Aardwolf MUD – New Goals and game updates – Aug 23rd 2008 Lasher, August 23, 2008August 23, 2008 Important MUD changes this reboot – August 23rd 2008: Auto assisting in PK has been moved out from regular auto assist and there is a new command ‘autopk’ that defaults to off. You need both autoassist flags on to assist in a PK fight. A lot of subclass skills are…
New: Oracle, Hunter, Crafter, Shaman and Avenger Abilities Lasher, August 23, 2008August 23, 2008 Subclass skills and spells Several new subclass abilities were added this week. Details below: Necromancer: The spells ‘Strike undead‘ and ‘Blast undead‘ are like lower level versions of necrocide – they will always target the mobs lowest resistance and only work against undead. Avenger: The Avenger class has a new…
Chaos Portal rewrite, Navigator and Crafter spells, etc – Aug 15th. Lasher, 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…
New: Oracle, Necromancer, Evoker, Hunter, Navigator subclass abilities. Lasher, August 10, 2008 Subclass skills and spells The subclass project is now moving again. The first group to come in is below. The amount of new abilities each reboot will depend on time available and complexity of individual skills/spells, but you shouldsee steady progress now. Also, don’t assume a group of abilities coming…
More goals, runto and runprefix commands – Aug 2nd. Lasher, August 2, 2008 Two new commands related to speedwalks were added to the MUD this morning: Runto Command: The runto command provides basic speedwalk capability using the directions listed in the ‘speedwalks’ command. When standing at the Aylor recall, typing ‘runto [area keyword]’ will execute the speedwalk to that area. From anywhere in…
Quest / Goal system upgrade, more new areas and goals. Lasher, July 27, 2008 We had a full reboot this evening. The main reason for the reboot was some extensive upgrading done to the goal system. The new ‘tasklog’ system gets the goal interface overall close to where it needs to be. Time to move on and start subclasses again. In the meantime, the…
New server, new goals, new area. Lasher, July 20, 2008July 20, 2008 It’s been quite a day. We are now live on the new server at Softlayer in Dallas and not in the middle of Florida during hurricane season. The MUD’s new IP address is 208.43.193.234, but by the time anyone is reading this, aardmud.org DNS should have been updated for everyone….
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…