So... I was able to play from my laptop for a few hours not so long ago, and I went from getting slaughtered in every fight to winning them all, simply from having aliases in most fights and a decent keyboard for the rest.

Which convinced me that my method of playing from my mobile really is hugely handicapping. For example, I can never quaff a teleport portion because it's too long an action to type before being re-engaged, and I basically can't run unless it is in a straight line. And even then trying to run East or West often find me doubling back on myself without meaning to, because e and w are next to each other on my tiny tiny keyboard.

So I downloaded a different mud client for my phone. It seems pretty decent in that it had buttons to move around (albeit hard to see on the screen) and you can preprogram buttons which takes a while but then is as good as an alias, I think.

The problem is that every line of text from the mud has about 3 or 4 blank lines between it, messing I miss half the information and the flow of text is many times faster than normal. Is the mud itself sending something that causes this, which I can tell the mud not to?

Otherwise I'm pretty screwed in pk. I think I'm about 0 and 10 using my phone and 5 and 0 using my laptop. And don't get me started on the mob deaths where I accidentally run into mobs and then be into them while trying to move away.