the proper mixed-case form automatically. <ship>, if it is not
provided, will be assumed to be the one you're on (so officers
shouldn't send these runes unless only one ship is out). If <ship>
- is supplied it may be the full ship name, or only the second word.
+ is supplied it may match the full ship name, or only the second
+ word. You can put `*'s in <ship> which will match anything.
For example:
/a haddock: aiah
/d aiah
/a smart sunfish: copperkatie
+ /a s* sunfish: anaplian
These are actually sent by typing in the chat box things like:
/o /d plonker
/off /a hypiscles
where the game reports this in the log, which doesn't seem to be
all the time), and from many of the other messages that occur.
+ Matching for ship patterns in /a and /d commands picks the first
+ of the following which applies and is not contradicted by any
+ name or partial name specified in the command:
+ - The ship we think the person telling us is on board
+ - The ship we think we are on board
+ - Any other ship we know about, if at least a something was
+ specified, and provided that is not ambiguous
+ - The specific ship name if it is completely specified,
+ possibly recording this as a new ship
+
Other things to mention:
* There's nothing really resembling a manual.