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Announce News Post #2960

Movement commands

Written by: Maya, the Great Mother
Date: Saturday, February 28th, 2009
Addressed to: Everyone


We've been doing some coding in the background to make Achaea more
intuitive and friendly to newcomers, who are often faced with a
bewildering array of commands to learn. Though this won't be much use to
those of you who are experienced in Achaea, you may wish to be aware of
this regardless. One recent change is the addition of alternative &
intuitive movement syntax: you can now type a variety of movement
commands + movement directions to travel from room to room.

The movement commands are: walk, move, go, run, travel, exit, leave, and
head - all words, through our monitoring, that we've found newbies tend to
try to use for movement. Directions can be entered in short form ("ne"),
long form ("northeast"), or separated long form ("north east"). The
addition of "to" or "towards" or "the" will be ignored.

Examples: WALK TO NORTHEAST, GO TOWARDS THE SOUTH, NORTH WEST, MOVE
SOUTH WEST should all now be interpreted correctly, just as if you had typed
in NE, S, W, or SW.

Note that some of these commands already have other purposes - TRAVEL in
Earrings of Sinope, MOVE in chess, WALK in walking to landmarks, and LEAVE
in a variety of places. If you should find any bugs arising with these
commands for their pre-existing usage, please message me directly. Thanks!

Penned by My hand on the 24th of Glacian, in the year 502 AF.


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Announce News Post #2960

Movement commands

Written by: Maya, the Great Mother
Date: Saturday, February 28th, 2009
Addressed to: Everyone


We've been doing some coding in the background to make Achaea more
intuitive and friendly to newcomers, who are often faced with a
bewildering array of commands to learn. Though this won't be much use to
those of you who are experienced in Achaea, you may wish to be aware of
this regardless. One recent change is the addition of alternative &
intuitive movement syntax: you can now type a variety of movement
commands + movement directions to travel from room to room.

The movement commands are: walk, move, go, run, travel, exit, leave, and
head - all words, through our monitoring, that we've found newbies tend to
try to use for movement. Directions can be entered in short form ("ne"),
long form ("northeast"), or separated long form ("north east"). The
addition of "to" or "towards" or "the" will be ignored.

Examples: WALK TO NORTHEAST, GO TOWARDS THE SOUTH, NORTH WEST, MOVE
SOUTH WEST should all now be interpreted correctly, just as if you had typed
in NE, S, W, or SW.

Note that some of these commands already have other purposes - TRAVEL in
Earrings of Sinope, MOVE in chess, WALK in walking to landmarks, and LEAVE
in a variety of places. If you should find any bugs arising with these
commands for their pre-existing usage, please message me directly. Thanks!

Penned by My hand on the 24th of Glacian, in the year 502 AF.


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