[cf-admin] crossfire1.1.0

[Joris Bontje]

On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 02:06:22PM -0800, Mark Wedel wrote:
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      > Todd Mitchell wrote:
     
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      > I just reinstalled using the new 1.1.0 package.  I had only one problem - the
     
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      > first time I started crossfire it failed saying it couldn't find the faces
     
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      > file (Joris Bontje replied to this - and I pulled a faces file from the CVS).
     
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      > This is an improvement over last version since I could not get crossfire to
     
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      > install in my /usr/local using the -prefix setting in 1.0.0 (it did but, kept
     
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      > looking for stuff in the /usr/games default.), but this time it worked, so i'm
     
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      > happy.
     
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       Yep - known bug.
     
     
We are really thankfull for installation bugs. I am running my server
for a long time now, and I never do a fresh install so I wont encounter
those. But they really prevent new people from enjoying the game.

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      > I like the new interaction commands - one of my friends jumped out of their
     
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      > mail when I licked them.  I think this is important fluff that really enhances
     
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      > the game.  I did notice that some of the skills function differently (was told
     
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      > pray was not working - now you need to fire it off with a direction (?). 
     
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       I don't believe the syntax has changed at all.  You can still use just
     
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      'use_skill praying'.
     
     
I, and most people, have bound use_skill praying to some key. I have
bound it to 'p' and invoke it 3 times:
bind use_skill praying; use_skill praying; use_skill praying
press 'p' to bind it to p.

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      > I also have a suggestion for a new thing- how about a message board object
     
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      > that could be placed in towns and allow people to put up messages or maybe
     
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      > even an apartment mailbox type of thing (message delivery not free of course -
     
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      > even put in a post kiosk with a jaded employee)? This comes since I noticed
     
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      > that marking rune (all spells actually) don't work the streets of scorn
     
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       I think Joris did some mailbox type thingy with the scripting code, but I'm not
     
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      sure if it is a standard part.  A message board should be similarly easy to do,
     
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      but some aging factor is needed (otherwise, you would have thousands of messages
     
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      after some amount of time).  The script could actually make things interesting -
     
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      as it ages, some words or letters randomly disappear, and after some age, the
     
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      entire message vanishes.
     
     
Yes, on my server, mids.student.utwente.nl, I have coded several
extentions. There is a player to player mailing system, and there are
multiple, in game, messageboards. I don't do aging... cause almost
nobody uses it. This is probably because there aren't too many crossfire
players :)
The sourcecode is licensed under GPL and available on request.

Joris Bontje / mids
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