I don't normally do this, but I wanted to talk about some of the stuff we've been working on for Alter Aeon. The biggest thing on my mind right now would be ease of use updates, and the biggest one of those would be the 'list search' changes.
List search started a long time ago, as a way for players to more effectively search for equipment with stats, or to look for items with special flags or properties. The original code was cobbled together six years ago (!), and over the last couple of months we have been working hard to update it. The new and improved version is now good enough that it's used by default for storage lockers and looking in containers. A lot of the parsing bugs have been fixed, and it's so easy to use that even I can make it work. On top of list search, there has been a pile of little ease-of-use improvements and spam reduction changes. Draak has been adding sounds and sound triggers all over the place, though I don't know how long it will take for the Mush-Z developers to add them all. It's really neat to see so many things coming together from so many different builders and coders. Something that's really important and really awesome to me as a builder is something that most players don't care about: the world map. This has been one of our biggest work areas for a while now. We've been rearranging and updating areas, making them flow together better, and flattening the world map. In addition to this, the way we do world mapping itself is changing: the surface of Alter Aeon is gradually becoming consistent and properly three dimensional, similar to how the world map would look for a large scale MMO. I'd like to say I know what's coming up in the next few months, but I don't. The best I can say is that we plan to add a bunch of new spells and skills, and there are several more areas in the wings. I'd really like to see the Archais fairy quarter open. For those of you who play, I hope you found this interesting. I haven't had a lot of time to spend on the game recently, but that doesn't mean nothing is happening. Have fun! -dentin Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
