What Happened To Yelling?

[cokomantis]

Well, I'm a fella who likes selling his goods shouting things like "X for sale, only Y gp! It's the best price you can find!" rather than posting a thread. But it seems yelling doesn't work. Some folks in IRC told me it was removed after a recent patch. I couldn't find any info in patch notes section, so I believe it's not something that's done in the name of era accuracy. (I don't think yelling and whispering is somehow out of "era" but you never know...)

So! What up?

[Van Raily]

How recent? Yelling was working at the end of March (used a Yell: "Bank" macro to get to those damn bankers easier).

[Arcott Ramathorn]

BRING BACK YELLING!!!

WHISPERING TOO.

[Derrick]

to yell, preface your text with an '!', There's been no change to this.

[Van Raily]

WHISPERING TOO.

That works too. Hit ";".

[SJane3384]

to yell, preface your text with an '!', There's been no change to this.

How far should it go? I've tried yelling from my bank boat in Cove, and can never get a banker (even though they're like a screen away).

[Van Raily]

I think you have to see them on AllNames, or they have to be maybe one tile off screen. I believe the book said "twice as far as speech", so imagine how far away you can be from an NPC when saying "Vendor Buy", and then double that.

[SJane3384]

Weird. Sometimes I can even see them and it doesn't work (nor does regular speech). Maybe it's because part of the water is "outside" of town?

[Van Raily]

I don't know.

I tried it in Delucia, at the mage hut. I couldn't access my bank with a normal "Bank", but when I tried Yelling it, it worked - through the rattan wall and the stone wall to the banker inside near the edge of my screen.

[Arcott Ramathorn]

to yell, preface your text with an '!', There's been no change to this.

How far should it go? I've tried yelling from my bank boat in Cove, and can never get a banker (even though they're like a screen away).

I dont think there are any bankers in cove anymore...So your gonna have to yell extra loud to get the bankers attention in Vesper or something.

[nightshark]

Weird. Sometimes I can even see them and it doesn't work (nor does regular speech). Maybe it's because part of the water is "outside" of town?

Shouldn't make a difference - case in point: bucs den.

I was unaware yelling made a difference to getting NPC's attention. I know on OSI you could make a macro
Whisper: all follow me
Emote: Whistles

Assuming you were more than 1 tile from anyone on the screen, they would just see:
*Whistles*
The pet would still follow you from the other side of the screen.

This suggests NPCs didn't give a damn if you were yelling or whispering - the range check for speech was the same.

[Van Raily]

That came later on. I remember having Yell: Bank on my macros until I started RPing in about 2000-2001, when I started using Whisper: Bank for the same thing.

[Lazarus]

wow, I dont think I ever knew you could yell.

[nightshark]

I tried whispering "bank" here, NPCs will ignore you. Whether or not yelling makes a difference, not sure.

[cokomantis]

umm actually, i didn't test if i can open my bank box a bit further away than i could without yelling. (nor do i care, to be honest.)

but i did test yelling: my one screen away toon didn't hear me.