Creating an In-Game Alias

This screencast details how to create an in-game alias for use in the Iron Realms text adventure games.

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Caius of Imperian

<3

I still use in-game aliases for things that I never want to forget!

Nim of Achaea

I have a bunch of in-game

I have a bunch of in-game aliases too, though the only ones I still use are aliases for ES <city> and OPEN DOOR. >_>

Driga of Aetolia

hehe

some aliases you can't live without!

Vashner of Lusternia

Thanks!

This is really useful!

Hyperlith of Achaea

A lot of current, veteran players may see this as ho-hum easycake but folks new to MUDding, this is a great tutorial. The concept of aliasing is confusing at first but new players quickly learn that typing 'PIG' instead of 'put gold in pack' 20,000 times a year can be a time and carpal tunnel saver.

Vaeris of Midkemia

Well, sure.

But the help file for doing it is pretty easy to follow.

Nael of Imperian

Would of been a great help

Would of been a great help when I was first playing.

Leonad of Achaea

I had someone show me

I had someone show me the in game aliases and once I figured them out I still use many of them which is nice no matter which client I use that some still do the basics that I need at times.

Toot of Achaea

How would we survive

without our aliases

Shibumi of Achaea

Nice

I use gg to get gold and put gold in pack, all at once. I have lo learn sone basic regex stuff, I am suck now. However mudding is not easy!

Wysteria of Achaea

I use the in-game alias for

I use the in-game alias for commands when "syntax <ME>" doesn't seem to apply like "EVOKE BARRIER <blank for self or NAME for someone else>" . I use EV for that. Of course now my list has things like EB, EW, EL, EV, ES...very similar but it's efficient!

Great tutorial for beginners!

Vincenzio of Achaea

tutorial

this is great and very helpful for new players

Gabrar of Achaea

very helpful

particularly for lowering the barrier of entry for new players.

Akuno of Lusternia

I love these

I absolutely love these!!! I have most of my skills aliased, but my problem is trying to remember them all at once!!!

Nixxe of Achaea

aye...

I should clear all mine out and redo

Amram of Achaea

how are they better?

How are they better than "out-game" aliases? Which I am assuming are those that are saved elsewhere.

Rohn of Achaea

I wasn't aware of these. I

I wasn't aware of these. I just use ones in my client. What are the tradeoffs for using in game aliases? Do they track across sessions or clients?

Tookrah of Achaea

Yes

These aliases are saved with your character on the IRE server, and will work no matter what client you use to log in.

Keelase of Achaea

This was really helpful to me

This was really helpful to me once upon a time. Thank you!

Tukio of Achaea

Still use

I still do use in game aliases for a few things.

Dvurkha of Lusternia

I personally avoid the

I personally avoid the in-game aliases, but it's a nice walkthrough. It's easier to have them all in one place that can be easily searched and changed (i.e. in the client).

Ilena of Achaea