Channels are a means of communication with other players on the MUD. Players may listen to a channel to take part in conversation with players that are not even in the same room.
Two channels are provided, by default, for players: gossip and newbie. The gossip channel is for any sort of discussion the listeners may wish. The newbie channel is for newbie players to ask questions and get help when they first start playing.
Players may create and listen to additional channels as they please by using the /new flag to the chan command (see below).
All interaction with the channels is performed with the “chan” command.
Examples
chan - list channels being listened to chan gossip - find out whether the 'gossip' channel is begin listened to chan gossip /on - turn listening on for the 'gossip' channel chan gossip /off - stop listening to 'gossip' chan gossip /list - find out who is listening to 'gossip' chan gossip /who - same as /list chan gossip /last - show the last 20 messages on the channel chan gossip - send to all listeners chan gossip . - perform over the channel (e.g. chan gossip .grin) chan gossip . - send to all listeners (e.g. chan gossip .wants a big sword!) chan mine /new - create the "mine" channel
Of course, the ‘gossip’ may be replaced with any channel name you might want to use.
Once you are listening to a channel, then you can simply use that channel’s name as a command. For example, if you listen to the gossip channel, then you can do:
gossip .smile
Usage
> chan You are listening to: gossip, newbie, mychannel > chan gossip /off You are no longer listening to 'gossip'. > mychannel /list Users listening to 'mychannel': Johndoe, Smurfhead, Tarzan > mychannel hello! [mychannel] Smurfhead: hello! > mychannel .turns a bright shade of blue [mychannel] Smurfhead turns a bright shade of blue. > mychannel .laugh tarzan [mychannel] You laugh at Tarzan. > > [mychannel] Tarzan bops you on the nose.
See Also
gossip, newbie, chan, feelings, conference, groups
Creator Options
For staff members, there are a few extra capabilities in the channel system. These focus around creating the channels. After the /new you may place options for that channel:
chan name /new [admin | wiz | wizard | permanent | nopermanent | goaway ]*
The options are:
- admin - Make the channel an admin channel. This is only usuable by an admin.
- wiz/wizard - Make the channel only usable by wizards. Only wizards may use this option.
- permanent - Make the channel permanent. This channel will remain, even when the last listener goes away. Mainly, this means that nobody will ever have to do a /new again. This is only usable by an admin.
- psilent - Players may not talk on this channel.
- nopermanent/goaway - The channel can go away when there are no more listeners. This is only usable by an admin.
Even after a channel has been created, you may use /new again to change the options on the channel.