...when she told you to wear your galoshes!
Time of Darkness is pleased to announce the following changes in code:
**Months of the year have been changed and now reflect our Immortals. Along with adding a sense of realism, this will be an important factor for werewolves (THEREWOLVES) down the road.
**The weather can hurt you! Meathe has created a wonderful weather system that can do damage to players standing in weather-impacted rooms (which should be all of outdoors but that will take some time). Weather damage is HP based so while it may be painful, no one is going to die from a bolt of lightning alone.
The new weather system will also work with the Control Weather spell, which until now has been pretty useless. We'll be fine tuning this for players, right now it's a very low change in weather but those of you who have gained Control Weather and later wondered why, we give you weather.
**Equipment Corrosion - I love this one! Once again Meathe has done an amazing job and now your equipment can corrode and unless repaired, corrode away to nothing. WOO! WOO WOO!
Not all equipment will corrode, we're not heartless.
Corrosion can come from either time, certain damage types and weather so be careful and keep an eye on your eq.
All corroding items will have enough time before they rot for you to get to a repair mob and fix the damage. Repair will not be expensive, this is not an attempt on our part to watch you lose eq. There will be a repair mob in Kjeldoran and clans may purchase one for their halls.
You will know if your item is corroding, you will see messages letting you know.
Gooooooooooooooooooooooooood juju!
We have been pushed too far by the abusers of safedeath so there have been some changes to it.
You might not like the changes but had we not been forced to act as babysitters because people just could not stop abusing safedeath it would not have had to be done.
Levelers are not impacted by this, we've left the levelers alone.
Safedeath will now render you silent for one tick and blind and useless for two ticks.
This means it now matters where you log out, please be careful. This will help with dumbasses who log out to avoid PK.
People will no longer be able to log an alt and loot a corpse with safedeath.
The severity of safedeath is open to be changed in time, for the moment the entire staff is tired of abusers so it stays like this for a bit.
To Date, the following helpfiles have been added (total now=31):
HELP LANGUAGE; HELP SPEAK; HELP SPELL-CLASS; HELP WEATHER; HELP WEATHER-SPELLS; HELP GHOST; HELP FELINE; HELP CONUNDRUM; HELP RIME GEAS; HELP BOUNTY; HELP ENDURANCE; HELP GRIP; HELP COUNTER; HELP SHARPEN; HELP PRAYER; HELP STUN; HELP STAKE
New Immortal Only Help Files (total now=2): HELP SPULINE; HELP SPDLINE
The following helpfiles have been updated (total now=26):
HELP CLASS; HELP SHIELDING; HELP TRANSPORTATION; HELP DISARM; HELP BASH; HELP RACE
[Msg No.] : 37
[Date ] : Sun Jun 26 23:35:44 2005
[From ] : Navarre
[To ] : all dominion
[Subject] : Clan Raidable - Dominion
[Message]
Dominion's clan stone resets and maze have been attached. They are now raidable.
Report any errors to the immortals.
To Date, the following helpfiles (14) have been added:
HELP ARENA; HELP CLANSPELL; HELP CLANSTONE; HELP BRAWL; HELP AQUEST; HELP HEADHUNTER; HELP GLOBALWAR; HELP COLISEUM; HELP EVENTS; HELP CLANMEMBER; HELP CLAN LIST; HELP CLAN RAID; HELP CLANRAIDRULES; HELP COMPLAINT
The following helpfiles (20) have been updated:
HELP CLAN; HELP ATTACK; HELP BEGUILING; HELP BENEDICTIONS; HELP COMBAT; HELP CREATION; HELP CURATIVE; HELP DETECTION; HELP DRACONIAN; HELP ELEMENTAL; HELP ENCHANTMENT; HELP ENHANCEMENT; HELP HARMFUL; HELP HEALING; HELP ILLUSION; HELP MALADICTION; HELP MIND COMBAT; HELP MIND ENHANCEMENT; HELP PROTECTIVE; HELP BUG
[Msg No.] : 35
[Date ] : Sun Jun 19 12:49:29 2005
[From ] : Navarre
[To ] : all immortals tradewinde
[Subject] : Clan Raidable - Tradewind
[Message]
Tradewind's stones and maze entrance have been set in the realms. Feel free to raid them to your heart's content.
Yes, I have seal speed and skittles!
Some info xxx'd out to protect the clan's privacy.
**Infernal no longer gets pseudo-shadow, it is now xxxxxxxx
**Aura of god now functions in a similar fashion to xxxxxxxx
**Aura of god and xxxx may not be cast over each other (with the exception of clan spells).
**Additional xxxxx affects corrected for:Infernal, Den, Ninth - These unintentionally stripped some affects when adding further ones.
**Clan warnings: The logic producing spurious warnings when someone tried to teleport in to a hall have been recoded and are now correct. They never actually did make it into the hall.
**Saving throws added for Silence, Paralyze, Petrify. These will now also not work on anyone/thing immune to magic.
**Minor cosmetic tweaks to the affects display.
Gotta love a seal on speed!
**Typos in OTS spell corrected
**Bleed on clan list corrected
**Wiznet message for 5 clan stones on an altar
**Bad altars now reset the stone count (safeguard)
**Tabernacle clan spell corrected
**New spells: Paralyze, petrify, silence
**Quest items: paralyze, petrify, silence flags now work in play
**OLC fixed for clan donation pits (was unavailable)
**Room2 and room3 flags changed: They are now Race and Class flags respectively. Room2 to be re-added at a later date. No existing flags were harmed in the alterations to this code.
**Clan vnums now corrected for Dominion.
**Jail corrected for Infernal (again and again)
**Wizslap message added for Dulthail ("Dulthail wizslaps you. Yes, we know your grandmother hit harder, but try make him feel it was effective.")
**Removing an altar from play (purge, logout with it in inventory, eating) will now end a clan spell.
**Blade barrier crash bug removed.
**Immortals no longer contribute to clan PK counts.
**Entering a clan other than your own will remove safe death.
[Msg No.] : 33
[Date ] : Thu Jun 16 23:23:04 2005
[From ] : Navarre
[To ] : all infernal
[Subject] : Clan Raidable - Infernal Order of D'sar
[Message]
Infernal's clan stones are out in the realms AND its maze is now attached somewhere in the world. Feel free to steal their stones, corrupt their hall with your presence... in other words... RAID THEIR UNDEAD ARSES!
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The following clans are now raidable and have access to their clanspells:
Adventurer's Banner (as of 6/13/05)
Chapel of Prevailing Peace (as of 6/3/05)
Crusaders of the Redeeming Inquisition (as of 5/23/05)
Keepers of the Prism (as of 6/3/05)
Ninth Circle (as of 5/20/05)
Order of the Tainted Shade (as of 6/8/05)
Stygian Temple (as of 5/23/05)
Feel free to raid them mercilessly
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Senor Seal has been uber busy, please take the time to give him an extra fish and a toss him a ball when you see him!
Bugfixes and alterations:
**Exodus vision removed (well secluded, he sees all)
**Wizslap customisations for Meathe and Ackmon.
**Ahriman's clan spell text added
**noteleport room flag now stops portal devices from entering that room
**Thoth has been replaced with Morakai
**Clan alignments are now correct. Evil clans are tagged as very ebil, neutral clans are neutral, good clans are good.
New command: clanmembers
This command will, by default list all the members in your clan, sorted alphabetically, indicating the leaders in red. If you are not in a clan and are under level 102, you don't get the command.
Immortals also have the option of obtaining any clan's membership list by typing: clanmembers
Immortals over level 107 have the additional option of using clanmembers rebuild
This will go through every pfile and reconstruct the lists of clan members. It will take a few seconds and lag the mud, and chew about 10% of server resources. It only needs to be done if the clan member count or the members of a clan in the clan lists are incomplete. Please use sparingly - you really shouldn't have to use it at all.
CLAN LIST and Clan pk rankings
This command has been fixed. It will display the correct leaders (only once
each) and the correct member counts.
Pk rankings now include statistics for loners as well as NPK clans. Between war, hall raids and switch pk, NPKs may now indulge in the occasional combat. These will be reset to 0 for the first reboot, as there is no way of fairly putting in numbers. They are saved, and will be loaded on all future reboots These statistics will be kept up to date by the code.
DECLAN now updates the clan-members correctly, as does DELETE, ANNIHILATE,
RENAME, MEMBER ACCEPT. Rename will now retain clan leader status, as it was
lost before.
QUEST WEAPONS
These are implemented for building.
The quest weapon flags are in WTYPE, and they are:
Charm - Chance of charming target, will stop combat
Curse - Chance of curse
Dehydration - Makes target thirsty, -2 dex (shows as curse on affs)
Gravity - Adds fly to wielder
Hunger - Makes target hungry, -2 dex (shows as curse on affs)
* Paralyze - Chance of immobilizing opponent
* Petrify - Chance of turning opponent to stone
Shadow - Adds shadow to wielder
* Silence - Slight chance of silence spell
Sleep - Chance to make opponent sleep
Drain - Leeches mana in the same way a vampiric leeches hits
Phase - Chance of phasing out of an attack
* Etch - Acidic damage
Disrupt - Chance of driving down intelligence
Weak - Chance of weakening opponent
Banish - Chance of teleporting opponent
Cutpurse - Chance of stealing between 1-5% of the opponent's platinum
Dispel - Chance of cancelling spells, chance based on item level
Vulnerable - Chance of adding 50 to saves of opponent
Items marked with a * require further spells or coding to be added and cannot be tested in play.
The ones that show as curse (hunger, dehydration, etc) do not exclude other curses. So you may be affected by multiple curse types simultaneously, a dehydration/-2dex curse, a hunger/-2dex curse, etc. You will never be able to be affected by multiple dehydration curses concomitantly.
After a brief period of stagnation and questionable juju, we are once again up and on the move.
I'm going to keep the change log active from this point on, as much for myself as for you all.
These are the changes implemented through May and up to the posting of this.
Many many thanks, Meathe!
Wimpy removed for Hero characters
Clan Jails In
Clan Raids In
Clanspell System In
Pardon fixed: People in clan jails may now be released correctly with "pardon
Additional room flags: room: no_teleport no_gate no_summon
Additional room flags: room3: Class flags - classes are generic (vampire=lich=demon)
Portals: Portals in jail cells no longer work properly
New command: clanspell - lists current clan spells in effect
mob aggression: Clan mobs are not aggressive to clan members
Fixes to spell and race tables (ghosts, sanc & iceshield)
Helpfile overhaul: HELP ARENA; HELP CLAN; HELP CLANSPELL; HELP CLANSTONE.
Greetings, Mudtards-
I want to keep a running list of all the code changes done here so you all can have some sort of reference when you tell us we're not doing anything. Doy doy.
As of the posting of this blog we have added/changed/tweaked:
The class flag bug for eq
The clan flag bug for eq
A few other bugs I can't think of
Racial languages added
Weapon types distributed by class now for enhanced RP
Weapon groups dissolved
53 New Types of Weapons added
66 New Damage types added to replace old system
3 attack messages added for each new dam type
New colour login screen
Note board re-colourised to fit MUD scheme
Who list re-colourised to fit MUD scheme
Skills list/spells list/aff list re-colourised to fit MUD scheme
Score re-colourised and redone
New Time command shows last time MUD compiled
These are the changes as of July 11, 2004. I'll update here each time something new is added so you all can know what's up.
ADDED JULY 14TH:
Loner only flag for rooms
Evil aligned only flag for rooms
Good aligned only flag for rooms
Neutral aligned only flag for rooms
No_shadow flag for rooms
Open PK flag for rooms
Race flag for rooms
Wooooo! Goooo, Seal!
ADDED EVENING JULY 14TH:
Automatic restore after levels for third tier
Draconian strike based off mana instead of hp
Spellcasters may only cast 'spellup' spells on their own class
Due to a cry of distress from the masses, the following changes have been made to the Heuc race:
Imm_negative: Gone.
Res_weapon: Gone.
Max Con: From 25 to 23.
Sorry guys, it was a bit excessive.
Besides, rerolling keeps you busy.
*SNORF*
1. Diamond nipple and Penile now give the same stats.
2. New item - Nose ring. Same as nipple and penile
3. Juju now a quest item (quest buy juju)
4. Black Cat now a quest item (quest buy tattoo)
5. Diamond studded penile now a quest item (quest buy penile)
6. Diamond studded nipple now a quest item (quest buy nipple)
7. Diamond studded nose now a quest item (quest buy nose)
Game on.
Woo!
Kali, reluctant Code-Cat