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New help system!

Submitted by Wickham on Sun, 04/14/2013 - 21:52

As part of an ongoing effort to improve the game for new and existing players, we have made some hefty enhancements to the help system. This new nhelp brings a number of improvements over the old one:

  • One help system instead of many different ones (help, admin, info, si).
  • Automatic text search if it can't find the article you want.
  • Improved edit system so staff can make updates more easily.

Please give it a try and let me know what you think! The command is nhelp, and will exist alongside the old help systems for some time. I appreciate any suggestions you might have for making it better before we make the big switch!

Combat and Fishing Fixed!

Submitted by Wickham on Wed, 04/18/2012 - 22:39

We had a problem recently where fishing and combat commands didn't work properly. Combat would complain about a "divide-by-zero". Feaelin made an improvement to the Glowmuck engine that allows it to handle decimal numbers in MUF programs, but it had an unexpected side-effect that broke these two game systems. Read more »

Mobiles (NPCs and Prey) Improving!

Submitted by Feaelin on Sat, 02/11/2012 - 10:44

Our mobiles (anything that moves/talks/etc. around on its own without a player) are handled by a program called Animazing. We've had some recent problems with Animazing in that it couldn't stay running the way it normally does... Read more »

Mobiles Improved

Submitted by Feaelin on Tue, 03/22/2011 - 19:14

In the past, some of the mobiles (butterflies, traveling vendors, and the like) had the possibility of getting stuck if they somehow managed to get to a room they couldn't get out of. There was a mechanism in place for resetting them but later changes to the code broke that feature. Read more »

Crossing That First Border

Submitted by Feaelin on Sun, 03/20/2011 - 19:55

Anyone who's obtained a new character since the border system was installed probably has had this experience: You've @species'd, @desc'd, attrib'd, jump into the pool, and chosen your starting location.

And then you take that first step and you see: Read more »

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