Subject: Newsletter January 6, 2001 Date: Saturday, January 06, 2001 8:00 PM I was away from home for a while so I was not able to send a newsletter. Here goes: 2001, a BR odyssey. Here's to the hope that BR will only grow and thrive in the new year, and that our community will stay strong and close. BR has meant a lot to me over the years. It's where my friends are, it's where my relaxation and happiness comes from, it's where I socialize, meet new people, and where I love to see the community, creations and code that is BR come to life. I hope you all feel the same. Here's to another 6+ years! PS my email address should be changing in the next few weeks, I'll let you know ahead of time what it will change to. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IDEAS FOR BR, please feel free to hit reply and comment on these: Joysinger: how about - make expose (when cast on yourself) not force you to hit yourself? i did 33k of damage (without sanc) to myself because i failed the spell - doesn't seem logical to me ;) AMystery: make learning out of guild not give an experience penalty immediately, instead have a small penalty for each use of the spell/skill. so some things have a larger xp penalty because you use them more. knowledge is free, use isn't Armageddon: Hero reincarnate races that are only available to heroes. Kiri -- remort is coming as soon as Slart finishes it. The race will be demon. Armageddon: have it so that you can use all with coins, like put all coins purse, or deposit all, withdraw all. Kiri -- put all.coins purse Armageddon: heal restore for morts at clericus for a non-variable price of 100000+ Firestar: how about a bagpipe social? Kiri -- help writesocial and help socialex, and then email it to barren@coredcs.com Nafailyn: Track should not take a percentage of your maximum mana, it should involve how far away the mob is. Its tough to find traces of something that is very far away. Steps / 2 maybe? Kino: maybe you cold separate the donation rooms in level you could start like just from level 1 to 10 or something like that it could be realy useful Naddarow: make it so Ventriloquate can except Capital letters for peoples names:> (I know..never gonna happen, but I can dream:) ) Armageddon: a chat channel for other language speakers (ie, german, spanish, french, etc.) Tallarn: why not make weapons damageable too? easy code Kiri -- I don't like to take away without giving. Tallarn: make the xp penalty much higher for recalling out of combat Tallarn: make scan a skill, not an auto ability Tallarn: remove some of the spammy messages for kick, fireball, etc, they are irritating Tallarn: not EVERY kick is going to be a flying kick, for example, especially from a dwarf... Naxias: How about a gmote, group-only emote. So that ppl within the group can communicate when drunk more easily. Joysinger: it'd be nice if locate object could actually be used with more then just one keyword. locating sword, or light or something similar tends to spam you out - it'd make searching so much more easy :) Anubis: have skills do the same thing as spells. This way, newbies from other muds aren't confused Anubis: an auctioneer that helps you auction off equip for gold. takes player bids on an item, exchanges item and gold for you. Kiri -- I envision a ton of spam from this. Armageddon: some way for heroes to silence foolish morts. Like a temporary silence for say, a few hours (151) game time? Like a spell. That should teach em a lesson... Kiri -- You don't earn trust by heroing, you simply gain a level. I wouldn't want to give someone a dangerous thing like that that can be abused simply because they leveled higher than someone else. Armageddon: color in damp messages Nal: when you walk into a wall have like a trap on some that will hurt you? Fate: in status for enhancements this level put what we enhanced? i forget sometimes what im enhancing Fate: no spell lag for healing spells out fo combat? Dio: a skill that makes a mob or character(in arena) stop flying Verdict: a defensive spell that prevents you from being poisoned Dio: when you log off have the ignore list stay Arcane: retell command Sabin: Update The God list for sacrifice...*shrug* Firestar: you know how the affect command lists the spells you're affected by, right? Well, maybe when you type affect/aff in and get the list...it could list what spells armor "casts" on you? Brodgar: A symbol that BR would recognize as a line feed, in the same way it understands %Y for yellow, so that oset can be used to make descriptions just so. Would be particularly useful for making maps and things for quests. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These people should either log in their characters or contact immediately or they will be pwiped after a year and a month of non-use: Aeon, Afterdark, Akili, Alaxor, Alexia, Alyeska, Ambrose, Angeles, Antikow, Aragorn, Bastian, Brannin, Briana, Ceejay, Chun, Crawl, Dahak, Devlin, Dinadin, Doomhammer, Drong, Eraser, Escort, Exor, Flach, Gandalf, Gavian, Grrr, Gwydion, Hasdrupal, Inferno, Insignia, Kuririn, Laura, Lelf, Lenora, Lonewolf, Malakai, Matson, MegaXX, Mekare, Mog, Mojo, Mysterical, Necropoet, Nightcrawler, Nippy, Noone, Onslaught, Peavey, Quistis, Rainman, Roadkill, Sanglant, Serinth, Shelly, Silvanus, Skaven, Spyder, Steer, Stryker, Surma, Surtur, Swiftwood, Talmanes, Tevesh, Thanos, Tillychair, Twinsen, Valox, Varuna, Voltage, Whiteoak, Zoink -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BIO: I'm out of bios after this one, so please send more! 1 Name? Martin 2 BR Name? Firestar (elven hero),Legion (elven mort), Tobias(avian mort), Phil (mort kender). 3 Sex? Male 4 Home Town? Paterson, New Jersey 5 Born? October 28, 1983 6 Living arrangement? really small...crappy...apartment w/ my parents. 7 Favorite TV show? I'm not an avid watcher of the tube, but...I like to watch the X-Files show every once in a while. 8 What's on you mouse pad? Tweety Bird 9 Favorite board game? Monopoly 10 Favorite smell? I don't know, yet. 11 Best feeling in the world ? A long, warm, hug. 12 Worst feeling in the world ? Getting turned down by a girl...*sob*. 13 What do you do to express your creativity? I draw, make music, distort photographs on photoshop...the usual. 14 Roller coaster- *puke* 15 Pen or Pencil? mechanical pencil, and black Pilot V-Ball [extra fine] 16 Favorite foods? Cold pizza, Cheeze, Oatmeal... 17 Do you get along with your parents? Ha. Dad: neutral, Mom: time-bomb. 18 Chocolate or Vanilla? *licks lips*, both. 19 Favorite ice cream? Kona Koffee. 20 Croutons or Bacon Bits? Both! *scarfs down a bowl of croutons & bacon bits. 21 Storms cool or scary? Both. I remeber Texas having the worst storms ever... They almost broke windows. 22 Do you like to drive? Nope. I don't have a car...or a license. My feet (or the public bus) take/s me to wherever I need to be. 23 What was your first car? Hot Wheels "1973 SkyBlue Volkswagen". 24 If you could meet one person, dead or alive, who would it be? Um...a japanese ancestor of mine...if I could find out a name. 25 Who is your favorite poet? Silverstein 26 Do you eat the stems of Broccoli? heck yeah!1 27 Guys- If a girl asked you for the shirt off your back would you give it? Sure...if she were to really need it. 28 If you could have any job you wanted what would it be? I would want a job as the President of a Conglomerate Corporation. Ha, not really. I'd like to be a Graphic Artist...or something like that. 29 Have you ever been in love? Yeah...still am too. 30 Whats on the walls of your bedroom? I don't know. I don't spend much time in it. I'm usually at the computer doing something in the living room. 31 Is the glass half-full or half-empty? Why can't it be completely full? 32 Are you a lefty, righty, or ambidextrous? Used to be ambidextrous...but some bad teacher forced me to *only* use my right. 33 Do you type with your fingers on the right keys? 90% of the time. 34 If you could be one gardening tool what would it be? No Comment. 35 What's under your bed? the oogedy boogedy monster. *cowers* 36 What is your dream car? Either a 1973 Volkswagen that looks like a yellow taxi with black&white checkered tire-guards, and the whitewashed tires...ooooor a 1973 Camper, i think. 37 Favorite sport to watch? Boxing. 38 How many rings before you answer the phone? however long it takes me to get to the phone. 39 Future son's name? Firestar! no...Legion!...no...Phil! yeah phil!!...no. Tobias is nice. Nah... I'll just name him Ender. 40 Future daughter's name? Rose, after my aunt. 41 If you dyed you hair a different color what would it be? mauh hah hah... Blue. http://www.sousakuryoku.com/martinmohawkcropped.jpg (beware: i'm flippin' the camera off). 42 Shampoo or Conditioner? mm....Conditioner, cause it makes my hair all smooth and soft. 43 Have you ever gone skinny dipping? nope. Never will, either. 44 One pillow or two? 1. 45 Ever been convicted of a crime? I ain't sayin' nuthin'!! :P 46 What is the first thing you think of when you wake up in the morning? "must...hit...snooooze." 47 Favorite music group? Björk!! wooooo! 48 Favorite movie? Strictly Ballroom at the moment. 49 Say one nice thing about the person who sent this to you? You are really really really really really really great!! (How's that?) 50 Person you sent this to who is least likely to respond? Que? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Movie review by Fossil: Kiri, This one is still current. Happy holidays! Roger/Fossil Movie review: We saw a preview of "Family Man" last night. An updated version of the old Christmas classic, "It's a Wonderful Life." Anybody who enjoyed the original will probably like this. Nicholas Cage does a good job. Sappy story, Hollywood tugging at the heart. Some nudity (seems obligatory these days, even in family flicks). Good one-liners, nicely set-up scenes. Reasonable holiday entertainment. Running time about 2 hours. 3 stars. Fossil says, "Check it out if you like that kind of stuff." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Responses by AMystery Saidin: when you return from afk it tells you who sent you tells while you were away AMystery: I like this idea. I normally type it and and I'm all for automating common tasks Hael: let there be a chance that a mob will knock a drink out of you hand when drinking during a battle. like a potion or food. AMystery: Well, I've always hated when a mob knocks food from me, but that only happens because I put them on a trigger. If you eat and drink manually you won't do it during a fight. But, for realism I like this although I think it should be a lower chance than with food. It takes much less time to grab a quick drink than to eat a pot pie. Saidin: beneath Enhancements This Level in Info, add a line: Total Enhancements Ever: # AMystery: I wouldn't mind this, but only for trivia purposes. I don't see it serving much real purpose so I'd give it a low priority. Krondor: Items that restore mana instead of hit points Kiri -- we will never have this. That's why we have alcohol :) AMystery: Just to be annoying, what if we remove alcohol from the game? Krondor: A message that tells you when curse, weakness, and other spells are cast succesfully but fail to affect the mob AMystery: I wouldn't mind seeing this. I like to know when a spell just hasn't gone through versus when it has and nothing happened. Blackwing: instead of "Very Drunk" it should be "PLASTERED!".. just a little comedy relief, ya know? AMystery: Some extra levels to the drunk display would be nice and probably easy to code. There is plenty of room to add them since we only have 2 or 3 terms for drunk and there are 40 or so levels. Iori: a junk command to get rid of nodrop trash AMystery: I do not see this happening. It just calls for caution when picking up strange items. Besides, the junk command would essentially defeat the purpose of nodrop, since you could either sell or junk everything. Nal: have janitors have brooms or mops or something Kiri -- this was an area designer's decision not to include that, and I'm not going to tamper with Temper's area :) AMystery: Never mess with a guy named Temper! Armageddon: an "emote" chat channel AMystery: Nope, if you want to get drunk, you have to suffer some consequences. Now, if it did emotions but still suffered from drunk effects, I could see that as fun. Although not realistic. How is someone across the realms going to know, or for that matter, care if "Armageddon is very grumpy"? Coin: If it doesn't...if a kender is sneaking, it should signifigently improve their chance of circling becuase they ARE sneaking... AMystery: Makes sense to me. It should also increase the damage done by BS, or at least the chance it will hit. Krondor: HEAVY weapons that are as heavy as their name implies, so they stand a chance to disarm a mobs weapon when they parry your attack AMystery: Heavier weapons should disarm better, and probably do more damage but just because of their weight you should hit less. Might be a fun addition, cause people to have greater variety in weapons. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anubis: make it so that you can turn peek on and off. Either that, or put a screen pause when you look at someone if it's over so and so lines. I'm using telnet and most of the time I can't see what ppl are actually wearing. Kytar: I happen to agree with this one to an extent....I think peek should be a seperate command from look...look I think should be more of a cursory glance-over than a detailed examination....and peek should be a sort of 'sizing up' of a target....make them seperate and peek becomes useful. AMystery: I agree with Kytar here. peek should either be toggled or separate. AMystery: This is in response to my recent idea about weakening mental barrier: Slart: Oddly, I haven't really seen a tremendous surge in illithid heroes recently. Out of 22 players currently on BR (I'm on in another window), there are zero illithids. So, even if it's too powerful, I think we'll stick with the current plan. You'll just have to be more careful when it comes to backstabbing those pesky avatars in the arena, Amy... ;) Kytar: I think that is because not many have really realized yet what illthid's are capable of...once they do...illithid characters will increase by droves. AMystery: I agree, but I feel that I haven't properly expressed my idea. Its hard to do in BR but I have much more space here. It doesn't seem realistic to me to have such an absolute spell. Everything fails occasionally, that's just the way the world works. I like MB itself, its a great spell for a great race, it just seems overpowered. For instance. BS only lasts one round yet there is a chance it will fail. Now, before you argue, let me finish. I see four possible ways to change it, either have it 1) act like a normal -AC spell, so that the ill suffers some damage while reflecting the vast majority of it back to the attacker. 2) only reflect a certain kind of attack, physical or magical, sword or fireball, but not both. or 3) it it reflect everything but not 100% of the time, let an occasional attack get through. 4) some combination of the above. maybe reflect all physical attacks 90% of the time or let the ill receive 10% of the damage while the attacker receives 90% of every magical attack. Something like that. Now, as a final note, I'm told there are no plans to change MB so I am basically wasting my breath, but I like to be understood and I don't think my full idea got across in anything I've said before now. And for those who would like to argue, go play an illithid. Let me know what you think firsthand. And no, I don't think it horribly unbalances the game. Just a minor point to argue on, which I do enjoy doing:) Smaug: can we make it so that mobs can't flee while tripped? or at least tripped via tailsweep? AMystery: It does make sense that they couldn't flee, or at least not as well. I can see a smurf crawling out the door, blood dripping behind it though. Its just less likely they would get completely away since crawling is slower than walking. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kiri's WWW of URLs: Web Economy BS generator: http://www.dack.com/web/bullshit.html This is VERY frightening, Phonebashing! http://phonebashing.com/ This chick is weird. She draws what she eats every day on her palm pilot. http://www.pocketpig.com/ I don't know why I like this page. I can't even figure out what the hell it does. http://www.practicingfarm.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pythagorean theorem: 24 words The Lord's Prayer: 66 words. Archimedes' Principle: 67 words. The Ten Commandments: 179 words. Lincoln's Gettysburg address: 286 words. The US Declaration of Independence: 1,300 words. The US Government regulations on the sale of cabbage: 26,911 words. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newsletter January 18, 2001 Hi folks! big changes in this newsletter. A -- the website is no longer on nightfall. Yahoo bought simplenet and they began charging for bandwidth. The new site is: http://www.coredcs.com/~barren Secondly, this is my email address from now on. Kiri@li.net will no longer work as soon as I cancel the account, which should be within the month. Please send all new mail to this address. Also, these people need to log in their characters or contact me for their passwords immediately or they will be pwiped: Accuris, Aelod, Agheld, Akili, Alyeska, Angeles, Aurthor, Bandari, Bipu, Blairo, Bono, Cerius, Curly, Drong, Eagleye, Eliphaz, Elpenor, Eraser, Fleflah, Galicon, Golgotha, Helgar, His, Hisdos, Justone, Kryptonic, Matson, Nirvana, Originii, Otho, Pinkle, Prydian, Quistis, Rieko, Spartacus, Thanos, Toska, Tresger, Twinsen, Valimar, Yotoden IDEAS: Sihtam: change the book of math's name or something. when i 'kick math' it thinks i wanna kick mathis... Kiri -- this is an unfortunate byproduct of abbreviations being usable on the MUD. Sadly, I don't want to ruin the author's intent just so you don't kick mathis *grin* Try 2.math Sihtam: when you're really wasted, you shoudl fight more agressivly. like in real life! :D Kiri -- and fall over halfway through? ;) Mathis: corpses should show up on scan Sihtam: dont puke when you eat and you're drunk. or at least have it so you can eat while drunk. Sihtam: bee able to cast detect invis. on others. Sihtam: create food should go right into your inventory Dio: have medicus have see invis on at all times Sihtam: c 'create beer'..... Responses by RogueApp, who never signs his name to his emails: Saidin: beneath Enhancements This Level in Info, add a line: Total Enhancements Ever: # -why? I don't know how that information does anything at all, except let you boast how many times you have enhanced without counting. :> Krondor: A message that tells you when curse, weakness, and other spells are cast succesfully but fail to affect the mob -I kind of agree. However, sometimes you can't tell if weakening something works. So, I think it's more realistic that sometimes you don't know whether the spell worked or not. Not that a blank line doesn't tell you it didn't work, hmm, maybe an error. Iori: a junk command to get rid of nodrop trash -The only reason they are nodrop is because we don't want them to be easy to get rid of. Armageddon: an "emote" chat channel -There's an emote in a room because others can see you do it. Chat is kind of an ooc command, even though we don't rp much. But if you want to do actions, just use **. Coin: If it doesn't...if a kender is sneaking, it should signifigently improve their chance of circling becuase they ARE sneaking... -My friend once told me that backstab is affected by sneak and hide, not sure if it's true.. nice idea too, but not significantly, maybe just a little bit. Krondor: HEAVY weapons that are as heavy as their name implies, so they stand a chance to disarm a mobs weapon when they parry your attack -Kind of heavy, don't you think? maybe if it needs 22 str to carry. Even better yet, have two-hand weapons sometimes knock out weapons, but only if your char's strength is high. I can't really see a one hand weapon that anyone can carry can knock a weapon out of someone's hand, except if they have, like, 5 str or so. Dwarves might, but they can already disarm. Ginsu: race specific equipment. maybe add an extra flag to eq that specifies which race or combination of races can use it. or have it give an extra boost to a certain race. dwarven armor should only fit dwarves, etc -The way chars are set up right now is kind of every race has similar stats, and equipment too, would be equally available to all. Maybe if they changed the chars to the different attributes system suggested before though, you can do that. Ginsu: have it so the entire group attacks at the same time, people should be able to coordinate that well. -Hmm, I suggest you try to do that in real life, and see if you can do that and use skills at the same time :> I think it's pretty good that using skills doesn't slow down combat. SDRay: character sex - I don't know what you mean, but if that's what I am thinking you mean, than I will have to tell you that is insane. Winner: should the mob won't be able to get an enflamed weapon since it's consider as a mortal and not a druid or elf? -Very good point, but they are monsters. Maybe some of them should be able to pick it up and some not. Maybe there should be equipment that lets you pick up such stuff. Iori: should be able to suck the blood trail like the guardians so that we gain some hp everylick -Blood has bacteria in it, and once it's outside the body, the bacteria gets nasty :> Besides, what race(except maybe avians) would want to drink blood? Iori: shouldn't kick's damage be improved? -Kick will becaome too powerful if it is. Humans can kick three times. It's just like peck is about the same level as kick, only not automatic. Kiri's WWW of URLs: Mutant women! THanks to Scavenger: http://www.redherring.com/mag/issue86/mag-mutant-86.html Robot Stories: real tales of retail http://www.robotstories.com/ The Kiri Vehera Ruins, Once again, I'm on the Kiri kick: http://www.infolanka.com/photo/vol2/Anura001.htm Free SAT course online: http://www.testu.com/info/sat.asp I'm out of Bios! Here are some new questions, so feel free to answer them even if you've sent in a bio before: a. What's your BR name? b. What race/level are you? c. How did you pick your BR name? d. What's your favorite area? e. Where do you live (State or province/Country) f. What do you do for a living? g. If you're a college/grad student, what's your major? h. What do you want to be when you grow up? i. Are you single? j. What are your hobbies? k. What's the hardest thing you've ever had to do? l. Who do you most admire? m. What celebrity would you love to hook up with? n. What's the last book you read (including for school). Did you like it? o. What's the last movie you saw? Did you like it? p. If you could be anywhere in the world for a week, where would you go? Top 14 Changes In a Country-Western Star Trek 14. Every Friday night, the entire crew heads down to the cargo bay for the big tractor-beam pull. 13. Original character Mr. Spock: raise an eyebrow, mutter "fascinating." New character "Yosemite" Spock: Pop off a few rounds, holler "Great horny toads!" 12. The Prime Directive now mostly concerned with restrictions on marriage to other family members. 11. Space is still the final frontier, but the first stop is Winn Dixie for a case of Busch and some Luckies. 10. Good aliens = mullets; Bad aliens = mullets and goatees. 9. Every time a new alien is introduced, Spock says, "Captain, if I may... them's good eatin'." 8. Incoming message chime replaced by "Dueling Banjos." 7. Captain Kirk still sleeps with anything that moves - as long as he's related to it. 6. Lieutenant Commander Data up on blocks in the front yard, waiting for parts. 5. "Dammit, Jim! I'm a doctor, not a NASCAR driver!" 4. "Away Team - set banjos on stun." 3. Picard's usual replicator order? "Skins. Pork. Fried." 2. Before every commercial: the Enterprise freezes in mid-air, Kirk lets out a rebel yell, and Waylon Jennings does a voice-over where he says, "Looks like them Federation boys just ordered up a second helping of trouble, and that's what the Klingons are servin'!" 1. New title for "Amok Time" is "My Girlfriend's Ugly; I Done Kilt My Best Friend; And My Ears Are Sore" --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newsletter January 28, 2001 Hi folks. Hope you are all holding up :) Pretty soon BR will be having some major additions and changes, and we will keep you updated of them as they happen. It should be a ton of fun :) Feel free to reply to this letter whenever you like with submissions. IDEAS: AMystery: aggro mobs that spontaneously attack other mobs and players. they hate everyone Acer: I have a mint idea, how about introducing Switch cards, you can buy one and withdraw money from your account straight. Then mobs can't steal your coins" Sammantha: This is just kinda useless and silly, but thought I'd ask... Maybe have a little bonus or something with the Hangman if you guess the entire thing without any mistakes. He's pretty useful for extra cash... :) AMystery: two argument socials, ex: pie joysinger divebomb = You throw a pie at joysinger for divebomb's amusement Liberator: create sound is a skill that shouldve been kept only as an idea BIO BY MYSTIQUE: a. What's your BR name? Mystique b. What race/level are you? Druid, 30-something (a lady never reveals her "true" level ) c. How did you pick your BR name? Don't know--it just popped into my head. d. What's your favorite area? The circus :) e. Where do you live (State or province/Country) Florida, USA f. What do you do for a living? Webmaster, student newspaper advisor, writer g. If you're a college/grad student, what's your major? Finished grad school, communications/electronic media h. What do you want to be when you grow up? Ain't happenin' i. Are you single? Nope. j. What are your hobbies? Writing, reading, movies k. What's the hardest thing you've ever had to do? Live longer than some of my loved ones. l. Who do you most admire? My dad--he fought in three wars and has been married to my mom for 55 years. m. What celebrity would you love to hook up with? I always draw a blank on questions like this... n. What's the last book you read (including for school). Did you like it? Am currently on a Terry Pratchitt binge and just finished Soul Music. Loved it. o. What's the last movie you saw? Did you like it? Road Trip. Had its moments ;) p. If you could be anywhere in the world for a week, where would you go? Guam, Figi, Australia or Germany... Replies from Cord: > Cybol: An undertaker shop. Pay a mob to go and get your corpse and > bring it to you. Costs a ton of gold based on level, and possibly > even expience as well. > >> Kiri -- Death on BR is pretty easy. The only thing I would even think >> about doing is making pass door potions available to people who have >> died at the wizard or clericus while their corpses are still in the >> game. Cord: I think pass door potions would be a good addition; but I would have to agree that the "undertaker" might be a bit too much. > Dio: when u glare a mob and make it sleep even if it is hurt u should > be able to dive on it cause it isnt awake to see u Cord: Makes logical sense to me... > Cord: make it so you can't unlock/open doors while in combat Cord: I agree with my own idea =). > Winner: should be able to learn skill without practicing it in guilds > be using them many times to gain some % Cord: Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but that's basically the way things are now... pratice a skill once to "learn" it, and then, as you use it over and over, your percent does go up... > Saffron: Bah add wear location to identify Cord: That would involve a lot of re-coding of the items already in the game, and probably would be more work than it is worth. That said, I *do* think it would be a nice feature. > Krondor: If we struggle for believability, how can a mob knock food > from your hand when you try to eat in battle if they are blinded? Cord: How can you eat food in battle to begin with? Perhaps the better answer would be to make it so that if you tried to eat or drink during battle you would instead get a generic, "Not now, you are still fighting!" sort of message, and then get rid of the whole knocking food out of the hands thing. >> Wasabe: "REM DEEP SLEEP" an even deeper sleep... where we will be >> unable = to do anything for one whole tick... however... you can't >> pull it off by = just waiting till a tick is almost over... but >> player should be in REM = DEEP SLEEP for the length of a avg tick. > > Baltar: Or just two ticks, minimum... Cord: If this were to make sense, we would set it up so that if you have been sleeping for, say, 5 ticks, then you would enter this deeper sleep and regen faster. We could also make it harder to wake the person up from this sleep... maybe even have them wait a tick after typing "wake" before they actually wake up. >> Lugin: make it possible to flee while being carried > > Baltar: Perhaps there could be a command implemented that enables the > one being carried to force the carrier to drop him/her/it. (I have > some vague recollections of problems when one's carrier goes > linkdead...) DROPME, or something like that. The equivalent of > poking the carrier with a sharp stick (without doing any damage or > getting KILLER flags or any other nasty consequences like that...). > Really, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to be able to fight > while being carried anyway, particularly if the one carrying you is > also in combat...wouldn't you think you'd get dropped automatically? > (Which is, of course, another possible solution...) Cord: I second both ideas - add a "dropme" command and have an "auto-drop" take place when a carrier enters combat. >> >> JBomb: we should have a group who like type group me to be put on >> >> the = list of who wants to group do that again to be off the list >> >> group who = caommand should show who is on the list >> >> Fury -- Star command, your signal is breaking up! I'm sorry, but >> this = early in the morning, that is completely unintelligable... > > Baltar: I believe JBomb wants a quick way to list only those players > on the mud who are interested in forming a group. He suggests WHO > GROUP to see the list, and GROUP ME to toggle whether you're on it. > Seems to me that it's not that hard to type WHO > and go from there, but it's up to the coders... Cord: A "groupme" toggle would be interesting, but I think it's pretty easy to just send the person a tell and ask them if they would like to group. Common, guys, communication is fun! =) >> >> Conner: This may be a dumb idea, but I think that is should be = >> possible >>for heroes to purchase the spells the need from the >> healers >> >> Fury -- Why?=20 > > Baltar: 'Cos we're all lazy. Cord: All spells in the game? Or just the spells you can learn? Seems to me that all spells isn't much of an option - we have to do something to keep the races a little unique after hero. And if instead we do just the spells that one's race can learn, then I'm with Fury - why? (side note) Kiri - have you been keeping the bio's at all? That could be a fun thing to add to people's info on the website... (more work, I know, but I bet someone would be willing to do it... just a thought) Kiri -- yes, I save everything. :) It's all up (except for the most recent things) on the website, and you can search on there as well. Kiri's WWW of URLs: Dancing Cartoons -- what more can I say? http://www.dancingcartoons.com/ Very racy, not for youngsters -- world sexual records: http://www.sexualrecords.com/ Waferbaby, I dunno http://www.waferbaby.com/ There is a wolf named Kiri. Well, two then I guess. http://www.ntsource.com/~suzanne/WolfPics.htm I'm sorry this joke is so long, but Bush has said soooooooo many dumb things. :) This is my way to retaliate ;) The Big List of Bush Quotes "The person who runs FEMA is someone who must have the trust of the president. Because the person who runs FEMA is the first voice, oftentimes, of someone whose life has been turned upside down hears from." Austin, Texas, Jan. 4, 2001 "She is a member of a labor union at one point." Announcing his nomination of Linda Chavez as secretary of labor. Austin, Texas, Jan. 2, 2001 "Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods." Austin, Texas, Dec. 20, 2000 "I am mindful of the difference between the executive branch and the legislative branch. I assured all four of these leaders that I know the difference, and that difference is they pass the laws and I execute them." Washington, D.C., Dec. 18, 2000 "The great thing about America is everybody should vote." Austin, Texas, Dec. 8, 2000 "Dick Cheney and I do not want this nation to be in a recession. We want anybody who can find work to be able to find work." 60 Minutes II, Dec. 5, 2000 "I knew it might put him in an awkward position that we had a discussion before finality has finally happened in this presidential race." Describing a phone call to Sen. John Breaux. Crawford, Texas, Dec. 2, 2000 "The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law." Austin, Texas, Nov. 22, 2000 "They misunderestimated me." Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000 "They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program." St. Charles, Mo., Nov. 2, 2000 "Anyway, after we go out and work our hearts out, after you go out and help us turn out the vote, after we've convinced the good Americans to vote, and while they're at it, pull that old George W. lever, if I'm the one, when I put my hand on the Bible, when I put my hand on the Bible, that day when they swear us in, when I put my hand on the Bible, I will swear to not to uphold the laws of the land." Toledo, Ohio, Oct. 27, 2000 "Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream." LaCrosse, Wis., Oct. 18, 2000 "I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun." "Mr. Vice President, in all due respect, it is I'm not sure 80 percent of the people get the death tax. I know this: 100 percent will get it if I'm the president." "If affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for, then I'm for it." St. Louis, Mo., October 18, 2000 "I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial profiling, which is illiterate children." Second presidential debate, Oct. 11, 2000 "It's going to require numerous IRA agents." On Gore's tax plan, Greensboro, N.C., Oct. 10, 2000 "I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions. I can't answer your question." In response to a question about whether he wished he could take back any of his answers in the first debate. Reynoldsburg, Ohio, Oct. 4, 2000 "I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully." Saginaw, Mich., Sept. 29, 2000 "I will have a foreign-handed foreign policy." Redwood, Calif., Sept. 27, 2000 "One of the common denominators I have found is that expectations rise above that which is expected." Los Angeles, Sept. 27, 2000 "It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas." Beaverton, Ore., Sep. 25, 2000 "The woman who knew that I had dyslexia I never interviewed her." Orange, Calif., Sept. 15, 2000 "I don't think we need to be subliminable about the differences between our views on prescription drugs." Orlando, Fla., Sept. 12, 2000 "Listen, Al Gore is a very tough opponent. He is the incumbent. He represents the incumbency. And a challenger is somebody who generally comes from the pack and wins, if you're going to win. And that's where I'm coming from." Detroit, Sept. 7, 2000 "We'll let our friends be the peacekeepers and the great country called America will be the pacemakers." Houston, Texas, Sept. 6, 2000 "Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do it, that's trustworthiness." Houston, Texas, Sept. 6, 2000 "We cannot let terrorists and rogue nations hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile." Houston, Texas, Sept. 6, 2000 "The only things that I can tell you is that every case I have reviewed I have been comfortable with the innocence or guilt of the person that I've looked at. I do not believe we've put a guilty... I mean innocent person to death in the state of Texas." All Things Considered, NPR, June 16, 2000 Bush: "First of all, Cinco de Mayo is not the independence day. That's dieciséis de Septiembre, and... " Matthews: "What's that in English?" Bush: "Fifteenth of September." (Dieciséis de Septiembre = Sept. 16) Hardball, MSNBC, May 31, 2000 "Actually, I - this may sound a little West Texan to you, but I like it. When I'm talking about when I'm talking about myself, and when he's talking about myself, all of us are talking about me." Hardball, MSNBC, May 31, 2000 "This is a world that is much more uncertain than the past. In the past we were certain, we were certain it was us versus the Russians in the past. We were certain, and therefore we had huge nuclear arsenals aimed at each other to keep the peace. That's what we were certain of.... You see, even though it's an uncertain world, we're certain of some things. We're certain that even though the 'evil empire' may have passed, evil still remains. We're certain there are people that can't stand what America stands for.... We're certain there are madmen in this world, and there's terror, and there's missiles, and I'm certain of this, too: I'm certain to maintain the peace, we better have a military of high morale, and I'm certain that under this administration, morale in the military is dangerously low." Albuquerque, N.M., the Washington Post, May 31, 2000 "I think we agree, the past is over." On his meeting with John McCain, Dallas Morning News, May 10, 2000 "It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it." Reuters, May 5, 2000 "Laura and I really don't realize how bright our children is sometimes until we get an objective analysis." CNBC, April 15, 2000 "I was raised in the West. The west of Texas. It's pretty close to California. In more ways than Washington, D.C., is close to California." In Los Angeles as quoted by the Los Angeles Times, April 8, 2000 "I understand small business growth. I was one." New York Daily News, Feb. 19, 2000 "If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign." Hilton Head, S.C., Feb. 16, 2000 "The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case." Pella, Iowa, as quoted by the San Antonio Express-News, Jan. 30, 2000 "Will the highways on the Internet become more few?" Concord, N.H., Jan. 29, 2000 "This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve." Speaking during "Perseverance Month" at Fairgrounds Elementary School in Nashua, N.H. As quoted in the Los Angeles Times, Jan. 28, 2000 "I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family." Greater Nashua, N.H., Chamber of Commerce, Jan. 27, 2000 "When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world, and you knew exactly who they were," he said. "It was us vs. them, and it was clear who them was. Today, we are not so sure who the they are, but we know they're there." Iowa Western Community College, Jan 21, 2000 "Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?" Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000 "I read the newspaper." In answer to a question about his reading habits, New Hampshire Republican Debate, Dec. 2, 1999 "The important question is, How many hands have I shaked?" Answering a question about why he hasn't spent more time in New Hampshire, in The New York Times, Oct. 23, 1999 "I don't remember debates. I don't think we spent a lot of time debating it. Maybe we did, but I don't remember." On discussions of the Vietnam War when he was an undergraduate at Yale, Washington Post, July 27, 1999 "If the East Timorians decide to revolt, I'm sure I'll have a statement." Quoted by Maureen Dowd in The New York Times, June 16, 1999 "Keep good relations with the Grecians." Quoted in the Economist, June 12, 1999 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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!