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recent developments

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...For now.


future development (sic)

A running list of bugs and enhancement ideas to possibly work on

content - fun/gameplay features:
  • peach soda, the good kind (GNE)
  • count leaves 69105-for now
  • more Zork references
  • Distant Woods
  • haiku (verb?)
  • read verb
  • change verb (edit avatar, etc?)
  • IOUs
  • sounds - chat, manual, etc.
  • player photos/avatars (animated? build your own?)
  • avatar upload
  • ~more images and bg images, more art
  • more emoticons, secret emoticons, admin-only emoticon?
  • Flash 1st-person view / chars?
  • quests? tasks for level. smile at an apple
  • points? wisdom(/energy/health/hit) points? (coins already, but can spend)
  • Levels - 32 levels (based on percentage of rooms visited? quests? points?)
  • 12 guilds? teams for quests/battle?
  • friends list with acquaintance levels?
  • more npc interaction
  • more object actions, more to buy
  • more rooms
  • home / rent / property-own / payday / closet-storage
  • true TRADE feature (verb/code/auth/price)
  • verbs - decide (quest), send...
  • verb - tip (barmaid)
  • verb - wait (to allow for spawning, growth, transformation, serendipity) - for now
  • object - leaf
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content - functional features:
  • pizza
  • cookies & milk
  • denim jacket
  • no shirt no shoes no service
  • trains to other towns?
  • alien world realm
  • spaceport travel to other planets
  • canadian tuxedo effect = eh!
  • move map (6-way)
  • private chat. rooms/messages/board/popout?
  • tab extra info layout?
  • /nick nickname, ajax rename
  • verbose command?
  • open verb functionality
  • PayPal donations support continued game development, upgrades,added content. $5 = Citizen. $10 or more will get you an uncommon, valuable game commodity. Five of those = very rare, powerful item.
  • e-mail activation, codes, 180-day deletion if necessary.
  • captcha - on contact, reg? etc.
  • limit carryable items (number? some weigh more?)
  • location message boards
  • vending machines!
  • verbs - allow short 3 or 4 char substitutions, */? wildcards
  • creatures [NPCs]?
  • full rooms / get in line
  • random generated stuff (NPC conversation, spawned objects, etc).
  • more NPC interaction, flirt Abdul? Litter cops NPC
  • show command - to display pics?
  • links in speech (ext)
  • ask~=say
  • nouns - make objects case-insensitive (findCase = almost ready!)
  • nouns - separate people/places/things
  • look into adding 'Textile' module for input
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technical features:
  • aggregate sessions
  • true PHP 5 XML dom
  • overhaul timekeeping! fix gd srvr err
  • better use of JQuery, UI, Sizzle, etc.
  • ~extract rest of the verbs! (practically done)
  • array stats once for re-use, quicker
  • integrate history into main script and rebuild
  • functionize articlestrip
  • rearrange articlestrip order, save some for output?
  • log last 12 IPs in xml
  • fix case issue on IP command (test-done?)
  • array_splice() that xml
  • nonsense verbs?
  • xml xsd
  • stats
  • debug
  • rebuild logs too!
  • limit user names to 15 or 30 chars?? did 100 for now.
  • limit status to 33 (before makeSmiley)? 40?
  • admin gets e-mail when user logs in (+registers too?) exclude spammy / alert?
  • deny 'ringtone' and 'zda' (ma###zda)?
  • ajax up that chat command screen!
  • dynamicize the idle time seconds (Here rollup, who, etc.) ᰬ halfway done, current user only.
  • keep alive (admin only, or option?)
  • track uploads
  • command autocompletion??
  • mouseenter emoticons (or accordion)
  • use tabs to fit more screens in layout!
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current bugs to squash:
  • ~bug - that role - sess-role thing - load()?
  • bug - time parsing is weird
  • bug - give/to is not working right now
  • bug - ?find room destroying bug - give or take or drop?
  • bug - find room logging bugs - they mess up format, break things
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