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Lasher gives a formal update. Figured there's a few things I needed to give you all updates on, so one
big note will do the trick:
Imms
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Tripitaka and Whitdjinn are our newest imms. They will be level 203 for a
while until they get used to the change, and then will be 204 and able to
help with some of the upgrades etc. Congrats to them. Sarlock, Sirene and
Vladia are now 'Senior imms'. As we generally don't have people throwing
orders around and pulling rank on each other, it is more of a recognition
of all they have done for Aardwolf than a real change, but congrats to
them too!
V3
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Progress is being made steadily on V3. Rewriting a mud from scratch is a
huge project. This probably will not be finished completely until after
the march/april date above, which means two things:
- At some point we'll have to open donations again. Will figure out
at that time whether it is with rewards or not (cringe).
- I don't want to let Aard sit with no enhancements at all for 6 months
so I will still do a little work here too. This will, of course, slow
down V3 even more.
A lot of great ideas and feedback are being posted. Please don't get
discouraged at not seeing many changes - they are ALL being archived
and saved for post-V3.
Personal
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For those that don't already known, ***our first child is due in just under 3
weeks***. I'm sure this will slow down development all round for a while so
any time now I could disappear for a while. Please be patient if you leave
me notes and don't get a response.
Aardwolf Birthday
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In two weeks time (December 7th), it will be Aardwolf's 7th birthday. You
can expect lots of celebration and doubles on that date. However, that is
one week before our official due date, don't be surprised if some of the
things I need to be here for get cancelled at short notice :)
Stock Area Replacements
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Had a lot of questions about what will happen to eq in stock areas. For the
first couple of areas that were replaced, we tried to keep all items the
same type with similar stats and the same vnums. This just did not give the
builder's enough flexibility to truly create a new area, so we had to
abandon that plan. Equipment in removed stock areas will disappear. Skins
from stock areas will be fine as skinned items are actually all one vnum in
a different area, but enhanced/enchanted items from stock areas will be no
more. Do not spend any tp on enhancing these items in the meantime. The one
exception is chaos portals - I will figure out a way to make chaos portals
that go to a removed room 'reset' to a blank portal. This might not be in
right away though, so just hang on to them.
Have fun all, things will be slow for a while but we have some great
enhancements planned once V3 is in (some are listed in 'help v3')
Thanks,
Lasher.
(PS: Don't want to be accused of writing a note without bugging you to
vote, so err, go vote or something, yeah!)
***UPDATE
Ayla Lorraine was born at 6:42pm last night EST, weighing 6lb 8oz.
Mom and baby are both doing well. I just came home to pick up a few things and heading back to the hospital now, so won't bearound again today.
This is a picture as of 2 hours old:
http://beta.aardmud.org/ayla/aylanew.jpg
Thanks to everyone for the notes and well wishes, hopefully we'll be home soon :)
Lasher.
(And no, the baby would not have been 'Lasher' if it was a boy...) Date Posted - 11.23.2003
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