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Lujke
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 18, 2018 1:48 pm    Post subject: Rumour has it Reply with quote

Coming soon, to a mud near you - a new system for handling character rumours and background information.

It's in restricted alpha testing at the moment, but I've made a new system for handling character rumours.

The basic concept is that you will be able to create rumours about your character that other people will be able to come across in game by engaging in gossip in the right places. You'll also be able to gossip about other people.

There will be 3 types of rumour:

City rumours circulate in urban areas and inns dominated by humans and their allies.

Wild rumours circulate among the wild folk (rangers, druids & assorted others)

Beast rumours circulate among the various 'beast' races, and can be picked up in places like Juran, Muuldaan, etc.

Your influence skill, race and (in some cases) class will affect how successful your attempts at gossiping in these different contexts.

Each individual rumour will have 'surface' information, which will be what is generally known in circulation. They may also have further details and/or 'secret' information that might be uncovered with further investigation.

The size limits are: 300 characters for surface info, and 600 characters each for detail and secret information. (colour codes don't count toward these limits)

You can view 'help gossip' now, to get an idea of how it will work, but the command itself won't work for a little while.

While you're waiting, this would be a great time to get your character rumours ready to go, though.

Any questions or comments welcome.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 19, 2018 10:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Against every fibre of my leathery draconian soul, I have been persuaded to make the gossip/rumour commands also work with the American spelling of 'rumor'.

Once it's live, let me know if 'rumor' fails to work at any point.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 22, 2018 9:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hurrah!

I've partially implemented the new command: 'gossip'

For the time being, you will only be able to use the 'start rumour' and 'background' options of the command. I'd like to see a good number of rumours in place before I open the system up for everyone to be able to gather information from it.

So, you're encouraged to start creating lots of rumours about anyone you like. You'll find there's a limit to how many rumours you can 'start' as an IC action, but you can make an unlimited number about your own character's history using the 'background' command.

If there are rumours you think should be in general circulation about other characters and you can't start them yourself, feel free to mail them to me & I'll add them in if I have time.

Happy gossipping!

Lujke
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 23, 2018 3:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Praise the Draconian! We offer cofee in your glory! This is one sexy piece of code!
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 19, 2018 6:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks to those of you who reported an issue with not hearing any rumours when you were gossipping for them.

I think there was an issue where I may have unintentionally made it impossible to hear any rumours if you have a low influence skill.

I think I've corrected the formula. It should now be that it will still be much slower to get rumours if you have low influence skill, or if you are trying for a type of rumour that is not readily available to your race. However, you should now get something occasionally.

Please let me know of any further issues.

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 21, 2018 3:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have a rumor now I cannot get anything more on and it isn't under someone's name. Its for a "Drow Warlock"
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 22, 2018 5:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks, I'll look into that.
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 26, 2018 4:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think I have fixed it. Let me know if there are any further issues.
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