Tells consistency while splicing/etc.

Xith

10/14/20:24 Your bug report (detail: nametells seem to interrupt splice while 

TELL <person> does not. Could this get fixed for that, and if applicable, 

similar things like implanting totems?) - has been removed because it is not a 

bug (usually meaning that this is the way things are intended to be). Please 

accept our apologies for any inconvenience or misunderstanding that may be 

involved.

This bug may have been misunderstood, but I meant that nametells should not interrupt splicing since tells do not. Is there a reason this couldn't be changed?

Carmell

you have to use Tell person for those it's not a bug.  name tells is different and isn't allowed in many things where you can't do anything but a few things.

Iocun

Worm splice/cancel limitations are very weird and inconsistent, probably mostly because they work on a fixed whitelist, which makes some types of commands hard to add. For instance, all custom emotes are possible (assumedly since it's easy to whitelist the "emote" command) while the predefined ones aren't (since they all use a different command).

I think that whole system needs a rework of sorts. It's currently quite impossible to guess which commands break it and which don't unless you try them all out and write them down. 

Kyrra

Most things break concentration which is why they interrupt the process. You shift your focus from splicing to something else.

There isn't much more leeway with toteming and I think somewhat less for city repairing. Though with repairing, there's a chunky WP cost that lets you continue from where you stopped.

If you don't use TELL, it assumes that you're trying to do another action. It does make sense.

Eld

Daeir said:

I feel that forcing the player to not interact (I know I chirp on about interaction all the time but it's the little things yo) in any skill is a bit pointless, and would like to see splicing/implanting/uprooting made more interactive somehow.

But how better to force people to interact than to sit them down and give them a chunk of 15/20/30 minutes where they're basically not allowed to do anything BUT talk to people?

Kyrra

I multitask while toteming and room repairing. Apart from what I am doing and talking to people in the room, I am also usually doing paperwork, playing around with customisation designs, and if it's uprooting, sometimes I'll go for a shower and wash my hair before the totem is out of the ground.

It's actually a pretty good opportunity to be productive while still working on other things. As opposed to sitting around afk waiting for something to happen, and generally being less interactive.

Katzchen

Wait... toteming while afk is allowed?

Eld

Katzchen said:

Wait... toteming while afk is allowed?

Going afk while toteming doesn't seem to be any different from going afk while doing anything else. I would assume that as long as you're not finishing one task and automatically starting the next while afk, you're fine.

Kyrra

I uproot totem and it requires no other input from me so I don't see why afking wouldn't be permitted. It's not like forging where you have to type forge on balance.

Xith

Yeah I recognized that on the coding end it would take reworking. The sucky part is that if your TELL target is suddenly disconnected you get a "oops" message from achaea instead of sending a tell, which I guess would interrupt it anyway.

So maybe there's no way to do it without changing the nature of tells/nametells. But in that case, can party/clan tells be enabled?

Iocun

Why only those? All channels, please.

Xith

So this just in... I can do nametells without interrupting Tarot inscribing, as well as checking SCORE, news, and messages.

Actions interrupt it of course.

Maybe that sort of format could be allowed? Because channel tells can't require more IC concentration than a TELL, and the other functions wouldn't necessarily require IC concentration.