How to file an effective bug report

(or "How to get problems taken care of")
1. Be as specific as possible. A vague bug report is really worthless. So, don't mention more than one bug per report and try not to drift onto other topics etc, because that makes it a lot more time consuming for the immortals to dig through all that stuff to get to the bug.

2. Try to give as many details about which commands you typed just before the bug occurred. Sometimes it might not be the last command that you typed that is the source of the bug, and sometimes it could be a combination of things. So try to give us as much info as possible. The history command can quickly tell you what the last few commands were.

3. Just like in real estate, the three most important things are location, location, location. In the majority of bugs, this is the single most important clue in tracking down the bug. I deleted a lot of reports because I just couldn't figure out which room file it was the reporter was talking about. Obviously, the easiest way to solve this problem is to just report the bug in the room that it occurred. If that's not possible or convenient though, try to give as detailed a description as possible when describing the location that you encountered the bug.




NB -
If you would like to do a bug report on an item in your inventory or in the room you may do 'bug/typo/idea/commend <item>' this will give the ainur the necessary information about the item. If the item is in a monster's inventory then do the report on the monster and indicate that it is actually on the specific item which the monster has.