You can refuse to deal with it if you wish, but the game almost forces me to
use it.

Last night I got knocked off the boat while I was just standing there. This
was just before it zoned into BB. If I was allowed to swim across the zone
I could have been to BB in 5 minutes.

You might prefer to drown instead of using loc, but the roleplaying aspect
of the game was already lost when I was thrown off the boat by a BUG. I
have to use these "debugging" commands with dealing with bugs.

Wayne

> Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 11:55:29 -0400
> From: Bob Stewart <bstewart@...>
>Subject: Re: Boat Problems
>
>At 08:50 AM 6/24/99 -0700, Jim Mattson wrote:
>>Swim to -2140, 7490 or 220, -9210. Those are the two spots the boat
>>stops. Good luck!
>
>In a similar vein to the discussion of bards wearing plate and other
>aspects of roleplaying, are there other hardheads out their who would
>rather drown than use /loc and numeric coordinates?
>
>Personally I consider /loc a debugging command and a roleplaying
>abomination. I refuse to deal with it. If we are to have such a pin-point
>locating and finding capability, it should be a proper in-game mechanism,
>not a computer programming artifact.
>
> Bob