From: "Kiri" Subject: Newsletter April 11, 2001 Date: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 7:27 PM Welcome to the Barren Realms Newsletter: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ideas: Armageddon: a corpse cooking idea. If you can tan them, why not cook them and eat them? Deathless: a speco for scared mobs, they will try to flee or leave whenever someone is in the same room as them, regardless of if they are fighting. They don't like being around any players Wasabe: How about a local time option for the prompt? So I know what time it is and all that good stuff... :) Kiri -- I'd like to point out that most people don't use Linux to connect to the mud, thus they conveniently have a clock on their toolbar. *wink* Arete: when you quaff a potion that forces you to do spells... get rid of the "You can't do that." It doesn't make sense. Since a potion shouldn't force you to cast spells... but instead cast spells on you. Therefore, maybe it would be a good idea to be ca Kiri -- This is true. There are some spells that don't work when put on potions, staves, or whatnot. The ideal way to handle this is to go through and remove all of those spells on the items, but that's a huge job. Since nothing detrimental is happening, just a statement that you can't do it, it is sort of low on the priority list. But I agree with you, it's silly. Wasabe: Perhaps be able to play a game while we sleep... to help pass the time... Kiri -- not a bad idea. Maybe we could have an option to exit to a logic game or the casino, although realism sort of suggests no. Wasabe: What's my BR birthday? :) Xorex: How about a "description -" it would be really helpful Kiri -- We have this. Wasabe: Color in the descriptions... that would be neat... mayhaps an extension to the prompt and cheer printing fn's? Mathis: be able to id your eq when your wearing it (for the noremove stuff really...) Wasabe: how about another color INTENSE BLACK... this is one shade darker than ^w and one shade lighter than blain color 0 Wasabe: Autosplitting should not occur when the member of a group takes coins out a pack or other holding object... it should be up tto the users discretion when and how they split their coins. Kiri - I agree completely. This is a bug. Wasabe: I really wish we had a command to filter text from stdin... much like grep... list | grep black ... etc who | grep M Wasabe: Fore ground and Background ANSI escape sequence color coding for Descriptions... It sure would look purdy... maybe no need for back ground coloring... but it would add some effect... :) Fiend: the ability to use snoop on your alts. this would be useful when you are grouped with yourself and you wanna check your partners stats Kiri -- I don't even want to go here. If you are dead set on multiplaying, feel free to download a client to help you with it. I'm even uncomfortable with 2 characters multiplaying. Wasabe: how about a level desciption for Candyland... at the front gate to the area? Wasabe: I think like the fly flag... there should be a swim flag... since well swimming is flying under a liquid... and I still don't know how I tripped this fish ;) Wasabe: Be able to 'where' a corpse... would really help some. Wasabe: Situated weather... since Rain in spain != Rain in Hawaii Kiri -- this is eventually coming. Wasabe: How about a submarine for a vehicle? :) so we don't need scuba geer... Wasabe: How about when typing "affects" it lists just how terribly bad one is drunk... I mean how long will I have to mope around before I can eat a pie without hurling it? ;) Wasabe: Is it possible to be able to add conditional statements to aliases? ex: if(!invis){get elixir leather;quaff elixir;} Wasabe: When weapons are disarmed... different weapon types should fall differently. (this is trivial I know)But a hammer should not "Go Flying!!!" it should "Drops with a thundering BOOM!" etc. etc. Kiri -- technically, they ALL go flying from your hand, though. Wasabe: How about when typing "aliases" it shows the count of them... so we know if we are pass the limit of 10... to tell which will be saved. Kiri -- you can't just type alias and look? Is it really that hard to count to ten? Wasabe: MCCP : http://www.randomly.org/projects/MCCP/index.html Mathis: if your flying and you trip a flying mob, that mob should land Foy: trip should do a tiny amount of damage Kethan: for prompt, give the option to close the prompt with a blank line. i hate it when things are messed up because they are caught on the prompt See: have hide come up on the list of Spells: You are affected by Kiri -- this seems very reasonable. Wasabe: How about a help file containing all the equipable areas on the body... for a quick reference... so we know if we're missing something or not... thanks Wasabe: As you gain more experience... shouldn't you learn how to better step so to use even less moves? How odd that we continue to gain moves well past their true usage. Howard: I just came to understand a past "repete last tell" command - so when someone is asleep and doesn't get the message, you don't have to retype it all. "rtell" or something like that - could be very useful Wasabe: How about a spell to hide drunkenese... available from clericus. Kiri -- Your own or other people's? Either way I'm not sure I want to take away the penalty of drunkeness. Wasabe: A way to list things by level, cost... etc Kiri -- you can by level. List 20 30, list 12 32, whatever. Cost you can't. Wasabe: How about a spell for dexterity for dwarves? Fate: some maps need to be redone because of new areas. Id gladly do this if you note me. Kiri -- Whytl and Gilligan's Island are currently wrong. I'll be working on these. Arcane: i think you need to make the idea work probably so it doesn't say line to long when you put in a good, lengthly idea. Armageddon: a way to transfer quest items so that they can be traded/auctioned etc... Kiri -- I prefer quest items to be unique to the character, otherwise people just keep passing on a super amazing item to people that didn't earn it. Wasabe: How about adding the ability to know when there has been a repop... something like a configurable option. Kiri -- that's what the tick message is for. ARCANE: Maybe a quest you could do that would make you perma pk outside arena. Kiri -- frankly, we're not a pk mud. Wasabe: Drunks should lose hp when they hit walls... Armageddon: spells plz make it so that can't be cast in combat don't suffer from spell lag. I understand it for inside combat, but it's really annoying when you're trying to heal up and have to wait 5 min while your heal alias resolves DuctTape: add a chant channel :> Kharn: we need a 2nd mud school .... its like impossible to introduce a newbie while another newbie is in the school (no trainees at all ect) Colador: Have an automated auction system. Kiri -- people don't even use auction on BR now. Lehua: i think the guardian should sell popcorn, the Guardian should sell soda too ;-) Wasabe: If an avian carries a player... said player should not need to be invisible... Wasabe: How about making the amount of damage bash can do be based on the amount of hp a user has? Wasabe: how about an option to see how full a scuba tank is... 'look in tank' or something. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Characters that need to log on: aiki, alucardx, Boppin, Caradin, Drjones, Edwin, Flux, gregor, Kerwyn, Malek, Mesmo, Mytore, Namek, Sangfroid, Soulcatcher, Stephenie, Thaerin, Tical, Tryis, Valic, Valya, Yhsic, Yor -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I need bios! Please send them! a. What's your BR name? Sandra b. What race/level are you? Illithid/50 c. How did you pick your BR name? My wife at the time. :-) d. What's your favorite area? RHPS :-) e. Where do you live (State or province/Country) AR/USA f. What do you do for a living? College Student, Web Page Designer g. If you're a college/grad student, what's your major? Forensic Psychology Major. h. What do you want to be when you grow up? Ph.D / M.D i. Are you single? No. j. What are your hobbies? Bowling, Writing, Reading, Swim k. What's the hardest thing you've ever had to do? Quit Smoking. l. Who do you most admire? My Sister m. What celebrity would you love to hook up with? Anna Nicole Smith! :-p n. What's the last book you read (including for school). Did you like it? Patricia Cornwell Books, Yep. I like Doctor / Murder Mysteries o. What's the last movie you saw? Did you like it? Hannibal. Yes. It was awesome! p. If you could be anywhere in the world for a week, where would you go? Scotland. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Responses by Packor: AMystery: make learning out of guild not give an experience penalty immediately, instead have a small penalty for each use of the spell/skill. so some things have a larger xp penalty because you use them more. knowledge is free, use isn't -What about second attack and the like? I am sure we like the idea of not leveling. Cures would also be used a lot less. Armageddon: heal restore for morts at clericus for a non-variable price of 100000+ We are not likely to use it. Most of us won't have that much money until maybe in the later 30's. 3 restores could be 2 enhances. I rather go for enhancing, because it's actually something permanent. Nafailyn: Track should not take a percentage of your maximum mana, it should involve how far away the mob is. Its tough to find traces of something that is very far away. Steps / 2 maybe? -I am sure some of those mobs are around 100 steps or more away. Including possible drunkness, mazes reseting, fleeing, and other factors that makes you lose the trail, I would say you'd never make it. Kino: maybe you cold separate the donation rooms in level you could start like just from level 1 to 10 or something like that it could be realy useful -from level 1-50, that would be 4 extra levels, and also 12 extra rooms, people having to wander around all these rooms if they are just looking around, people looking for items for other levels will have to search... I would rather like it if the donation rooms are less messy and items are easier to pick up though. Armageddon: a chat channel for other language speakers (ie, german, spanish, french, etc.) -Pretty good idea, but this way you could have multiple sided conversations, or...one sided if you don't speak whichever language the 3rd person is using, so you don't even have that channel on, which also means you didn't know they spoke. Plus there are a lot of languages I can think of: Japenese, French, German, Spanish, Chinese, Hawaiian? Port-(I-can-never-spell-this-one)guese. Feel free to add. Tallarn: make the xp penalty much higher for recalling out of combat -It fails a lot more already. Tallarn: make scan a skill, not an auto ability -I think the reason it's not is because WE liked scan this way. I can give an example. See, several people I know scans after every step, or so they tell me. They would be pretty darn mad if they can no longer see an aggro, way-over-their-level mob in the room they're entering just because you wanted to make this mud like other muds, and not take the advantage you are given. :> Tallarn:remove some of the spammy messages for kick, fireball, etc, they are irritating + not EVERY kick is going to be a flying kick, for example, especially from a dwarf... -The messages lets you identify the skill/spell being used easier, plus it adds realism to the gaming. If no spells had messages, it could get boring. -If you don't like having kick messages, why do you bother caring what kick it is? I do partically agree though, maybe it should be a sidekick, and then for humans, spin kick, snap kick, or some other kicks, to replace second and third. That would be nice. Naxias: How about a gmote, group-only emote. So that ppl within the group can communicate when drunk more easily. -Emote is for doing a home-made and not in the socials action. It is not to communicate in the first place. How can you do an action on your group alone, when you are doing it in the open? Joysinger: it'd be nice if locate object could actually be used with more then just one keyword. locating sword, or light or something similar tends to spam you out - it'd make searching so much more easy :) -I agree. locate object is special. I think you should be able to cast locate object 1, or 2, and so on. Then it can show a prompt that number of times so you can specific several keywords. Could be a bit tough, being that the and some other words arn't part of the keywords even if they are in the name. Anubis: have skills do the same thing as spells. This way, newbies from other muds aren't confused -Not so sure what you mean by that. Please specify. Anubis: an auctioneer that helps you auction off equip for gold. takes player bids on an item, exchanges item and gold for you. Kiri -- I envision a ton of spam from this. -While we are at it, maybe we can have a filter on that channel. Like turn off all but weapon auctions, limiting level of equipment to be shown... simply because if you do it that way, it would get used more often. 2 problems with this idea though. One, inventory space and weight space, Two, money on hand. Armageddon: color in damp messages -Yeah, make them White. Bright like the heavens. Nal: when you walk into a wall have like a trap on some that will hurt you? -Question, why do you want to walk into a wall? I know some items that have traps on them, but almost none of the ones I have seen work, but then I am just a lowly mort. Fate: no spell lag for healing spells out fo combat? -Once again I will have to say to you guys, the PAUSE is there because it's oog. Dio: a skill that makes a mob or character(in arena) stop flying -It'll just be lovely if that was put into tail sweep, or blast, I think it was blast...right? I just thought one one problem though, a flying mob like one in the clouds would drop to the ground and disappear from your view in real life. Verdict: a defensive spell that prevents you from being poisoned -I would say that's pretty useless. Since you have cure poison and medicine, and also cell adjustment. Cure blindness, plague, and dispel magic are similar. Firestar: you know how the affect command lists the spells you're affected by, right? Well, maybe when you type affect/aff in and get the list...it could list what spells armor "casts" on you? -what spells does armor cast? What are you talking about? The spell is -ac modifier, and as far as I know, equiped armor doesn't cast spells. Equipment status changes are not effects, if that's what you mean. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kiri's WWW of URLs: Amateur Railgun Production: http://www.railgun.org/ Dream Dictionary, the Meaning of Dreams: http://www.petrix.com/dreams/ Mental Soup - deep thought: http://www.mentalsoup.com/mentalsoup/deep.htm Important info about Hotmail: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/18002.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Silly stuff from Dove: THINGS YOU'D LOVE TO SAY AT WORK, BUT CAN'T !!! 1. I can see your point, but I still think you're full of s---. 2. I don't know what your problem is, but I'll bet it's hard to pronounce. 3. How about never? Is never good for you? 4. I see you've set aside this special time to humiliate yourself in public. 5. I'm really easy to get along with once you people learn to see it my way. 6. I'll try being nicer if you'll try being smarter. 7. 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