[MUD-Dev] Re: Convincing Players to Read Documentation

[Marc Bowden]

--On Tuesday, October 3, 2000 7:42 AM +1300 Richard Tew 
<richard.tew at wiredgroup.com> wrote:

>> From: Marc Bowden [mailto:ryumo at merit.edu]
>>   This young gent was quite upset, because the help command lied
>>   to  him. "Your mud's broken," he tells me over and over. "I'm
>> supposed to  have this command and I don't. It's not fair."
>>
>>   Our 'help' system logs all requests that don't turn up an
>>   answer. A  check made me begin banging my head against a wall.
>> He had, you see,  been typing variants of "help <topicname>" for
>> five minutes  or so, and
>> was angry, because the 'topicname' command didn't work.
>
> Is it worth putting in a help document for the topicname topic? :)
>

  We have one, because of this incident. =) Thus, the logging. That's 
how we get most of the more far-out helps, like the help doc for 
bigamy. I swear, people demand help on the most mind-boggling things.

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Marc Bowden - Soulsinger         Dreamshadow:The Legacy of the Three
  ryumo at merit.edu                                 206.246.120.2 3333
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