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Before the various 'combo' abilities came about, I was unable to use tekura because people could parry two thirds of all my combos (they could switch parry in between my kick and punch). I persevered a bit with the class, back in Achaea, by splitting my targeting up rather than comboing single limbs, but that just made me easier to parry.
I'm using tripwire now, and had to ask Kaeus to adjust the system to suit longer latencies. When I told him what my average is, he laughed and asked me how I can even consider playing with a latency that bad.
Last weekend I fought with a new ally at a lesser. Afterwards this person asked me to call the affs I deliver over web, for them to track. I explained that too often they cure it before my webtell goes through. This person immediately said "oh you're Australian."
So while I understand the problems caused by perfect curing at zero latency, and the problems caused by everyone using the same system (I played Imperian then, too), I've been struggling with poor latency in these muds that reward better latency through what is ultimately nothing other than poor design, for a lot of years now.
Maybe server-side curing is not the answer; but I feel like there should be -some- answer. Just as some classes' offenses suit my latency better than others, so too could some curing mechanics suffer less, perhaps?
Maybe I just have to poke Raz directly.
Part of the problem is that everyone wants a solution that works for their preferred client. If you ask the admin to make a system they are probably going to do it in the HTML client because that is something they know is going to behave as expected, something they already have working the way they want with a GUI, etc. I came to the forums looking for a free system, but my preferred client is Mushclient. I did zmud way back in the day but I switched and learned mush and it's just what I am familiar with. If there had been no mush option I'd have gone with one of the mudlet ones that are available, but I knew that was going to require a bunch of additional work on my part because the clients inherently behave differently. I was lucky that @Haven had posted his Lilith.
And here's where the next problems come up:
We want a free system, we want someone who is extremely familiar with that system (most likely the original programmer) to provide support, we want it to be constantly updated. Haven seems like a pretty nice guy, and I wouldn't mind asking him a simple question every now and again, but I'm not going to ask him to code in stuff just because I want it. I'm not going to pester him for an update if a skill changes. He's already done more than his fair share just posting what he had made to begin with, completely free, with no restrictions whatsoever. My personal feeling is that it is unfair to ask for support on something he threw out there for free anyways.
Luckily I've spent enough time working on mush that I can actually go in and edit whatever I want. I'm a far cry from any kind of professional coder but I got it to stop trying to use fitness to cure my vlocks and shed instead. I got it to use erase instead of reconstitute. I've modified it to track when a cure fails due to stupidity to keep trying until it goes through. I've added a visual limb tracker that is pretty basic (colored squares and rectangles) but unicorns am I proud of it. My copy of Lilith has become a patchwork quilt with my changes, some of which are perhaps a bit sloppy. Most people who come looking for a free system are not going to be able to do these things for themselves. It will either work the way they want out of the box or they will need some support.
The only real solution is crowdsourcing. Projects for multiple clients running side by side with people who have the time and knowledge of those clients to make updates. A good codebase that has been commented properly is a great starting point. All of this could probably be run out of Kelsys, being particularly relevant, but it's going to be up to the playerbase to provide multiple, free, available solutions to solve the same problem in different ways. Find a handful of people to spearhead each project for free and there you go.
Rawr
- Will deal 25% of an Eld's max health in damage when attacking one using Claw.
Picked this up and skipped off to the fissure for fun. Hit an eld with it five times and it didn't die.... What's the deal here? Do some eld have serious healing or something?
Rawr
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i am rapture coder
Does anyone know what the lesson packages amounts available were (especially in the higher amounts) and since I'm asking anyway, what their cost were?
I figure it would be good to know in advance.
I know it also depends on how much your system is doing, but I plan to make a basic system without all that fancy useless crap(no offense) and was wondering what everyone's opinion on clients is...?
Mush, Mudlet, Zmud, Cmud...?