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Cyric

This thread seems to have outlived its usefulness. Thank you all, and I care!

Cyric

Yup, those are exactly what I'm looking for...I'll replace the current random quotes with those over the next few days...see the web pages to see what I mean.

Roy

Cyric

It is officially time for us to start advertising. The website is up and running in a reasonably complete format, and we should do everything we can to recruit players. That said, I'd like the following: 1. If you have any pull with free advertising companies, banners, etc, please advertise away...y...

Cyric

Outstanding...will incorporate those as well as anything else you guys come up with...will also be posting the newbie guides, which is where those came from.

Cyric

The old website for S3 had a great (but never implemented) idea to include a glossary page...said something like "Confused by the MUD lingo? Check the glossary!" Unfortunately it was never written. Would anyone be interested in writing one up? Include information about the common commands (eg. consi...

Cyric

Know those funny quotes that you guys (and gals) always add as signatures at the end of your posts? I'm looking for a bunch to include on our new web pages...anyone have a collection perchance? I don't want anything offensive, flaming, rude, disgusting, or pornographic...not sure if that leaves anyt...

Cyric

OK, as was requested by many folks on the Soj3 board, I'm going to give this a try. Please realize that RL frequently causes delays in MUD work, but I'm going to start listing projects as I think of them, with projected completion dates. 1. Tiamat: Goal is to have this in by mid-November, or earlier...

Cyric

I thought we were going with www.cyric>shevarash.com? Did I miss a memo?

Cyric

Should be fixed with the next reboot/crash. Camel merchant's been moved.

Cyric

1. If I were to create an XP zone, what level should it be?
2. How about if it was UD only?
3. How about if it was goodies only?

Cyric

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Cyric

You're kidding, right?

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Cyric

I think Corth's post about covers it.

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Cyric

Now now, stop whining about something that you don't even know has happened. Please give me credit for not being stupid...why would I put a mob that's supposed to load in IC into a system that will stick it in Calimport? Yeesh... Give it some time and don't complain until something goes wrong...I've...

Cyric

Not true, not true...there's a zone problems board in my room on the mud where everyone and their mother posts problems daily...right at this moment this is what part of my board looks like: 27] [Tue May 21 07:44 (Azuth)] ToadSquat 26] [Mon May 20 22:36 (Malar)] o20206, o20248 25] [Mon May 20 19:56 ...

Cyric

Kobei was a guildmate, a great group member, and a true bard.

He was my preferred bard when running quests and invasions, and he will be sorely missed. Godspeed.

Roy

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Cyric

Errors such as?

Cyric

I get paid for passing gas fulltime!

Cyric

Should be fixed with a bonus actually. Email me (roysoto@yahoo.com) if it doesn't work.

Note, will be fixed after next boot/crash.

R

Cyric

This is in reply to Corth's post about what happens to nifty ideas: Go take some coding classes, free up about 2 hours a day, and then join our staff to fix these issues. Barring that, get a clue and stop posting innane inflammatory stool. R (who admits that he is having a bad day and might be just ...

Cyric

Thanks for the kind words. I'm all for all sorts of zones, but remember that people make what they want to make...I don't really push people in one direction or another. That said, the past 2 zones were intended to be high levelish by the makers (who were frustrated high levelers), and I have about ...

Cyric

Well well well, look what's sprung up. TE was a creation of Ilsensine's and it was meant to replace the older DE which was written for Duris...as Duris progressed, so did the versions of DE, and thus it didn't work out for us anymore. TE is sorta nice, BUT it crashes like crazy, isn't updated, and l...

Cyric

Just found this thread today. I'll fix as suggested.

That's what the "staff has to say about it" Mr. Snooty.

Roy aka Cyric (who is NOT actively trying to destroy the mud as has been suggested in various threads recently...sheesh)

Cyric

No, what I mean is that although I agree that you can't please all of the people all of the time, you'd think that you could please some of the people some of the time. I add 2 high level zones within a week of each other, add Myth Drannor which isn't nearly close to being fully explored, and you co...

Cyric

Give me a friggin' break.

Cyric

Thanks for the input...have already incorporated some of your ideas into the zones on testmud.

Keep the ideas coming!

R

Cyric

Here's a chance for everyone to gimme some input. I have potentially 4 new high level zones coming into the game sometime within the next few months, and the stats that are being submitted for items are rarely good, and usually outlandishly overpowered. Now, I know that everyone wants to have a new ...

Cyric

Used to always play human cleric, now playing an orc rogue.

R

Cyric

Revive fixed as requested. Please drive through.

Cyric

You guys keep picking at this coder task stuff...I don't think I'm getting through to you...maybe cause I'm not a coder...here are a few examples of exactly what has happened here over the past few months: 1. Coder says "I'll take on that project!" and goes on to write a TON of code, has it 90% done...

Cyric

As of next reboot, all of Nokie's XP and equipment will be equally distributed to all players, and you can each take a swipe at his pcorpse 3w.

Cyric

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Okeedokee, I've added 3 more portals making the total now 8. See the news for details.

Cyric

I'm not a coder myself, so I hesitate to speak for them, but I believe that the reason your suggestion doesn't work is that each of them has a copy of the MUD on their home box, allowing them to test, change, and fix stuff as they see fit. So things can stay half-completed for a while before being p...

Cyric

Thanks Cherzra, but that's an example right there of how it's hard to please folks...I get as many hate emails from players saying NOT to require nice items for quests as I do from those wanting more as you do. http://www.sojourn3.org/ubb/wink.gif We'll keep trying to get it right! :P BTW, there sho...

Cyric

Well, you have to realize that it's much more complex than you make it out to be. Here's sort of an outline of what has happened since last September: 1. Miax, Shevarash, and I (the 3 forgers) started emailing each other saying "hey, wanna bring it back up?". We decided to bring it up if and only if...

Cyric

Yes, I know that you all know that we're not paid to do this, and that we have real lives. All of us have fulltime jobs, most have families, and we're universally busy. But, that said, I also realize that it's frustrating spending time on something you love when things aren't as advertised. There ar...

Cyric

I make changes to items pretty much every other day as I find things that seem unbalanced, but at the current time there are exactly 8607 different objects loading in the game so it gets a bit confusing. All I can say is keep petitioning/posting and I'll keep balancing! And it's not like we make a c...

Cyric

Bah! That "five mob chamber" you refer to has mobs of the following levels: 56, 58, 59, 51, 54 When compared to the XP of the mobs on the ship, all mobs in this zone (with the exception of the annoying aggro wanderers) give more XP. :P And it's not my fault you guys can't find a silly key that's loc...

Cyric

I added and advertised a zone where every high level mob had significantly higher XP than any other mob in the game. I personally hand-set the XP higher than even that twice on these mobs, so they now yield at least 25% more than other identical, popular XP mobs from which I cloned them. Nobody goes...

Cyric

In the immortal (pardon the pun) words of Britney Spears, Oops, I did it again... Sorry, I'm just a dumb areas wank...I was told that one could request a reboot after 24 hours of up-time. Folur petitioned that that was the case, and after verifying with an admin (over ICQ) I decided to make it a bit...

Cyric

Regarding request for "caster shields":

Anyone found this one yet?

Weight: 3 lbs, Value: 10,000 Durability: 0
AC-apply: 9 Warmth: 0 Prestige: 0
Procs: No
Affects: INT_MAX By 3
Affects: HITPOINTS By 20

Been in the game for years.

R

Cyric

We try to design zones based on player requests, that is high vs. mid vs. low level, XP vs. equipment vs. quest, and so forth. The latest request that I have seen mentioned many times is for a mid-level zoning zone...in effect, a mid-level Jot equivalent. (If you want a different type of zone, post ...

Cyric

Well, not sure about creating an online creation guideline. The system we've been using works as follows: 1. You come up with an idea and email me a brief synopsis at roysoto@yahoo.com 2. Assuming it doesn't suck too badly I direct you to the URL for our areas creation documents/tools and the rest i...

Cyric

Ah, and on your other topic we had *some* items like what you're refering to ("garters, stockings, high heels, bustiere, teddies, silk panties") probably 5 years ago and players complained and threatened, so we removed them all. Ditto with items using vulgar language in their descriptions (although ...

Cyric

Well, this is one of my favorite gripes...there are literally hundreds of nice mid-level items from scores of mid-level zones, plus quite a few spanky quest items scattered throughout the mud easily achievable by a 25th leveler solo. The poblem is that mid-levelers are more focused on XP and getting...

Cyric

Do you mean equipment zones with good-aligned mobs for evil players or vice versa?

R

Cyric

Two issues here: 1. Purchase-able ship may very well become a commodity of the future, but that entails a well-functioning economy and we're nowhere near that yet. We have that code available, and haven't forgotten about it...just not anytime soon. 2. Overhead maps: we discussed this when we were fi...

Cyric

I too watched pretty much all of the events of that evening, and I was involved in the writing of the quest, although Kia was the mastermind behind the very thorough, interesting, and involved story that the quest entails (which nobody has mentioned). Here's my take on all of this: 1. Errors in the ...

Cyric

Egads, this post pains me! There are boatloads of zones with equipment designed especially for low and mid leveled players! Type 'credits' and use the level ranges as a guide. There must be 5000 rooms written entirely for low-mid level zoning fun. Yeesh. When was the last time you were in the Cursed...

Cyric

The other thing that this code is doing that I have witnessed is that different people are actually leading groups for a change. Sure, they're probably receiving guidance from the old, experienced players, but maybe a handful of people are actually learning their way around now, rather than being dr...

Cyric

All hail Rivi:

Slayer of Orcs, Defender of Balder's Gate

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