Hello to all CircleMud people...
I would like to start by saying that anyone I have ever encountered in the
CircleMud world has been a very pleasant experence.
I have been coding with CircleMud base for about 4 years now,
I was running a mud called Rising Moon. It has been up, but currently down
(no isp). So I have had plently of time to work out a lot of bugs and tweek
a few things here and there. Well I'm writing because I have gotten so much
help from the ftp sites and George has even helped me a time or two..that i
would like to open up some of my code ideas to the circlemud people..but not
sure what people want or need, and not sure if I should post on the CircleMud
ftp or the queens ftp site, or both.
I am just going to list some things in the email and see where or what some
of the things you all would like to have posted...
Heres a list of some of the spells outside of CircleMud's norm I use in
Rising Moon
(Disclaimer: NOT ALL OF THESE SPELLS are writen by me, I have tweeked some
of them, but im not in anyway shape or form the orginal author. While some
of them i have wrote from the ground up.)
SPELL_PORTAL
SPELL_FLY
SPELL_PROT_FIRE
SPELL_PROT_COLD
SPELL_WATERBREATH
SPELL_GROUP_FLY
SPELL_STONESKIN
SPELL_FIREWIND
SPELL_DISINTEGRATE
SPELL_FLAME_STRIKE
SPELL_REFRESH
SPELL_GREATER_HEAL
SPELL_RESTORATION
SPELL_FIRESHIELD
SPELL_CURE_MINOR
SPELL_CURE_NORMAL
SPELL_CURE_SERIOUS
SPELL_ICE_RAY
SPELL_REROLL
SPELL_DEVINE_TOUCH
SPELL_FREEZING_WIND
SPELL_HELLFIRE
SPELL_SPARK_SHOWER
SPELL_CHAIN_LIGHTENING
SPELL_PRISMATIC_SPRAY
SPELL_METEOR_SWARM
SPELL_ICE_STORM
SPELL_CLOUD_OF_DESTRUCTION
SPELL_FIRESTORM
SPELL_SOUL_CHILL
SPELL_RAIN_OF_DEATH
The next two I like very much, with the use of these two spells, I have
devloped a way for a character to die, but not be disconnected for 5 mins, so
that if other characters have RAISE_DEAD they can be Raised and be right
where they were when they died.
SPELL_DEATH
SPELL_RAISE_DEAD
this is very simlar to the way sloth did there death. (or maybe its a diku
thing?)
SPELL_WEB
SPELL_ENERGY_STORM
These next two are cleric spells, they allow a cleric to set a beacon in the
room they are in, and then return to it later, kinda like portal or transport
or summons spell.
SPELL_LLOYDS_SET
SPELL_LLOYDS_RETURN
SPELL_SILENCE
SPELL_MAGIC_ROPE
SPELL_UNHOLY_ARMOR
SPELL_WRAITHFORM
SPELL_UNHOLY_STR
SPELL_PRESSURE_STORM
SPELL_IMPLODE
SPELL_REGEN
SPELL_PHASEDOOR
SPELL_PLANESHIFT
SPELL_GROUP_INVIS
SPELL_MAGIC_LANTERN
This is a list of some ot the skills that have been added to Rising Moon.
(again the disclamer is in effect)
SKILL_DOUBLE_ATTACK
SKILL_SKIN
SKILL_TRIPLE_ATTACK
SKILL_QUAD_ATTACK
SKILL_D_BACKSTAB
SKILL_T_BACKSTAB
SKILL_REPAIR
SKILL_DOUBLE_KICK
SKILL_BLEND
SKILL_BANDAGE
SKILL_SPY
SKILL_THROW
SKILL_BOW
SKILL_SLING
SKILL_CROSSBOW
SKILL_CLIMB
SKILL_RETREAT
SKILL_MOUNT
SKILL_RIDING
SKILL_TAME
ok im sure you are tired of looking at the list of spells and skills..
Some of the other things that Rising Moon has:
Multi Class -- There is 10 classes to choose from, you get to pick 4. You can
use as many classes as you want. 4 is a good balance for multi classing.
Race languages, so you can talk in your own race language to others of your
own race and they are the only ones that understand it. (untill others learn
in a form of percents, the lang)
Groups -- I have added the abitlity to use the who list to see groups. gjobs
and gtitles are also in.
Temples -- you have temples of the gods, where you can pray and be a follower
of such god, where in turn you can sacfice corpses to for sac points in
exchange for the use of holy items. (of which do have timers, and can not be
giving to other characters or be rented)
do_who -- some of its features besides listing groups, you can list clans and
clan members, or just the people of your temple.
Guilds -- You level in guilds, using the commands level or level gain.. level
shows you how much exp you need, level gain lets you level. as for practices,
i removed them, when you set spells to min level, when they reach that level,
they get it automaticly, but only at 30%, and thanks to the improve_skill
(dont rem the author) as you use they skills or spells, you have a chance of
improving on them, 1 to 3 % at a time. up to the max percent.
Tweeked the medit, oedit, redit to add more protection from those gods that
just like to goof off, and really dont take building very sereuse. (spelling
at 1 am in morning not very good!)
Houses -- very nice piece of code, when it came to payment, it drove me nuts
when i loged on and everybody was making payments to me, never seem to get
anything done, so I added an excange command at the bank, that lets you turn
gold coins into gold bars, which i allowed to be mailed thorough the mud mail
system.
The use of jails, very nice, for those players that just get under your skin
:)
and they stay that way till they are proaled. even if they disconnect.. :)
Wrap -- a wonderful thing, wrap is short for wrap sheet. you can wrap a
player when they have done something wrong or when you wnat to put something
they did good in a file so that other gods can read this wrap sheet and see
what is going on with these players, even if you are not on line to let them
all know. and i took it even one step ferther, If a god jails someone, the
wrap sheet is automatictly updated with what god did the jailing and why. and
same updating when a god paroles someone.
I really liked the auto quest code also, which was used alot when RM was on
line, did some modifations to this so that eq did not just pop anywhere and
that the mobs they fight were of same level stats, (makes for a more fair
fight :) )
This is some of the things that i can think of right off the top of my head.
(rem, its 1 am here).
Would like to post some of these things so that others may benefit from these
things, like I have benefited from other postings. Just need a starting
point. Hoping someone can give one :)
Arthur Sheffield
Rising Moon
aka 'Aeorge' of sloth
aka 'Sheri' of RM (found that players like you better if they think you are
female) :)
hmm, I wonder why? *gig*
P.S. George if you would, I would like to talk to you by email. If you would
send me a short note so i could reply, i would be forever gratefull.
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