Hey, a few questions about Ares functionality.
First, is there a reason why people are forced to capitalize their aliases? It’s a little thing but I’ve gotten some pushback about it. I don’t mind that they’re in all caps but would it be possible to have the game auto-cap them?
Second, if you say or pose the word help instead of it being said or posed it brings up the help menu. You can type (say Help) and it will work but if you type ("Help) or (:help) it calls up the help menu.
Third, I like how the globals cycle through colors randomly with one exception…blue. I can’t see the blue at all and was wondering if there was a way to remove blue from the color cycle?
Thanks!
Hiya.
Names and aliases: Technically-speaking I could have the game auto-capitalize them, but I didn’t because I thought it was better to make people aware that it’s an explicit requirement (i.e. the game telling you: “Hey you need to capitalize this”) rather than a potentially-unexpected behavior (i.e. the player being all: “Hey! Why did it capitalize my name? Can I un-capitalize it? Where’s the help file?”) So it was a judgment call.
If other folks feel the same way, I can certainly change the behavior.
Help: I could fix that I suppose, but is that really something people actually do? I wouldn’t expect folks to have a pose where it’s like: “Faraday help” and nothing more to it. It seems more likely that they actually wanted the help command and just mistyped it.
Colors: I think I can make the list of random colors configurable. It isn’t currently. Stay tuned.