SET (DISPLAY SETTINGS)

Description

Set

Lets you toggle environment settings that are used to customize how the game appears to you, among other things. Typing SET with no arguments will show your current settings.

The following settings affect the visual display, client-side output, and contains several settings useful to VI players.

Autoclear

Clears the screen before showing room descriptions or maps AUTOMAIL when a text message is sent to you using the I-MAIL system, and you have a valid email address specified, and the sender is also allowing AUTOMAIL, this option will send a copy of the I-MAIL to your email address, using the sender's email address in the "reply-to" field. AUTOMAP displays area terrain map, if one exists for that location. Turning this setting off will change the vmap into standard paragraph descriptions like those found in cities. BLOCK_SIZE lowers or raises the amount of data that the server sends to you at once. Use a lower settings to correct connection problems, or higher settings if you have no connection problems. The default is 4096 - lower settings may make the game response slower but it may keep bad links from being disconnected as well BRIEF will not show full room descriptions unless requested via the 'look' command COLOR whether or not you wish to view ANSI color codes COMPACT reduces amount of empty lines sent to your screen COMPASS displays an exit compass along with the room description; turning this off may be useful for those with text-to-speech readers EXTENDED-PROMPT whether or not you wish to receive the full game prompt display that shows hit points, spell points, and stamina; turning this off may be useful for those with text-to-speech readers PAGE_LENGTH sets the number of lines of text sent to your screen at once before automatic pagination is activated. The default is 22; the minimum is 10 and the maximum is 120 lines sent at once SHOW-COLOR-ALTERNATIVES display information that is normally displayed only through color, such as dark rooms, PK rooms, (these will not display on the room compass, but instead will display on the line that is enabled with SHOW-EXITS) among others, in non-colored descriptive text. SHOW-EXITS if the exit compass is turned off you will see a separate line listing out the visible exits for the current room; turning this on may be useful for those with text-to-speech readers SOUND whether or not you wish to receive sound commands, if you are on a sound-enabled client and have downloaded the appropriate sound packages SUPERBRIEF will not show full character descriptions via 'LOOK' while on; will not show full room descriptions unless requested by the 'LOOK' command