Up to Main Index                             Up to Journal for April, 2024

                      JOURNAL FOR SUNDAY 7TH APRIL, 2024
______________________________________________________________________________

SUBJECT: Updated zone files + minor changes
   DATE: Sun  7 Apr 20:54:48 BST 2024

I’ve just updated the public dev branch. The vendors in the stock zinara.wrj
zone have been updated with proper trades — and a few new items. Items in the
world now have values and can be sold in the pawn shop or to the armourer or
bladesmith. There are also a few minor fixes and clean-ups in the zone file.

There is a fix for corpse generation. If a mobile has a value, for example the
rabbit, the value is now transferred to the corpse. Taking the rabbit as an
example it can be sold for meat, fur, etc…

The INVENTORY command has been updated. If a player had no items, or no items
but some coin, they would see:


    >INVENTORY
    You are not carrying anything.
    >


This has been changed so that if a player has no items, but has some coin,
they now see:


    >INVENTORY
    You are carrying 10 coin.
    >


I already have a few things I want to work on next. Players need a appraisal
command to know roughly what an item is worth. Vendors need minimum/maximum
value limits on what they will buy. Vendors also need to be able to mark up or
down items bought and sold.

I also want to make the BUY and SELL commands easier. For example, if there is
only one vendor in a location then ‘BUY DAGGER’ and ‘SELL DAGGER’ should work
without always having to specify the vendor.

It would also be nicer for players if vendor trades were numbered:


    >BUY BAKER
    The baker has the following trades available:
      1)    1c - a small loaf of bread
      2)    3c - a large loaf of bread
      3)    2c - a small pastry
      4)    5c - a large pastry
      5)  100c - some waybread
    >BUY 3 baker
    The baker sells you a small pastry for 2 coin.
    >


This is complicated by the fact the parser thinks you want to know the trades
of the 3rd baker at the current location :/

I’m also wondering if vendors should automatically advertise their trades.
Before trades, vendors had their items all laid out and players could browse
around the shop and examine items. Currently this has been lost with the new
trading system :(

--
Diddymus


  Up to Main Index                             Up to Journal for April, 2024