October 19th, 2000

Praise Skill Changes?

A dark lady of the Sith says, with a casual smile, to a bespectacled surgeon, 'I think there's another reason.'

'No changes were made to praise,' Ea! says.

'It has the same reqs,' Lord Danar says.

'We haven't changed the reqs or anything like that,' LadyAce says.

'Really?' a bespectacled surgeon says optimistically.

A handsome surfer says, resigned to the ways of the world, to a bespectacled surgeon, 'Your prestige has to be 15 or something.'

LadyAce says, 'But prestige no longer determines rent value.'

'I think it has a req you don't know about,' Lord Danar says.

'That's the only change to praise,' LadyAce says.

Lord Danar says, 'In fact, I'm pretty sure ;).'

'What is prestige for then?' Madsen says.

'Yep,' a dark lady of the Sith says with a chuckle to Lord Danar.

'Mkay just wonderin, mysterious loss of skills,' a bespectacled surgeon says optimistically.

LadyAce says, 'Various skills. "Help prestige"'

Lord Danar says, 'It affects your ability with certain skills, it's a prereq for some skills, etc.'

'We'll probably be adding more stuff to make prestige more important, but we haven't decided what,' Ea! says.

A mermaid trapped in human form needs 100 prestige for cuteness in the face of battle.

Cause vs Create

'Two things:' Ea! says.

'First, when most people say they aren't balanced, they mean they're not balanced in combat,' Ea! says. 'They aren't intended to be. Cause is much more of an attack school and create more of an accessory school.'

'Second, we'll probably add some create spells as good ideas occur to us,' Ea! says. 'No promises, though.'

Temptress Myrella smirks.

A handsome surfer says, getting philosophical, 'Oh... *knew he shoulda went cause*.'

'Just make somemore spellbooks so I can fix my crappy cast levels,' Temptress Myrella says.

Ea! says to a handsome surfer, 'Some day you'll be stuck in the middle of SL without a bandage or water and you'll be glad you went create.'

Lord Marcel Alexander says, 'Amen to that.'

'Why?' Temptress Myrella says to Ea!. 'I have 3 3crd circle creates and no of them can use rudh is almost as uselesss as mrti is.'

LadyAce says, 'I still think making throwable fireballs that explode on impact would be cool!!'

Lord Danar says, 'And they'd be great for juggle.'

'In the meantime though... i get screwed outta charmies and attack spells,' a handsome surfer says philosophically to Ea!.

Temptress Myrella says to Ea!, 'Oh I have rudh just the create spells for it are pretty crappy.'

Fuzzey says sleepily, 'Are the create weapons still implemented?'

LadyAce says, 'Create object is cool :P.'

'Its a bummer to see my 200 mana produce a charmie with like 400hp that can't hit for crap,' a handsome surfer says philosophically.

A bespectacled surgeon nods his agreement with a handsome surfer.

'When cause gets to animate weapons, and then turn around and make a 500hp skelie to tank,' a handsome surfer says, resigned to the ways of the world.

'What's it do?' Fuzzey says sleepily to LadyAce. 'Never use create.'

LadyAce says to Fuzzey, 'Can make stuff like waterskins, daggers, bandage rolls, etc.'

Fuegozaba thinks create mages are fun

'Making banadages or a canoe is hardly very good :P,' Temptress Myrella says.

Fuzzey says, not quite awake, 'Oh, that!'

A handsome surfer says, getting philosophical, to Lord Marcel Alexander, 'Or just follow some dude around stealing his corpses.'

'Did they take out the create weapons?' Fuzzey says sleepily. 'Fire and Ice and such.'

Lord Danar says, 'Summon butterflies rocks :b.'

Lord Marcel Alexander says to a handsome surfer, 'True, i suppose that would be a way to do it.'

'I've seen many a run messed up by lack of water, bandages, etc,' LadyAce says.

'Weaps are still in but they suck,' a handsome surfer says philosophically to Fuzzey.

Lord Danar says, 'Don't be ragging on butterfliews.'

'If you're doing a re-equipt run, a create mage is the first thing that you need,' Ea! says. 'Instant morale boost for the person who just DTed.'

Fuzzey says sleepily, 'Make em better.'

A lord of a far away land has arrived from the east.

Temptress Myrella says, 'You dont need rudh to make water though.'

Fuzzey says, yawning and stretching, 'Then people would use em, save rent, and get neat attack things.'

Lord Danar says, 'Stat created weapons.'

'Hmm,' Lord Danar says.

A handsome surfer says philosophically, 'Butterflies aren't even implemented?'

'Sandra's working on some ideas to make the dagger of ice better, I think,' LadyAce says.

'Everyone can make water, just create is the only clean way,' a mermaid trapped in human form says, with a hint of mischief.

'Create vials are a joke too,' a handsome surfer says, getting philosophical.

Lord Marcel Alexander tickles a mermaid trapped in human form.

LadyAce says to a handsome surfer, 'Is too implemented....'

'I'm almost sure butterflies are implemented,' Lord Danar says.

Fuzzey says sleepily, 'Was there a create staff that wasn't a light staff?'

A lord of a far away land leaves east.

'Kere lak jiv?' a handsome surfer says philosophically.

'Butterflies has beenimplemented for more than 5 years,' Ea! says to a handsome surfer. 'It got changed and improved about 1-2 years ago.'

Lord Marcel Alexander says to a handsome surfer, 'I'll trade you a few fire spells for the homunculi any day.'

A handsome surfer says, resigned to the ways of the world, to Lord Marcel Alexander, 'I'd give up homunb for watery death.'

'I've been slapped by that before... ouch,' a handsome surfer says, resigned to the ways of the world.

Lord Marcel Alexander says to a handsome surfer, 'You're on!'

'Stay out of the water,' Lord Danar says.

'Tobias nailed me with one for like 120,' a handsome surfer says philosophically.

Fuegozaba nods his agreement with Lord Danar.

Lord Marcel Alexander'd recommend not fighting cause on water.

A mermaid trapped in human form says, mischievously, 'I'd give up bash for a naiad.'

'I think it's a good thing that environment becomes more important,' Lord Danar says.

'The only good attack spell create has is bolt... and its only good when you have like 90 mind,' a handsome surfer says, getting philosophical.

'And you have to be outside,' a handsome surfer says, getting philosophical.

'Nah etheric void is fun,' Temptress Myrella says.

'And it hurts a LOT,' Fuzzey says, yawning and stretching, to a handsome surfer.

Lord Danar says, 'Yeah, I was about to say, etheric void is kinda neat.'

Lord Marcel Alexander says to a handsome surfer, 'Gust of wind requires you to be outside as well.'

Lord Danar says, 'Well, stay outside then :b.'

A handsome surfer says, resigned to the ways of the world, 'It hurts like immolate.'

Lord Danar says, 'It's not like there's a big dearth of outside rooms.'

'I've never head a sink eat it....is it sinkable?' Fuzzey says, not quite awake, to a handsome surfer.

Furniture Problems

Fuzzey says, yawning and stretching, 'The old way you could sit, and then pick it up again.'

'Now I'm afraid to use this chair now for fear that the mud would crash/sitters would go LD,' Fuzzey says, yawning and stretching.

A mermaid trapped in human form says, with a mischievous grin, 'Or water balloons.'

'I don't think we've made any progress on changing that since then,' LadyAce says to Fuzzey. 'Put the chair in a house is my best suggestion.'

'Well, I think you're hampering your create mages by not getting rudh,' Ea! says to Temptress Myrella. 'I find it really useful.'

'A houuuse...but I'm too lazy to pay...' Fuzzey says, not quite awake.

Fuzzey says, not quite awake, to LadyAce, 'Is there any way to pick up a chair that only you are sitting in?'

'Not that I know of, I think we're in the same place on that topic as we were ages ago when we made the change to picking them up,' LadyAce says to Fuzzey.

Fuego's Tournament Idea

Fuegozaba says, 'I spent 2 hours discussing this with Kunnar last night (even though i came on to check my messages and write my report) :P.'

Kunnar grins evilly at Fuegozaba.. wonder what he's thinking...

'Ok, what im suggesting is a large 'tournament' type thing,' Fuegozaba says.

A mermaid trapped in human form says, with a mischievous grin, 'Mud wrestling?'

Fuegozaba says, 'Of course it relates to pkill, since im a pkiller... but i think that it could be really fun.'

Fuegozaba says, 'The idea is that there is an ongoing tournament.'

'More like a strive to be the best,' Fuegozaba says.

A mermaid trapped in human form yawns.

A mermaid trapped in human form says, mischievously, 'Don't you ever get tired of that?'

'The only ones to be registered for it are clans, which gives more of a reason to join a clan, and clan unity,' Fuegozaba says.

'Elisa, shh,' Fuegozaba says.

'No! the Best is like, the BEST!!' LadyAce says to a mermaid trapped in human form. Fuegozaba snickers softly.

'Give him a chance :b,' Lord Danar says.

A mermaid trapped in human form scuffles her feet around in the dirt.

A bespectacled surgeon says optimistically, 'Sounds kinda cool so far.'

'I like the idea,' Fuzzey says, not quite awake, to Fuegozaba.

'This is the plot they used for Unreal Tournament, after all, and that did pretty well :b,' Lord Danar says.

'The thing about this tourny that makes it special, is that you can only register if you have an RP,' Fuegozaba says.

'My husband is driving me crazy with that,' a dark lady of the Sith says casually to Lord Danar.

Fuegozaba says, 'So all clans that register have to have an RP goal.'

Fuzzey shows his approval by clapping his hands together.

A bespectacled surgeon shows his approval by clapping his hands together.

'And all members in the clan must have an RP as well,' Fuegozaba says.

A mermaid trapped in human form says, mischievously, 'But most of the really rp'ish clans don't pk.'

Lord Marcel Alexander says, looking amused, 'I wanna see USL win that.'

'This will give them reason too,' Fuegozaba says to a mermaid trapped in human form.

A bespectacled surgeon says optimistically, 'We will :P.'

Fuegozaba says to Lord Marcel Alexander, 'USL can get 'bodyguards'.'

'Rp is overrated,' Carney says.

A mermaid trapped in human form says, with a hint of mischief, 'Reason for pk'ers to rp or for rp'ers to pk.'

'Pk is overrated,' Carney says.

'The problem with that is you'd need an RP auditer for anybody to actually follow those rules,' Lord Danar says.

'Sounds like something a player could organize, or a clan, if they wanted to,' LadyAce says to Fuegozaba.

A nasty crazy man nods solemnly.

Fuegozaba says to LadyAce, 'Not exactly.'

LadyAce says to Lord Danar, 'That's where the beauty of not having an imm do it comes in :) no worries about judging RP.'

'Aha,' Lord Danar says.

Sandra smiles happily.

'As i was discussing with kunnar... people are more interested in things when it is immortal sponsored,' Fuegozaba says to LadyAce.

'That's people's fault, then,' Lord Marcel Alexander says.

'Certainly a person would listen to you before they would listen to me,' Fuegozaba says.

A mermaid trapped in human form nods her agreement with Fuegozaba.

Lord Danar says, 'Well, it's understandable, Marcel.'

A mermaid trapped in human form says, with a mischievous grin, 'There's a lot of condescension here and there.'

A bespectacled surgeon says optimistically, 'People are suspicious of non-immort events because the player organising has something to gain possibly an immort doesnt, hopefully.'

Carney laughs with amusement.

'Doubts either way,' Carney says.

'And people might be inclined to think, oh if Fuego is organizing it, it's just a Merc thing and therefore lame,' a mermaid trapped in human form says, with a hint of mischief.

'I understand that there are benefits to an imm sponsorship, but I still think this is something you could organize yourself or with a clan,' LadyAce says.

'I think it'd be good to have it organized and run by both, get some GMs and imms together and have some fun!!' Kunnar says.

'I disagree, Lelldornin and Lachesis's turtle wars was one of the best thing that happened last week if you ask me,' Muad'Dib says.

A bespectacled surgeon smiles at Muad'Dib.

Lord Marcel Alexander nods his agreement with Muad'Dib.

A handsome surfer says philosophically, 'Yeah... the turtle thing was funny.'

Muad'Dib nods his agreement with a handsome surfer.

'I still owe you 100 coins?' a handsome surfer says, resigned to the ways of the world, to Muad'Dib.

Fuzzey says, not quite awake, 'I missed it.'

Fuzzey flops about helplessly.

Muad'Dib nods his agreement with a handsome surfer.

Muad'Dib lurks around a handsome surfer ominously - glad he's not after you!

LadyAce says, 'If you write up your idea, I can pass it on to the PR department and see if anyone is interested in it as a project.'

'I know that immortals can not run this tournament 24/7, which is why i suggest that there be a small coding, so that once someone in a clan is killed, their killer has a flag that is more like 'posted' on a board for the immortals, s,' Fuegozaba says.

Fuegozaba says, 'So their could be organization.'

Carney says, 'The winner of the tournament will just be whoever gets the most paras or wfws.'

Carney says, 'Hardly worth the time in my opinion.'

'Sterling or wiz will win :P,' Carney says.

Fuegozaba says to Carney, 'Please, i actually thought about this stuff... so shush.'

'The code logs deaths, it wouldn't need to be a new code or anything, just someone to look through the daily logs,' LadyAce says.

Carney says, 'I'm in a pessimistic mood, I'm going to pick all ideas apart!'

'Heh,' a bespectacled surgeon says optimistically.

A lord of a far away land snickers softly.

'See, I'd die in one para from fuego,' Carney says.

'Would it just be everyone killing each other to win, or would there be a point to the tourney?' a mermaid trapped in human form says, mischievously.

Carney says, 'Plus you'd have multi's for points.'

'Feel free to write it up, and I'll send it to the staff,' LadyAce says.

A bespectacled surgeon says, confident that the world is a good place, 'Yeah expand, I like the sound of it.'

Fuegozaba says to a mermaid trapped in human form, 'Well the whole thing would need to be role play.'

Lord Danar says, 'I dunno, factions didn't work too well for UO :b.'

'That's where you get hazy,' a mermaid trapped in human form says, with a mischievous grin, to Fuegozaba. 'What roleplay?'

'And people who play the most or on the most "pk favorable" times would have a huge advantage,' Carney says.

A bespectacled surgeon says optimistically, 'Cos UO doesnt get enough work :P.'

A nasty crazy man giggles.

'It's not a project I personally would be interested in, but perhaps someone on the PR staff would be, we can surely find out,' LadyAce says.

'All clans need to have a RP goal, they cant kill for the sake of killing,' Fuegozaba says to a mermaid trapped in human form.

'How'd you make sure that people do RP while fighting?' Lord Marcel Alexander says to Fuegozaba.

'I like the idea of a rp tinyplot,' a mermaid trapped in human form says, with a mischievous grin. 'I don't see why it has to involve pk.'

'Well, the person that gets killed could question the roleplaying reason that he was killed,' Fuegozaba says to Lord Marcel Alexander.

A mermaid trapped in human form says, with a hint of mischief, '"why did you kill me?" "because I'm evil muhahaha"'

A mermaid trapped in human form rolls her eyes heavenward.

'Who judges?' Lord Marcel Alexander says to Fuegozaba.

'Me!' a handsome surfer says, getting philosophical, to Lord Marcel Alexander.

'The immortal that deicides to assist in it,' Fuegozaba says to Lord Marcel Alexander.

ScreenWidth?

'Any plans on making client side wrapping an option?' Muad'Dib says.

'We looked at that after you asked,' LadyAce says.

Muad'Dib bounces around.

LadyAce says, 'Ea discovered that it would take a whole lot of work, but that eventually it'd be good to have.'

'So... it's a yes in time?' Muad'Dib says to LadyAce.

LadyAce nods solemnly.

Muad'Dib thanks you heartily.

Muad'Dib says, 'That's it.'

'It's an interesting project, though,' LadyAce says.

'What's client side wrapping?' Kunnar says.

Ea! says to Muad'Dib, 'Actually, I would *think* that some things, like chat, should wrap on the client side, but I'm not sure.'

'Sounds like a get thin quick scheme,' a mermaid trapped in human form says, with a hint of mischief.

Lord Danar says to Kunnar, 'Right now Legend sends linebreaks to clients.'

'Vertical wrap, not screenlength, but the vertical wrap too,' Muad'Dib says to Kunnar.

'Ahh, ok,' Kunnar says.

A bespectacled surgeon nods his agreement with Muad'Dib.

A nasty crazy man raises his hand.

'So when somebody says something that's really long, Legend hard-wraps it before sending it,' Lord Danar says to Kunnar.

'Wow, very succinct,' LadyAce says to Lord Danar.

Lord Danar giggles at LadyAce.

'Yeah, looking at it, a lot of places don't send hard returns,' Ea! says.

Lord Danar says to Ea!, 'Really?'

'Yeah, make your terminal really wide, like 160 characters wide,' Ea! says to Lord Danar. 'See which ones wrap.'

Ea! says, 'Room descriptions do, as do most things done by the builders.'

Lord Danar says, 'Hmm, maybe I'm screwing something up.'

'For a Mac, when I make the window wider, that should resize the terminal, right?' Lord Danar says.

'Hmm, I still get hard wraps at 78,' Lord Danar says to Ea!.

Carney says, 'It hard wraps.'

'On says and chats,' Lord Danar says.

Carney says, 'I have zmud in 1078/768 or whatever it is.'

'And half my screen is blank,' Carney says.

'Drat,' Ea! says. 'I was hoping it wasn't.'

A dark lady of the Sith says, with a casual smile, to Ea!, 'Everything hard wraps here.'

Carney says, 'Yea, its always been that way.'

'But thats alright, no biggie,' Carney says.

LadyAce says, 'Blame diku!'

Muad'Dib giggles.

Lord Danar giggles at LadyAce.

Carney says, 'Well.'

'Well, we did inherit it from them :P,' LadyAce says.

A dark lady of the Sith blames the University of Copenhagen like LA says to.

'Yeah, I wasn't sure if it was just code stuff or just that 90% of things are defined in the areafiles,' Ea! says to a dark lady of the Sith.

Carney says, 'Muds were designed for like 640X480 :P.'

Lord Danar laughs at a dark lady of the Sith.

Muad'Dib summons a bag of flaming death and throws it at DIKU

Lord Danar says, 'Bah, I thought that was the not mean one.'

'Put your res in 640X480,' Carney says.

Lord Danar chuckles politely at a dark lady of the Sith's feeble witticism.

'It'll fit the screen perfectly,' Carney says.

Temptress Myrella laughs with amusement.

Will o' the Green

Lord Danar says, 'He was broken before :b.'

'That's called a bug fix :b,' Lord Danar says.

'Actually,' Carney says, 'I have a beef with that.'

'Because one of the repair mobs is basicly on the path of will,' Carney says.

'Yeah...' a handsome surfer says, resigned to the ways of the world. 'Why did you change beowulf? he was such a neat mob before =P.'

'But you have to pay him quite a bit of money,' Carney says.

'But will stops you,' Carney says.

'And its a never ending cycle,' Carney says.

Fuzzey says, yawning and stretching, 'You don't have to go through will.'

'Ok,' MrT says.

'Well, I didn't change Will :P so I can't really answer,' LadyAce says. 'Beowulf, you guys were abusing the heck out of him with that :P.'

Carney says, 'You don't have to, but its by FAR the faster way.'

'Hehehe,' a handsome surfer says, resigned to the ways of the world.

'You can ask Kaige or report it as a bug/idea/etc,' LadyAce says.

'I lvled my surgeon 14 times on beowulf alone =P,' a handsome surfer says, resigned to the ways of the world.

A handsome surfer ducks to the ground.

Hayate Kanuma says happily, 'What was with beowulf?'

Krux whaps a lord of a far away land across the back of the head - your ears ring in sympathy.

A handsome surfer says, resigned to the ways of the world, 'You could snipe him for 225k =P.'

'People were shooting him,' Lord Danar says to Hayate Kanuma.

LadyAce says to Hayate Kanuma, 'Offshore shooting.'

Is the Strength bug fixed?

Hayate Kanuma says cheerfully, 'Or will it be, or was it ever broke, ect.'

Lord Danar says, 'Mandarb's official take is "kinda" :b.'

'Mostly we hope so, play and see?' LadyAce says.

'I think it's better than it was, but not "perfect"' Ea! says.

Temptress Myrella says, 'What was wrong with it?'

Ea! says, 'Basically, dodge was being calculated twice, so we pulled out one of the calculations.'

'Well,' Carney says, 'In my testing.'

'It seems high dex people hit fine with swords,' Carney says.

'And non high dex people don't,' Carney says.

Temptress Myrella looks up into the sky and ponders.

Ea! says, 'We've got a few places in the fight code where something is used twice.'

'We'll probably pull them out slowly,' Ea! says.

Two Guns?

'Haha,' Lord Danar says to Drifter.

Drifter says, 'Maybe require a skill that would rule.'

'You'd be like a true gunslinger,' Drifter says.

Faramir says, 'People would just hold like 2 of those evil guns.'

Faramir says, 'And how could you hold 2 guns and a dagger :P,' Faramir says.

Drifter says, 'How can you hold 2 items and a dagger?'

LadyAce says, 'Okie, anyone else have questions?'

'Its possible,' Faramir says.

Khelben says, 'Dats what toes are for.'

'Actually, I'd be a little afraid of somebody dual-wielding machine guns :b,' Lord Danar says.

Faramir says, 'Depending on what the item is.'

Drifter says, 'It's possible to hold 2 guns and a dagger.'

'Or maybe wield 1 gun, hold 1 gun, and fire them at the same time,' Drifter says.

Lord Danar says, 'Did I imagine the pistolwhip skill?'

'And it doesn't say where its held,' Faramir says.

'With normal shoot lag,' Drifter says.

'Hmmmm...' a handsome surfer says, getting philosophical. 'Or a gunblade! that would be sweet.'

'Is anyone afraid of blind chars wielding swords and guns?' Krux says confidently.

'Maybe I'm holding it in my teeth,' Faramir says.

'I could've sworn there was one :b,' Lord Danar says.

'Chinese sword, i ferget what they's called, but they got a handle for usin a bow and holdin it..' Hayate Kanuma says cheerfully.

'U'd go thru bullets like a bitch tho,' Drifter says.

Fuegozaba says, 'How can drifter hold a lamp, a gun, and a dagger, all at the same time... and still have the abillity to attack like that :P.'

'Must have been a dream there danar,' Faramir says.

Lord Danar says, 'How totally odd.'

Faramir says, 'The lamp is in his teeth.'

'No it's not,' Drifter says to Faramir.

Faramir says, 'Yea it is.'

'Does it say held in hand?' Faramir says.

'No!' Faramir says.

'K, I guess that's everything :),' LadyAce says.

LadyAce smiles happily.

LadyAce gives everyone in the room a big hug, all at once.

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