There are a few commands you'll want to enter as soon as you get through with the character creation process. These are mostly meta commands that set preferences for you. You can always change these later, of course, but in the beginning it is a good idea to set these.
Normally when one says things in Genesis, what is returned is a simple "Ok."
> say Hello there, how are you doing? Ok.
However, many people like to have a local echo of what they say for visual clarity.
> say Hello there, how are you doing? You say: Hello there, how are you doing?
This is set by using the options command, like so:
> options echo on
It is worth noting that this makes logs much easier to read, and lets you see more easily when you have made a typo. On the other hand, it also increases the clutter, so you may wish to keep the echo off.
When in combat, a character will not flee unless his wimpy is set to a level besides "brave." If it is left at brave, the character will fight until he dies, unless the player manually commands the character to leave the room. If the player's connection to Genesis is laggy the commands may not get through in time and the character may die. So the wimpy command exists to let the character flee automatically once he is hurt to the specified degree. You can find more by typing help wimpy. For now, just enter
> options wimpy very hurt
Another variable option that is of immediate import is the see fights option. The default is to see no fights. A characters who has see no fights set will only see a combatant's swings if that combatant is swinging at the character or of that combatant is the character. A character who has see fights set will see all combat going on in his vicinity.
The following is an example of what a character with see fights set might see when Bodo attacks an orc in the room.
Bodo attacks the dirty orc. The dirty orc swings at Bodo with his shabby black mace, but misses. Bodo smashes the dirty orc with his iron longsword, very hard. Bodo massacres the dirty orc with his iron longsword. The dirty orc died.
This is what a person with see no fights set would see:
Bodo attacks the dirty orc. The dirty orc died.
For now, in order to avoid confusion, I recommend that you set see fights. Do this by typing
> options see fights
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