Some code has been added to track the progress of time on the mud. We will now have a calendar with days and months. Future additions could involve a lunar cycle as well as specific holidays. Weather messages are now also specific to the season we are in - no blistering heat messages in winter.

This is how time breaks down for the calendar:
Here's a screenshot:You can use the "game" command to view the time in the old format.

An online version of this calendar will be made available on the website shortly. It will let you track the days in an easier-to-read interface than the mud.

If the mud crashes at 2:12pm, the game will restart at 2:00pm. Because the mud remembers time like this, ships will no longer arrive at the correct time. For now, you'll have to deal with not knowing where things will be. I have an outline for ships that will fix this problem, but as always, there's a tradeoff between spending time writing new code and time fixing old bugs!

Dominus wrote:

If the mud crashes at 2:12pm, the game will restart at 2:00pm. Because the mud remembers time like this, ships will no longer arrive at the correct time. For now, you'll have to deal with not knowing where things will be. I have an outline for ships that will fix this problem, but as always, there's a tradeoff between spending time writing new code and time fixing old bugs!

It looks like I was wrong about ships! Apparently the ship code is smarter than I thought - ships actually work BETTER now. Crashes no longer return a ship to its original location, so if the mud crashes right before the Ironclads gets to Breakwater, you don't have to wait for it to make the whole journey again.

make druids realms more effective with seasons. Fire in summer, earth in spring, air in fall, water in winter. That'd be cool. Bonding with its atmosphere.

what about electricity and cold? everything should be +cold in the winter since those spells are hard as hell to get anyways =)

Good suggestions! I'm putting in the foundations for this kind of code, so it's super easy for the mud to know if its winter and do something based on that knowledge.

Speaking of cold and electricty, will that realm ever be available for conjure classes?

zale wrote:

what about electricity and cold? everything should be +cold in the winter since those spells are hard as hell to get anyways =)

Why would creatures take more damage from cold in the winter? Does that mean they'd take more damage from air or earth spells in the middle of a sandstorm? Makes no sense in my opinion.

Creatures are +/-element when they are specifically vulnerable or resistant to that element. i.e. standard D&D trolls are +fire, and salamnders and fire giants are -fire

It doesn't have anything to do with the temperature or otherwise any environmental conditions whatsoever.

There's now an online calendar under the Game Related section:

http://www.rohonline.net/calendar.php

Yeah I guess that stuff isn't D&D related, just thought it'd be nice (although alot of things on the mud don't parallel d&d). Obviously it isn't realistic, but how about cold/electricity pets?

(ooc)

The only thing I would like to see out of seasons is blocked passages....



For example: During the raining seasons of spring, several of the passages thru the hell bogs would be inaccessible.

Or during the snow seasons, several passage ways thru the mountains would be ineccessible.


This would (hopefully) mean the dms would code an alternative route thru the mountains or around ect.

But this would make more sence then +/- realms in an environment.