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Cyric

I'd like to point out something to everyone that's worried that having code published will be a threat to us: To run a successful MUD you need: 1) A professionally run staff of at least 5 people, preferably more. No "new" MUD won't have this immediately, and it takes a while for the right people to...

Cyric

1. Opinions are good 2. Flames are bad 3. Over-reacting is silly Just got this from Kris today in response to my request not to release quests: Roy, Definitely reasonable - I dont want to spoil your quests. I will only release quests for like 1 zone as an example, one of my own zones. Does that work...

Cyric

A few days ago I received the following email from Kris (aka Miax): Roy, After some discussion with my wife Eileen, we are going to package and fully release the Sojourn3 code and areas to the public domain. Given that I was the sole legal owner of the Sojourn3 mud, we are within our rights to do so...

Cyric

OK, as of this evening the 2nd round of object changes will be live (54 files moved). Please refer to all preceding messages to figure out what we did and why. I'm sure the changes won't be perfect, and I suspect that we'll be doing more tweaking again, but there will be no "testing period" per se....

Cyric

The Hulburg changes are in. Please use this thread to comment on them.

DK and Havenport are done and pending final approval, then will be added probably tomorrow or the next day. I'll add threads for those 2 as well.

Enjoy.

Cyric

Any bluegrass fans out there? Changed minimally for my own amusement: There's a dark & a troubled side of life There's a bright, there's a sunny side, too Tho' we meet with the darkness and strife The sunny side we also may view Keep on the sunny side, always on the sunny side, Keep on the sunny si...

Cyric

As promised/threatened, all threads have been locked, and no new threads can be added (I think I did those permissions right). Due to the holidays and 3 of our areas wanks going out of town for either work or vacation, I think my December 6th deadline will never happen, and I'm going to push it unt...

Cyric

Please Note: All threads in this forum (except for this one) will be locked at about 7pm EST tomorrow (Monday the 24th). Thereafter we will take all comments into consideration (as we have been all along), and revamp all items as appropriate. I'll post another message here tomorrow with a firm ETA ...

Cyric

You guys have NO ideas how many complaints I get every day from monsters saying "Dude, I'm just not gettin' enough kills these days...my player trophy's waaaaaaaaaaay off, and the fellas are startin' to make fun of me around the water cooler!"

Sad to see a gargoyle or a giant cry, really.

Cyric

Updates on the updates: 1. Tiamat: Areas work is still not done yet due to the emphasis on object changes. Also need to wait until code work is done to support the zones, and all coders are currently working on other good stuff you'll appreciate more...trust me. As a result I have no ETA on this at ...

Cyric

Hey, thanks to Shevarash I've finally got it working. If you're using Chronicles as your template for the BBS you should now see a spanky logo up top for voting at kyndig and topmudsites. I assume subsilver is what most other folks use, and we'll hopefully get something working there as well. Edit 1...

Cyric

Temple of Twisted Flesh object file finally added.

STILL waiting on Havenport/DK/Hulburg...sorry for the delay. =[

All is still going according to schedule, and we're having a big staff meeting today to discuss the direction we'll be heading. Thanks for all the support!

Cyric

Would changing it from max_agi to max_dex make rogues happy?

Cyric

Many of you have been very complimentary and eloquent in your praise of our game in the past. I was hoping some of you would take the time to visit http://www.kyndig.com or http://www.mudconnector.com and review us/post about us. If you take the time to browse those sites, you'll see that the genera...

Cyric

You are absolutely correct, and that is specifically why we're looking at the quest system as a whole. Why post an irate message when I've already addressed the issue? Peace. Trust us. And for the record *IF* you happen to have a copy of the point system specifics, I do *not* want it posted anywher...

Cyric

Working on that, but we'll see. For whatever reason I'm not figuring out quite how to do that. I have the image all set, and you can view it in all its glory at http://www.torilmud.org/votelogo.html We've also: - added a robots.txt file as suggested - made a submission to dmoz.org - submitted a "wh...

Cyric

Just to let you know that I agree that psp was hit especially hard, and we're looking specifically into fixing that. We have a thread on the staff board going right now just to fix psp. I have psionicist love!

Cyric

Thanks! My goal is to implement all of the above, and I've just created and submitted a new animated banner to Kyndig (takes a couple of days for it to be approved). If any of you would like to use it for your own pages, you can see/download it here: http://www.torilmud.org/animlogo5.gif And as ment...

Cyric

Plus we've been a tad busy with other things on the mud if you haven't noticed. Also, I'd like to point out that the other muds that have the little logos are paying to have them there...see the "advertise with us" link on topmudsites, and if you'd like to front the cash, I'm happy to take your chec...

Cyric

An epic quest has been re-introduced today. Please be aware that some parts of it have been changed substantially, so you might want to consider upping your life insurance policies prior to going in.

Cyric

Changes for the day:

Zhentil Keep (updated)
Plane of Fire (STILL trying to make changes stick dangit!)

Thanks for all the feedback!

Cyric

I realize that some respond with "quitting" (or more appropriately vociferously threatening to quit, but not really going away), but we're curious as to how the equipment changes have affected your gameplay. This is less of a linear poll, and I realize there's some crossover. Please vote for what yo...

Cyric

I'd like a feel as to how you interpret the changes overall.

Please be honest.

If you lost 55 hitpoints that you didn't need anyway, and your only other change was that you lost a spell effect that a 5th level mage can cast on you, you did *not* suffer a massive setback.

Cyric

By way of an update, we are currently examining most of the items that you've posted here (although not all will be changed...don't get all excited). Furthermore, as Todrael suggests, we're doing a wholescale re-examination of the epic quest item calculation system since it didn't seem to work out a...

Cyric

I've been to a couple of sites that have you click on a text link to some other company. The site receives a certain amount of cash (eg. 6 cents) per click. Anyone have any experience with that? It's not so much advertising ourselves as it is advertising for other folks, but it makes us money with w...

Cyric

OK, here are this morning's changes: Elder Forest (was forgotten) Icecrag (reworked a bit) Brass ( still trying to figure out why changes aren't taking) Cemetery (reworked) Few other files I can't remember off the top of my head were reworked a bit as well. Still pending: Hulburg/TTF Havenport DK We...

Cyric

Topmudsites just reset their counter. We were well ensconsed at #5, and can easily get right back up there!

Vote for us at

http://www.topmudsites.com/cgi-bin/topm ... gi?id=shev

Cyric

OK, added more modified files this morning. Again, some were nerfed, some lost, and some ignored initially. Considering my initial move consisted of 100 or so files, I think we did pretty well! (Hey, cut a dude some slack) Ashrumite (moved) Calimport (fixed) Cemetery (revived) Duskroad (etc...) MD ...

Cyric

I want to answer 2 common questions I've heard today via petition and seen on the BBS: 1. No, the object changes aren't complete...we nerfed up a few files that didn't make it over on time, we screwed up a few files that did make it over, and we realized that we ignored some files altogether. Nobod...

Cyric

So let me get this straight...

If there's an item that has been slashed stat-wise because it's too easy to get, you'd support addition of a quest to get those stats back?

I can certainly do that for selected items...might take a while, but certainly do-able.

Cyric

Files/fixes for the day: 1. Supporting (non-object) files being moved for multiple zones that address some of the rareness/difficulty in acquisition issues. No more details forthcoming. 2. Drulak and Astral object files were forgotten and are being moved in. Oops! 3. Still trying to figure out why m...

Cyric

Thank you Ashiwi for the vote of confidence...seems someone actually reads our posts and believes us! We morons appreciate the support.

Locking this thread in favor of the object thread.

Cyric

I couldn't agree more. The newbies and low-mid players will be completely fine with the exception of those that are decked out with handed-down high level gear. We have plenty of low level zones, and there's no need to rush through the first 40 levels to get to the "good stuff"...these object change...

Cyric

Patience is a virtue

Cyric

I couldn't agree more. Batskull earrings have been changed back.

Cyric

Complicated but addressed in the system: Rareloads get a significant bonus to their base mob points, all fights in a quest are added, all items turned in are added, then put through a modifier to get the final point score. In other words, the modifier is fair and takes into account the number of rew...

Cyric

I have complete faith in Dugmaren's system, and I have absolutely no suspiction that he did or would favor his own zones. That's just silly.

To soothe the masses, however, I will go over the files and post my findings here shortly.

Cyric

Good question: It depends on the zone. Some zones are calc'd as a single zone if they're tightly interwoven (eg. BC and avernus) or an equal portion of Zone A's points are carried over to Zone B, based on the portion of Zone A that needs to be done to get to Zone B There are no 'bonus' points, point...

Cyric

Lemme know what you think of fix.

Cyric

Just caught 3 problems which will be addressed shortly: 1. Scorp earring was done incorrectly 2. Brass files weren't moved 3. Havenport files got lost somewhere and I can't find them (which addresses the GCD issue) Note that I am pruning this thread a little, and will prune others as well to keep th...

Cyric

For those that have requested a more complete accounting of why we did what we did, here is a summary from one of the god forums from a while back: The whole eq change started because of the discrepancy between items in the game. IE. - Zones dropping uber eq for their difficulty. - Difficult zones ...

Cyric

From the news: 11/06/03 Object Changes - The long promised/threatened object changes have arrived! Before you get overly excited or grumpy, please take a moment to consider the monumental task set forth for our areas boys...to balance well over 10,000 items in over 200 zones. That said, please see m...

Cyric

As mentioned in the Development News, changes are going in tonite, and the plan is as follows: 1. I know that I can't please all of the people all of the time, but we are wildly out of balance at present, and we have to do this sooner or later, so might as well be now. 2. All changes have been revie...

Cyric

OK, here's the current poop: 1. We were going to do this on Halloween, but I have to go out of town on a family emergency tonite, and won't be back until early next week. 2. Target date for move now is sometime on the evening of Wednesday the 5th. 3. All changes will be going in on a 1 month TRIAL B...

Cyric

She's baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack! By way of celebration, go vote for us at

http://www.topmudsites.com/cgi-bin/topm ... gi?id=shev

Ha! :wink:

Cyric

We're certainly not trying to be annoying or ram this down your throats, but the more advertising we get, the more new players we get, and the larger our pbase is, the better it is for everyone! We're currently #20 on topmudsites, and we had 20 true newbies online last night! Please go click on the ...

Cyric

We are now listed on mudconnector, topmudsites, and kyndig. Please visit the sites and post (favorable) reviews where appropriate! Furthermore, we have a little button on the bottom of our website (http://www.torilmud.org for the confused) that allows you to vote for us at topmudsites.com. Vote earl...

Cyric

Haven't taken my Ritalin yet this morning, thanks for pointing it out...sheesh...

Cyric

Oh, and for the record, please don't post item stats...you're taking silver out of the hands of some mage that makes a living identifying items. This has been our policy since S2.

Cyric

The sky is falling, the sky is falling!!!!!!!!!!!!! How do you people survive in your real lives? I mean really? This would be funny if it wasn't so sad. For the sake of preventing mass suicide, homicide, genocide, and mayhem (although that's my particular FR persona's MO come to think of it) here ...

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