| Some Horsey Tweaks, posted on Thu Jan 9 12:37:46 2025 | | Posted by: Pit | | Category: General | This bugfix weekend saw a few horsey bugs repaired:
* Grooming towels were getting damaged at a much higher rate than the other grooming gear, and sometimes quietly breaking. They now take the same level of damage as the rest.
* Horses will no longer come to their owners while said owners are flying through the air on a broomstick. (If they still do, please file a bugreport with a log that might show how it came to be. If you step into the air room through a portal while sat on, or leading, a ho...Read The Rest Of This Entry |
| Mushclient Users: Please Clean Your IP Cache!, posted on Wed Sep 18 08:06:56 2024 | | Posted by: Pit | | Category: General | Hello all,
If you are using Mushclient and find yourself unable to connect to Discworld later today, we advise that you go to File => World properties, where you may find a button "refresh cached IP", which you should press!
Explanation: the MUD is always reachable on discworld.starturtle.net, but to deal with network issues, we sometimes have to change which IP this address points to.
Unfortunately, some MUD clients -- of which Mushclient is the commonly used one -- cache the IP you have conne...Read The Rest Of This Entry |
| Leave Poor Prinscilla Alone :(, posted on Sat Aug 17 17:27:47 2024 | | Posted by: Pit | | Category: Am (domain pages) | After being viciously murdered one too many times, Prinscilla has decided that enough is enough.
She will now refresh her collection of horses on her own initiative. |
| Disconnection Detection, posted on Sat Aug 10 13:21:27 2024 | | Posted by: Pit | | Category: General | Hello all,
We are aware that there is a problem where players repeatedly get disconnected, and are discussing solutions with the ISP.
For the time being, we have implemented some functionality to protect players from dying in combat when a disconnect is detected by marking them as unconscious. This code is still in beta, and therefore may still have some flaws, but we are rolling it out now because we hope that it will help you.
If you would rather not have this code apply to you, please cont...Read The Rest Of This Entry |
| Experimental Outbreak!!!!!, posted on Mon Apr 1 10:39:31 2024 | | Posted by: Pit | | Category: General | In an unexpected and totally unforeseeable turn of events, the Bes Pelargic wizards guild reports an unfortunate accident with the results of a scientific experiment breaking free.
"I've never seen anything like this! The catastrophe needs to be contained as soon as possible! We need everyone's help!" according to the junior spokesperson to the guild.
Everyone interested in helping out is asked to report to Professor Shrub in the courtyard. He was not open for commentary when our reporters asked...Read The Rest Of This Entry |
| Teaching Changes, posted on Wed Dec 27 12:02:46 2023 | | Posted by: Pit | | Category: Special | Hello all!
There have been some changes to the way teaching works. Specifically:
* The goodness of teachers is now capped based on your own bonus.
* Teachers can specialise in a skilltree. The cap is higher for skills in the tree they specialise in.
* Both the teaching XP and the learning cost formulas have been adjusted slightly.
* There is now a "teachers" command to help you find online teachers for skills you want to learn.
To help those who manage learning-oriented websites, we will publi...Read The Rest Of This Entry |
| Replacing Beds, posted on Sun Jun 4 17:05:52 2023 | | Posted by: Pit | | Category: Liaison (domain pages) | Hello all!
As part of some updates to furniture, several beds have been improved: you can now put things on them! This may prove quite useful for those of you who would like to have a pillow on their bed. :)
Unfortunately, as an unintended side effect of this change, many existing beds have become unplaced...
So, for those of you houseowners who have beds in their houses: please check in your house if the bed is still properly placed. If not, just replace it; the placement should not be lost ...Read The Rest Of This Entry |
| Foolish Upgrades, posted on Sat Apr 1 09:53:42 2023 | | Posted by: Pit | | Category: Guilds | For the 4th year anniversary of the Fools' Guild, its primary guild command has received some upgrades.
Most importantly, the skillchecks for juggling multiple and non-round objects have been increased, and it is now more likely that you will kill yourself if you're going to juggle knives or other sharp objects.
Happy juggling!
P.S. Okay, okay, we also added some new juggling patterns. Go ask Auguste to teach you. |
| Skill Changes, posted on Sun Mar 26 20:25:22 2023 | | Posted by: Pit | | Category: Special | Hello all,
We have made a number of small changes to the skill tree and to some guild
primaries:
* We have removed fighting.range.bow, and merged existing levels into the
fighting.range.fired skill, considering the relative XP costs of both skills to
replace players' existing levels. Guilds which had fighting.range.bow as a
primary now have fighting.range.fired instead.
* We have removed both people.culture.djelian and people.culture.ephebian, and
moved existing levels into the new s...Read The Rest Of This Entry |
| Divine Tolerance Thresholds Increased, posted on Tue Jan 11 15:04:50 2022 | | Posted by: Pit | | Category: Guilds | After a meeting on Cori Celesti, Gapp, Sandelfon, Fish and Hat have decided to be a bit more tolerant of their followers' shifts in alignment.
Hence, priests of these gods should now find it a bit easier to stay in your gods' good graces!
The score align command now reflects the new status quo more accurately. |
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