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Exploration sadness!

Alright, so this is totally not a BIG deal, but there's a few super geeks out in the game who really really enjoy exploration and getting to see every nook and cranny in the game.

And I might be one of them although I'm by far not the best. And there's a few issues currently with the system:

1. If you miss rooms while exploring certain bits of story areas, you're SOL of ever exploring those rooms in the future since there doesn't seem to be any way of returning to areas you've completed as part of the story.

2. A LOT of areas have disconnected rooms or unfinished rooms that cannot be reached and are still linked to the area in question (many areas stop at 99%). This makes it very hard to tell if you're actually missing a room or more in an area or if a room is simply disconnected from mortal reach. (Take this point with a grain of salt since I might just really suck at exploring and systematically miss out rooms in a lot of areas....still a long way to go till SCOUTING)

3. The top explorer, which is currently @Zack , has around ~85% of the game explored (I could again be mistaken but maybe he'll chime in to correct me), so unless the Urbanity of Hox and the Ixodon Shipyards make up 15% of the game, see point 2. about how a lot of rooms are unlinked from what mortals can attain and it makes us really sad pandas that we can't get close to 97ish percent or whathaveyou from other games.

4. SEARCH from Exploration is currently useless...I hope someone else can correct me here but I don't remember a single room that I discovered with search. I did use search once to reveal an exit I already knew was there because I walked into said room but the exit wasn't visible to get out again so I just used search for the flavor of saying, 'hey I used SEARCH!'

Will probably whine and bitch about other stuff here when I remember them. Thanks for reading!

Desmond

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Re: Q+A Madness - Jan/Feb 2019

Now for the most important question, how were your travels Tecton?

Darios

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Re: Quotes

BEST.DEVS.EVER:

You acknowledge Budgi Juec in greeting.

Budgi says, "Something need doing?"

You acknowledge Budgi Juec in greeting.

Budgi says, "Work, work."

I literally read the first line in the voice of the orc peon without realizing it and then I was like, wouldn't it be cool if it weren't only in my head and he would actually say "Work, work".
AND I GREETED AGAIN

AND HE DID!!!!!

Hope y'all get the reference

Desmond

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Re: Q+A Madness - Jan/Feb 2019

Bob said:

HELP AUTOMATION states:

Triggers and automation are allowed in most cases as long as they are not used for gaining marks or experience, or avoiding your timeout, whether you are AFK or not.
Yet we have CONFIG TIMEOUT 0 which prevents timeout all together. What is the actual policy on this?

This is a bit of a legacy policy from the early days of Achaea/IRE when you used to get lessons every (x) minutes of playtime. It still has a place, since we do have promotions that you get (x) after (y) playtime. From a personal standpoint, one thing that really sours me on a game is when you log in and everyone is AFK (think most of the top muds on TMS). I'd much prefer a vibrant and active playerbase than 200 afk people to give a false sense of activity.

Tecton

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Re: Q+A Madness - Jan/Feb 2019

Flipilaria said:

Any intention of creating orgs similar in functions to guilds/houses?

No plans, no. We're a multiplayer/social game, and we're definitely wanting large social melting pots in the form of factions, rather than subdivided ghost towns in guilds/houses.

Tecton

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Re: Quotes

(Celestine): Vaxis says, "Gotta say? The Decheeran in Sabiak are damn generous for some very easy work."
(Celestine): Viola says, "Sounds like you got to the root of their problem."
(Celestine): You say, "Leaf some of it for the rest of us, Vaxis."
(Celestine): Vaxis says, "I hope you both get itches on the bottom of your feet that you can't scratch."
(Celestine): Zhulkarn says, "There are professional companies for that, Vaxis."
(Celestine): Viola says, "Yeah I'd just like. Pay someone."
(Celestine): Vaxis says, "Wait...do other races' feet not itch when they go into liver failure? Is that a human thing?"
(Celestine): Viola says, "Dunno Vax. Never come across it before."
(Celestine): Vaxis says, "Really? Never had internal system cascade failure?"
(Celestine): Viola says, "Sure but my feet didn't ITCH I don't think."
(Celestine): Viola says, "It was like. Moderately agonizing?"
(Celestine): You say, "Liver failure? That's a sap rising amount of vitrol, Vaxis. Really woodn't have expected that from yew. I see that I'll have to branch out in my replies. Unless your bark is worse than your bite, I guess. Anyhow, boll's in your quark."
(Celestine): Ren says, "Hello again, everyone. What did I miss?"
(Celestine): Zhulkarn says, "Someone has stabbed with the kith-blade and now simply twisting it."
(Celestine): Viola says, "Grek's flakkin' hideous puns REn."
(Celestine): Vaxis says, "Okay, I take it back. That's not Grek, that's a Fatar infilitrator acting on behalf of the Krel to cause me agony."
(Celestine): Oacena says, "There seems to be a lot of MindSim glitches lately."
(Celestine): You say, "Yep, Vaxis. I'm secretly working with the Fatar to administer your.... pun-ishment."
(Celestine): Vaxis says, "She admits it...someone arrest her."
(Celestine): Viola says, "'fraid puns aren't illegal."
(Celestine): Vaxis says, "She just admited to working with the Fatar! That's like...sedition or something!"
(Celestine): Ren says, "Ah, interesting form of comedy. I will take notes to practice later!"
(Celestine): Viola says, "Y'know that's true the Fatar ARE listed under treason as Assholes We Don't Like."
(Celestine): Viola says, "And I believe they are there AT Grek's suggestion."
(Celestine): Vaxis says, "The real Grek would want us to stop this evil."
(Celestine): You say, "They should knot. Freedom of speech is a vital plank of our society. And blast, you've twigged to my scheme: to weaken our morale by telling everyone terrible jokes. Sobi it: when I go to the firing squad, my secret pun masters will Decheeran me on."
(Celestine): Urid says, "Grek. You are making my antennae ache."
(Celestine): Viola says, "I just hope we aren't logging this."
(Celestine): Ren says, "I am!"
(Celestine): Vaxis says, "I think my mindsim's VI is weeping. I didn't know it could do that."
(Celestine): Zhulkarn says, "Ms. Grek is great at improvising." // (Note for non-Celestine: Grek's military title is "Improviser")
(Celestine): Viola says, "She's something that's for sure."
(Celestine): You say, "It's simply a matter of keeping one's mind timber and building up a proper grove before you get into the thicket things. To simply lumber along does not suffice: the pun is a mighty bower to weald and a potent skill to arbour. I could grow firth on this topic at great length, of course, but I'm sure we all pine for it to end. I have made my stand, and now it is time to take my bough."
(Celestine): Viola says, "ARRIGHT THIS HAS LUMBERED ON LONG ENOUGH."
(Celestine): Viola says, "And I know you did that one."
(Celestine): You say, "...wait, darn. I could have used 'coppice' for 'suffice', probably."
(Celestine): Ren says, "I don't think there's anything wrong with this kind of jokes! I certainly... wood like to hear more."
(Celestine): Doru says, "Please. No more."
(Celestine): Viola says, "I think the citizens would prefer we not uh. Em-bark further on this venture."
(Celestine): Ren says, "Oh, if you insist. That is, uhm. Pine with me, then."
(Celestine): Zhulkarn says, "I suppose we should better put this discussion into a cacoon now."
(Celestine): Zhulkarn says, "Cocoon rather."
(Celestine): Doru says, "Please. No more."

Grek

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Re: Player Artwork/Designs?

Petition for @Quell to be placed in charge of redesigning the Jin artwork. >_>

Kestrel

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Mudlet 3.17 – Secure connections, easier mapping, HiDPI, and more!

We have a ton of new features for you in this first release of Mudlet in 2019: secure connections, easier mapping for many games, support for HiDPI and more! This is the biggest Mudlet update since 3.0 in recent years.

Secure connections

Secure connections (SSL/TLS). They’re here! Think the green lock in your browser toolbar: now supported by Mudlet.

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MidMUD supports secure connections

Tick the Secure box to enable it. Enabling it will protect your connection to the game from eavesdropping (say, if you’re using a public WiFi), prevent anyone from tampering with it, as well as ensure that you really are connected to the game you think you’re connected.

Note that just like the browser’s green lock, this requires the game to support it as well. There aren’t that many games that currently do, but we hope that with a major client now TLS-enabled, more games will start to be.

If you’re a game admin, see here on how to enable it for your game so Mudlet users can connect securely!

Credit to jerzerisz and Vadi2 for adding this feature.

Easier mapping for many games

So many games out there are really unique in how their in-game geography works. That is why Mudlet’s approach to a mapper view, mapping, and speedwalking has been to provide “do-it-yourself” Lua functionality to enable players to add mapper support for their game. Many have!

However, to make it easier for non-coding wizards to get Mudlet’s mapper to work for their game, we outlined in our 2018 roadmap that we’d like to improve on this.

To this end, Jor’Mox has been super awesome in contributing his Generic Mapping Script to Mudlet and upgrading its functionality! The mapping script has been honed and configured for as many games as possible out of the box.

While configuring it, we’ve also discovered that games out there have a never-ending imagination on how to represent rooms, walking, and the general geography – so the script is not guaranteed for every game out there. It is, however, possible to configure it to your game and we invite you to our super-helpful Discord for assistance with this!

The new mapping script is automatically installed by default on new profiles.

HiDPI support

Mudlet now supports high-resolution (Retina/HiDPI) displays! Compare the before and after screenshots of just how much sharper fonts now look.

Before – fonts not sharp on 2K & 4K displays

After – fonts are now sharp

Big thanks to Paul Saindon from Imperian for adding this long-awaited feature.

Visual improvements

In addition to the HiDPI support, we’ve also started refreshing Mudlet’s icons! The new look works great on high-resolution displays and we’ll have more icons sporting the new look in the next update. Big thanks to Paul Saindon from Imperian, and Leris and SlySven from Mudlet for upgrading them.

Icons – before

Icons – after

Color triggers for 256 colors

Mudlets color pattern triggers were limited to just the standard 16 ANSI colors previously – no more. Thanks to SlySven’s work in this area, you can now trigger on all 256 colors.

Additionally, you can now choose to trigger on only foreground or only background color, instead of having to pick both as before.

Infrastructure

Keneanung added an awesome bot to help Mudlets development: When you submit a pull request with your improvements, the bot will pop-up with links to download a test version of Mudlet after the CI build is done:

It’s now pretty easy to submit a PR & get builds for every platform

New contributors: druuimai and imperian

Big thanks to two new contributors to Mudlet this release: druuimai (Richard Moffitt) and imperian (Paul Saindon from IRE) for adding HiDPI support, improving Mudlets MXP and Lua API

Lua scripters

A lot of new functionality added for those who love to code in Mudlet!

added: getMapSelection() to see which rooms are currently selected in the mapper
improved: saveMap() now allows you to choose which map version to save as
added: text-to-speech support reinstated
added: enableClickthrough() and disableClickthrough() to make labels/gauges invisible to clicks
improved: exists() and isActive() now work for scripts
improved: setFgColor(), setBgColor(), getColumnNumber(), and echoLink() now accept “main” as an argument and have improved error messages
added: creplace() to do a color replace()
improved: getLines() can now work with miniconsoles/userwindows
added: moveCursorUp() and moveCursorDown() to easily move the cursor up/down
added: tempAnsiColorTrigger() to trigger on 256 colors
added: setReverse() and setOverline() for fancy text effects

Game admins

Features exciting for game admins this release are:

Added TLS (secure connection) support. Read our wiki on how to enable your game to be TLS-compatible
The gmcp.Client.GUI now supports any text as a version number (previously, it was limited to integers)
Support for ECHO on/off added
Support for SGR Reverse (swap foreground and background colors) (7/27) added
Support for SGR Overline (53/55) added

Miscellaneous

added: <a> for opening a link in the browser is supported in MXP
fixed: ‘About Mudlet’ lost its unnecessary prefix
fixed: ‘send text to all profiles’ command (ie :hello) will now work for aliases
fixed: buttons now work again in menus on button toolbars
fixed: clicking on a miniconsole or userwindow won’t remove focus from the input line
fixed: it’s now possible to save profiles/packages with non-Latin characters in the name or path
fixed: MXP mode is now correctly disabled until negotiated by game
fixed: triggers created and instantly removed via killTrigger() while editing scripts will no longer cause them to fire once erroneously
fixed: variables enabled for saving are no longer auto-hidden on load
improved: games supporting MMP for map download are no longer hardcoded in Mudlet, as all now support gmcp.Client.Map
improved: areas are now sorted alphabetically in room area selection dialog
improved: trigger type highlights removed in editor to support dark themes
improved: you can now tab out of the game description box

Credits

Big thanks to the 12 (!) contributors for making all the code improvements in this release: demonnic, druuimai, gilmoa, imperian, jerzerisz, jgh713, JorMox, keneanung, Leris, mpconley, SlySven, and vadi2.

Thanks to all the translators: dermox, Guilherme Campos (guicampos), Inutt (richard.ankh), Leris, lostsnow, and vadi2 for helping translate Mudlet!

And lastly, big thanks to all of the members in our Discord community for helping newbies, especially Eraene, Leris, keneanung, and SlySven!