Too lazy to type finger? Mortals are so lazy they have wizards coding same
shit but a few letters shorter for them?

Would save cpu, perhaps? Less spam? What's wrong with a rich set of commands?

As an admin on another mud I guarantee you, every new command brings you new
bugs to fix and new things mortals can abuse. Shortly put, the more commands
you have, the more admins have to maintain.

Cheers,
-T

Believe it or not, I've been mud admin myself
Never stopped me from making new commands though...

I should probably emphasize your words "I've been", meaning you're not
maintaining your code anymore (never had?).. Its easy to code stuff, but
maintaining them for years and years is another story.


Cheers,
-T

Really? Is that so? *gasp*

You can always code that command yourself with your favourite programming
language and add that command into zmud/tf. Just parse the information what
you get from www.bat.org (http://www.bat.org/help/finger.php?str=<player name
goes here>)

Jumbo

Ok, done all that (in my favourite programming language COBOL, actually I FTP
the finger info to a mainframe and do all processing there, then FTP the
lvl-info back to my PC). Everybody happy now and moving on to comment on
someone elses ideas?

mainframe. ftp. that's so last millennium.

Trust me, they still run and they will run for quite some time.
(and I'm not sarcastic now)

Yeah. And I'm ashamed that I forgot to make a sarcastic comment about cobol.
It's so 1970's.
,)

Nerds.

'nerds' is a command-alias to 'who'.

Nope, I am simply a master of the glaringly obvious and felt the need to point
it out, considering the fact that this is bs, and I am a merch, and this reinc
is boring the living shit out of me.

suicide-restore abuser!

Like any of you judgemental fuckers wouldn't have at least asked after a few
months? Not to mention NONE of you know anything about what happened or why
it was done. So why don't you kiss my ass until you have all the facts, eh?

3. die + new body from friend
4. if (exp>0) goto 3
5. suicide
6. restore to point prior 1.

And by "common knowledge" I mean this is that you cannot expect people to
bother to check from you since everyone seems to "know" this for sure. I don't
know if it is true but this is so widespread no-one even cares.

Personally, I think it would anyways be much better that instead of removing
the suicided characters change the finger info to "...was a level..." and "He
committed suicide on ..." and change the login to say "Suicided characters
cannot login".

But anyways - any mostly male nerd populated realm can modify the mastercard
commercial: "Some things are priceless ... and for everything else there's
boobs"

On the other hand, ignoring sarcasms which doesn't end with a '' is very
2005.

mainframe and ftp is all good, but COBOL on the other hand...

On the another hand, you have different fingers.. Talking about
fingers...if we get back from this offtopic...why don't you actually use
'finger' instead of your mainframes and COBOLs that have been planned for
goblins to code

hey! next thing you know you'll start telling us that capital I is not good
for counters!

remember fortran (and think about what spanish inquisition did to the
heretics)

(and yes, global I)

---
Blux

FYI: cobol compilers don't care about upper/lower case.
Cool, eh?

Actually I did that with C# and zMUD. Wasn't so hard and works nicely.

Jumbo

Wow, I thought I was the only one with access to a real mainframe