Random list of things to maybe do in CircleMUD 4.0
by George Greer (greerga@circlemud.org)

Database Parser 2 Project
• Linked list world
  Remember Ebon Mists' post from years ago anyone?
• Memory mapping for files. (dak)
• Better dynamic mob/object support (Daniel Koepke)
• Rewrite db.c to be more versatile.
  Parse_mobile() on arbitrary strings for instance.
• New world parser a la BIND 8
• Down with Rnums! Down with Rnums!
• ODBC Library
• PostgreSQL, MySQL, Sybase, DB2
• Shared memory, FTP worlds, HTTP worlds, world on a filesystem, etc...

Other
• Move spell wear off messages into spell_info like spells[] did.
• OasisOLC / OBuild
  Rather include a generic OLC routine library though.
• POSIX/Windows Threads
  Limited to Linux, Solaris, Windows, and maybe FreeBSD. Hm, now that Glib supports a wrapping around the threaded locking functions, this becomes more feasible. Now if they would only wrap the thread creation routines somehow. It's not that necessary since they have g_thread_supported(), but it would eliminate the need to link against libpthread or whatever.
• ASCII Player File
  Likely to be included so long as Sammy doesn't mind. Great work on his part for this package too.
• Buffer System
  I'm doing a makeover at the moment with it so I have yet to figure out what it is going to become. Most likely it would be nice. As of recently, the library I am converting to use (glib) has become thread safe. So now I can rip most, if not all, of my own locking out and still have the threaded benefit.
• DG Scripts / DG Events
  Obvious reasons, but overkill? Maybe, maybe not.
• NoteOLC
  Alternative to OasisOLC and OBuild. It'd be basically the same as writing the world files by hand, except online.
• RaceEdit/ClassEdit (Cyber_Angel@bigfoot.com)
  Intriguing idea. Some people have expressed concern that it increases the number of files that heave to be read when the MUD boots but imagine being able to add a class or race while online and without requiring a warm/cold reboot.
• Dynamic spell addition.
  Sort of a spell-edit type thing. Will require a lot of magic generalization.
• Remove MOB_ISNPC (Andrey Fidrya)
  Definitely something to do, just need to figure out method.
• Typedef struct room_data to just ROOM
  (Invincibill <bill@LONGBOYS.NET>)
• Levels on help files
  See hedit code. (Keith Bertelsen <mogupo@HOTMAIL.COM>)
• [HAT]edit
• INFO channel
  wiznet for players, showing logins, deaths, levels, etc.
• Automatic Auction
• Erwin's copyover
• Daniel Koepke's it idea
• Sammy's better tilde hiding
  Or better yet, stop using ~ as the end of line marker.
• Rob Baumstark's saving throws and Edward J Glamkowski's saving throws and experience formulas, with addendum.
• Christian Loth's ANSI cleanup
  Or maybe sooner, soon as someone confirms it.
• Christopher Avans' saving corpses
  Beyond reboot of course. But if we do that, I want to do notes too.
• StormeRider would like to see Perl as scripting language
  Anyone with any idea how we could integrate it? Might want to look at Erwin's MUD Client for Linux for example.
• Luis Pedro Passos Carvalho wants flex/yacc parser.
  • World Parser
  • Actions File Parser
  • Help File Parser
  • Scripting Language Parser
  • Command Interpreter Parser (more than one command per line, macros)
• Guilds, various implementations on FTP site.
• config.c loading it's values from an initialization file at runtime.
• HTML help files (Daniel Koepke)
• Telnet negotiation (Daniel Koepke)
• Classes, spells, and skills written entirely in scripting language, with complete removal being highly trivial. (dak)
• Ability to split-off DNS as a child process, just in case the nameserver is slow. (dak)
• Use Unix-sockets or better yet, TCP/IP sockets for the above.
• Support for ident. (dak)
• The above in a child process too?
• Much better text editor. Or editors. (dak)
• Or a telnet daemon to use any editor, like Emacs.
• What about setting linkdead mortal chars invis 31 & NOHASSLE instead of transferring them to NOWHERE? (Andrey Fidrya)
• Allow aliases for characters without descriptors? (Chris Proctor)
• Assort suggestions from Gryshk Solo.
• List of things.

Names are so I can remember who suggested what if I need more information, to implement it for example. If there isn't a name, it was probably mine or before I kept track.