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Need to edit all those codey bits, they look awful! Bad examples. Will fix later!

@tragedyjones, this was not the lesson I wanted you to learn when I told you about singlewhiteboystexting. : (

GIVR ME STRAWBERRU SMOOTHIE AND NO ONE GETS HURT.

How do I format an exit list?

So we need to pull a list of exits. We'll do this with lexits(<here|%!|#dbref>). This is a command that will give you the #dbrefs for all exits connected of the specified object. For our purpose we want %!, as we're putting it onto our room parent.

So:

lexits(%!) --> #1111 #686 #2683 #2174 #441 #81 #393```

What are all of these exits?

iter(lexits(%!), name(%i0), , ) -->
 Cobalt's Closet Build Nexus Staff Quiet Room Purgatory Theno's Closet Closet Out

Well that isn't a very nice list it? Lets give that some punctuation.

itemize(iter(lexits(%!), name(%i0), , |), |). --> 
Cobalt's Closet, Build Nexus, Staff Quiet Room, Purgatory, Theno's Closet, Closet, and Out.

But how do we add the alias so we know what the short exit is to it? We will need to use fullname() but also extract() to do that. Fullname will give you the long name of something.

itemize(iter(lexits(%!), name(%i0) %([fullname(%i0)]%), , | ), | ). 
--> Cobalt's Closet (Cobalt's Closet;cc;cobalt's;cobalt's closet), Build Nexus (Build Nexus;bn), 
Staff Quiet Room (Staff Quiet Room;qr), Purgatory (Purgatory;pur), 
Theno's Closet (Theno's Closet;tc), Closet (Closet;cl), and Out (Out;o).

Well that's ugly! But notice how almost all of those have a short abbreviation as the second item after the ;? (That's a naming convention that is really helpful because you can use extract to pull out just one item.)

itemize(iter(lexits(%!), name(%i0) %([extract(fullname(%i0), 2, 1, ;)]%), , | ), | ).
 --> Cobalt's Closet (cc), Build Nexus (bn), Staff Quiet Room (qr), Purgatory (pur), Theno's Closet (tc), Closet (cl), and Out (o).

Isn't that much nicer?

So now we put that onto our room parent with @exitformat.

@exitformat #25=[ansi(h, EXITS)]: [itemize(iter(lexits(%!), name(%i0) %([extract(fullname(%i0), 2, 1, ;)]%), , |), |)].

This finally gives us:

Conference Room(#80RI)
This is the stock room description. You may replace it using the command @desc here=. For this
  build to be complete you must set @desc, @osucc, @odrop, and either @succ or @drop. Your exits
  should be @desc'd with at least one or two words. And your description should start with %r%tand
  have %r%r%t between each paragraph and end with %r.


PLAYERS:Cobalt and (Wizard)
OBJECTS: Forum Posting Functions, WelcomeBot, Hateball Eightball, Code Box, and Nuker Object <NO>.
EXITS: Cobalt's Closet (cc), Build Nexus (bn), Staff Quiet Room (qr), Purgatory (pur), Theno's Closet (tc), Closet (cl), and Out (o).

@tragedyjones said:

@Cobaltasaurus said:

@tragedyjones, this was not the lesson I wanted you to learn when I told you about singlewhiteboystexting. : (

Less chastisement more boobs.

omg.

straightwhiteboystexting.tumblr.com

read it!

@auspice said in Comfort Food...:

@cobaltasaurus said in Comfort Food...:

GIVR ME STRAWBERRU SMOOTHIE AND NO ONE GETS HURT.

Jack in the Box strawberry milkshakes 5ever.

I don't know if I have Jack in the Box here. Rally's strawberry smoothie was pretty good. I was like about five seconds from driving my car into the window waiting for the person ahead of me to apparently get an entire menu worth of food... while i was on my way back from a delivery. >.>

@buttercup Wooo!

@2mspris, no that's wonderful! I've added it to the main list with a link to your post, and set up a 'contributors' list in case anyone else wants to drop in any tips / How Tos for building. All build knowledge is great!

@Creepy: Some of that is a little bit of somewhat advanced code knowledge, and might be better suited in another tutorial? However, I've updated the 'desc' post to show you how to @desc from afar.

For the sake of answering you in case you're working on something and actually need/want those answers, give me a few and I'll post up some code you can c/p to find rooms.

@Luna said:

@Cobaltasaurus Could have been me. Sounds like some shit I would say! I used to be defensive of my preferences because I got accused of being a guy a lot. Still do but I don't care. It apparently even is a thing on ESO. My characters get built in such a way that, when combined with my PSN name, I surprise people when I talk. Now it's just funny.

I don't think so. This person was- it seemed like they wrote using google translate.

Less of a peeve and more of a discomfort:

It is VERY COLD yes. But I’d appreciate it more if you had your money ready to go when I get to your door more than you inviting me to step into your home. I am NOT supposed to go into your home. Also I am sure you are very nice, but I don’t know you from Bob. For my safety AND comfort please don’t invite me inside no matter how cold it is.

Just have your stuff together so we can make our transactions and I can get back in my car.

Hello! It's Dagny, thank you for being so nice to me on The Netwoekt.

@Creepy, after thinking about it I went ahead and put in some placeholders for those and will fill'em out. We'll just try to be as code-friendly as possible when we get there. X D

@Chime said:

@Thenomain ...maybe, but @JinShei and I spent a while talking about it too. Poor girl's gettin it from all sides.

They strong armed me Theno. :U

Want is way too strong of a word. The correct terminology is "no longer violently opposed but neutral".

@ganymede Let’s see... I got linked to 2girls1cup, tubgirl*, Mr. Hands**, goatse, and a dead body being violated***.

Mr. Hands and the last are the ones that upset me. Mr. Hands because I have vague memories of the dude screaming in pain and bestiality and the latter because of the violation of some poor girl’s body and the implication that I’d just witnessed murder photos.

The rest was just gross not upsetting.

• • Actually someone posted a gif of it to WORA.

• ** This is what I think that video of the dude being fucked by the horse is called.

• *** Again this was posted in WORA. Thanks WORA some really awful shit happened on you.

@L-B-Heuschkel said in Someplace to play?:

I mean, hi.

Come visit on Gray Harbor sometime if you're bored, and feel free to hunt me down anytime. I'm in CET and I manage to find RP nonetheless.

I'll stop by tonight or tomorrow! I had poked in once but that was before I'd ever cgen'd something with ares and had really bad anxiety with making a character in fs3. Should be able to do it this time.

@GangOfDolls @Roz is correct in, I'm currently taking a break from Arx-- it may last a month, it may last another couple of days. I'm not positive, I'm resisting going back until I know I'm going back because I want to play and not because I'm trying to fill a void that the stress in my RL is causing.

But from my understanding arx is in a bit of a flux right now where staff are changing how storytelling is going to be doing-- I don't really know the details on that since I've only heard about it second hand. So you might have a better time getting involved this go around.

@Jeshin I'll check that place out.

@bear_necessities I'll poke through ares central.

I was kinda hoping there might be a place someone is playing that I could hook directly in with someone.

For those still struggling with it I got page spawning to work thanks to @somasatori.

Put the following code in, and make sure you have it set from wild card to 'regexp'.

(\w* pages: .*|From afar, .*|Long distance to .*: .*|You paged .* with .*|To \(.*\), \w* pages: .*)

I might actually like FAE. I haven't decided. I also haven't actually played anything in it yet. But, uh, maybe soon. Homework has killed me this week so has stopped me from finishing up things.

@ortallus That does sound good. These were out of a microwaved bag tho. With kerrigold irish butter and kosher salt put on afterward.

@auspice said in Interest Check: Ares Facilitated Short Term Spy MU*?:

I'd be down for this.

Could it be a period piece type thing? Like, set during the Cold War or somesuch perhaps?
Re: Cold War, I'm not personally super knowledgeable on what makes the cold war the cold war, other than the development of nuclear arms. If someone wanted help with the thematic bits of it, sure. So long as allowances are made for lady spy awesomeness, given the 50s wasn't the best time for women.

Or we could go Victorian era (actually, I think that might be another episode to do).

Storybook (cause, y'know, a single story at a time)

Hmm...