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Author Topic: How to deal with adventurer mode spam?  (Read 1462 times)

caranha

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How to deal with adventurer mode spam?
« on: September 24, 2008, 11:00:12 am »
Sorry for the newbiesh question - I tried searching for it in the forums with no luck :-/

I started to play an adventurer after building a couple of fortresses - it is quite fun, except for all the unrelated battle spam that I get. For instance, when I make a suicide visit to my demon-infested fortress, every step I get detailed reports on how Angad the demon is biting the left pinky of Urist, and how Huror the tentacle demon is ripping Cog limb by limb.

Usually these reports fill a whole screen, and this is while I'm still on the outskirts of my previous fortress, far away from any dwarves or demons.

Is there a way to tone down the battle reports so I only get messages related to combats I can actually see? Or better yet, so that I only see the combat messages that I am directly involved with (me attacking and being attacked)?

Thanks!
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Re: How to deal with adventurer mode spam?
« Reply #1 on: September 24, 2008, 12:48:37 pm »
I don't think there is any way to do what you ask.  Even nicer would be being able to zoom to the location of where the battle is.  There are many Magabeasts that I have seen battle messages for but have never been able to find.
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Re: How to deal with adventurer mode spam?
« Reply #2 on: September 24, 2008, 01:01:58 pm »
Amen
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Quote from: irmo on October 23, 2009, 03:57:53 am
Rather than having them directly force you to mine adamantine, I would suggest that they give you strange moods that require adamantine. "Dig out the adamantine or Urist here goes insane and dies" is suitably vicious.

(It occurs to me that you can probably get "Lovecraft" as the random name of your fortress. That's when you know you're screwed.)

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Re: How to deal with adventurer mode spam?
« Reply #3 on: September 24, 2008, 05:01:15 pm »
I kind of like them, they give you a nice way to know what's coming.  There was the time I was exploring my decrepit fortress when suddenly I heard the sound of a GCS tearing off the head of a mountain goat.
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Re: How to deal with adventurer mode spam?
« Reply #4 on: September 25, 2008, 04:53:22 am »
The only way to deal with adventure mode combat message spam is to deal with it. As in mentally and psychologically.  ;)
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Re: How to deal with adventurer mode spam?
« Reply #5 on: September 25, 2008, 12:41:11 pm »
I never played Adventurer Yet, so i cant be sure, but there is something in thin init file that might help...


This controls "more" in adventure mode. If MORE is set to NO, all announcements will be skipped. DISPLAY_LENGTH controls how many lines are printed before it gives you the "more" prompt.

[MORE:YES]
[DISPLAY_LENGTH:23]
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Re: How to deal with adventurer mode spam?
« Reply #6 on: September 25, 2008, 03:38:48 pm »
Quote from: Cthulhu on September 24, 2008, 05:01:15 pm
I kind of like them, they give you a nice way to know what's coming.  There was the time I was exploring my decrepit fortress when suddenly I heard the sound of a GCS tearing off the head of a mountain goat.

Yes.. Yes well.

Quote from: Refar on September 25, 2008, 12:41:11 pm
I never played Adventurer Yet, so i cant be sure, but there is something in thin init file that might help...


This controls "more" in adventure mode. If MORE is set to NO, all announcements will be skipped. DISPLAY_LENGTH controls how many lines are printed before it gives you the "more" prompt.

[MORE:YES]
[DISPLAY_LENGTH:23]

 :o
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Quote from: irmo on October 23, 2009, 03:57:53 am
Rather than having them directly force you to mine adamantine, I would suggest that they give you strange moods that require adamantine. "Dig out the adamantine or Urist here goes insane and dies" is suitably vicious.

(It occurs to me that you can probably get "Lovecraft" as the random name of your fortress. That's when you know you're screwed.)

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Re: How to deal with adventurer mode spam?
« Reply #7 on: September 25, 2008, 07:21:38 pm »
Man, I get that in town all the time, I cannot find the dude, ever...

Urist falls down...
Urist falls down...
Urist is injured...
Urist falls down...

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Re: How to deal with adventurer mode spam?
« Reply #8 on: September 25, 2008, 07:37:36 pm »
Quote from: spiderx on September 25, 2008, 07:21:38 pm
Man, I get that in town all the time, I cannot find the dude, ever...

Urist falls down...
Urist falls down...
Urist is injured...
Urist falls down...



Joe Schmoe: I'm an adventurer, care to adventure wi-
Drunk: Wait do you hear something?
Joe: Why yes, yes I do...
Urist: MY EYE WAS POKED OUT A YEAR AGO!
Joe: Um...
URIST: I AM GIVING INTO THE PAIN NOW EVERYONE!
Joe: So as I wa-
URIST: I AM CONSCIOUS AGAIN GUYS!
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Re: How to deal with adventurer mode spam?
« Reply #9 on: September 27, 2008, 02:03:41 pm »
so true.
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Quote from: irmo on October 23, 2009, 03:57:53 am
Rather than having them directly force you to mine adamantine, I would suggest that they give you strange moods that require adamantine. "Dig out the adamantine or Urist here goes insane and dies" is suitably vicious.

(It occurs to me that you can probably get "Lovecraft" as the random name of your fortress. That's when you know you're screwed.)

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Re: How to deal with adventurer mode spam?
« Reply #10 on: September 29, 2008, 02:01:15 am »
You are struck down.

Giant cave spider spits out your head.
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Re: How to deal with adventurer mode spam?
« Reply #11 on: September 29, 2008, 12:24:36 pm »
Quote from: Yanlin on September 29, 2008, 02:01:15 am
You are struck down.

Giant cave spider spits out your head.

I've never had a GCS actually rip of my head, just shake me around by it, and I die from the resulting bleeding!
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Quote from: irmo on October 23, 2009, 03:57:53 am
Rather than having them directly force you to mine adamantine, I would suggest that they give you strange moods that require adamantine. "Dig out the adamantine or Urist here goes insane and dies" is suitably vicious.

(It occurs to me that you can probably get "Lovecraft" as the random name of your fortress. That's when you know you're screwed.)

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Re: How to deal with adventurer mode spam?
« Reply #12 on: September 30, 2008, 01:05:48 am »
Well, keep trying.  It'll happen eventually.
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