06/27 – Mud stat monitor, tags, new quests and goals. Lasher, June 27, 2008June 27, 2008 New Goals and Quests: There are new goals and tasks in Childs Play, Peaceful Giant Village, Hotel Orlando and Faerie Tales 2. These are generally more advanced than the goals so far (excluding the academy) and can require a lot more exploring to solve. Faerie Tales 2 in particular is difficult. Read ‘help goal solving’ for tips if you really get stuff on a goal. Or just move on and try later. None of these HAVE to be solved to make it through the game. Other game changes this reboot include: The ‘goals’ command now has information on recommended level and relative difficulty (for the level) when you type ‘goals [goalname] There is a new command called ‘tags’ that allows you to put tags around various parts of game output to make scripting easier. Just ‘tags’ with no arguments to see a list. Sometimes you will want to connect from a different client – typing “tags off” will temporarily turn off your tags without losing your settings. Just use “tags on” to turn them back on. There is another new command called ‘statmon’. This dumps out your stats in a format that is easy for clients to parse, after every prompt, or if prompts are off, whenever you would normally receive a prompt. See ‘help statmon’ for what the stats are in order. Although it is not officially released, anyone who download the mushclient test and is comfortable with changing their connection settings to the live MUD instead should be able to use those tools now. The stat window relies on ‘statmon’ being on. The map window requires maptags and ‘tags mapnames’ plus ‘tags mapexits’ to be on if you want those in your map window. A few other minor fixes made it in this reboot: Telekinesis was doing the wrong damage type. Now does bash damage as stated in the help. (Magish) Yell no longer goes through note write. (Bremem) Identify now shows duration on lights. (Kuw) When using something like ‘school of horror’ as an argument to areas and speedwalks, the intent was always to match the whole string, not each word. Now fixed. Also, Speedwalks command will no longer search builder name. Areas command still does. (Dras) Fixed shortmap being off with tags captured – an extra blank line was being displayed so if you were redirecting the map elsewhere, you’d get an extra line between room desc and exits. Feedback, comments, questions welcomed as always. Announce Board childs playfree rpgGame Designhotel orlandomud clientmud statsrpg
Skills, spells, PK and goals update – Oct 9th 2008 October 9, 2008 Daze/Stun abilities redo: Daze has been redone. It no longer prevents multicast. Being dazed means your effective skill in ANY skill or spell is reduced. Points of note about these changes are: Daze is bad for skill users as well as spell users. Having equipment to boost a skill %… Read More
Aardwolf – new skills and code changes, Dec 30th 2008 December 30, 2008 Important MUD changes this reboot – December 30th 2008: In addition to the changes listed below, an important player file update was made this reboot. Objects, rooms and skills are now stored in compressed format. This has been heavily reviewed on the test port but please let us know of… Read More
Chaos Portal rewrite, Navigator and Crafter spells, etc – Aug 15th. August 15, 2008 Chaos Portal Changes: When a navigator casts chaos portal, if their first attempt is a continent they will try again. This does not mean they won’t hit a continent room, it’s just a second chance not to. There is no new skill/spell for this, it is just part of the… Read More