Dulrik wrote:
help rules2
5. NO BOTS -- Because Shattered Kingdoms is a roleplaying mud, this
naturally precludes the usage of client program features, such as triggers,
to automate your character to take or respond to an action OR to prevent
yourself from being logged out. You may use triggers to modify how info is
presented to you, such as to highlight or gag text, but if you aren't at the
keyboard, your character must void out in the same amount of time as normal.
That seems pretty clear to me. It's exactly what I just said in my last two posts.
I really, really, really don't intend to make this a rules lawyering, hair-splitting, troll summoning discussion, but I want to try to make sure I communicate successfully here, so here goes an attempt.
Rule 5 suffers from a problem many rules suffer from. That problem is very bad writing. Communication is about making sure someone understands you; if someone misunderstands, it's generally thought to be the speaker's problem and responsibility from a communication perspective. It isn't about wrong and right, but it is about success and failure to communicate. Right now a lot of rules are written very horribly.
Rule 5 has no fewer than three appositive phrases and two comma splices in as many sentences. I don't know what more we could do to make two sentences so inaccessible. If you try to diagram them, it becomes unclear where certain prepositional phrases are even in operation.
Why not try more direct language? Don't be afraid to use periods. Even just putting it in standard order helps a lot:
Quote:
5. NO BOTS. This rule naturally forbids the usage of client program features, because Shattered Kingdoms is a roleplaying mud. These forbidden features include functions to automate your character, to respond to an action, or to prevent yourself from being logged out. You may use client program features to modify how information is displayed. These permitted features can include highlighting or gagging text. Your character must void out in the same amount of time as normal if you aren't at the keyboard.
Even then, I fail to see where setting an alias, but not entering it, counts as "reacting" to a situation. There's no "action" from the character at all. You would still, in fact, void out in the same amount of time as normal no matter what your "elemental" alias happened to be set to, whether it's "cast 'conjure elemental' fire" or "blink;blink;blink." Are you making the suggestions that it would count as automating your character despite the action not being, well, automatic?