byCarmine

Syntax:  SP <target> <amount> <reason>

Silver Points are an award system for players and staff. A way for us (and you guys) to award role-play that you think is just a little bit special.

These points can then be used to purchase a number of privileges, including but not limited to:

• Specials such as Channellers, Dryth, Vek’pem Ahyre, Wolfkin and Nobles
• Multiple characters
• Icing and unicing of characters
• Skill and attribute points above the maximum amount that can be purchased with RPP.
• Return a character from death

So, how can you award silver points? This is where the catch is, you can only award them when you have them yourself. And only award up to the total value of the SPs you have been awarded. For example, if you have been awarded 25 SPs in total, you can award 25SP. If you use those up, you’ll need to be awarded more yourself before you can award them in turn. The person being awarded will be notified that they have been and the reason why, but will not be told who it came from.


NOTE: These points are not awarded for every day role-play. We do not want to players awarding other players for a good mud-sex scene, or normal tavern role-play. It should be reserved for the exceptional. For example:

• A good plot
• Holding a good event
• Providing good conflict (not necessarily combative) to the game
• Involving newbies in a scene and helping them get involved in the game
• Going above and beyond to provide aid to newbies
• An exceptionally played scene

This command is logged and those that abuse it will be punished.

I must admit that I’m surprised at the lack of interest from the players with regards this new snippet of code. And when I say snippet, I mean 8-10 hours of hard work slogging away at C, PHP and MYSQL to get a portion of the magic system in. To create spells, that you, the players can use. At my current charge rate, that’s $400 worth of my time. 10 hours I could of been putting into web-design projects (of which I have 3 lined up) to put towards the big move. So please, if new stuff comes in, applaud. Praise. And generally pretend that it’s the best thing since sliced bread. Because it really is. How cool is it to be able to wave your hands in the air, utter a few words and have a firey sword appear in your palm, ready to wield for an epic battle against demons? Or are you all too spoiled by the ease of which such things are found in WoW and other such graphical MMORPG’s?

I’ve not coded for a bit. A few weeks? Months even. So encouragement would be good. Especially if you want me to stick around and keep up with it.

PS. It’s about 95% done. Expect it to be active sometime over the next couple of days once the documentation and other such stuff is done.

is coming soon.

Snippet of Magic Code

A big, BIG thank you to Lei and Xietanu for their donations! In return, I’ve coded something for you guys: dragging of objects.

This allows you to drag an object, that you would not normally be able to carry, in a specified direction. It uses double the normal amount of stamina. And how much you can drag, is determined by your strength (approximately 3 x what you can normally carry).

As a bit of incentive. If we can get enough donations in to cover the cost of our hosting this month, I will code in a drag command by the end of this weekend.

A few changes have been made to the smuggling code – more items should now be available as a result.

Check Aura has been removed. If you have it and want some RPP reimbursement, send in an email.

Skills with re-requirements can now be raised to the max.

Thanks to Demos, lots of new help files have been added. Keep an eye out on his title for the latest ones. Demos: you should email me a list of them and I’ll link to them here. I’ve added a help CARMINE.

Masquerade Ball coming up very soon. Tickets have been made and we’ve started to get busy preparing all the costumes for the ball. Please, PLEASE put your orders in ASAP.

Basically this command keeps track of all the blogs belonging to players, ordering them by most recently updated (roughly).

Help blog will give you more information on how to use it. Most recently updated blogs are displayed at login, and an AT sign displayed next to accounts on the who list.