Players who disable it will just get the plain text as message, and no audio. No /keyword needed, an integer number without trailing characters can easily be parsed into a '/taunt #theInteger' locally on his machine if he enables taunts, and if enabled he can still write numbers as non-taunts by adding a space after it.

In the learning process players will just hear the audio while seeing the number chatted. Same as with other things: I can code using vim and use all fancy keyboard shortcuts I want, my work colleague may still program using an IDE and use his mouse to change lines, no one is forbidding it). In short: taunts are caught up in no time by players, remembering a few useful numbers in the least concern (difficulty-wise) of a player to master the gameplay (remember this is just an optional feature, not needed for playing. In Age3 you could download a patch with hundreds of quotes from movies, which were more funny then useful in most game situations even though sometimes convenient, but no one used them because no one knew about them, and they didn't work unless you installed that patch. That is not the target purpose of taunts.

If you want to talk about your cousin's wedding, call him on Skype while you play together. what more than 20 do you want to put in there? there is as many common things you want to tell your partners during a multiplayer game as there is, and that IS about 20-30, not more. You talk about configuration of the 20 most used?. But documentation is not needed, really not. These taunts work for Age Of Empires II and the Conquerors/Forgotten Empires Expansions and will also work on Age of. Very important is to allow the player to en/disable the audio in his settings because some people might find it annoying and would still like to to enjoy the rest of the game's audio. Taunts make the game experience a lot better and you will never memorize all 999 taunts so pressing enter during the game and randomly typing a number between 1-999 can be unexpectedly funny if the right taunt comes along.

It's really intuitive (1=yes, 2=no, 3=need food, need wood, metal, stone, help, attack etc, 11=are you ready, spammed like crazy for people to green up their ready checkbox to start the game) anywhere! There are about 30 per default installed with the game as an easter egg that one player once discovered randomly by chatting a number bellow 31, and then all other players pick it up from him, and all new players pick it up within their first few games. Clearly none of you has ever played Age of Empires 3 online. No, there is no /taunt and no filename, that kills the entire point of speeding up and encouraging communication.

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