Description issues.

[mar...@openstream.ch]

I've quite some issues altering descriptions.

1. There's a bucket holding a key in my realm. While the bucket is displayed with it's proper hand-written description, the same cannot be said about the key.
Rather than saying "Inside the bucket, you find a key. Having been hidden inside a bucket full of grossly decomposed fish, the key not only smells rather weird but also tastes like ...fish." it refers to it as "There's a stinking key inside the bucket".

I think I once faced the same issue in offline Inform 7 but can't, for the life of me, figure out how it was solved.

2. I'd like players referring to me under a different name. Is there any rule that will change my display name to something else?

[Jesse McGrew]

On Tuesday, January 1, 2013 12:46:37 PM UTC-8, mar...@openstream.ch wrote:

I've quite some issues altering descriptions.

1. There's a bucket holding a key in my realm. While the bucket is displayed with it's proper hand-written description, the same cannot be said about the key.
Rather than saying "Inside the bucket, you find a key. Having been hidden inside a bucket full of grossly decomposed fish, the key not only smells rather weird but also tastes like ...fish." it refers to it as "There's a stinking key inside the bucket".

I think I once faced the same issue in offline Inform 7 but can't, for the life of me, figure out how it was solved.

When do you want this description to appear? To change what happens when you examine the bucket, I think you either need an "instead of examining the bucket" rule or to replace the "examine containers" rule.

BTW, for questions that aren't Guncho-specific, ifMUD or the intfiction.org forums are more likely to get a quick and correct answer.

 

2. I'd like players referring to me under a different name. Is there any rule that will change my display name to something else? 

Your realm can identify you by your mud-name property (which is your Guncho player name) and change the display or parsing appropriately. Something like:

Definition: a PC is royal if the mud-name of it is "yourname".

Rule for printing the name of a royal PC: say "othername".

Understand "othername" as a PC when the item described is royal.

vw