I'm curious. I'm bored. I'm clueless. I'm listless. I'd like to do something constructive. I'm out of ideas. Someone give me a GOOD idea for something I can do to a mud. I traditionally work off of a QuickMUD base... because I see NO reason to reinvent the wheel (Unless I'll learn something in doing it!) Basically, I want to hear some ideas of what the most in-demand thing is. What's needed most. (Please oh PLEASE don't say a complete rewrite of OLC.. in English.) Honestly, I have a couple of ideas.. but I'm not sure if anyone would be interested in them after I finished.
You know in the combat system... how you type "cast 'super duper spell of DOOM' fido"... and you get "Your super duper spell of DOOM turns the beastly dog into a wet stain in the mud!" Ummm... and then you wait 10 rounds. Hmm... I was thinking perhaps the fight system could use a rewrite. 10 rounds, THEN your Super-Duper Spell of DOOM goes off. Maybe I could split the spells off from skills.. seperate tables, you know. Maybe I could take that useless form code that is in ROM and turn it into something useful... like non-existant. Maybe I could take the body part bits and make them wear locations too. (EG, you have a tail, you can wear something on your tail.) Maybe I could take the tired diku combat system and make it command based... but basically I don't have any incentive to do any of these. Nobody's interested. I think. Or are they. So I post the message. Of these, which would you like to see most. (Or submit your own.) I'm not picky! Well, I probably am. But just bored too. And don't know what to code next... and even if I generally don't keep my code.. (because I've never really done anything of USE.) Ok. Enough rambling. You can either respond to me directly, or to the list. I'm not picky. I'm probably going to start later tonight. :) Mark _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
