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Settings An explanation of some of the properties you can adjust to make the game more enjoyable for you. Also read the specific help for each of the command mentioned here, eg 'help term' etc. 'term' - This sets what terminal emulation and screen size you use. If your terminal supports colour, 'term ansi' is recommended. Size of your screen is set with 'term <columns>x<rows>', eg 'term 80x20'. Icesus tries to automatically detect your terminal and screen size each time you log on. You can toggle this feature on and off with 'term autodetect'. If something messes up your screen, try typing 'reset'. 'colour' - Use 'colour on' to quickly enable colours for you. 'lite' - With this very useful command you can bring colour into your world! Use it to lite channels, say messages, monsters and so on. Ex. 'lite channel ice cyan' 'lite monster yellow' 'lite woundedmonster red' 'alias' - With aliases you can make shortcuts for often used commands. Ex: 'alias foo say Hello everyone!'. After this, typing 'foo' does the same as typing 'say Hello everyone!'. The aliases which everyone needs most have been pre-defined as global aliases. Type 'alias -global' to see these. 'nickname' - Nicknames substitute one text for another. They cannot function as commands, however; use 'alias' for that. People usually use nicknames for their friends' names etc, so they don't have to type long and complicated names all the time. Ex 'nickname neu neurotico' would then allow you to do ex 'tell neu Your help-documents rock!' prompt - Actually set with the 'set'-command (see below), but very often asked about. To change your prompt, ie the text shown at the beginning of each line signifying the mud is ready to accept input, type 'set prompt <new_prompt>'. The arguments accepted in the prompt can be seen with 'help prompt'. Example: 'set prompt Hp:[hp]/[maxhp] Sp:[sp]/[maxsp] Exp:[exp] >' 'battle' - A very important command with which you can set many combat settings, most importantly your combat point assignments. Read the help about the command and the further helps mentioned there. And remember to check and set your combat point assignments. 'mon' - This is a monitor which informs you every time your hp, sp or ep changes by 15 points or more. You can toggle monitoring on and off just by typing 'mon'. If you are in a party, you can use 'mon party' to toggle on and off party reporting. When on, changes in your hp/sp/ep will be reported over the party channel to the whole party. 'wimpy' - Very important, especially for beginning adventurers. Used as 'wimpy <wimpylevel>', see 'help wimpy' for the accepted arguments for wimpylevels. When wimpy is set, you will automatically try to flee from a battle when your hit points drop too low. 'brief' - Toggles your verbosity setting. In brieff mode, you will only see the short, one-line description of a room you enter. In verbose mode you will see the long description. 'battle -v' - Changes your battle verbosity level, ie how much information you will see about an ongoing battle you are taking part in. 'keep' - The 'keep'-command allows you to ensure you do not accidentally sell, drop or give away some object(s) you are carrying. 'snoopable' - This is by default off. If you set it on, any wizard in the game will be allowed to snoop you, ie monitor you so that they see exactly the same as your character does and what you type. Allowing wizards to snoop you can be helpful in demonstrating how some bug works, for example. You are not required to set yourself as snoopable at any time if you do not want to, even if a wizard would insist so. Archwizards and higher can snoop you regardless of your snoopable-setting. 'ignore' - The 'ignore'-command allows you to ignore all channelmessages and tells from a player, or from players below a certain level. It makes a list of all players you have decided to ignore. If you are being spammed or harassed by some player, report this to the wizards. 'friends' - With this you can add players to your friends-list. Typing 'friends' shows who of your friends are on. You can also use "friends" as a target for tells, thus sending a message to all your friends at once. It is also used in 'set inform', see below. 'passwd' - This allows you to change your password. 'chfn' - With this command you can update the information shown to admins only when they finger you, ie name, e-mail address and phonenumber. NOTE: you can also set a www-homepage address with this; this information will be shown to all players. 'set' - The 'set'-command is used to set several different properties. Read 'help set' for a list. The most used are: - 'set prompt <prompt>'. This was explained above. - 'set delim <character>'. This sets the character you can use to input multiple commands at once. Ex if you do 'set delim ;' you can the type 'north;smile;south' to go north, smile, and go back south. - 'set inform <all|friends>'. If you have this set to "all", you will be informed whenever a player enters or leaves the game. Setting it to "friends" will show this only if the player is on your friends-list (see 'friends' above and 'help friends'). - 'set typomessages'. Toggles between random and the default 'What?' typomessage. - 'set keepalive'. This enables 'KEEP-ALIVE' messages to be sent to you periodically to keep your connection up if it is prone to disconnect on idle.