Category Talk to Simutronics (34)
Topic GM Announcements (5)
Message Additional Updates to "Graverobbing" (118)
By SIMU-SOLOMON@PLAY.NET
On Oct 25, 2000 at 15:17

I'm pleased to announce some additional features that have been added today, as well as some tweaks that were made to the "graverobbing" mechanics.

First and foremost, there's a new CONSENT verb.

Dead players can use this verb to CONSENT (Playername) and allow the indicated player to pickup items from their gravesite/death site. The CONSENT will prevent the items from being "poofed" back to where they were picked up, in the event that the friend logs out of the game (either accidently or on purpose). See the verb for additional usage information. NOTE: You can only consent someone who is in the room with you and is visible. Thus, this verb can't be used to confirm someone is online but hidden (or invisible, etc) in the game.

(This verb also has several synonyms: ALLOW, PERMIT, PERMISSION. Those will all work just as if the player had typed CONSENT.)

Next, we have a tweak to what happens when someone (without CONSENT) takes items from your gravesite and logs out or gets disconnected).

Originally, when someone logs off with items belonging to someone, the items return to the place where they were picked up (usually the last room that an item from that person's grave was picked up). IE, if someone drops and item into another room than the gravesite and is picked up by another person, it returns to that room and not the gravesite room.

When this happened before, the owner of the item (if online) got a message saying the item returned to "where it was picked up". That led to confusion sometimes as players generally thought this meant the items were returned to their gravesite but since that isn't always where the items were picked up, the player was sometimes unable to locate their item before "The Janitor" cleaned up the area.

As of today, when the items are dropped to the ground when the player logs off, the owner is shown the room description so they can see the exact room where their item was dropped. If multiple items are dropped into different rooms, the player sees all those rooms. You are told about each item that's dropped this way. IMPORTANT NOTE: You will see the room only once. Currently, there is NO other way for you to see this room again.

This way, you will have a better chance to find your items when they are dropped in this manner at logoff.

Additionally, the following changes were put in with this update:

Items are protected from cleanup by "the janitor" for 1 full hour. Additionally, for the first 10 minutes of that hour, ONLY the original owner of the item that was stolen (or someone with that owner's CONSENT) may pick up the item. After that 10 minutes, anyone can pick up the item(s), but "The Janitor" won't touch them until the hour has passed. This will allow a lot more time for players to recover items that were stolen and then "poofed" by someone logging off (accidently or on purpose).

Enjoy,

GM Solomon