My speech is set at 100% and there it shall stay, especially when I'm
mudding. I do have to slow it down a little to read paragraphs of text, but
I'm getting better at that. It helps to have your speech set as high as
possible when you're mudding. Using Sapi is an absolutely terrible idea
unless you have your Sapi speech rate pretty high, especially since it has
no review commands. The output window is ok, but I usually use the jaws
cursor and window virtualization and only rely on the output window if I
need to scroll way back and look at something, and most of the time not even
then, I'll just use the page up key to scroll back to the point I want and
then virtualize or read it with the jaws cursor. Most blind people would
disagree, and have, but I find that the jaws cursor is extremely necessary
for mudding, as well as heavy use of the control key. It makes reviewing
things a lot easier, and keeping up with battles very easy. I have no
problem healing in groups because there are so many monitoring commands on
alter and a lot of times I can just see the person that needs healed taking
a hit, so I just toss them a heal. It's funny, I usually have worse luck
tanking because sometimes someone will be being attacked and I will have
forgotten to grab the spelling of their name before hand, I do all of my
tanking manually and not through triggers or aliases, which means sometimes
things do get a little tricky, but that's a fault of mine and noone elses.
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From: "john" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 06:52 AM
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] My issue with muds, discuss
Thanks for mentioning the point about speech. I personally have jaws at
around 60% (not sure what that translates into for everybody else), but
it's uninteligable for the vast majority of
people. I'll also turn it up even faster if I'm trying to heal in a large
group, as the ability to here things at a really fast rate is one of the
best advantages you can have. In my opinion if you don't have your speech
rate way up your shooting yourself in the foot.
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From: "Shadow Dragon" <[email protected]
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]
Date sent: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 05:35:20 -0600
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] My issue with muds, discuss
Can't say I've ever really had this issue, if I want to read atmosphere
text, I just read it no matter what else is going on, I'm good enough at
mudding that my characters can survive long enough for me to look around,
look at the monster, etc. I've even seen the descriptions on a lot of the
stronger mobs on alter. It's all just a matter of what you're willing to
do
to see the atmospheric text, how fast your speech reads, and how good of a
player you are. Basically all I'm saying here is if I want to see
something,
I see it, weather it's turn based, realtime, or graphical with someone
sighted describing it to me, and I've never had this problem even with
mudding.
My problem with muds is that pretty much all of them feel the same after a
while, even semi-unique ones like alter, miriani, unofficial squaresoft
mud
and new moon. Quests are great, but once they're done, they're done, and
I've never seen a mud able to keep up a constant stream of quests for you
to
do. And once you're done with all those quests, it comes down to a simple
matter of hack and slash, and maybe exploration, but most muds don't
reward
you for exploration, alter only just started doing this about a year ago,
so
I've never seen any point, it's not like there's ever any history in areas
to be filled out or storyline to experience most of the time. There's a
couple areas on alter where you can see a little history, but not many. My
favorite area is still the greenhole, simply for it's amazing level of
interactivity, and it's unfinished and will probably remain so.
I think what it boils down to is you either have no problems with muds at
all and play them, or there's just one little flaw that you can find in
every mud that eventually breaks the whole game for you. At least that's
what I'm finding. Your flaw, dark, is time, and mine is lack of things to
do
and in a lot of cases, lack of interactivity with the world. Oh, and guess
the syntax. Guess the syntax is terrible.
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