byCarmine

Last night I was predominantly working on the Pack commands. Well, one really. Sometimes something sounds really simple but can turn out to be quite complex, and that is how it turned out with the pack invite/pack accept command.

Firstly, we had to check if they were on the invite list already. So get the data from that field, loop through each value and see if they are there*. If so, fail. Also had to check and make sure it is an alpha doing the inviting, if not, fail. A few more checks and finally can invite. Need to grab the data from the invite list, add this new person to it, then resave it back there. Do appropriate echoes and that’s the first half done.

Secondly, the person who has been invited needs to accept (or decline but we’ll get to that another night). To accept, we need to check they have been invited*. If not, fail. If everything has the green light, then we first remove them from the invite list** and save it back. Then we loop through all 10 positions in the pack and put them in the first free slot (working from top to bottom). This, new members tend to be added at the lowest rank of the pack. Of course the Alpha can promote or demote as necessary.

* This involves pulling the list of names, which is basically “nameA nameB nameC” and splitting the list at the spaces. Each word between spaces is checked against the character name.

** This involves pulling the list of names, doing as above, loop through looking for a match. For each non-match, we put it into a new list of names, and exclude the match. The final result is saved back.

Something I forgot to mention last night, a new help file has been added which details a guideline for pricing for housing. Help housing. The thing to remember it is a guideline, and your actual costs could be quite different. Also, it does not include things such as furniture, and stock, which can (depending on what is requested) can double or even triple costs.

Thanks to Solitian managed to track down a bug with haggle where it wouldn’t work if certain options were set on a shop. Should be all good now, any problems, let me know. That was only a 15 minute fix though, the majority of the night was spent working on a mysql add on which in the immediate future, will allow Packs to have a coded organisation, but once it all works we can adapt it to work with any organisation.

Just so I could get it out of the way, I finished up object poses tonight. It should work nicely, did a bit of testing, the whole process took 5 hours.. so whilst it appears quite a simple thing to add, because of the way the objects save and load, it was a bit of a nightmare to do. But glad we have it, think it would be quite a useful tool for role-play and one people have been asking for, for a while.

Enjoy. Feedback would be good, makes the 5 hours worth while

I’ve put in a basic writing command. write <paper> <pen> I think it is. Might not be. The help file says how it works anyways. It doesn’t do much yet really. It lets you write.. but it doesn’t do any nifty stuff like check for a writing skill, or the language used. Or if you have a quill with ink on it, or does it need redipping in an ink well. Nor does it check how much space is on the paper, or allow you to make amendments. So there is still some work to be done on it. But hey, it is a start hmm?

Tonight it is Vek’s turn.

Today I put in something that I have been wanting to for a long time… racial based skills.

I know, it has been a week or more. Too long really. Stuff got busy with school starting again and other random things going on. And as always assignments and study comes first. And even with down time from assignments and study, sometimes after doing several hours code for an assignment the last thing in the world I want to do is code here. Sometimes. And lately it has been like that.

Things, personally, have been a little rough the last few days. So unfortunately my updates are a little sparse:

I feel like I should of gotten more done these holidays than I have. But University cheated me and gave me 4 assignments to do during my 2 weeks off. Artnews threw me a website update to do. And my left hand became more numb, making typing difficult. Excuses, but legit ones. Ahh well, 8 more weeks then this semester ends and I have 3-4 months ‘off’. As off as you can get with a 12 month old baby and an invalid mother to look after anyways

Two updates since my last post, one small with big effects, one big with small effects.

A new way to learn has been added, allowing players to learn from NPCs. This is through the prac command and involves a significantly lower RPP cost (than when using the rppxchange command) but does have a coin cost instead.

Syntax:
prac <NPC keyword> – lists the skills available and their cost
prac <NPC keyword> ‘<skill name>’ – learn the specified skill from the NPC

The other change involved combat. Previously, if there was only five points difference between attack and defence skill of two characters, there would be no variation. The attack would either always hit, or always miss depending on which was higher. This is unrealistic and not a lot of fun. Fights are more than a little boring and predictable, and they should be neither.

Now, a trained fighter has some shot of hitting a master fighter. Abeit small, but still has a chance. If a trained and well-trained fighter goes toe-to-toe, the trained is likely to get a few hits in and has a chance of winning. If a inept fighter went into combat with a grand master, then their chances of hitting a grand-master will still be zero.