It depends on what you mean by crafting skills. I doubt that AA will ever be a true 'crafting' mud, where crafting is the ultimate point of the game.
We've been gradually adding things that let players build or modify items. The enchanting system gives quite a bit of flexibility into changing and upgrading equipment, however it is expensive. Players can brew potions, scribe scrolls, create spellstaffs, bottle various things, and carve various things. Upcoming skills should allow us to harvest bone for various uses, bottle blood, and possibly make things like bone rings. We'll probably add another grenade type for thieves and the ability to harvest poisons. For all of these things though, you have to invest in the skills and have the levels. Crafting items like this can be a big part of the game, if that's really what you want to do. -dentin Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 1:41 PM, Justin Jones <atreides...@gmail.com> wrote: > Are you planning on adding additional crafting skills? It seems to me > that additional crafting skills might help to move the game's economy > a bit more. > > On 4/24/16, Dennis Towne <s...@xirr.com> wrote: >> 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. >> > > > -- > Justin M. Jones, M.A. > atreides...@gmail.com > (254) 624-9155 > 701 Ewing St. #509-C, Ft. Wayne IN, 46802 > > --- > 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. --- 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.
