy-eared elf, and I am sure that is the case for many other people. I do not care what you do in private RP with other consenting adults. Please just think twice before doing or sharing that with people who you've not checked in with OOC.

Eaku

Re: Small Ideas - AIN'T NO COMBAT THREAD

Czc finally commenting on this like

Tetchta

Re: Drawings of Aetolia

It is not a drawing but it is art! Made by a friend who will announce themselves when they are ready for this kind of work. I think they want more practice first

Ayastia

Re: Small Ideas - AIN'T NO COMBAT THREAD

Can we please get the city info back in the API? Most of us use name highlighters and it just makes it so much more of a pain to upkeep them. I think just having the city and still hiding the rest strikes a better balance between immersion and QoL.

Czcibor

Announce post #3222: Languages in emotes

9/23/2021 at 13:03
Razmael, the Synthesist
Everyone
Languages in emotes

Hey folks,

I've rewritten emote code from the ground up in order to make an entirely new feature possible: languages! You can now insert a language code into an emote following the format of: [action|language|text]

Here's a breakdown of what that means.
Action: The type of action your speech is. E.g. yelling, speaking. You can give this multiple words, but it's best to keep it simple.
Language: The language you want to speak. You must know the language, of course.
Text: The speech being said in the language.

For those who understand the language, the 'action' text will have ', in Minotaur,' appended to it. For those that don't understand, it'll have 'something in an unknown language' appended instead.

Here's a quick example to better showcase how it works.

Input:
emote strikes a pose, [uttering|minotaur|Check out these biceps]

Output to people who speak the language:
Razmael strikes a pose, uttering, in Minotaur, "Check out these biceps."

Output to people that don't speak the language:
Razmael strikes a pose, uttering something in an unknown language.

A few other changes and fixes that resulted from this rewrite:
- Speech in emotes now accounts for speech modifiers (e.g. drunkeness, lobanberries, and so on).
- Golems can no longer see and report on phased emotes.
- The next letter following a sentence-ending punctuation will now be uppercased. This includes when you start a sentence with a token like 'blah blah. $keroc_he'.
- You can now use the ^ self token with gender tokens. e.g. ^_him ^_she ^_his and it'll correctly sub in with your current pronouns.
- You can now use the @ item/mob token with gender tokens. e.g. @qeddwyn_him and it'll correctly sub in with the current pronouns for that NPC.
- Support for a new token - $person_himself/herself/themself - which translates to the proper 'self' term for the person's gender. e.g. himself, herself, themself, itself.
- Phased players can now target unphased players with an emote - though, of course, the unphased player won't see the emote at all. For your own ease of mind, the code will report to you if someone you targetted didn't see anything.

Also, since there was a full rewrite of emote code, this is a good time to remind you all about the PREVIEW command that lets you preview how an emote appears before sending it. You use it as PREVIEW EMOTE <your emote>. Just in case the old emote system had some strange things you had workarounds for that may not work in the new code, or show up differently.

Penned by my hand on Tisday, the 3rd of Haernos, in the year 497 MA.

Autoposter

Re: Quotes & Misquotes: Falling Off of Bridges

You gag a bit as Gribbit's stink wafts over you.
Lenoriel gives a moist washrag to Gribbit.
A frown wrinkles Gribbit's brow as he articulates a "Hrm...."
Gribbit croaks out, "What is this?"
Lenoriel Ali'vani says, "Simply 'scrub' with it, and you will be less... aromatic."
Gribbit croaks out, "I smell like victory."
You giggle happily at Gribbit.
Lenoriel wrinkles her nose in distaste.
You gag a bit as Gribbit's stink wafts over you.
Lenoriel Ali'vani says, "That sort of victory is best left unshared, I think."
Lenoriel grins mischievously at Gribbit.
Gribbit croaks out, "Fine. But I feel you are jealous."

Reave

Re: We Removed Novices from Guilds - Lets Talk About That

As a 'returning newbie' it's very frustrating to have to bash / quest 31 levels (it usually takes me 2-3 hours...) just to see what my inbound Guild's roleplay, structure, and vibe is going to be like. If it's super quiet unless I get proactive I want to know that. If I'm instantly getting super involved by people intent on roping me in, I want to know that. If it's a lonelier Guild and I'm going to spend a lot of time getting 'self-made' without guidance, I want to know that.

If it's a gritty dark army where getting beheaded as a common reprimand, I definitely want to know that before 31 levels of bashing.

Some way to talk to my prospective Guild and read their docs would be very appreciated.

Adelia

Re: Useful QoL Code

With all the different timezones people are in, I've written this up to help plan for meetings and such. I've also added the IC weekdays, to make it easier to discuss time in an IC way, rather than resorting to constantly switching to OOC. To me it sounds so much better to say something like "I think I have time next Quensday, if that would be alright with you?" instead of shooting someone an OOC message saying "I'll be around evening my time tomorrow. That's GMT +2" and let the other person figure out when that is for them.

Using the simple alias TIMEZONES will show something like this:

You can also compare two specific timezones if you want to. Then you type TIMEZONES and get something like this:

The colors correspond to this general schedule:
midnight_blue: general sleeping hours
amaranth: early morning, but possibly awake
olive: normal work hours
green: after work, open for game-time!
teal: closing in on bedtime, but could work

Alias:

^timezones(?: (\w+) (\w+))?$

local tz1 = matches[2]
local tz2 = matches[3]

if tz1 ~= nil then
  cecho("\nWeekdays <mauve>GOSDAY      CLOSDAY     TISDAY      FALSDAY     QUENSDAY    KINDAY     ")

if tz1 == "kiwi" or tz2 == "kiwi" then
  cecho("\nKIWI     <olive>12 13 14 15 16 17 <green>18 19 20 21 22 <teal>23 <midnight_blue>00 01 02 03 04 05 <amaranth>06 07 <olive>08 09 10 11")
end

if tz1 == "eoz" or tz2 == "eoz" then
  cecho("\nEAST OZ  <olive>10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 <green>18 19 20 21 22 <teal>23 <midnight_blue>00 01 02 03 04 05 <amaranth>06 07 <olive>08 09")
end

if tz1 == "woz" or tz2 == "woz" then
  cecho("\nASIA/OZ  <olive>08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 <green>18 19 20 21 22 <teal>23 <midnight_blue>00 01 02 03 04 05 <amaranth>06 07") 
end

if tz1 == "wasia" or tz2 == "wasia" then
  cecho("\nW. ASIA  <midnight_blue>05 <amaranth>06 07 <olive>08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 <green>18 19 20 21 22 <teal>23 <midnight_blue>00 01 02 03 04")
end

if tz1 == "eet" or tz2 == "eet" then
  cecho("\nEU +2    <midnight_blue>02 03 04 05 <amaranth>06 07 <olive>08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 <green>18 19 20 21 22 <teal>23 <midnight_blue>00 01")
end

if tz1 == "cet" or tz2 == "cet" then
  cecho("\nEUROPE   <midnight_blue>01 02 03 04 05 <amaranth>06 07 <olive>08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 <green>18 19 20 21 22 <teal>23 <midnight_blue>00")
end

if tz1 == "gmt" or tz2 == "gmt" then
  cecho("\nEU GMT   <midnight_blue>00 01 02 03 04 05 <amaranth>06 07 <olive>08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 <green>18 19 20 21 22 <teal>23")
end

if tz1 == "pst" or tz2 == "pst" then
  cecho("\nUS PST   <olive>16 17 <green>18 19 20 21 22 <teal>23 <midnight_blue>00 01 02 03 04 05 <amaranth>06 07 <olive>08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15")
end

if tz1 == "cst" or tz2 == "cst" then
  cecho("\nUS CST   <green>18 19 20 21 22 <teal>23 <midnight_blue>00 01 02 03 04 05 <amaranth>06 07 <olive>08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17")
end

if tz1 == "est" or tz2 == "est" then
  cecho("\nUS EST   <green>19 20 21 22 <teal>23 <midnight_blue>00 01 02 03 04 05 <amaranth>06 07 <olive>08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 <green>18") 
end

elseif tz1 ~= nil and tz2 == nil then
  cecho("\n")
end

if tz1 == nil and tz2 == nil then
  cecho("\nWeekdays <mauve>GOSDAY      CLOSDAY     TISDAY      FALSDAY     QUENSDAY    KINDAY     ")
  cecho("\nPST US   <olive>16 17 <green>18 19 20 21 22 <teal>23 <midnight_blue>00 01 02 03 04 05 <amaranth>06 07 <olive>08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15")
  cecho("\nCST US   <green>18 19 20 21 22 <teal>23 <midnight_blue>00 01 02 03 04 05 <amaranth>06 07 <olive>08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17")
  cecho("\nEST US   <green>19 20 21 22 <teal>23 <midnight_blue>00 01 02 03 04 05 <amaranth>06 07 <olive>08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 <green>18") 
  cecho("\nGMT EU   <midnight_blue>00 01 02 03 04 05 <amaranth>06 07 <olive>08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 <green>18 19 20 21 22 <teal>23")
  cecho("\nCET EU   <midnight_blue>01 02 03 04 05 <amaranth>06 07 <olive>08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 <green>18 19 20 21 22 <teal>23 <midnight_blue>00")
  cecho("\nEET EU   <midnight_blue>02 03 04 05 <amaranth>06 07 <olive>08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 <green>18 19 20 21 22 <teal>23 <midnight_blue>00 01")
  cecho("\nW.ASIA   <midnight_blue>05 <amaranth>06 07 <olive>08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 <green>18 19 20 21 22 <teal>23 <midnight_blue>00 01 02 03 04")
  cecho("\nW.OZ     <olive>08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 <green>18 19 20 21 22 <teal>23 <midnight_blue>00 01 02 03 04 05 <amaranth>06 07") 
  cecho("\nE.OZ     <olive>10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 <green>18 19 20 21 22 <teal>23 <midnight_blue>00 01 02 03 04 05 <amaranth>06 07 <olive>08 09")
  cecho("\nKIWI     <olive>12 13 14 15 16 17 <green>18 19 20 21 22 <teal>23 <midnight_blue>00 01 02 03 04 05 <amaranth>06 07 <olive>08 09 10 11")
end

Hope you like and enjoy your future IC planning!

Edited to fix timezone issues

Teani

Back to real life.

Got a new job today, start next week. Between that, daughter in multiple dance classes. Son taking guitar lessons and everything else. It is time for me to go away for awhile. I want to thank everyone really. This year has had its up and downs in game, but overall it has been a lot of fun. I will try to pop in here and there to say hello. Good luck! Have fun!

Damonicus