Hello fellow MUDders. I've been thinking about adding smokeables to my MUD, similar to drinkables. I've searched through developer, and done google searches and whatnot, but I haven't seen anything like this. Is there any code available, or should I just start plugging away and seeing what happens? I don't mind trying to do this myself, it'll take me a while (My C is very rusty, let's just say), but I'm sure I'll get there in the end. I was thinking about implementing it the same as with drinks, and drink containers, and different liquids, so that there are different "smokables" containers (pipes, papers, hookas, bongs), different smokables (tobacco and cannabis obviously, but other things too eventually). They could definately be poisoned (paraquat-sprayed cannbis is a good real-world example), so I'll adapt that too. Maybe they'll affect your "drunk" level as well, and maybe your hunger/thirst too (although I hadn't even thought about that until just now). I'm curious what the community thinks about this. It seems to me it would be a very big job, so is there anything I should take into consideration to make it "patchable" to other systems, to people don't have to duplicate my work? That brings up another question, actually. I'm a newbie at this Patching thing... how portable is it? Every time I've tried it (both for the MUD and other things) it's seemed very hit and miss (usually miss in my [in]experience)... so will any of those existing patches work on 3.1 (like OLC, or text-based files, both of which are attractive, but I haven't tried them to see if they'll work yet, due to past patching problems)? Is there anything reasonably that can be done to fix that, or that I should look out for in making my OWN patches? I'm using CircleMUD 3.1, unpatched, but slightly modified (Mayor Spec-proc, and other minor things), for more information. Thanks for any thoughts! Adam AKA DrWho -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | 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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