Those are just different ways of representing the escape character. Decimal, octal, and hex. I thought that lua used the \nnn for octal. But \x1b should definitely work, the x specifies it's the hex representation. If you look here www.asciitab…
\033 is the escape character that is being shown as the left arrow. Followed by a bracket which you escape with % in the pattern because it's a special character. Then any character zero or many tim…
Mudbot is written in C, as are it's modules which are compiled as DLLs. DLLs are compiled code which can be loaded by other programs to execute functions contained within. Compiling a DLL versus an EXE is mainly …
I realize I'm responding to a post several months old but it's still relevant,
Any time you see the message "Unable to serve the module with function", it means that the version of Mudbot you're using doesn't have those functions. The lat…
The gmcp vitals message is sent once every prompt. Aetolia might also send it at the top of the paragraph, I don't remember. But anyhow, the vitals message has already been processed by the time cmud processes either one of those two messages for tr…
Armor as a means to increase physical audits is outright flavor. It's meant to spice things up, and is obviously not supposed to be an indicator of how tanky a class is or isn't. It really could just be removed entirely, because no, there's no reaso…
Trying to get back into finishing my schooling. But, I have ADD to the point where it makes it very hard to sit down and study, and I am the poster child of disorganized. I have medical records of my 8+ years of treatment from a psychiatrist, and ha…
I dunno about just jumping someone over it. Mebbe something along the lines of publicly challenging them, as a way of proving the might of a vampire, then ridiculing the living as weak and feeble, if they lose/decline.
As stated, illusions are no longer really a part of combat, so that's not a big boon anymore. Heatsight covers seeing players that are hidden, and alertness covers seeing any hidden movement. Perhaps the only meaningful benefit of the lifevision mas…
Going to agree with Haven here again and his suggestion to make being in any safe zone start a countdown timer which is paused upon leaving. I don't even see a reason for there to be any way to increase the timer once you're out of the zone, except …