Talk:Stride Aliases
From LSWiki
My original intention was to showcase the specific utility of using nicknames and aliases to manage your inventory with a container (sporran), the scroll nicknaming alias, gear loadouts, and a couple of other niche uses of for loops that I think are interesting. But I've come to realize that a list of "useful aliases" has a near perfect overlap of a list of "useful commands" for new players. So with that in mind I'm considering rewriting this section as two (possibly three) articles.
The first one will include all of the aliases from the original article plus many more that are useful but not interesting (to me). This will possibly be useful to new players coming across the page because they will be simultaneously be introduced to commands they might not be familiar with and the lengths they can go through to avoid typing them. It will have more raw alias commands and less commentary than the original. The second article will be more of an intermediate command guide that covers some of the play patterns and less obvious uses of targeting, nicknaming, and lists that I got windy about in the original article while omitting all of the obviously useful junk like set alias short to say typing short words is easier than typing long words.
Below is a rough outline for what those two articles might look like, maybe I'll come back to this later. --Stride 14:56, 18 October 2021 (EDT)
also first article could possibly incorporate/replace Power Aliases should also add interconnectivity with Vets and Boggotin's guides which are pretty good intermediate level ones.
--Stride 16:12, 21 October 2021 (EDT)
Useful Aliases that will make your brain smarter and keep your keyboard fresh (working title)
intro
Type less words to do more things, duh.
Useful atman aliases
Go commands
not comprehensive, mostly just a link to Xailor's Speedwalks the go commands on the Lenses page deserve a shoutout, I see that page has twice as many views as this one
Trainer commands
not comprehensive, though potentially a page for this (similar to xailor's) would be cool, a dynamic procedural one even better
Inventory management
(very) briefly explain nickname scheme rationale, link to article #2, invite player to substitute their own
SPOHO and/or PHOLE stuff
include SPOHO and PHOL variants
Gear sets
similar to original
Inventory items
similar
iouns
tap em, stow em, pick em up
Consummables
scrolls potions lenses food just noticed there's no Oil Lanterns article in the items page
Dupes
trying to keep this server-side only, but can maybe talk about triggers here
Modifying and viewing Behavioural Settings and Character Management
stats/development, combat settings, suspending/enabling attacks and defenses keeping/keep capacity
Info Dumps and Display Settings
score, common help files like taeb, exploration, experience stuff that makes sense to view together but isn't a category like cmed/med/cref attack/damage/deflect[/discharge/launch/throw] or whatever filtering, pagination
Common Actions
variants of treat me, rest/meditate, looting determine location, wander, look around extinguish, relent/conciliate (because it's difficult type letters in order while you're on fire) busting doors, pulling levers, the shadow tower key one
Followers
for followers here do say blah to each for familiars here do concentrate on urging each to blah check health, treat, check xp, stuff like that
Incarnoi aliases
brief about baseline, and posture
baselineing your (and followers') attack
the posture nonsense
Affil aliases
Hopefully not just things that are obvious like short word better than long word, but those are sometimes fine too, include links to all affils because interconnectivity is good.
slingers
garlic
Article #2 Neat things to do with aliases
Less write more do
Aliases that are just abbreviations for commands you don't wanna type
ex to extinguish think about my ability to form empathic bonds set specialty degree in concentrate on urging familiar_name_here to $@
Less write lots do
Aliases that are several commands executed in series, sometimes multiple aliases that chain
set attack scatter to 100;set effort to 200;set combat mode to all-out;concentrate on urging familiar to also do that or whatever go somewhere;unwield weapons;go more in;say something (wait) go in more;do some more stuff;get thing;go elsewhere;say next thing (wait) win!
nicknames
cover the inventory management stuff in case it's interesting to someone
for loops, repetition commands in aliases
these are neat and cool
for me and companions do treat each get foods;eat food;eat food;eat food;put foods for lanterns do refill each from flask of oil
also this
say incoming $1 farts;$1fart
baselining, arguments, unreferenced args
stop attacking with all;start attacking with good stuff free hand;wield thing say $@ in $1
Aliases inside aliases
unpack to open spoho;get $@ from spoho pack to put $@ in spoho;close spoho dup to do some stuff to $@ multidup to unpack $@;$1dup $@;pack $@
fail cases, lists of things, lists of things with exclusions
the inventory thing possessions and items, belongings, items except belongings, friends etc.
wield $@ two-handed;wield $@ get thing1 and tihng2;get thing2
