i have added a few mods to my mud that i will soo be releasing to the public it will be bamud5 these are what i have done so far ... please tell me if there is any flaw to my thinking. here is what i have done. Weather text hs stored un a text file called weather.txt it is editable in the mud and can be updated with the tedit command and reloaded with reload, this allows the imm's to change the weather patterns on the fly. i ahve added a few seasons to my mud as well the weather file contains about 8 lines with '~'s seperating the seasons The main menu has been changed to read from menu.txt u simply used the same calls as the mud uses to read any other text file into memory. i am working on adding races as drop in files in the lib directory. basicly a settings file called human.race and it would have it's index file like all the other files in the mud. this woudl allow on the fly race editing. i also am adding a flag to the pfile and a new routine to allow after a race is edited to drop connections to all the players of that race .. force them to camp out of the game and the game to reload them when they re log and make there charactor conform to the changed in there race. on load. this woudl not require a reboot that is the main benny of doing this. i am also going to think abotu doing the same with the classes. the skills and such will need to be hard coded like usual however what skills what EXP level they advance and whatnot will be editable spells and such will also be editable as weather they get them and at what level ... so please tell me if i have any flaws in my thinking ... the only think i can think of is that it will not be as simple as other patches to add this to a mud as it will over ride alott of the mud's code ... i plan on useing the olc style interfaces for my editing of the settings in the files assuming that is ok with the maintainer of olc :) -Brandon Allen BAMUD -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | FAQ: http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~fletchra/Circle/list-faq.html | | Archives: http://post.queensu.ca/listserv/wwwarch/circle.html | | Newbie List: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/circle-newbies/ | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
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