Hi guys,

I remember in another game the commands SING would look for either commas or semicolons and add a line break. For instance.

Sing I surely Love Lusternia, It doesn't give me a hernia, I love the basin land, isn't it oh so grand.

Would appear

Character sings:
"I surely love Lusternia
It doesn't give me a hernia,
I love the basin land,
isn't it oh so grand."

I'd love to see SING and maybe CHANT or RECITE do this. It just reads better than sticking them all together. The mind likes it formatted like that.

Now, I know what some of you are thinking, there is a possible "spam" drawback if somebody does this in combat.

Well, we could make it easy to ignore, maybe let the player configure if singing is formatted in stanzas or just as one string. Or we could have an equilibrium cost to singing, more for each line sung, which would be a little realistic.

Adding a HIGH equilibrium cost (10 seconds?) would make it much less abusable. Any time you can send a new line, you can do nearly perfect illusions.

You could use that to really destroy a good amount of systems out there.

sing .,You are:, stupid.,demented., paralysed., bound in ropes., suffering from a fractured skull.

Even with a 10 eq time, that'd be nasty. Just sing it one line at a time.

Hey that's a cool idea. Maybe make it so you cannot use it during combat?

I didn't even think about the trigger crap.

Maybe have something that always appears in front of each line, to help with scripts, like a quote mark for each line. For instance

"Mary Had a Little Lamb;
"His Fleece was white as snow;
"And anywhere that Mary Went;
"The Lamb was sure to go;

Something so it wouldn't be an illusion.

Do triggers detect colors. Maybe make sure it always comes up in the detfault says color?

They can, if you bother to code them that way. 90% of people don't. Also, if you have diag triggers without both anchoring them and not activating until you actually send the diag command, you deserve what you get.

Phred -

I like it! I've been a bard on other MUDs, and trying to sing or recite line by line is somewhat of a spammy mess. Don't want to mess with anyone's systems though, so I like the stanza formating idea - each line starting with " or something.

And Sylphas, since I have no idea what you are talking about with diag triggers, I guess I deserve what I get too! Ha!

I have diag triggers without both anchoring them and not activating them until I actually send the diag command.

(What is anchoring? I might be able to do it. #groupon and #groupoff are buggy on Nexus so I can't use them yet, but I will be able to in future.)

Anchoring is triggering only on the start/end of lines, so you can't trigger on Sylphas says, "You are paralysed and cannot do that."

Ohh, I can do that. Good point.