Category  Rangers -- The Ranger's Glade (19)
Topic     Ranger Signaling (11)
Message   Signaling (349)
By        DR-TREVERI@PLAY.NET
On        Jun 27, 1999 at 14:51

Ok, understand something. If Rangers can only see the actions and not the
words, we start to run into a problem because the text can be very large.
Each word can require up to 5 or 6 words to explain what they are doing
action wise...so a 5 or 6 word phrase can quickly turn into a 30 to 40 word
explanation.

Also, at this time, there's no mechanism in place to allow you to choose. Is
it possible in the future? Yeah, but it will have low priority and you know
what that means. So let's do what we can now, realizing some of use may never
see phase two. LOL!

Also...you will be able to reference a character, creature, or object in the
same room with you (search out for a match in that order). But you will not
be able to reference an item in an inventory...including your own, or for
example something that is in something else on the ground. To try and do that
would just be miserably slow.

And there will be certain words like 'Tolle', 'Kalika', 'Langenfirth' that we
will need to come up with jestures for (G rated please)...and that's
something we can decide right here in this topic.

And yes, there will be a list of the words...and yes I could probably set up
something that required to you to learn the words from your Guild Masters,
but I'll be honest, that will take signaling off the table for "soon" release
and put it back in the priority queue because doing that kind of coding would
take a week or better of my time. It would also require that each word be
ranked, and thus require that each word be check to see if you know it, which
in turn takes more resources, and in the end, reduces how big the list of
words can be.

And there's another question I need you guys to answer....if you use a word
that is not recognized by the system, do you want the system to point out the
word to you and abort the signal, or would you rather it just ignored that
word and parsed the rest of the message?

As for the things you're asking for...it's up to you guys...if you want these
things, I'll table it for now and reprioritize it.

Trev