Feature Creep

[ichijo_akari]

One of the issues I tend to clash with a lot of programmers on is the issue of tossing in options/toggles/etc on programs I work on, be they scripts, MUF, engines, servers, etc. When I maintained code on MUCKs in the past, and someone came to me with a problem they had with how a program worked for them, or how it didn't work like they were used to

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[ichijo_akari]

In general I agree with not picking up the MUSH conventions when using MUCK. I really don't like MUSH style switches at all (Like page/last or whatever) and I admit I'd be pretty reluctant to add any support for those. I also find the & command for setting props to be as backwards as can be, but Moose added it and I'm fine with it just being there, if it makes it easier for MUSH folk to adapt.

I don't mind giving people their pronoun parsing or %r parsing, as long as it's an option that they have to turn on. I also don't mind simple aliasing, like \\ or whatever MUSH uses for spoof, since generally, that's as easy to support as tagging on an alias on the spoof command.

One of things that has always been a mild annoyance for me about MotM was how far out if its way it went to not admit to being a MUCK, but on the other hand, given the weird biases the limited available MU* RP audience has, maybe it's best to try and play 'neutral' on the MUCK/MUSH thing. I just wish they had made it a MUCK first, then tacked on MUSH functionality where it particularly mattered. All I can say is at least they don't require a '+' in front of every single command like most MUSHes I've been on.

-Akari