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[RByGore]

Hi,

I found some potencial bugs and as they are very obvious, it's very likely to been reported already. Potencial because it can be intended to avoid program conflict reasons.
The taking of one object in a room with more than one of those objects within. For example the pairs of pants and legs of lamb. My biggest problem was picking up the pants, and I tryed almost everything: take pants, take pair of pants, take a pair of pants, take one pair of pants.
The response "the pair of pants or the pair of pants" was a little disturbing. Then got some help and tryed "take first pair of pants", no deal. Ofcourse that the problem had to be solved with "take first pants".

If I'm sitting and give the command "stand", I become standing on where I was sitting.

About observation and manipulation of environment: Probably my IF (Interactive Fiction) adventure maniac side talking, but I fell lack of commands like: look under, look behind, look in, lift, push, pull, force. Some adverbs like "examine object closely" or "raise object higher" can also be helpfull. It was great if you guys could give a list of verbs like is possible to do with adverbs.

But nontheless it's a great MUD environment. Keep on with it.

Xavier Morais

[ShannonA]

Originally posted by RByGore:
The response "the pair of pants or the pair of pants" was a little disturbing. Then got some help and tryed "take first pair of pants", no deal. Ofcourse that the problem had to be solved with "take first pants".

Two issues here.

* The nonintuitiveness of having to type "first" is an easy fix. In the near future if you type "take [object]" in a room where there are multiple, substantially identical objects, you'll randomly pick up one of them.

* The issue of "pair of pants" not working is more difficult. Our parser doesn't currently support noun phrases which include a preposition (ie, "pair OF pants"). This will be a much more long-term fix, as the parser is a complex thing. The clear short-term fix is that we shouldn't use noun phrases which include a preposition as the description of an object (ie, you should see "pants" not a "pair of pants").


If I'm sitting and give the command "stand", I become standing on where I was sitting.

Yep. This, you'll be amused to know, is a result of a recent bug fixes. When you're sitting on a chair, you're in prox to that chair. Until recently, if you stood up, you'd move out of prox with that chair (ie, just be standing up somewhere in the room). So we fixed that so that you keep your prox when you stand up (or in general change your stance), but ended up keeping the preposition too (ie sit ON CHAIR --> stand ON CHAIR). Whoops!

About observation and manipulation of environment: Probably my IF (Interactive Fiction) adventure maniac side talking, but I fell lack of commands like: look under, look behind, look in, lift, push, pull, force. Some adverbs like "examine object closely" or "raise object higher" can also be helpfull. It was great if you guys could give a list of verbs like is possible to do with adverbs.

The action verbs are currently the most lacking, and there's a long way to go with them.

Please feel free to use the "idea" command in game for things you'd like to see, as well as the "bug" command to report errors.

Thanks for your comments!

Shannon