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