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NAME
set - turns or toggles an environment setting on or off
SYNOPSIS
set <environment option> <'on', 'off', or 'toggle'>
DESCRIPTION
SET lets you toggle environment settings that are used to customize
how the game appears to you, among other things. Typing SET with
no arguments will show your current settings.
OPTIONS
These are a listing of the settings that can be changed:
AUTOCLEAR clears the screen before showing room descriptions or maps
AUTOLOOT take all equipment and gold from your kills
AUTOSAC sacrifice dead monsters' corpses
AUTOSPLIT split up gold from combat among your group members
AUTOMAP displays area terrain map, if one exists for that location
AUTOMAIL when a text message is sent to you using the I-MAIL system, and
you have a valid email address specified, and the sender is
also allowing AUTOMAIL, this option will send a copy of the
I-MAIL to your email address, using the sender's email
address in the "reply-to" field.
AUTONOURISH automatically eats food and drinks from water (or blood)
skins in your inventory, when hungry - ignores poisoned items
BLOCK_SIZE lowers or raises the amount of data that the server sends
to you at once. Use a lower settings to correct connection
problems, or higher settings if you have no connection
problems. The default is 4096 - lower settings may make
the game response slower but it may keep bad links from being
disconnected as well
BRIEF will not show full room descriptions unless requested via
the 'look' command
CHALLENGE whether or not you wish to receive arena challenge requests
sent by other players
COLOR whether or not you wish to view ANSI color codes
COMPACT reduces amount of empty lines sent to your screen
COMPASS displays an exit compass along with the room description;
turning this off may be useful for those with text-to-speech
readers
EXPIRE-WARNING whether or not you wish to be warned about items that have
expiration dates, when those dates are approaching - warnings
occur during signons and signouts
EXTENDED-PROMPT whether or not you wish to receive the full game prompt
display that shows hit points, spell points, and stamina;
turning this off may be useful for those with text-to-speech
readers
MOUNTS-FOLLOW-PATHS whether or not mounts will attempt to follow paths
during running, walking, or galloping (see HELP MOUNT)
NOTIFY lets you know when players on your notify list sign on or off
NOVICE lets you turn command completion and some other settings
that can be dangerous for inexperienced players on or off;
see COMMANDS for a complete list of commands
PAGE_LENGTH sets the number of lines of text sent to your screen at once
before automatic pagination is activated. The default is 22;
the minimum is 10 and the maximum is 80 lines sent at once
PAGING whether or not you wish to receive pages sent by the PAGE command
PERSONAL-FILTER whether or not you wish to have SAYTOs, TELLs, and WHISPERs
sent to your character checked for inappropriate content and
denied if they fail that criteria.
QUIET activates quiet mode. This mode shuts out most of the global
channels and private TELLs. About the only communication you will
see are PAGES, EMOTEs and SAYs in your current location
REFUSE-ITEMS you will no longer be able to be given items by players
REFUSE-SUMMON you will not be able to be summoned by other players
SHOW-COLOR-ALTERNATIVES display information that is normally displayed
only through color, such as dark rooms, PK rooms, (these
will not display on the room compass, but instead will
display on the line that is enabled with SHOW-EXITS) among
others, in non-colored descriptive text.
SHOW-EXITS if the exit compass is turned off you will see a separate line
listing out the visible exits for the current room; turning this
on may be useful for those with text-to-speech readers
SHOW-NPC-TITLES whether or not you will see NPCs' titles when you LOOK
NPC titles are tags that designate special NPC functions
such as [Shop] or [Train].
SHOW-TITLES whether or not you will see other players' titles when you LOOK
SOUND whether or not you wish to receive sound commands, if you are
on a sound-enabled client and have downloaded the appropriate sound
packages
SUPERBRIEF will not show full character descriptions via 'LOOK' while on;
will not show full room descriptions unless requested by the
'LOOK' command
SEE ALSO
ansi, notify, novice, rules, mount, channels, look, title, i-mail, page
commands
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