Well, I don't know about your player-base... But given some of the buttheads I deal with, I can picture a real spamfest taking place. Perhaps if there were a way to deal with access to your personal textfile along the lines of the house guest code this might work out well. --DH (The guy who wants change for his 2 cents...) -----Original Message----- From: Circle Discussion List [mailto:CIRCLE@post.queensu.ca]On Behalf Of Shane Lee Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 1:34 AM To: CIRCLE@post.queensu.ca Subject: Re: [CIRCLE] Mud balancing (Was OasisOLC 2.0 and Circleblp15) -----Start Quote----- These are all the sorts of things that would make an invaluable tool to the person who was worried about balancing their world out. I know someone previously was talking about doing this...did that ever pan out? -----End Quote----- Well, not exactly. As you well know, balancing will always be a major issue, no matter how long a MUD has been around. What I was actually trying to do was take the guess work out for the Builders. Instead of them breaking out a calculator to determine the hitroll, damroll and other stats, I just wanted to have them set the MOB's level and class and then after editing everything else, exit medit and mobroll it. I've run into a few problems from some old code that I out in a few weeks ago, and I've been bug hunting since I posted that message. -New Topic- Wanted to do it this way so as not to send two different messages. Question: Has anyone out there actually got xapobjects to work for them? My code is still reeling from my brief experience with the xapojects 2.2 I installed a couple of days ago. I'm not wanting corpses, or unique items to save, I just want mail to save, and xapobjs seemed to be the way to go. But no matter what I do, I just can't seem to get it right. I'm tempted to completely re- write the mail code to editable personal message files. Here's what I was thinking: When a character is created, the game creates a text file in their name. The player can enter a text editor, like through tedit, and use it like a notebook to jot down notes. If another player wants to leave someone else a note, they simply type: MAIL <name> and they are granted write-only access to the target's text file. When the target logs on, the game notifies them if their text file has been edited. Other than disk space, I don't see much of a problem with this, the code itself should be pretty simple, as long as I stick to the tedit prototype I already have. Any comments? Or has anyone actually done this before and may be able to give me a few pointers? Cheers, -FIRE +------------------------------------------------------------------+------+ | Get your MUD on @ Euridia.com! | __ | | http://www.euridia.com -- Your ultimate MUD resource | (oO) | | telnet://euridia.com:4545 -- Euridia MUD | /||\ | | telnet://euridia.com:4000 -- The E2K Project | | +------------------------------------------------------------------+------+ -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | FAQ: http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~fletchra/Circle/list-faq.html | | Archives: http://post.queensu.ca/listserv/wwwarch/circle.html | +---------------------------------------------------------------+ -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | FAQ: http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~fletchra/Circle/list-faq.html | | Archives: http://post.queensu.ca/listserv/wwwarch/circle.html | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
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