It was supposed to have been one movie. I think it would have been better that way, even if it had been three and a half hours long.

Why does any level of the game have to deal with such a hassle then? There are annoying aspects of every game that are required to keep the game going - healing potions, see invis potions, having a light, finding your horse, recovering your corpse, sleeping to recover mana, etc etc. You answered th...

I'm actually with Disaster on this *pause for horrified gasps of surprise* (Hi Dis :twisted:). I don't understand what it adds to an area to force heroes who have earned holylight to go back to scraping for potions and staves so they can see. About half of them will be able to just cast both spells ...

I'm another Logical-Mathematical thinker, apparently.

I have a few of the ideas that have seen the most discussion in my head, but I'd still like it a lot if some of the builders most interested in this kind of thing would get together and send me or post here something that's written out explicitly. I'll be getting to this with more force sometime thi...

If telnet is refusing to connect to BR, then there's not much you can do. What does it say when you try? Are you using the port number? Remember, we're on port 8000, so you have to do:

$ telnet barren.coredcs.com 8000

Can't help more without more info...

> Universal: Things with a character's name on it such as corpses or body =
> parts, should have your name as a syntax.

'Twould be nice, but I bet it'd be a pain to code.

Player corpses already have the character's name as a keyword.

The issues are understood fairly well, except for the bizarre suggested cost stuff for potions that I always have to look up. The problem is not the code so much as the crufty area format. Long ago, in the original merc and diku code, almost every piece of information you can think of was specified ...

Maybe, maybe not. The random element in both the scavenging and the currents makes it indeterminate.

If you don't want to open a new tab, alt-d takes you to the address bar.

I had a little chat last night with a fellow who had been denied or banned or frozen or something about seven or eight years ago, before I ever logged on here at any rate. No, I didn't catch his old char's name. He seemed to be holding some kind of grudge, because it was pretty clear he logged on lo...

The preview for Hero runs before Kill Bill Vol. 2, and I have to say it looks awesome. I'm a little worried, though, that the release will be LA/NY only. It seems Hero was originally released in Asia in 2002 and was even nominated for an Oscar (Best Foreign Language Film). It has been quietly garner...

RadicalEd wrote:btw did slart ever find his worlds worste pun?

I'm still looking. I think I'll know it when I hear it, though.

I've already addressed the One Ring, even though it isn't relevent to our game. The evil of the One Ring was connected to the spirit of Sauron. There was a conscious will that drove the Ring to corrupt it's user. To compare this to our game, it is like a mob that has the ability to change your alig...

I believe the conceit is that there might be certain powers which are inherently evil, regardless of the ends they are used to achieve, and inexorably corrupt the wielder in ways he or she cannot control no matter how pure their intentions may be. The One Ring would be an example of this type of pow...