February 11, 2003
Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2003 3:28 am
Newsletter February 11, 2003:
Come visit BR at telnet://barren.coredcs.com:8000/
NEWS:
Kiri: Winner of January's typo quest
Sat Feb 8
This month's winner is STARS - with 7 typos. See me for your prize (once again, only 500 stat because of the
lack of typos reported this month.).
Runner up was Anakin with 6.
Thanks also to Golbez, with 2, and Polgara, Ankou, Codo, Lairian, Xorex, Grogar, and Kilagro,
each with 1 typo.
As a reminder - just reporting a lot of typos in the mud each month will win you a stat raise.
Characters that need to log on:
Crowe, Dariel, Flutter, Frag, Gilgaden, Harkonnen, Igon, Jak, Kara, Kenji, Kevin, Krynn, Moonlivia, Moyat, Nubbz, Orangepeel, Payne, Riker, Runestaff, Starlight, Taipan, Tatsu, Vapour
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IDEAS:
DuVin: I'd like to see roundhouse perhaps gain hits, such as buck does for demons... The race has no standout feature like a backstab/fireball/enhanced damage. So at least let the one skill be helpful. we always are told about the races being balanced and I think Humans are under that par.
Moldfinger: I'd like to be able to throw potions at mobs and have the potions effect the mob
Polgara: Make it so that Aod cannot go into rooms where there are other shopkeepers
Polgara: make a hero version of purge, so we can keep hero and mortal lands cleaner
AMystery: I'd like to see higher max levels for all of the attributes, perhaps up to 40. Right now you can't really go for just one attribute you get a decent level across. It would especially be interesting at higher levels as people improved themselves
Amarilla: Lisette should buy everything sellable from you regardless of level. If it is to low instead of alot of money or value, she could just give you one gold piece for it. However it would get rid of the pesky no drop low level stuff
Moldfinger: it seems that you should be able to tell which way a mob flees during a fight. Perhaps not if you are blind, but in general you would see the enemy running away
AMystery: I'd like to see it so that there is one note pool per person, not per character, with only personal notes and those directed at groups going to individual characters. there's no reason for me to read the same note on every char
Polgara: program clericus and newbie courtyard instructor (especially later) to ignore hero and up.
AMystery: it would be nice to get the messages about people's conditions while they are in a fight. such as "AMystery is pretty hurt". These should go to everyone in the
group, make arena better, make grouping better
RadicalEd: when you give an item/drop an item/sell an item it should show the condition flag. i.e. (Like New) so that way you know what exactly you are giving
DevilsAngel: yellh would be handy
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BIOS - feel free to fill out your own and send it to me:
NAME ON BR: Anakin
BR RACE/LEVEL: 151/Demon
YOUR REAL AGE: 17
YOUR REAL LOCATION (State/province & Country): Woodbridge, VA
YOUR OCCUPATION: Student
YOUR GOALS FOR THE FUTURE: Have a nice family
WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING TO DO BY POSTING HERE? PUT AN X NEXT TO ONE OR ALL:
NETWORKING-X FRIENDSHIP-X FIND LOVE **BOREDNESS-X
WHAT DO YOU LOOK FOR IN A MAN/WOMAN? Honest, Smart, Humorous, esp.
Beautiful.
WHAT DO YOU LOOK FOR IN A FRIEND? Honest, can be relied.
WHAT KIND OF JOB ARE YOU LOOKING FOR? Work for my aunt in a data
processesing company.
IF YOU GO TO COLLEGE, WHICH ONE? n/a
HOW TO CONTACT YOU - ON BR VIA NOTE OR EMAIL? All of the above. Profile me
for my ICQ and AIM accounts.
IF EMAIL, PUT IT HERE: angelofequinox@hotmail.com or zerochocobo@msn.com
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Kiri's WWW of URLS:
From Amystery, this would make life much easier:
http://www.onzin.nl/internetdownload/
From Scavenger. What is he trying to say about you?
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2002-10-11
Caution: dirty link (but funny)
http://www.nbc5i.com/news/1536190/detail.html
Another dirty and funny link. Probably fake, but worth a chuckle - this one care of Sgetsuo.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/16903.html
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RESPONSES TO IDEAS BY ZEROCHOCOBO:
Replies from Zerochocobo:
Its: a light on the ground should light up a dark room just the same as a
light that someone in the room is holding
-I agree, it just makes sense that if there's a light in a room, it will lit
up.
Radicaled: as a demon allow yourself to know what level each of your limbs
are, as to not replace the wrong level
-This is very useful for demon_reheroes who wish to see the level of their
appendages that will get replaced.
Radicaled: make it so when traveling/trackgin u don't get spammed and
disconnected
-It doesn't disconnect you if you are tracking. You just get spammed and
disconnected if you have a trigger
Amarilla: a command called glance, where instead of LOOK showing all the
characters eq you could "glance" at them and just see their condition to
know if you need to heal them
-I'm gonna like this if implemented. I don't like going through those messy
inventories
Divebomb: Add a one-way connection from somewhere in Calathar to the Arena
so that people can walk in as well as use the command (this is in light of
the recents notes complaining about random squishing of morts by heros)
-Some mortals just wouldn't learn their lesson and they are the ones who
actually attacks us first. Heroes fighting mortals should be in the hero
etiquette, they know they will win, what's the point of fighting a mortal?
Anakin: more games (i.e. C4). I mean more kinds of games.
-Just to add, I meant like chess games and what not. (2 or more player
games)
Liubei: a shopkeeper that can change the personalization flag to you for
100k
-I agree, 110%
Grond: Fireproof spell. 'Nuff said.
-I really don't get this, is this like a spell to raise save vs breath?
Cowculator: we need a joke channel
-There's already tons of jesters in BR that I consider all the channels a
joke.
Abaddon: A way for demons to see at what level they got their appendage.
Perhaps using examine would work. I dont know how feasable this is, but it
would be nice.
-Yeah, what I said above.
Geko: i think it would be neat to be able to put color in you title, you
could personalize more
-One of the reasons I took the gratz channel off is because of this colors,
please stop annoying me. I'm about to blow up.
Sej: be able to eat mob corpses like body parts when you are hungry
-No thanks, eating a corpse of a giant is not a great task.
Shiloh: tellh should unscramble drunk like chath
-I don't see why not.
Sej: be able to use things by feel when blind so the cure blindness potion
in my inventory is usefull
-Stuff like these are always confusing, they are basically useless. I saw a
wand that has summon and one that has teleport in it. How can you use that
wand if you can only summon or teleport on a mob on the same room you are
in?
Disaster: damp1, damp2, damp3 to represent increasing amounts of damage
-Is this another one of your tricks to show people that my damp suck? ;P
Liubei: heroes should automatically always have autosac on so they cant turn
it off
-I don't think this is necessary.
I still like carrying corpses for
corpse runs
Cord: how about making it not-possible to summon a fighting mob?
-It's absurd to summon a dying mob from a trying-to-level newbie, isn't it?
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Signs of the Nineties - (already out of date)
You try to enter your password on the microwave.
You haven't played patience with real cards in years.
You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3.
You e-mail your work colleague at the desk next to you to ask "Do you fancy going down the pub?" and they reply "Yeah, give me five minutes".
You chat several times a day with a stranger from South America, but you haven't spoken to your nextdoor neighbour yet this year.
You buy a computer and a week later it is out of date.
Your reason for not staying in touch with friends is that they do not have e-mail addresses.
You consider Royal Mail painfully slow or call it "snail mail".
Your idea of being organised is multiple coloured post-it notes.
You hear most of your jokes via email instead of in person.
When you go home after a long day at work you still answer the phone in a business manner.
When you make phone calls from home, you accidentally insert a "9" to get an outside line.
You've sat at the same desk for four years and worked for three different companies.
Your company welcome sign is attached with Velcro.
Your CV is on a diskette in your pocket.
You really get excited about a 1.7% pay rise.
You learn about your redundancy on the 9 o'clock news.
Your biggest loss from a system crash is that you lose all your best jokes.
Your supervisor doesn't have the ability to do your job.
Contractors outnumber permanent staff and are more likely to get long-service awards.
Board members salaries are higher than all the Third World countries annual budgets combined.
It's dark when you drive to and from work, even in the summer.
You know exactly how many days you've got left until you retire.
Interviewees, despite not having the relevant knowledge or experience, terminate the interview when told of the starting salary.
You see a good looking, smart person and you know it must be a visitor.
Free food left over from meetings is your staple diet.
The work experience person gets a brand-new state-of-the-art laptop with all the features, while you have time to go for lunch while yours powers up.
Being sick is defined as you can't walk or you're in hospital.
You're already late on the assignment you just got.
There's no money in the budget for the five permanent staff your department is short of, but they can afford four full-time management consultants advising your boss's boss on strategy.
Your boss's favourite lines are: "When could you fit this in?" "In your spare time..." "When you're freed up..." "I know you're busy but... "I have an opportunity for you".
Holiday is something you roll over to next year.
Every week another brown collection envelope comes round because someone you didn't know had started is leaving.
You wonder who's going to be left to put into your 'leaving' collection.
Your relatives and family describe your job as "works with computers".
The only reason you recognise your kids is because their pictures are on your desk.
You only have makeup for fluorescent lighting.
You read this entire list, kept nodding and smiling.
As you read this list, you think about forwarding it to your "mates you send jokes to" e-mail group.
It crosses your mind that your jokes group may have seen this list already, but you can't be bothered to check so you forward it anyway.
Come visit BR at telnet://barren.coredcs.com:8000/
NEWS:
Kiri: Winner of January's typo quest
Sat Feb 8
This month's winner is STARS - with 7 typos. See me for your prize (once again, only 500 stat because of the
lack of typos reported this month.).
Runner up was Anakin with 6.
Thanks also to Golbez, with 2, and Polgara, Ankou, Codo, Lairian, Xorex, Grogar, and Kilagro,
each with 1 typo.
As a reminder - just reporting a lot of typos in the mud each month will win you a stat raise.
Characters that need to log on:
Crowe, Dariel, Flutter, Frag, Gilgaden, Harkonnen, Igon, Jak, Kara, Kenji, Kevin, Krynn, Moonlivia, Moyat, Nubbz, Orangepeel, Payne, Riker, Runestaff, Starlight, Taipan, Tatsu, Vapour
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IDEAS:
DuVin: I'd like to see roundhouse perhaps gain hits, such as buck does for demons... The race has no standout feature like a backstab/fireball/enhanced damage. So at least let the one skill be helpful. we always are told about the races being balanced and I think Humans are under that par.
Moldfinger: I'd like to be able to throw potions at mobs and have the potions effect the mob
Polgara: Make it so that Aod cannot go into rooms where there are other shopkeepers
Polgara: make a hero version of purge, so we can keep hero and mortal lands cleaner
AMystery: I'd like to see higher max levels for all of the attributes, perhaps up to 40. Right now you can't really go for just one attribute you get a decent level across. It would especially be interesting at higher levels as people improved themselves
Amarilla: Lisette should buy everything sellable from you regardless of level. If it is to low instead of alot of money or value, she could just give you one gold piece for it. However it would get rid of the pesky no drop low level stuff
Moldfinger: it seems that you should be able to tell which way a mob flees during a fight. Perhaps not if you are blind, but in general you would see the enemy running away
AMystery: I'd like to see it so that there is one note pool per person, not per character, with only personal notes and those directed at groups going to individual characters. there's no reason for me to read the same note on every char
Polgara: program clericus and newbie courtyard instructor (especially later) to ignore hero and up.
AMystery: it would be nice to get the messages about people's conditions while they are in a fight. such as "AMystery is pretty hurt". These should go to everyone in the
group, make arena better, make grouping better
RadicalEd: when you give an item/drop an item/sell an item it should show the condition flag. i.e. (Like New) so that way you know what exactly you are giving
DevilsAngel: yellh would be handy
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BIOS - feel free to fill out your own and send it to me:
NAME ON BR: Anakin
BR RACE/LEVEL: 151/Demon
YOUR REAL AGE: 17
YOUR REAL LOCATION (State/province & Country): Woodbridge, VA
YOUR OCCUPATION: Student
YOUR GOALS FOR THE FUTURE: Have a nice family
WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING TO DO BY POSTING HERE? PUT AN X NEXT TO ONE OR ALL:
NETWORKING-X FRIENDSHIP-X FIND LOVE **BOREDNESS-X
WHAT DO YOU LOOK FOR IN A MAN/WOMAN? Honest, Smart, Humorous, esp.
Beautiful.
WHAT DO YOU LOOK FOR IN A FRIEND? Honest, can be relied.
WHAT KIND OF JOB ARE YOU LOOKING FOR? Work for my aunt in a data
processesing company.
IF YOU GO TO COLLEGE, WHICH ONE? n/a
HOW TO CONTACT YOU - ON BR VIA NOTE OR EMAIL? All of the above. Profile me
for my ICQ and AIM accounts.
IF EMAIL, PUT IT HERE: angelofequinox@hotmail.com or zerochocobo@msn.com
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Kiri's WWW of URLS:
From Amystery, this would make life much easier:
http://www.onzin.nl/internetdownload/
From Scavenger. What is he trying to say about you?
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2002-10-11
Caution: dirty link (but funny)
http://www.nbc5i.com/news/1536190/detail.html
Another dirty and funny link. Probably fake, but worth a chuckle - this one care of Sgetsuo.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/16903.html
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RESPONSES TO IDEAS BY ZEROCHOCOBO:
Replies from Zerochocobo:
Its: a light on the ground should light up a dark room just the same as a
light that someone in the room is holding
-I agree, it just makes sense that if there's a light in a room, it will lit
up.
Radicaled: as a demon allow yourself to know what level each of your limbs
are, as to not replace the wrong level
-This is very useful for demon_reheroes who wish to see the level of their
appendages that will get replaced.
Radicaled: make it so when traveling/trackgin u don't get spammed and
disconnected
-It doesn't disconnect you if you are tracking. You just get spammed and
disconnected if you have a trigger
Amarilla: a command called glance, where instead of LOOK showing all the
characters eq you could "glance" at them and just see their condition to
know if you need to heal them
-I'm gonna like this if implemented. I don't like going through those messy
inventories
Divebomb: Add a one-way connection from somewhere in Calathar to the Arena
so that people can walk in as well as use the command (this is in light of
the recents notes complaining about random squishing of morts by heros)
-Some mortals just wouldn't learn their lesson and they are the ones who
actually attacks us first. Heroes fighting mortals should be in the hero
etiquette, they know they will win, what's the point of fighting a mortal?
Anakin: more games (i.e. C4). I mean more kinds of games.
-Just to add, I meant like chess games and what not. (2 or more player
games)
Liubei: a shopkeeper that can change the personalization flag to you for
100k
-I agree, 110%
Grond: Fireproof spell. 'Nuff said.
-I really don't get this, is this like a spell to raise save vs breath?
Cowculator: we need a joke channel
-There's already tons of jesters in BR that I consider all the channels a
joke.
Abaddon: A way for demons to see at what level they got their appendage.
Perhaps using examine would work. I dont know how feasable this is, but it
would be nice.
-Yeah, what I said above.
Geko: i think it would be neat to be able to put color in you title, you
could personalize more
-One of the reasons I took the gratz channel off is because of this colors,
please stop annoying me. I'm about to blow up.
Sej: be able to eat mob corpses like body parts when you are hungry
-No thanks, eating a corpse of a giant is not a great task.
Shiloh: tellh should unscramble drunk like chath
-I don't see why not.
Sej: be able to use things by feel when blind so the cure blindness potion
in my inventory is usefull
-Stuff like these are always confusing, they are basically useless. I saw a
wand that has summon and one that has teleport in it. How can you use that
wand if you can only summon or teleport on a mob on the same room you are
in?
Disaster: damp1, damp2, damp3 to represent increasing amounts of damage
-Is this another one of your tricks to show people that my damp suck? ;P
Liubei: heroes should automatically always have autosac on so they cant turn
it off
-I don't think this is necessary.
I still like carrying corpses for corpse runs
Cord: how about making it not-possible to summon a fighting mob?
-It's absurd to summon a dying mob from a trying-to-level newbie, isn't it?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Signs of the Nineties - (already out of date)
You try to enter your password on the microwave.
You haven't played patience with real cards in years.
You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3.
You e-mail your work colleague at the desk next to you to ask "Do you fancy going down the pub?" and they reply "Yeah, give me five minutes".
You chat several times a day with a stranger from South America, but you haven't spoken to your nextdoor neighbour yet this year.
You buy a computer and a week later it is out of date.
Your reason for not staying in touch with friends is that they do not have e-mail addresses.
You consider Royal Mail painfully slow or call it "snail mail".
Your idea of being organised is multiple coloured post-it notes.
You hear most of your jokes via email instead of in person.
When you go home after a long day at work you still answer the phone in a business manner.
When you make phone calls from home, you accidentally insert a "9" to get an outside line.
You've sat at the same desk for four years and worked for three different companies.
Your company welcome sign is attached with Velcro.
Your CV is on a diskette in your pocket.
You really get excited about a 1.7% pay rise.
You learn about your redundancy on the 9 o'clock news.
Your biggest loss from a system crash is that you lose all your best jokes.
Your supervisor doesn't have the ability to do your job.
Contractors outnumber permanent staff and are more likely to get long-service awards.
Board members salaries are higher than all the Third World countries annual budgets combined.
It's dark when you drive to and from work, even in the summer.
You know exactly how many days you've got left until you retire.
Interviewees, despite not having the relevant knowledge or experience, terminate the interview when told of the starting salary.
You see a good looking, smart person and you know it must be a visitor.
Free food left over from meetings is your staple diet.
The work experience person gets a brand-new state-of-the-art laptop with all the features, while you have time to go for lunch while yours powers up.
Being sick is defined as you can't walk or you're in hospital.
You're already late on the assignment you just got.
There's no money in the budget for the five permanent staff your department is short of, but they can afford four full-time management consultants advising your boss's boss on strategy.
Your boss's favourite lines are: "When could you fit this in?" "In your spare time..." "When you're freed up..." "I know you're busy but... "I have an opportunity for you".
Holiday is something you roll over to next year.
Every week another brown collection envelope comes round because someone you didn't know had started is leaving.
You wonder who's going to be left to put into your 'leaving' collection.
Your relatives and family describe your job as "works with computers".
The only reason you recognise your kids is because their pictures are on your desk.
You only have makeup for fluorescent lighting.
You read this entire list, kept nodding and smiling.
As you read this list, you think about forwarding it to your "mates you send jokes to" e-mail group.
It crosses your mind that your jokes group may have seen this list already, but you can't be bothered to check so you forward it anyway.