Latest News Items Modified
Server Move & Yesterday’s Crashes
We are moving to a new server mostly likely early tomorrow morning or the next. Jonquil will be updating the DNS so in theory no one should have any issues. Nonetheless, sh*t happens, so here is the IP address of the new server should you need it: 70.164.42.56. The port (4201) will not be changing. Jonquil tested migration of the game earlier today and it went fine, so this should be fairly painless. If you have any questions or concerns, leave us a comment.
Also, both of yesterday’s crashes coincided with a connection from a particular IP from which we’ve previously been getting routine connections. (Jonquil guesses it’s some sort of mud/mush checking bot for one of the MU info sites). He’s backed up both of the code changes he put in this afternoon. Should the next connection cause a crash he’ll take the further step of blocking the site, but he suspects we’ll be fine now.
To-Do
Code
- +gossip
- flagpole
- +summon
- +feed
- +commune
- +sense, +aura, +aura/emit
- +scent
- schedule and system for XP and focus points
Files
- Pard
- Rodere
- Lukoi
- shapeshifters
- merfolk
- dragons
- gargoyles (non-playable)
- anti-psychics
- faithful, including sorcerers
- witches, including familiars
- secret societies
- preternaturals in society, especially concerning nobility and the poor
Other
- build underground
- add more lores
Progress Update
So, it’s been quite a while between updates, but we’ve been at it for over a year now! I know, you’d think we had more to show for it, but we don’t. Here’s what we do have to show since our last update:
- Fixed some bugs
- +conflict is mostly done
- Merfolk
- A lot of notes
- …
As you can see, we haven’t made too much progress. RL happens, but we’re back again. I’m back again, and now we’re working on:
- Overhauling current merfolk news files and improving them
- Faithful
- Sorcery, especially demons/familiars
- Witches, especially familiars
- Changing a few merfolk gifts
- Merfolk language
- the rest of +conflict
I expect to finish merfolk for the most part tonight, even if that means I don’t sleep. I’ve been toying with it for far too long.
For more information, check our recent changes to the wiki.
Checkup
I am not sure what happened to the blog’s theme since the last long-ago update, but I’ll look into it.
Progress on the game has slowed to a nearly static mode until recently– periodically relieved over the last few months by terse and mostly unheralded bursts. Jonquil faithfully handled code while I occasionally logged on to tend theme and setting. Despite our creeping, the game can boast more than a handful of regulars, all active and, for the most part, tireless. I am so grateful for their contribution, their ideas, questions and support. Without them, of course, there would be no game at all.
Thanks, guys!
We are, of course, still in testing. Just recently the game enjoyed its first merfolk application, so we have cultivated a tree of gifts specifically for merfolk. It shares a number of similarities between both vampire gifts and those of lycanthropes. We have not posted theme relating directly to merfolk, but we are working on it presently.
So, things to come pretty soon:
- merfolk files
- file on auras and how they work
- gossip system
- staff guide for character generation
- public XP guide
- setting information: independents and neutral territory
- so much, much more.
The Wiki
I’m fairly happy with the new layout of the wiki. I’ll likely tweak a few things in addition to writing a few templates. So that’s that for the most part. Of course, there’s still so much more to add!
Wiki Changes
The wiki will be a bit more of an eyesore for a little while, but it’s all in the name of Awesome or Improvement at least. Please bear with us, and we thank you for your patience during the test phase.
Shapeshifter Apps (Copy from BBpost)
Due to strong enthusiasm from players, staff have decided to admit applications for shapeshifters during this very early testing phase. It should be noted that shapeshifter applications will move gradually, perhaps more slowly than the norm. (At this point, as we are not even officially in alpha testing, most applications take at least a week because of staff’s workload.)
We have three main shapeshifter groups, the werewolves, wererats, and wereleopards. Exotic shapeshifters are secondary in concern and (at any point in the game) require spectacular concepts. As an aside, we have a fourth group, too, that will come into play later – the merfolk. While they are not shapeshifters in the typical sense but are a different race altogether, the group will be handled much the same.
Group leaders can be PCs or NPCs, and each group effectively exists as a prop. (See +help prop.) OOCly, we treat it like a player organization, and the first players to establish a group should create a local history for the group to help other players and staff understand the situation and to increase plot hooks in general.
Exotic shapeshifter types are treated similarly, although the player should also contrive a culture for that shapeshifter type. Cultures and histories are subject to approval from staff.
Our most important concern, however, is how the were-types interact with vampires and what the different types’ relationships with the vampires are like. Pre-existing involvement with the vampires is not required, but an OOC intent to become involved with the vampires is preferred.
Since vampires call other animals besides leopards, wolves, and rats, we understand that there should be one or two animals of a vampire’s animal to call. Concepts that tie into existing vampires are currently more welcome than those exotic concepts that do not. We do recommend that players avoid joint-applications though, as the players may find they have little interest in RPing with one another yet are tied together via backgrounds. That’s un-fun, and therefore uncool.
As always, please talk to staff and other players for ideas on possible RP hooks for your characters.
PS: We have culture notes on jaguars and some on tigers, but we do not have a local history for those two groups.
