On Tuesday, December 03, 1996 10:27 AM, Daniel Koepke[SMTP:dkoepke@california.com] wrote: >On Tue, 3 Dec 1996, Brian Guilbault wrote: > < SNIP: Regarding tanking characters again: > >> Regarding the afk thread. I just have a simple afk toggle which sets a >> flag in who and tells people telling the char that they are afk and might >> not get this. The tell still goes through though. >> >> If any of you have ever seen Ebon Mists afk, you have seen an impressive >> command (grats Hades :-) ) You can specify an argument like "afk smoking >> a ciggarette". Then when someones tells to you, they see "Dante is afk >> smoking a ciggarette". Then when you come back and type something, you >> get a list page_string'd to you with all of the messages, who they were >> from, and what time they came through. Pretty impressive. > >Not really. I did the same thing a long time ago (Nov. 1995 I guess). >It's actually quite easy. :) Well as a pure usability addition, with no 'gaming' value; It's nice to see such a well executed idea. It is impressive in that regard, if not from a coding difficulty standpoint. (two pointers on each char I presume.. malloced to fit and destroyed when done; which are used when a prf_flag is toggled, and for reporting purposes. (who, tell-reply)) Hmm. I may just add that.. thanks for the idea. *grin* --Mallory -- http://www.polarnet.com/Users/gbarnett/ -- telnet://mud.polarnet.com 4000 -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | | http://cspo.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list_faq.html | +-----------------------------------------------------------+
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