All of my games have been shelved. Mainly, I can code them, but I can't run them by myself. When I've tried to get support, I didn't get anything remotely enough to have a functional game.

So anything I do at this point would only have stuff to do late nights EST which is not conducive for a living/breathing game.

I have checked out Capes and Stars or whatever it is, nice people, small game, wish them luck. Wish I could have gotten into a character there.

@Jim-Nanban said in AWS (Amazon Web Service) as MU Hosting:

@ixokai HEH. It's what the DB runs on, and the differences aren't enough for me to care about 7 years out from my last time doing any real coding. I'd really want to try RHOST, but... the softcode in the DB I've got is way too tightly coded to change platforms.

You'd be surprised how much compatibility there may be 😉

When I was first really playing Haven I had a character that was going to run a game of Numenera. And he was actually going to RUN A REAL GAME, because at the time there was dice rolling code. I even made up ascii art based character sheets. But RL got in the way, and I lost like 90% of the pre-made character sheets I'd made, so I gave up.

@Griatch said in What is out there? Hard and soft codebases of choice.:

Edit: But if with "passive condition" you mean something like "at the moment of entering bob, if this condition is True then get back this version of the command, otherwise this other version", then you need to do a little more work:

You could solve this by adding all your conditional commands to the cmdset and tell them not to merge but to remain separate (but same-named) in the set. You then plug in your own MULTIMATCH_ERROR handler. When you use "bob" you will then get multiple possible command-matches. The normal result on a multimatch is to give you a list of commands and let you pick the one you want to use (it may matter if you are using the "push" command on the red or blue button after all). But your multimatch handler could instead check the condition and run only the command the condition dictates.

A bit of a necro of this thread, but it struck me that that the dynamic changing of commands based on a condition is a lot easier in Evennia than I suggested above. The question was essentially "at the moment of entering bob, if this condition is True, get back this version of the bob command, otherwise get the other condition". The way to go is to use locks. Here we decide which bob command to use depending on if the caller has the Attribute "foo" or not:

from evennia import Command, CmdSet class CmdBob1(Command): key = "bob" locks = "cmd: not attr(foo)" def func(self): # stuff this first bob command does class CmdBob2(Command): key = "bob" locks = "cmd: attr(foo)" def func(self): # stuff this second bob command does

Explanation: Above we create two Evennia Commands, both keyed as "bob" but doing (supposedly) different things. Each also has a lock string. Locks is a mini-language in Evennia, where you call small python functions that always return True/False and combine their returns into the result of the lock. In this case the lock string is cmd:attr(foo) and cmd:not attr(foo) respectively. The cmd bit is the lock type. For a Command, if the cmd type lock is not passed, the entire Command is unavailable to the player at this time. The lock is using the attr(name) lock function. This is a predefined lock function that checks if the caller has an Attribute with the given name ("foo") at all. So in this case, if the "foo" Attribute is set, CmdBob1 will fail the lock and CmdBob2 will pass it and vice versa. You could of course define your own custom lock funcs like is_it_full_moon etc. It's a normal Python function you just tell Evennia to treat as a lock function.

... We now just need to add these two commands into their own cmdsets and add them both to whatever object should be able to use or supply the "bob" command(s). When you then enter "bob" on the input line you will get the result of either CmdBob1 or CmdBob2 depending on if you have the "foo" attribute set on yourself or not.

I added it as a Q&A hint to the Evennia tips and tricks section.

Well that's cool. Definitely some interest. I have zero coding skills or knowledge on how to set up a game, myself. But if someone were to do it, I am a stupidly complete source of lore information on the world settings (both Fallout and Wasteland) and could help with setting that stuff up.

I was provided a plugin that does what you want. It's actually really nice and easy to set up.

Download it from here: http://qon.pennmush.org/chatgrabber/

Once you enable the plugin, you'll have to set it up.

Right click the mini windows and hit 'update channels'.
After that's done, right click again and hit channels and choose the ones you want to send to the window (likely all of them, you can shift+click or ctrl+click)
That should default send them to the mini window.
If it's still echoing in the main window, click echo to turn it off.
You can send pages and local OOC to there under the Other communications tab.
I've been testing it this morning. Seems like it also linkifies URLs.

To resize, the bottom-right of the window is a sizing block. Click it and drag to resize.

And enjoy. Seems like it grabs all colors and everything too.

EDIT: You may want to change the font as well; it starts out really small. I just set it to FixedSys at 9 like the core MUSHclient and off we went.

Update: People reported that my fix on the Evennia side resolved the issue with mudrammer. So we could close the issue and everyone lived happily ever after in the best of worlds. 🙂
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Griatch

@Arkandel said in How To Advertise?:

@Brave-Saga-MUSH said in How To Advertise?:

I know that this location would be one place to advertise and I know sharing ads between MU*s is another one, but is there any advice anyone could give? Other locations that could be used? I would love some suggestions and I am even sure that there are probably some new folks out there that could be wondering as well.

My advice is this: Advertise when you are ready and know what you're going to offer, and when you're going to offer it, but not before.

Most projects fall apart well before they come out of the "hey, I got this idea..." stage. And we, fickle lot that we are to begin with, have seen way too many projects disappear well before fruition.

So find the people who'll help you staff it, make sure you got the technical infrastructure taken care of (i.e. you got a host, someone to code, if you got a wiki someone to set it up, etc) then when it looks like you're actually going to open in a matter of weeks tell us why we should want it to open even sooner.

But yeah, if you want to advertise this forum is as good as any. Good luck!

I want to say thanks to all the replies on this. The advice there is a really nice one to have. I'll keep everything said here in mind and thanks again!

@Arkandel
Lets not forget they had him trade his one lasting relationship to the devil for his Aunt's life.
I am not sure about Marvel as a whole but I know Joey Q( Mr. I drew really bad comics) has mentioned in interviews he does not understand why fans love Spiderman.

@Thenomain said in What is your preferred method of function creation?:

@faraday

Yup, that's how it works. But you can log in via alias. connect Smithy password

If you want server consistency, you're going to have to code a lpmatch() that honors it. Good luck. Please share.

Something most people don't realize either is you can connect by your dbref#

So from the connect screen doing something like 'co #69 pass' would work.

@Hexagon said in XP Tax:

@Ganymede Is this not somewhat similar to reducing the auto-gain XP (you're just subtracting it off the front end, before the player gets a chance to pay it later as "tax")?
"Tax" may be an ugly word. I have started to think of it as "stat decay" the more we've all talked about this.

The key difference, which you touched on later in your post, is that stat decay is taking away something they have (reducing a skill), while reduced XP is taking away something they never had (the XP was never in their pocket, they just earned less of it). It's human nature to be less comfortable with losing something you already have than losing something you never had, it feels like you're being punished.

@skew Faraday's code is built on Penn. You're welcome to come log in as a guest and check out various sheets and bgs. They're public to everyone.

@Apocalycious said in Reality Levels and WOD Realms:

@Hexagon
I logged in to check, and HM has rlevels:

Level: real Value: 0x00000001 Desc: desc-interpreter Level: shadow Value: 0x00000002 Desc: shadow-desc Level: invis Value: 0x00000004 Desc: desc-interpreter Level: twilight Value: 0x00000008 Desc: desc-interpreter Level: all Value: 0x0000000f Desc: desc-interpreter

The Hedge was not actually an rlevel, just a different grid. The Shadow one was useful because the rooms were all the same in the Shadow, but it allowed for different descs in shadow/real. Extensive use was made of it, and most of the main grid rooms and many builds had shadow-descs set.

If I recall correctly, early on the Twilight one did make people invisible except to other people in Twilight. I never made much use of it (and it didn't get used very much in general), so I don't remember if those policies changed with time, or what they changed to. I don't remember the invis one getting used at all.

While Cajun Nights isn't active at all anymore, it is still up and will give a very good idea of how things work with realities. It uses them to extreme conclusions for massive amounts of manipulations.

Reality levels: (30 configured) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Level: Real Value: 0x00000001 Desc: _Desc Level: Umbra Value: 0x00000002 Desc: _UMBRADESC Level: OUTTIME Value: 0x00000004 Desc: _Desc Level: AWARE1 Value: 0x00000008 Desc: _AWAREDESC Level: AWARE3 Value: 0x00000010 Desc: _AWAREDESC Level: AWARE5 Value: 0x00000020 Desc: _AWAREDESC Level: AWARE7 Value: 0x00000040 Desc: _AWAREDESC Level: AWARE9 Value: 0x00000080 Desc: _AWAREDESC Level: MIND1 Value: 0x00000100 Desc: _AUSPEXDESC Level: MIND2 Value: 0x00000200 Desc: _AUSPEXDESC Level: MIND3 Value: 0x00000400 Desc: _AUSPEXDESC Level: MIND4 Value: 0x00000800 Desc: _AUSPEXDESC Level: MIND5 Value: 0x00001000 Desc: _AUSPEXDESC Level: MIND6 Value: 0x00002000 Desc: _AUSPEXDESC Level: SPIRIT1 Value: 0x00004000 Desc: _SPIRITDESC Level: SPIRIT2 Value: 0x00008000 Desc: _SPIRITDESC Level: SPIRIT3 Value: 0x00010000 Desc: _SPIRITDESC Level: SPIRIT4 Value: 0x00020000 Desc: _SPIRITDESC Level: SPIRIT5 Value: 0x00040000 Desc: _SPIRITDESC Level: HIGHUMBR Value: 0x00080000 Desc: _CONCEPTDESC Level: WRAITH Value: 0x00100000 Desc: _WRAITHDESC Level: TELEPATH Value: 0x00200000 Desc: _TELEPATHDESC Level: SYNERGY Value: 0x00400000 Desc: SYNERGYDESC Level: HEARING Value: 0x00800000 Desc: _MURMUR Level: OBF1 Value: 0x01000000 Desc: _AUSPEXDESC Level: OBF2 Value: 0x02000000 Desc: _AUSPEXDESC Level: OBF3 Value: 0x04000000 Desc: _AUSPEXDESC Level: OBF4 Value: 0x08000000 Desc: _AUSPEXDESC Level: OBF5 Value: 0x10000000 Desc: _AUSPEXDESC Level: ALL Value: 0x1fffffff Desc: _DESC Enhancement: @lock/user works as a Reality Lock (type 1). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

As for how to set things up 'properly' with Reality Levels, that's an open question that requires an open answer. There really is no 'right' way to do it or that many 'wrong' ways.

In essence, realities allows you to share the same physical space by applying virtual layers over the top of it.

Another good example is layered GIF's when you work with photoshop or gimp. You have one layer which is the background. The next layer is the plants and trees, the layer after that the weather like leaves that blow around, the next layer maybe fog on the ground, then the next layer animals flying or walking and the next the people who walk around.

6 complete layers, each one absolutely separate from each other, but with the right 'permissions' allowing each layer to interact with any of the other layers however you want. That's a bit like reality levels. You can modify the @rxlevel and @txlevel on the fly (there's sideeffect functions as well) so someone can switch realities by somthing simple like walking through an exit, or issuing a $command or any number of other things. And with locks (if available) you can dynamically define realities based on conditionals on top of it.

Lots of flexibility.

Arx, yup. It fits your criteria.

@Ashen-Shugar

I think this is mostly 'theory' at this point and not likely to ever happen. Though with all things considered, I wonder what would happen if someone got clever enough to use a proxy that has IPV6, and therefore disseminates their single address into a litany of legitimate addresses. With a handful of those, it seems like we again enter the area of 'theoretically impossible' to track, unless you're uncle sam.

@GangOfDolls

I agree entirely with what you are saying, and have always lobbied for more logical solutions rather than brute force 'whack a mole'. Albeit nobody seems to want to hear that. Resource delegation alone, I think, would solve everybody's problems.

Tried a new router, reconfigured it all and everything works fine now.

@Seamus No, I'm using Virtua, their services are very stable here so hopefully I won't have any problems with them 😛

@GirlCalledBlu
I'm glad you like it. I wanted to do it at the bottom-right of the image, but it wouldn't work reliably. It took forever to get it to line up, and it uses/requires two pieces of code.

First is a div which defines the position; in this instance,

<div style="left: 90%; top: 10px; position: absolute">[[File:House {{{house| }}}.png|130px]]</div>

And the other is a neat little bit of CSS code on the template, which forces images to resize to the container, based on the screen's information. It has prevented a LOT of overflow/overlap issues on the infoboxes.

{{#css: img { max-width: 100%; height: auto; width: auto\9; /* ie8 */ } }}

That last bit goes at the top of the template, it populates to any page using the template, and forces the automatic resizing. It works well, I tested it on my big laptop screen and my smaller tablet screen and it worked nicely.

It does indeed look like Genesis is running an older version of Linux on their server that is not compatible with newer versions of Penn. My head coder is looking for answers as well, so I'll update things here as I find out more.