Weekly Update for April 24th, 2004

News
We're still soliciting player histories for the staff documentation. Anything's fair game for a write-up of your character. What do you want remembered about your character? What did s/he do, and who did s/he interact with? What would other members of her/his clan remember, what stories would the grandchildren tell? Write-ups of past clans, including the slew of player-created desert elf tribes, are also quite welcome. Let us immortalize you. Send your emails to sanvean@armageddon.org and zhaira@armageddon.org

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Code and Scripting News:
Changes to locate (Sanvean)
New sector type added (Sanvean & Ashyom)
Minor update to poison code (Sanvean)
Immortal utility script (Raesanos)
Script for automated apartment renting (Raesanos)
'out' is now a valid watch direction, as in 'watch out' (Nessalin)

Crafting additions:
25 craftable items (Sanvean)
2 craftable items (IxMachina)

World Changes and Additions:
Taste messages from Dakkon (1), Amoeba (1), added by Sanvean.
24 rooms (Sanvean)
2 npcs (Sanvean)
27 objects (Sanvean)
Shop update (Sanvean)
1 npc (Sanura)
1 object (Sanura)
2 rooms (Sanura)
4 objects (Raesanos)
17 rooms (Raesanos)
2 npcs (Raesanos)
2 npcs (Mekeda, submitted by TheFlash)
4 tattoos (Mekeda, submitted by TheFlash)
3 npcs (Myrdryn)
21 rooms (Myrdryn)
3 objects (Myrdryn)
7 objects (Zhaira)
Updated 15 objects (IxMachina)
1 object (IxMachina)
1 room (IxMachina)
1 npc (Ammit)
16 objects (Ashyom)
Desert Elf related work (Bhagharva)
2 npcs (Bhagharva)

Documentation News:
None this week.

Helpfiles added:
Rope (Nari)

Helpfiles Updated:
Watch (Nessalin), NOSAVE (Sanvean), SKILL_CLIMB (Sanvean), SPELL_IDENTIFY (Sanvean)

Webpages Updated:
http://www.armageddon.org/general/ (link added)http://www.armageddon.org/ic/tribal.html (link added) (Sanvean)
http://www.armageddon.org/original/ (link added, formatting error fixed)  (Sanvean)
Utility page (Ammit)
http://www.zalanthas.org/ArmDocs/emoteemulator.html (John) - fixed bugs

Webpages Added:
http://www.armageddon.org/general/subguilds.html (suggested by Nemo) (Sanvean)
http://www.armageddon.org/ic/alseik.html (from TheFlash) (Sanvean)
http://www.armageddon.org/original/choice.html (from Delirium) (Sanvean)
Staff page (IxMachina)
Clan page (Laeris)
Staff pages (Laeris)
Staff page (Nessalin)

Bugs/typos/ideas:
AngelaChristine (1), Ashyom (1), Asinha (1), Blaze (1), Cenghiz (1), DragonzHell (1), Duncan (1), Gilvar (1), Hitomi (1), Ibrahim (1), Jaleeza (1), Jstorrie (1), Julian (1), Kai (1), Mekeda (1), Narlac (2), Phoenix (5), Progeny (2), Raesanos (2), Scortlius (1), Urgol (1), Vendyra (1), Zhaira (1), Dakurus (1)

Fixers included Sanvean, Raesanos

Staff and Clan News:

Current Open Clan Assignments:
Allanak Templarate and Militia: Kivan@armageddon.org and
Naiona@armageddon.org
Anyali: Louten@armageddon.org
Atrium: Adhira@armageddon.org and Vendyra@armageddon.org
Bards of Poets Circle: Sanvean@armageddon.org
House Borsail: Kivan@armageddon.org and Wachabe@armageddon.org
Desert Elves: Bhagharva@armageddon.org and Myrixt@armageddon.org
The Guild: Nidhogg@armageddon.org, Tiernan@armageddon.org and Xygax@armageddon.org
Haruch Kemad: Bhagharva@armageddon.org and Myrixt@armageddon.org
House Kadius: Ashyom@armageddon.org and Sanura@armageddon.org
House Kurac: Gesht@armageddon.org and Mekeda@armageddon.org
Northern Templarate and Militia: Myrdryn@armageddon.org and Laeris@armageddon.org
House Nenyuk: Ammit@armageddon.org and Kurano@armageddon.org
House Oash: Ashyom@armageddon.org and Nechomacus@armageddon.org
House Salarr: Ixmachina@armageddon.org, Laeris@armageddon.org, and Xygax@armageddon.org
Tan Muark: Naephet@armageddon.org
House Tenneshi: Dakurus@armageddon.org and Raesanos@armageddon.org
House Tor: Gilvar@armageddon.org and Sanura@ginka.armageddon.org
T'zai Byn: Tlaloc@armageddon.org
House Winrothol: Ammit@armageddon.org and Vendyra@armageddon.org

Special applications should be sent to Naephet@armageddon.org


There are 27216 rooms, 18695 objects, and 6547 npcs in the game.
3026 objects are craftable (16% of database)
70 applications approved, 47 edited, 13 rejected

'out' is now a valid watch direction, as in 'watch out' (Nessalin)

Woohoo!  

[Raesanos]

The update has been updated to include the following:

Immortal utility script (Raesanos)
Script for automated apartment renting (Raesanos)

[sacac]

There are 27216 rooms, 18695 objects, and 6547 npcs in the game.
3026 objects are craftable (16% of database)

Yum!


http://www.armageddon.org/original/choice.html


That is deep.. Really deep.

http://www.armageddon.org/ic/alseik.html

I want! yummy.. I love.. I will apply after my next PC

[X-D]

Can watch out...I'm happy now.

[Koala]

Script for automated apartment renting (Raesanos)

How can we use this new script?

[Realedazed]

The update has been updated to include the following:
Script for automated apartment renting (Raesanos)

Great!

[Raesanos]

How can we use this new script?

When you find one of the NPCs that handles apartments, type "list", and you'll get instructions from there.  There is only one place in game that does this now, but if all goes well it'll be put in other places in the coming weeks.

[Carnage]

How can we use this new script?

When you find one of the NPCs that handles apartments, type "list", and you'll get instructions from there.  There is only one place in game that does this now, but if all goes well it'll be put in other places in the coming weeks.

Would this sort of place only be expected for elementalists to rent from or is everyone open to it?

[Raesanos]

I'd prefer that they just used for elementalists, but at the moment there is nothing stopping other people from using them.  Just keep in mind this system will likely be set up in other places in coming weeks, and also that there would probably be an in-character stigma related to living among elementalists.

[Delirium]

That's a very, very cool addition.

Especially since it will probably give elementalists more of a sense of isolated community while still having a place to call (sort of) their own.

[Angela Christine]

If this works out does that mean there will be no more Nenyuk PCs?


AC

[Gilvar]

Nenyuk is a lifestyle!

[Ammit]

If this works out does that mean there will be no more Nenyuk PCs?

No it doesn't mean that.

There will still be Nenyuk PCs around no matter what happens with this script.

[Anonymous]

Damnit.

[Delirium]

What purpose would the Nenyuki PCs serve?

Not trying to sound snippy, just honestly curious - it seems that their main function is to rent and collect rent for appartments, and with an automated renting script, what would they do with themselves?

[Raesanos]

Not all apartments will be run via this script.  I'm not going to say how many will be exactly, as that remains to be seen.  But  certainly not all of them.

[Future Nenyuki!]

There will always be a use for nenyuki PCs..

[Carnage]

What purpose would the Nenyuki PCs serve?

Not trying to sound snippy, just honestly curious - it seems that their main function is to rent and collect rent for appartments, and with an automated renting script, what would they do with themselves?

They do other things and rent more than just apartments. It'd be bothersome to see a scripted NPC outside of each and every house that you can rent.