Movement/Sneaking
Noticing some issues

Move lag has always been a thing. That is to say, if you enter something like n, n, n, w, n, e, e, sometimes this will get messed up. That's fine, you can usually sub it out for go n n n w n e e and it works fine. But lately I've been noticing it messing up slightly more often, especially while sneaking.

Specifically, sometimes I will try to sneak a direction and the input sneak e will return nothing. Even if I type it again, nothing. Then if I try to go e, I'll sneak that way for some reason. Stop M sometimes fixes this issue, but I've done sneak e, gotten nothing, then stop m and sneak n, and what'll happen is I'll like, teleport into the east room for a split second then sneak north.

Another thing is that sometimes while shadowing people I will just walk after the person instead of sneaking after them. This is highly embarrassing.

A couple other people have noticed this too and it -seems- to be getting worse, but that might just be confirmation bias or something. Anyway I thought I'd make a thread because I don't know how I'd fit that into a bug report.

I'll consistently have a sneak command get eaten by the game (no feedback, have to stop m and re-send) like one out of every three or four times if I'm trying to sneak one room at a time quickly. I don't think it happens as often if you wait a second after entering a room.

I didn't see the teleport thing until earlier today. I dunno if it's gotten worse but sneaking's pretty goofy right now.

I've noticed the sneak east nets you nothing and then go east producing teleportation weirdness as well.

I wanted to add that when I sneak/hide and I shout something, I don't reveal my position and that's kinda weird.

Climb screwing up movement has been an issue ever since I was a new player. I suggest training yourself (as I have) to type stop m after a successful climb. It is so ingrained in me that I don't even think about it anymore.

I have looked into the issue in the past but wasn't able to fix it. Feel free to submit a bug and I will look again. For now stop m should solve for most of the cases people have mentioned.

Also, if you are shadowing someone and you break stealth and follow it could have to do with the room you are entering. Some don't allow stealth like the locker room or drome rest room. If you are brought out of sneak you will continue in non sneak mode for the rest of you follow unless you 'hide'.

Also you can hide at any point while in a go or follow and it turns into a sneak or a shadow.

--S

The issue comes up most when you're erratically trying to change direction to follow someone manually, or to beat them somewhere, you may not realize it but you're inputting commands before the movement queue has time to finish, and it's likely that during times of high population the game is thinking pretty hard, and the movement queue stops processing. If you notice the first command not go through right away just type stop moving or stop m to clear it real quick and continue.

It's hard problem to pin down because it may be related to processing overheard due to high population or volume of commands or combat or other things MOO wide, who knows really, we did some testing last night but were unable to get it to break.

So for now, just stop m in between large shifts of direction with your commands and it should avoid any problems.