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+ | ====== Emotions and you ====== | ||
+ | Unless you're an Ixian thinking machine (Or a ZMud Bot) at some point Dune is going to be so magical that it might kick-start your heart into caring. In such an event it becomes important for players to be able to express their bubbling emotions of joy. Dune (like most LP muds) offers several ways for a player to do this based on both the generality of their feelings and the intended audience. | ||
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+ | ====== Free-form Emotes ====== | ||
+ | Free-form emotes are similar in purpose to the ''/ | ||
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+ | ===== On Channels ===== | ||
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+ | To use a free-form emote on a channel you must type the name of the channel, followed by a **:** followed by your third person message. | ||
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+ | For example:\\ | ||
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+ | **'' | ||
+ | Would end up doing:\\ | ||
+ | '' | ||
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+ | ===== In a room ===== | ||
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+ | To use a free-form emote in a room you must type the '' | ||
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+ | For example:\\ | ||
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+ | **'' | ||
+ | **'': | ||
+ | Would both end up doing:\\ | ||
+ | ''< | ||
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+ | ====== Pre-built Emotes ====== | ||
+ | Pre-built emotes allow you to draw on the list of emotions created over the past ~17 years by the Dune players and wizards. Plenty of them don't make sense, coming to appreciate these emotions is a tell-tale sign that you are hooked on Dune. These emotes can be stacked, qualified and targeted. We will [[tips: | ||
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+ | For a complete list of pre-built emotes (" | ||
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+ | ===== On Channels ===== | ||
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+ | To use pre-built emote on a channel you must type the name of the channel, followed by a **;** followed by the emote name, and potentially a target if required. | ||
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+ | It's easiest to show with an example:\\ | ||
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+ | '' | ||
+ | Would end up doing: \\ | ||
+ | '' | ||
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+ | In that example **wave** is the name of the emote used. For a list of available emotes you can run the command **'' | ||
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+ | ===== In a room ===== | ||
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+ | To use pre-built emotes in a room you must type the emote name and potentially any targets if required. That's it! | ||
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+ | Another example?\\ | ||
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+ | '' | ||
+ | Would end up doing: \\ | ||
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+ | ====== Advanced ====== | ||
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+ | For those of you with the need to express a lot of emotion in as few keystrokes as possible, advanced operations are available for the pre-built emotes. | ||
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+ | Emotes can be stacked, combined with adverbs, and targeted at multiple people. For instance, consider: | ||
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+ | '' | ||
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+ | This would produce the (bizarre) message: | ||
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+ | '' | ||
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+ | For the ultimate in customization, | ||
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+ | '' | ||
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+ | This would add clarity to your chain of emotions and produce: | ||
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+ | '' | ||
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+ | Much better! Don't forget the quotation marks around what you *say* in your emote string. | ||
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