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Subject: Re: Three things that could make this game better

Author:
Elwar

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Date Posted: 15:32:44 10/17/02 Thu
In reply to: Me, you know, that one guy 's message, "Re: Three things that could make this game better" on 13:13:31 10/16/02 Wed

Actually, that's three things that are in-game related.
The city leaders are in charge of placing guards.

Three things I have considered are:

1. Impliment some more advanced AI so you can have a
conversation with an NPC. This would give newbies
something interesting to do and keep them in the game
until a real person comes in and interacts with them.
I already put in the skeleton for this though it
definately needs some work. Though now that I've learned
prolog I might be able to impliment something far more
complex.

2. A new character creation that's classless based
similarly to the Vampyre Masquerade way of choosing
abilities. You choose a preference between Skills, Talents
and Abilities and according to the preference you have
a certain amount of points you can put into different
skills making for a more customized character.
I've already implimented this for the NPCs though I
haven't transitioned it over to the players because it
has crashed the MUD a few times so that would need to
be looked into.

3. A system similar to raw metals with cloth so that
clothing can be created from the base materials to the
thread to the cloth to the final clothing with the
ability to take clothes that are lying around and take
them down to their raw cloth and make something new
out of them. This would allow people to take all of
those trousers that people discard and make new, more
interesting things out of them.
This is actually being worked on, we've come up with
the plan for all the objects that are needed, it's just
a matter of building them all and then setting each
clothing material with it's component vnums.

The main thing we need are players though, I've tried to
make the MUD as player controlled as I could but without
players it's not as much fun. I guess a big advertising
spree would be good, there's usually a big upturn in
players each exam week filled with procrastinating
students :)
Just need to build things up to that point so people will
be enthused about playing again.

Of course, the best advertising is done by the people
who play.

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