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Old 09-17-2015, 11:21 PM
Droog007 Droog007 is offline
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Originally Posted by ShitsClassicNerds
Stuff about a single chat window
Pretty sure it was not long after Velious launched, or maybe even before - they added the /hitsmode command to the UI. It gave you a CLI method to move combat spam out of your main window and into a new window that you could define. You had to define the x and y coordinates, maybe width and height, and how abbreviated you wanted the text to be... e.g. the full 'You pierce a tundra kodiak for 40 points of damage.' could be shortened to 'Pierce tundra kodiak for 40', or even just '40'.

edit: hmmm... Monkly Business post puts it in the vicinity of 3/21/2002
Last edited by Droog007; 09-17-2015 at 11:23 PM..