Posts made by inimical

The Lestat mountain range. You have __got__ to be kidding me. :roll:

One more thing, inspired by the overwhelming hoards of invasion mobs that insist on flooding Reza on the test port: 1\. no_quest and no_mob prevent invasion mobs from spawning in/wandering into rooms

I beg of you, no new spells, no new skills, and no new races until things have been __thoroughly__ considered and balanced. I was hired as the balance imm, and I must assert my inconsiderable authority here. :)

I couldn't agree more, Serenity. The story is crucial to tie everything together, otherwise we just have a random association of areas built at different times by different people. Not very cohesive. I'll be writing something for Reza, but I really need everyone's input to help guide that work. Otherwise it will remain an unintegrated area concieved only in one person's imagination, so **please** share your thoughts on the area on my Reasons for Reza thread! I was thinking about shifting room descriptions also. This is not at all a "must have" feature for the game (and considering all the things that need work, I'd actually discourage any serious considerations of implementing it any time soon) but it might be cool to have seasons. You know, autumn, winter, spring, summer. The birds chirping and sun shining fades to the hopeless gray of winter, in time. Perhaps this could be an extension of tokens, room based and responsive to the date in game?

My most wanted list: 1\. Mobs require mana to cast spells and move to use skills. 2\. Expansion of if_checks to include many of the things mentioned by Xevira, but primarily checks against vital stats (strength, wisdom, etc). 3\. An examination of "DELAY" triggers. They have a propensity to fail to fire properly, even under very basic circumstances, despite a setting of 100%. 3\. No_fade room flags to prevent fading. Room and mob flags which prevent/provide immunity to ranged attacks including but not limited to archery. 4\. The first round of combat no longer belonging solely to the initiator (i.e. a fix to the terrible flee/kill bug which allows anyone to solo any mob without fear of death). 5\. Mob flags providing immunity to the effects of wither, room flags barring room effect spells including but not limited to wither. 6\. Tokens baby, tokens. The possibilities are myriad and endless, a sure fire way to enhance the mud. 7\. An expanded and customizable system of assigning skills, spells, and behaviors to mobs. Full control over which are potentially used, how often, and how well. 8\. Zap, brandish, and recite rolled into one all consuming "USE" command. Object triggers which fire upon their being "used". 9\. Dice rolls usable within progs in lieu of the sketchy and unversatile "rand" modifier. Value rolled would be stored in a $* variable. Example ```` dice 1 8 / rolls 1d8 and saves the returned value to $something, $c for the sake of this example if $c < 3 -whatever- else if $c > 3 and $c < 6 -whatever- else if $c > 6 -whatever- endif endif endif ```` 10\. Saving throws. Saves would enhance eq balancing, pk styles, and mob battles just to name a few areas. Even if we did a straight out rip off of the DnD style saving throws, no one would be offended. 11 Spell components, or reagents (at the risk of "sounding to MMish"). As it stands, the only way to balance out spells are sp cost, and level required to cast the spell except for the few that require a moonstone. 12\. All consuming and unquestionable power over all of humankind.

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I'm concerned about the "story" of the Sentience world, and how a biblical garden has a place in it. I know Christians are something of a rarity in muds, but we should show consideration to all faiths and make it a point to not trivialize them. I'm cool with the garden area, but I do have some issues with it being blatantly named Eden. Indeed, Christians are not the only faith to recognize the garden of Eden as a sacred place.

As most of you know I'm reworking Reza. Let's face it, the place is a nightmare. The question I put to you is, what is Reza's purpose within the game? Until now it's had none. I'll summarize some of the main alterations that have either happened or are planned for you to consider should you care to respond. [list]