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Somebody hold me.

*hugs... STRONGLY*

In what fashion?

My commands system follows something closer to an IRC style, in that, any text you send without a command character at the start of it is treated as a message, and sent to the relevent channel.
That, coupled with the convention which is visible in the #dig command.

Softcoders, aren't really known for sharing their code.

...It's stuff like that which drove me to write my own!
Sure, it's harder to share the code around then, while keeping some degree of privacy to things like the database, but seeing as I'm currently operating as a one man coding machine, that didn't bother me.
It also means I can greatly deviate from the standard command system, and aim it more towards what my players would feel more at home with.

And, the task I've been trying to tackle with said code recently?
Removing all references to Strings. Anyone who's used C# or VB.NET should know the exact String objects I'm talking about.
*sigh!*

Quote from: Terrahex on February 04, 2011, 11:52:22 pm

this game is better than every Mario and sonic game ever made.

There we go. NOBODY MESSES WITH THE HEDGEHOG.

Fix'd. 

But, on a serious note, I love DF. It's a great game.
But what I really love about it, is the community.
There are so many things that people do in DF, and they're all great... But it's only when those people share those ideas and chance happenings that then, everything comes together. Inspiration is shared!
And so, we then have things like the stories of Boatmurdered and Cacame.
The game on it's own is great. But it's the internet that really makes it happen, for me!

So whats yer Mu* about, Fayrik?

Oh darn.
I was hoping to give it it's own thread when I'd guaged roughly how suitable the people here are, how much interest there is, and once the system was a little bit more ready, since, akin to DF, it's also only 1/3rd done.

Anyhows, I won't not answer the question for the possibility of a little bit of suspence.
It's an entirely independant system, since I hated the idea of working with a limited soft-language, and other people's code wasn't really that clear for the first steps, so I've been working from the ground up on a system called Mélange... The name comes from the literal meaning, to mean "mixture". It's not a Dune reference or anything.
The server (instance, really) I'm running is codenamed "Midnight Sun". In many ways, that would be considered the name of the MU*, but I'm planing to "brand" it along side my already existing website that I'm side-by-side developing.
As for the story.. It's set in a realm, entirely populated by Dragons...
However, the "Aura Dragons" have designed a magikal portalling device that brings "hero"s from all over the.. *gulp* multi-verse.
So, it's a kinda lame story, sure. But it's there to allow people to introduce their own lore, since I often find that most people who want to join already have characters, so forcing them to re-write or even re-create characters for a new story can drain from the original theme of the character.

Urgh, this is starting to sound more like an advertisement, sorry.

As for the doors, I personally prefer the fact you can't just come along and steal a door...Well, okay, that's exagurating. But, I programmed it from the ground up, so the movement system had to come before the.. Still pending... Item system.

Quote from: Fayrik on February 04, 2011, 10:39:28 am

Same here, as I'm sure I've said in another topic: I found out about roleplaying in forums. I then, subsiquently, moved on to World of Warcraft.
Then, I was in a magical position of having knowledge and frustration to then begin writing my own MU* engine.
It's about a year and a half since I started, now. Probably my best programming project to date!

What language are they usually written in?

This has me confused a little bit!
The best answer I can come up with is that I use C# to program my MU*. If that's not the answer you where looking for then please ask me again, and I'll try giving you a better answer in light of new context!

MUCK is mostly for... well, I try to stay away from MUCKs.**

Mostly? Regardless of what a MUCK is mostly for, would you care to expand on the technical spesification of a MUCK?

As most games, have their owner and principal coder as different persons.

Oh gosh, if only I had that privalidge! Hohoho!

I'm not socially inept - I can do fine in socially situations - I just prefer to avoid them. Is there room in Mu*s for an anti-social mouth breather, or must I be socially inept?

I think you have to be socially inept in order to spend all your day maxing out predefined statistics in an endless format.
Though, I'm sure you're free to give it a shot if you please.

On a serious note, I didn't really find out about RP until after Mu*s were considered outdated, and most RP took place in graphical engines. I would like to know more though.

Same here, as I'm sure I've said in another topic: I found out about roleplaying in forums. I then, subsiquently, moved on to World of Warcraft.
Then, I was in a magical position of having knowledge and frustration to then begin writing my own MU* engine.
It's about a year and a half since I started, now. Probably my best programming project to date!