Newbie question about location names

lazzah
29 Dec 2013, 10:39
Hi all, quick question:

If I want to have more than 1 location with the same name, e.g. "road through village" where there are three of them, is it possible to add a suffix - which will not be seen by the player - to differentiate between the three, e.g. west, middle and east or just 1, 2 and 3?

Thanks.

jaynabonne
29 Dec 2013, 11:48
Any object (including rooms) has both a name and an alias. If defined, the alias is shown to the player. Otherwise, the name is. The name must be unique internally, but the alias does not. So in your case, set the alias for the three rooms to "road through village", so that's what the player will see, and then make the internal names whatever you like. I tend to lean away from having objects without aliases. I don't want to have the player exposed to what my internal names might be.