Yes, but blocking emotes when a player is silenced isn't a great
solution either.
emote waves his hands frantically at the beast sneaking up behind you!
would be a highly legit, role-playing type emote to use when silenced.
The important thing, as Nathan notes, is that it blocks spell casting.
There will always be other ways around communicating, no matter what
you do :P
>----------
>From: Davies, Nathan[SMTP:DaviesN@AECL.CA]
>Sent: Monday, November 24, 1997 9:51 AM
>To: CIRCLE@POST.QUEENSU.CA
>Subject: Re: Silence
>
>I think he meant it was magic blocking...not total silence...but a check
>in emote to see if your silenced isn't difficult...overlooking is easy
>however...
>
>>Nathan Davies,
>>
>>> Implemented a silence spell, or a 10 tick magic block if you will.
>>> Kinda long and I'm not sure everyone would care for it, so if you
>>> want it send me a private email and I'll be more than happy to send
>>
>>I haven't seen the code, but something that I missed when coding silence
>>and something that I've seen on three or four other MUD was when silenced
>>a player could still do:
>>emote says, 'Hi.'
>>
>>I had to code in the block for emote as well as the rest of the comm
>>channels. I hated doing it, but I had to to keep players from "cheating".
>
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