The Plot

Characters / Misc

• Do something with email address (optional)
  • Send newbie guide, or some-such (word doc, or pdf or something)
• Move all the no* channel commands to a single command with toggles (setcom on one mud)
• Autoauction system
• Retain free stat knowledge on an identified item
• (re)implement MSP
• FreeTrade system
  • Wizards stock shops w/scrolls
  • Warehouses make wares & transport them to places
  • Transports can be hijacked
  • Other classes make potions, weapons, etc
  • Crafting skills
    • Potion recipies
    • Armor construction
    • Clothing construction
    • Food (cooking)
    • Enchantments to improve items
  • Transport on boats
• People can carry people
• Items carry people (pokeballs!)

Assemble

• method to specify parts w/combine, instead of naming finished product, player names parts to put together
• allows multiple recipies for same item
• (crafting)
• Flag on each recipe for what crafting skill(s) are associated with recipe
  • Cooking, alchemy, etc
• move assembles to their own list, instead of attached to finished object

PK System

• Designated PK areas
• Attackers flagged as killer
  • timer based on amount of killing done
  • does not count down in rent? (or multiplier)

Clans

• Wars: clan vs clan, clan vs npc, clan vs ???)
• PK Element
• Castle, contained somewhere in the world
• Conquest (points involved)
• Hometown benefits (???)
• Build a town
  • allow others to inhabit
  • allow guilds to open
  • shops
  • taxes from shops and stuff go to clan

Guilds

• Add to IMESS

Classes

• Masterful scroll casting
  • Remort skill
  • Not user scroll when cast
  • Uses more mana from mana pool
  • Bonus if you made that scroll?

Psionicist

• Psionic Body: + HP bonus
• Rapid Metabolism: automatic fast heal, 13 con required, stops if con gets lower
• Psychic tattoos
• Extend power (reduces psp cost) (remort)
• Persistent power: Suspent maint cosst on random or specified power, extent power required
• Quicken power: reduce cast time, activate to work, increase psp cost, no maint cost for quicken power
• Trigger power: granted 1 per day, next spell no cast cost, or next X spells
• Verve: hp bonus
• Distract: hitroll penalty
• Apopsi: delete 1d4 memorized spells from target
• Body fuel: convert hp to psp's, or maybe stats (str con dex), only living can do it if in own body
• Ghost attack: Never misses a ghost in combat (perfect hitroll)
• Over power: stronger damage at hp sacrifice
• Talented: reduces personal cost of powerpower - Overpower required
• Astral plane spells

Necro

• rot spells consolidated to one name
• vamp spells consolidated to one name

Sorcerer

• Poly into objects
  • Can't move
  • Can't talk?
  • Can be picked up
  • Can send tells (telepathic?)
  • Can't return unless on the ground

SubClasses

• Can only be one per character, must resign to join another
• Some may be main-class specific
• Leave guild, lose all benefits
• Must decide if can keep over remorts (special considerations if so)
• portion of exp gained goes towards guild level
• maybe exp is not the way to go... something else, but hopefully not lame like AP in final fantasy

Planar Champion

• Warrior-type class
• Plane slip: move between some planes almost at will
• Female?
• Some portal spells
• Close any portal
• R: 4 ranks of plane knowledge?
• R: Weapon specialization (maybe superb at X weapon skills)
• R: Visited two other planes (not home plane)
• Special spells / skills
• Granted detect invis
• Guild located in non-material plane
• These things depend on guild level

Planeshifter

• Guild located in non-material plane

Gatecrasher

• Guild located in non-material plane

Divine Agent

• Guild located in non-material plane

Dark Knight

• Requirements
  • Must visit shadow plane
  • Evil alignment must be maintained

• Immediate:
  • CHA Cap: 14(?)
  • CON bonus (over 18?)

• Skills
  • Blood weapon (get better name): Drains HP on hit
  • xxx: reduce maxhit for +hitroll
  • xxx: reduce maxhit for +damroll
  • xxx: do more damage, draining your own hp
  • Summon spirits to give abilities (pact magic?)
    • Spirits level?
    • Gives necro affect
    • Each spirit has different affect
  • Attack Bonus 1
  • Attack Bonus 2
  • Attack Bonus 3
  • Stat draining spells? (respect caps)

• Gets some weapon skills if current class does not already have them, weapon skill bonus' if you already have them?
  • TBD

Newbie Guild

• -- just a random idea

Professions

• Guild level gains
• Requires registration to gain crafting skills (join guild)
• Limited numbers of guilds you can join
• Leave guild, skills not granted from other guilds slowly go down until 0
• Charge to join? (depends how many guilds already in... dedication fee)
• Build guild houses
• May have to join guild again in alternate plane to get benefits there
• Plane restrictoins only matter in material planes

Farmer

• Gets land to plant (one room)
• purchase more land (or gets more as guild level goes up)
• Grows food
  • Grain
  • Fruits
  • Veggies
• Sells to shops or cooks
• Farming skill

Baker

• Makes food (cooks)
• Cooking skill
• Can own a shop? (bakery only, high guild level)

Shopkeeper

• General shopkeeper
• Owns lots and lots of shops
• shop count dependent on guild level
• buy license in each town (including clan towns, unless you are in that clan)
• No skills to produce anything, has to gather stuff to sell from other guild skills or scavenging
• Must join guild again in other material planes, this means another guild level

Trader

• Better shop rates
• CHA: (some min number)
• Necro: No
• Haggle bonus
• Create own shops (guild level required)
  • Hire NPC's to run
  • Privitize existing shops
  • Option to allow players to sell to shops
  • Shop limit (determined by guild level?)

Jeweler

• DEX: (some min number)
• Refine gem:
  • Increase value
  • reduce size
  • smaller gem=higher risk/higher skill check
  • PSI Bonus
  • Naturally increases recepticle limit
  • Positivly affects insets?
• Remove inset from thief, give to guild
• Can own a shop
• Miner skill? (would need mining spots)
• Metal worker skill (guild level required?)

Misc

• Weapons
  • Each weapon has a set type
  • Class restrictions base on weapon type
  • assign skills to each class to match weapon type

• Change PC attacks back to skills and flags

Mobs

• Specify what spells they have
• Memorize or mana or psp/pray per spell
• Steal memorized spells
• Steal mana
• What mob casts & how is based on what they have available (AI)
• Spell list stored on proto, when loaded populate active mob skills
  • mob sn
  • spell id
  • Flag(s)
• Rentable pets - store in mysql
• Purge active_mob_skills table on boot
• Tactive_mob_skills_mem table
• move memorize from db to memory? (or conditions in code for mob vs player)

Newbies

• Better help
• Revise start newbie town (again)
• More hints
• Some sort of automated newbie guide? (Does the start town work for this already?)

World

• Planes
  • Prime material plane
  • Alternate material plane

• Larger, more fleshed out world
• Vehicles
• Boats (passangers)
• Auto-mapper?

Crafting

• Types
  • Leather
  • Wood
  • Steel
  • Alchemy
  • Mage (scroll / staff)
  • Food
  • Miner

• Gather ingredients & assemble them
• Binding item? (ala ffxi crystals)

Transportation

• Objects
• Flag: passengers- inside/outide/both/windows/driver in/out
• Char cmd flag: in, out, mount, ride, enter, leave
• Capacity
• Carried people (carried by other people)
• People carried by people in objects in objects carrying people

People inside items

• Weight capacity
• Volume (too much detail?)
• Weight factor (old phole idea)
• Description for internal room of item (new field, or use edesc?)
• Virtual room, not real (set of rooms copied to virtual rooms per item SN)

Planes

• add to IMESS
• Create a cosmology
  • Prime material plane
  • Alternate Material plane
  • Astral plane
  • all 4 elemental planes
  • Shadow
  • Abyss (that sucker is huge)
  • 9 layers of hell & their lords
• Make "paths" another plane?
• Some theoretical link to portals
• Affects relocate, summon
• Hometown per material plane? (defined in plane table?) (default to mid)
• Once people start plane travel, add colored icon to room title to indicate what plane you're in (or make this a special skill / spell) (help entry to explain icon key)
• Story outline for alternate plane
  • Pre-Adril, or never was built here
  • Defended against dragon attack