I was killed yesterday and I didn't realized until I looked at the log afterwards that the reason I wasn't able to move was that I was being slept repeatedly. I just can't process all the messages flying by. And the other day I was teleported to by a enemy, with people telling me to move, and I didn't notice, even though I highlight the teleport message. There was a lot going on in the room and I mentally blotted it out to focus on the thing I needed to be doing; it was just too much input. I know other people handle that stuff fine, but my brain doesn't seem to do it.

Anyway. I suspect gagging could help me a lot. What do you gag and why? I've been reluctant to turn on obliviousness because I don't want to hide something my system uses.

Clotting, cause with high bleeding I can spam my entire screen.

Clotting, yeah. Also, OBLIVIOUSNESS ON works wonders

How exactly does Obliviousness On work? It keeps you from seeing all the things everyone else is doing? Including the person you're fighting with? Or does the fact that you're fighting with them mean they're exempt?

My system of gags is large and always growing. There is so much not-needed information in there, like you eat a sparkleberry and it gives you the message that it worked, you might trigger it, but do you really need to see that message yourself? I could go on.

And really, my favorite thing about mudlet, hands down, is that it handles gags much better than zMUD or cMUD. Those programs delete the line but your buffer still scrolls a prompt, and if you delete the prompt it scrolls a black line when there's a gag. With mudlet gags, whatever you gagged is just straight up gone, so most of my gags do that line and the prompt that comes after it.

I typically gag my own attacks, cures and balance regains and just have the afflction that was delivered or whether it was a miss/parry etc. That lets me focus on what my opponent is doing.

Instead of completely gagging things, I colour them black on black. That way they don't get in my way at the time, but when I'm going over logs I can see everything that happened.

I totally misinterpreted the topic of this thread

Obliviousness means you don't see anything that doesn't affect you. You can also target something which means you can see everything that person does and everything that is done to them.

In addition to the gags, some highlights and echos are just as important for drawing attention to the important stuff, with liberal use of colors. Just don't go overboard with them or you can recreate all the spam you just got rid of.

If you have a combat/coven clan it helps to capture the conversation in some miniwindow so you can see targets as they're being called or when people are being toadcursed or whatever.

Apparently some people seem to gag things that annoy them like vote prompts as well but they don't bother me.

I don't gag anything, but I use a lot of #echo commands in cmud. For instance:




On a side note, it used to just be one echo for this... but after dying to it while domothing, after being explicitly told not to, and thus killing myself and my aegiser... decided I needed it.

I also don't gag anything, but I have a separate window above my main screen where all highlights go into. I really don't look at anything but that when fighting.

I don't gag a lot, just use echos to see the important stuff and even then you don't have to read those. Just make your echos unique enough that you can just glance at them and know what is happening.

EDIT: Ninja'd oh well.

I prefer highlights for some things instead of echoes- I highlight my target eating earwort, faeleaf, and horehound in bright orange, as well as deathsong stages, balance recovery, eating my own earwort, my song ending, refraining, etc.

Basically, highlights and echoes are the way to go. Bright colours that are unique, or relatively unique, help out, as does having your CONFIG COLOUR for different aethers (SEG, CT, etc) bright and vibrant.