Shattered Kingdoms

Behold, the difference between ugly (incorrect) and not ugly (correct).

I hate green. I've set my default color to grey and my black to dark grey because otherwise I can't see it. Damn, green is so ugly.

Wow, this is indeed the newbie section. There is no such thing as "correct" color in the mud. It has to do with the interpretation that your client does for a code that is equivalent to a color value. Given that the more basic telnet client is your PC's simple telnet client, you can see there what is more close to a default representation of those colors.

Anything you do not color in the mud has the "default color" which is up to your client to interpret with the color it uses as default. In Zmnud it is green, in MUSHclient it is grey etc. Some clients even give you the option to choose what the default color will be for you.

I still think the one that is correct is still to bright of a white. Perhaps I'm just used to PuTTY's darker colors.

And FYI: PuTTY is less than a 1 MB download. Go ahead and give it a shot....

Real men use PuTTY afterall. </Dulrik Fanboy>

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PS In my defense, I started using PuTTY long before I knew D did.

Putty is a nice and handy client to have around, for telnet and ssh across the internet. But it direly lacks many of the mud client's additions, say color management, keep text in buffer after send, and various other things i am used to.

All in all putty is handy to have around in a flash drive, in case you end up someplace from where you wanna play and they dont have a prog.

This is a MUSHClient screenshot with modified colors.

General text is gray. Say is green, tells are in cyan, and emotes are in gray too.

These are the correct colors.

And real men don't even bother with putty. A simple gnome terminal or Konsole is enough. Plus they make a desktop borderless terminal and redirect the SK terminal's output there, so you can enjoy SK text flooding your desktop.

That's were I'll comment that unix based OS own you all and Sadr will nod sagely.

I may or may not agree,

But as for that major most used clients that don't run off a self specified client that does eveything you personally want engine...

Telnet is where it's at. HyperTerminal for the populace.

I am going to be completely honest: that is mad fugly.


I'm aware of how ANSI colors work, but I was curious to see two things:

a) if IMMs have a standardized color scheme that they use when building
b) what most players see when they're playing

There are, in fact, WRONG colors - such as the green for default. Most people use light grey, but i like the look of the pure white better.