Change 3236
Originally Posted : Thu Jan 31 17:58:40 2008
Posted by : Razan
Title : major new character changes
I've revamped the way new characters are logged into the MUD. However,
this will also effect you experienced players when you reincarnate a
character. Here's how it works now:
When you start a new character you will not be asked to choose your
gender and race, instead, your gender will be unset and your race will
be autoset to Ethereal. You will be automatically placed in the newbie
starting area. If you haven't seen this area yet, it's very cool and is
intended to walk new players through learning to use some of Tsunami.
Yes, this means even you experienced players will ed up here when you
reincarnate.
Eventually walking through this area down a 1-way hallway (leading the
player through) you will be presented with a room that you cannot pass
until you have chosen your gender, race, and class. The class selection
being in this room eliminates the use of the 'choose' command. ALL
selection will be done from this room and only this room - period.
Upon selecting these things you will be transported to your new guild,
just like always and some help text will give you some hints about what
to do now to select a subclass. The newbie area can be revisited before
level 3 or something using the 'newbiearea' command so if a new player
gets out into the world and gets confused, he can come back and.
I'm hoping this simplifies things. Let's look at what we presented new
users right now.
Welcome to tsunami. What gender do you want? Umm... male. Nice move,
now you can't be an amazon. You didn't know that hough, did you? What
race? Umm, I dunno.. subclasses? PICK A RACE! OK, human.. jeez.
Welcome! You're a human. Go explore. Oh, by the way, if you want to
pick a class / subclass you need to use the 'choose' command. Dunno how
you'd know that, and dunno how you expect to survive with that new
character w/o a class, but good luck.
Instead now we drag them through and hopefully hold their hand on the
choices.
As usual, bug stuff.
- Razan.
