The BACKSTORY command
Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2020 4:18 pm
The BACKSTORY command, which can rather amusingly be abbreviated to "BS", is now live and can be used to manage your character's backstory in-game. It's far from a fancy full-fledged text editor, but I think it has some decent management options for an in-game tool. In addition to being able to append, edit, reorder and remove individual segments (paragraphs) one at a time, you can also enter Recording Mode, which will take any line you sent to the MUD and append it to your backstory instead of parsing them as regular commands - until you turn Recording Mode back off. This should be particularly useful for pasting multi-line backstories from a text editor or something.
I've never implemented anything like the Recording Mode thing before, so hopefully it doesn't catastrophically break the game or anything. Please report bugs in-game with the BUG command or here on the BBS, and feel free to post any suggestions for further refinement of this system.
I've never implemented anything like the Recording Mode thing before, so hopefully it doesn't catastrophically break the game or anything. Please report bugs in-game with the BUG command or here on the BBS, and feel free to post any suggestions for further refinement of this system.