Is there a way to change the “default exit” room messages?
A lot of folks don’t like having default exits displayed at the top. The muds they’re used to display them at the bottom of the room descriptions, and that’s how they want their DS mud to look. They don’t like the obvious exits up top. In the current version of Dead Souls this is no longer the default behavior. Now obvious exits are displayed at the bottom, in a more “natural” style closer to the way LPmuds have historically done it. Your admin can switch between this new way and the old way with the command: mudconfig nmexits [ yes | no ] This dummy item is weird. Dummy items *are* weird. They exist because the parsing system requires objects to act on. When you “look at painting”, the parser doesn’t take “painting” as a string to match. Through a magical mystical process deep in the MudOS driver, the parser turns “painting” into an object to act on. It tries to find object in the area that match this keyword, and if it finds one, it sends that object a query about whether it can be l
