Newsletter February 12, 2001 IDEAS: Blackwing: Get a sports channel for us people who want to annoy everyone else with the football score Kiri-- just use hacker Bonepecker: Why dont add AOL to players profile? Kiri -- you can use the icq slot and write aol Foy: when you have autosplit on, and you take money out of your purse, have it not split it. if thats possible Fiend: a dwarves kick should do more damage as the dwarfs lvl increases Characters who need to contact me or log on: Breethai, Bulldog, Daria, Desolate, Infinite, Jackiechan, Jorrel, Keadian, Mem, Mystaya, Rashdi, Seta, Stormchild, Tnviking, Vetch, Worf, Wyrmfood, Zorax BIO: >a. What's your BR name? Violet >b. What race/level are you? avian/47 >c. How did you pick your BR name? uhmm.... think this falls under parental advisory... ;) >d. What's your favorite area? think it's candyland - so sweet :) >e. Where do you live (State or province/Country) germany >f. What do you do for a living? tryig to study/borrow money from joysinger >g. If you're a college/grad student, what's your major? costume design >h. What do you want to be when you grow up? i never want to grow up *hop* >i. Are you single? i share a brain with my sister... >j. What are your hobbies? "hi, i'm violet, and i'm a mud-addict!" >k. What's the hardest thing you've ever had to do? turn off the computer >l. Who do you most admire? the moon.... *fangs dripping with blood* >m. What celebrity would you love to hook up with? vlad dracul >n. What's the last book you read (including for school). Did you like it? glenraven- i liked it a lot >o. What's the last movie you saw? Did you like it? sleepy hollow... that was fun ;) >p. If you could be anywhere in the world for a week, where would you go? calathar ;) Kiri's WWW of URLs: From Mystique (open a box) http://www.warehouse23.com/basement/ From Sozz: http://www.heifer.org/ Tard of the Month - from Naddarow: http://www.tardsite.com/trdomnth112000.htm The Bartle MUD test http://www.andreasen.org/bartle/test.cgi Responses by CORD: > BackLash: i don't know how bothersome this would be, but a book in > the quest room with a list of names and what quest the've won, maybe only > like 1st place winners Cord: I like this idea. Could help promote better quest turn out, and I think everyone likes having their name go down in the history books =). > BackLash: One other thing, a board in the quest room to attach > notes on with rules about a quest as long as that quest is going, so you > don't have to keep re-posting notes when they scroll off the list Cord: So the two ideas together would make a sort of quest bulletin board. Would add to the use of Quest HQ... seems a good idea to me. > BirdBeak: SLIST should show which skills are OOG (perhaps with an > asterisk [*]) Cord: I'll have to nod my head and agree once again... I think this would be worthwhile. > Cord: allow "slist" command to take full race names... ie. "slist > druid" doesn't work, "slist dru" does... have it so both work Cord: I'll have to second my own idea once again. =) > > Cord: a 'swimming' idea a 'swimming' flag... like flying... so you > > can't trip a jellyfish, etc. > > Kiri -- this will be for remort Cord: What I meant was for mobs. That way aquatic creatures are actually "swimming" like flying creatures are actually "flying." Would add a touch of realism, and would allow for these aquatic creatures to not be affected by trip (how _would_ someone go about tripping a fish?). > Dio: saving the ignore list when you log off. whenever i ignore someone > and then leave and come back later i have to ignore them again Cord: I don't agree. I think it's good to have the game not remember who you have ignored... and if one game-session of ignoring doesn't solve whatever it was that got you to ignore the person in the first place, then I would think that some other action would need to be taken. > Bluestar: for heroes: How about when a hero/avatar dies, instead of being > sent to recall, how about being sent to hr? Cord: *nod in agreement* RESPONSES By BALTAR: > Bluestar: for heroes: How about when a hero/avatar dies, instead of = > being sent to recall, how about being sent to hr? Agreed. It only makes sense. (Althought it's really not that hard to type 'hr' as soon as you get there...) > Taz: I think items donated should be flagged so they can't be sold, and = > I=20 > also think that the donation rooms should hold a larger amount of = > donations=20 > for a longer period of time > > -If they are flagged, how will they ever be sold? If you have worn = > it for=20 > like 3 months, it should be yours right? Maybe it can be done if you = > put a=20 > timer on when it leaves donations, but it's really a load of trouble for = > a=20 > minor problem. And I believe that things do stay in donations a while = > longer=20 > than normal ground. But all things must melt eventually *shrugs* I've seen this issue before. The goal seems to be to keep people from looting the donation rooms by grabbing everything and running right off to sell it. What about -- if possible -- a temporary flag, that prevents you from selling such items for ten or fifteen minutes real time, or an hour, after picking it up from donations, but thereafter it's normal? Baltar Subject: UNIQUE THOUGHTS (from DOVE) How do you catch a unique rabbit? Unique up on it. How do you catch a tame rabbit? Tame way, unique up on it. How do crazy people go through the forest? They take the psycho path. How do you get holy water? You boil the hell out of it. What do fish say when they hit a concrete wall? Dam! What do Eskimos get from sitting on the ice too long? Polaroids What do you call a boomerang that doesn't work? A stick. What do you call cheese that isn't yours? Nacho cheese. What do you call Santa's helpers? Subordinate Clauses. What do you call four bullfighters in quicksand? Quatro sinko. What do you get from a pampered cow? Spoiled milk. What do you get when you cross a snowman with a vampire? Frostbite. What lies at the bottom of the ocean and twitches? A nervous wreck. What's the difference between roast beef and pea soup? Anyone can roast beef. Where do you find a dog with no legs? Right where you left him. Why do gorillas have big nostrils? Because they have big fingers. Why don't blind people like to sky dive? Because it scares the dog. What kind of coffee was served on the Titanic? Sanka. What is the difference between a Harley and a Hoover? The location of the dirt bag. Why did Pilgrims' pants always fall down? Because they wore their belt buckle on their hat. How are a Texas tornado and a Tennessee divorce the same? Somebody's gonna lose a trailer. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newsletter February 20, 2001 Hi folks! These people need to contact me or log onto their characters: Alen, Arial, Arsenic, Azra, Breethai, Buck, Dawnslight, Debian, Eldred, Elrick, Elron, Flam, Grath, Grenseal, Icee, Jackiechan, Jinn, Judas, Krill, Lobe, Luce, Lucia, Mem, Myrrh, Mystaya, Nikor, Pathos, Randor, Rashdi, Shaitanii, Torkelius, Wizzi, Wyrmfood, Xert, Zorax Fiend: a dwarves kick should do more damage as the dwarfs lvl increases Firestar: a new argument (or whatever it's called) for the 'who' function... who would list all the female characters on the mud, and who would list the male characters on the mud. I don't think it a necessary addition, but it'd be nice if it were add Kiri -- someone is a little lonely *wink* Hey, I'll take personal ads for the newsletter if you want. Cord: when in combat, have dirtkick default to the mob you are fighting, rather than asking for a target Mathis: have something in quest hq or like a file you can read that shows quest winners. plz! Blackwing: We should have hangovers in BR.. Such as new heroes who drank most of their mort lives couldn't move (or move with great cost) for 3 or 4 mud days Mathis: when a spell is running out, and it has 1 our 2 hours left, you should be able to recast it and renew it BIO by Packor: New BIO: a. What's your BR name? Packor, and ..... a lot of other ones as well. b. What race/level are you? ELF ,45 c. How did you pick your BR name? I originally wanted it to be a last name of a char, but I use it a lot these days. d. What's your favorite area? Candy Land (*lick*) e. Where do you live (State or province/Country) Michigan f. What do you do for a living? Used to be a stockman g. If you're a college/grad student, what's your major? High school h. What do you want to be when you grow up? Policeman, fighter pilot, Author, Game designer... i. Are you single? Certainly j. What are your hobbies? Video games, occasionally Gundam and SD models. k. What's the hardest thing you've ever had to do? A lot of hard stuff while being pressed on time. l. Who do you most admire? Girls m. What celebrity would you love to hook up with? A female singer, too many to choose from ... n. What's the last book you read (including for school). Did you like it? Didn't finish school book, hmm, I finished Heir to the Empire last, reading The Last Command now(The sequel) o. What's the last movie you watched? Did you like it? Austin Powers in math class, it was okay. p. If you could be anywhere in the world for a week, where would you go? To train with a master in silence. Forget it. Responses by PACKOR: Armageddon: Make it so that you can send and recieve email through BR. I don't think this would be too hard to do, just modify the note code. Then have the player specify server and accout. Maybe have them type in the pw manually each time. or have a choice of -BR is not an e-mail server, so if you want e-mail, then you'll have to put your address on your profile, which some people prefer not to do, either because they want to make graphics instead or they just want privacy, etc... But the real problem is: well, imagine the coders taking the time to make a mud send e-mail to other servers, and I don't know how to say it, but it's not even the same kind of thing. On a bulletin board it would be possible, because it connects to a program and mail program. But a mud is just a send and receive kind of thing. BackLash: i don't know how bothersome this would be, but a book in the quest room with a list of names and what quest the've won, maybe only like 1st place winners -I don't like that idea, quests are constantly being run. If we do this pretty soon we'll probably take up a lot of memory. So far, only characters are 'permanent'. However, I do like your idea for putting the current quest info up in the room. Divebomb: reorganize BR so that some of the CONSTANTLY visited areas are further/harder to get to, move the less visited ones closer to calathar/away from mazes -You already know how hard that'd be, with all the numerous areas to reroute and enviroment adjustments. For example: A road previously leads out to a forest has some description like you see a clearing south of here. Then instead of entering a clearing, you are on a road? Besides, I bet you learned a lot of areas and you wouldn't want to have to find all of them over again. Sykle: another suggestion for tainted weapons...can we see how much time is left on them? -A reply earlier for timed items was that the reason they are timed is because we don't want you to know when your weapon will be gone. Besides, I think it would be fair if it's random, because it would be in rl. BirdBeak: SLIST should show which skills are OOG (perhaps with an asterisk [*]) -I agree, maybe they should also do that for In Guild masters. To have them show all the skills and the ones they you can't learn yet be different color or have * Cord: allow "slist" command to take full race names... ie. "slist druid" doesn't work, "slist dru" does... have it so both work -When you began your character, it was 3 letters too to choose which race to be. Just makes it easier if we don't have to make the code recognize more than one answer, in my opinion. Also, Dwarf is dwf so we can't make it just recognize short and long like you can with inv. Huh: should make charmed or hired pets able to rescue player -Notice that they don't cast spells either? Regular mobs don't rescue, they are not programmed to. And pets and charmed mobs are basically mobs. They stick to what skills they have. Usually they are either spellcasters or fighters. Fighters trip, casters cast spells, armed mobs disarm. It would be possible to make some able to rescue, but you'd have to order them to rescue. On the other hand mobs fighting together can't rescue each other, so that's not so balanced. Saffron: We could use a group all command -I think using group all to ungroup all would be good, but if you use group all as group all... How are you supposed to group a couple of people higher or lower level? It would also show a message for everyone you group, suppose there are 10 people following you, even if there are some people not in level range, it would show they're unable to join group. Also keep in mind they have to be following you, and you'll still have to wait for all of them to follow you or do it indivually afterwards. Nal: maybe for avains when they walk around one feather may fall out? -Only if it's a bad feather, probably won't help with anything. Kiri's WWW of URLS: The CYBORGer!! http://www.brunching.com/toys/toy-cyborger.html The shower project. This guy has to be the luckiest man alive. http://www.theshowerproject.com/ From our friend Scavenger, items for the perfect geek: http://www.thinkgeek.com/ Which pagan path do you follow? http://www.selectsmart.com/FREE/select.php3?client=paganreligion Jokes from DOVE: FYI You have just received the Amish virus. Because we Amish don't have any computers, or programming experience, this virus works on the honor system. Please delete all the files from your hard drive. Thank you for your cooperation and.....God bless you. - The Amish Computer Engineering Department 1. How can you arrange for two people to stand on the same piece of newspaper and yet be unable to touch each other without stepping off the newspaper? 2. How many 3-cent stamps are there in a dozen? 3. A rope ladder hangs over the side of a ship. The rungs are one foot apart and the ladder is 12 feet long. The tide is rising at four inches an hour. How long will it take before the first four rungs of the ladder are underwater? 4. Which would you rather have, a trunk full of nickels or a trunk half full of dimes? 5. Steve has three piles of sand and Mike has four piles of sand. If they put them all together, how many do they have? 6. In which sport are the shoes made entirely of metal? 7. If the Vice-president of the United States should die, who would be President? 8. How can you throw a golf ball with all your might and-without hitting a wall or any other obstruction-have the ball stop and come right back to you? 9. When examining planets in our solar system, we usually find characteristics shared by multiple planets. Taking this into account, how many planets in our solar system have earthquakes? 10. Find the English word that can be formed from all these letters: PNLLEEEESSSSS Answers: 1. Slide the newspaper half way under a closed door and ask the two people to stand on the bit of newspaper on their side of the door. 2. There are twelve (not four). 3. Actually, the ladder will rise with the ship! 4. Dimes are smaller than nickels, so choose the dimes! 5. If they put them all together, there will be one pile. 6. Horse racing. 7. The President. 8. Throw the ball straight up. 9. One. Only the earth has earthquakes. 10. Sleeplessness Score: 10 right = You're a master of logic. 8 - 9 right = You're good... really good. 6 - 7 right = Not bad... 4 - 5 right = You need to practice. 2 - 3 right = You did terrible. But there is still hope that you "might" be able to improve with a lot of practice and hard work. 0 - 1 right = Uh oh... someone's pet is walking across the keyboard again... (we sincerely hope) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Get paid to read email - 5 cents per email! http://www.sendmoreinfo.com/id/669307 Or ten cents an email: http://www.yoyomail.com/cgi-bin/a?referral=kiri and make money!