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We need it so people can unwind and have fun in an environment where no-one will call them out on creating there own goverments and stupid things like that.

Bluntly (but I hope not impolitely) that's a terrible idea.

Perhaps I should explain my position: Various Nonsense was once where the general discussion-type stuff went. As mentioned before, people actually had intelligent discussions in it. Now we have the "General Discussion," "Life Advice," "Creative Projects," and "Forum Games and Roleplaying," which all perfectly cover the original intent of Various Nonsense. The purpose of Various Nonsense was to provide a place for those things way back when there wasn't enough of a user base to warrant having separate boards, and now we have the userbase and the separate boards.
Now that Various Nonsense has no serious purpose, it has turned into a spawning ground for nonsense. If Various Nonsense was locked or deleted, probably on a trial basis, it would at least force people to think before they posted. Seriously, the name "Various Nonsense" is a little too welcoming and inviting. "General Discussion" at least implies semi-seriousness.

I don't think this is necessarily the best course of action, but I would like to open a dialogue about the possibility of letting the board go. It has fulfilled its purpose, and I see little reason for it to stick around other than as a place for spam and idiocy, which probably isn't something we want to encourage, is it?

Why don't we just get Toady to lock the Various Nonsense forum and see if the spam goes away with it? We don't exactly need it now that we have our other "finally" boards, do we?

Sorry for the double post, but this is important.

My computer has been rebooting randomly, not because of any fault with my hardware, but because something is very wrong with the power at my house. Lights have been flickering and whatnot for a while, but it wasn't until a few days ago that this started happening, and now sections of the house are going randomly without electricity. The breakers aren't popping, or anything. I'm typing this on my laptop, hoping that the router won't go down again for another few minutes.

Given the circumnstances, I'm not sure I can continue hosting the game. I will double my efforts to find a decent free host, but if one of you guys might be interested in temporarily hosting the MUD on your computer at home, I can walk you through getting everything set up. Development will continue.

AND... It's back up.

It's been a wonderful Day of Missing Files. Hope you all had a suitably nonexistent celebration.

Hopefully I won't be able to do such frivolously silly things as this by next year, as we might actually have a game to deal with. Hopefully.

On the dev side, I'm currently in the process of putting off completely restructuring my room describing code, as I need it to update every time someone looks and it's currently very closely tied to the exit generation. It will be quick enough to do, though, once I actually get around to, you know, doing it.

Also, I have two essays in English, an oral presentation in Spanish, and a robot I have to get started building this week. Expect further complaints.

Sounds good. Is this supposed to be an "alternate history" of the real world, or what?

Strangely, I like a lot of Europe's stuff. Good song, though.

I think it would be easier to keep slopes as exits, rather than rooms to themselves, though it should be able to tell that a room has slope to it (if it's outdoors and one exit is up and the opposite direction is down, it should be able to tell that the room counts as a "slope." This would of course reference the heightmap, as simply looking at the exits could end up being inaccurate.

so either force it to be a direction that it's not(flat or straight up,)
disallow it completely(digging into sky just fails)
or fuss around with exits

1)No, because that would either mean changing the direction in which someone actually digs (which is confusing) or making an exit lead somewhere misleading, which is confusing.
2)This seems like the proper method to go by, but it still seems a bit clunky.
3)I don't think completely changing the system I have figured out is a good idea, unless someone can suggest something better. This one seems closest to the spirit of DF, despite a little general clunkiness.

I think I'll go with option #2 for now. Now just to get back to work on it...

Also, can anyone connect? I think the downtime earlier was just my internet going down, but it's hard to tell.

Well, I've already got quite a few people helping out, though I'm not sure Katsuun is going to end up working out (sorry Katsuun)... Hm.

Anyway, if you're interested in helping, try downloading the latest alpha release from dead-souls.net and seeing if you can get it run. If you can figure it out, I might be able to use you.

Remember, though, that the semester is kind of coming to a close and myself and many others are scrambling to not fail all their classes, so I think this project going to have to be put semi on hold until things slow down a bit, at least for me.