New Automated Reboots / Ice Age, Other Changes. Lasher, April 21, 2024April 21, 2024 Race Change Timer / Group Fix: Just a few updates from the reboot last week: The timer for ‘race change’ is now three days. Please note that this change is temporary while we are working on races and will not apply to any timers already in place. Fixed the ‘group’ display for hp/mana/moves over 100k. Added some new building tools for tracking progress across reboots and testing if there is an upcoming reboot. New Automated Reboots: Usually when we reboot they are handled manually. There is a new system where we can set a timer and the game will start to warn when we are 30 minutes out then at various intervals. As we get closer to the reboot, various game functions will be disabled – a list of what is restricted and how far out from the reboot is below. 30 minutes to reboot: – Gquests will not start. – Wars will not start and cannot use ‘startwar’ – Cannot start a poker game. – Lasertag games will not start and a game cannot be manually started. 20 minutes: – Cannot start a mafia game. 15 minutes: – Cannot superhero loud. – Cannot use daily double. – Cannot use double exp christmas card. 10 minutes: – Cannot use regular auction or remort auction. – Donation double will not run. – Cannot retier. 5 minutes: – Cannot use oedit, medit, redit, zedit or mpedit. – Cannot create a new player. – Cannot quest request. 1 minute: – Cannot log in to the game if not an imm. There are probably other things that should be in here. Epics have to be managed individually. There are some new changes for mobprogs to know if we are near a reboot and to save data across reboots so more to come on that and epics…we are not close to rebooting daily yet anyway (except this weekend apparently). These are a few other things that will be different while there is a countdown to a reboot: The commands ‘time’,’realtime’ and ‘weather’ will all show when there is a reboot scheduled. If you login and there is an ice-age pending, it will tell you. If double exp or doubleqp are running at the time of reboot, they will be saved and restarted after. With other doubles blocked this should only to hourly double and imm started double exp/qp for special occasions. The following now save across reboots: – Shopkeeper gold. – Mobdeaths, mobkills, areadeaths, etc … these reset monthly with the monthly rankings. – Channel history for global and clan channels. Personal channels like ftalk, spouse and group chat do not save. MUD News
Friend list changes, Quit Check, Other Updates. January 15, 2011 New Friend List Options: There is a new ‘nofriend‘ command that will prevent others from friending you. This does not apply if they are already on your friend list and are just adding you back. New Syntax ‘friend reject [person] [reason]’ will remove someone from your friend wannabe list and… Read More
Aardwolf Blog Introduction June 20, 2008June 22, 2008 So why, after all these years, an Aardwolf blog? Several reasons. There is a huge amount of activity taking place building out the MUD right now. A lot of this activity is not worth announcing until finalized, but many people are interested in what we’re up to. A blog will… Read More
Knife Fighting, Clan Guard Changes, Second/Third Attack, Others May 14, 2011 Knife Fighting – New Thief Ability: Over time, thieves can become so skilled with their daggers that they are able to execute two attacks in the time it would take others to strike a single time. There is no syntax to this skill – it happens automatically. The primary weapon… Read More