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 - DONE
• (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!)
• Experience
  • group bonus (based on group size?)

• Jagang: one thing I think needs to happen is we need to make it so eventually for some of the better items, people will have to actively use the market/auction to find players that use trades to benefit them
• Jagang: a smith may have to contact an enchanter, to imbue some kind of mineral or something
• Jagang: back again to stimulating the market
• Brazil: ahh, so like getting arcane leggings... but you need a wizard with the right smithy skill to unlock the enchantment
• Jagang: yeah something like that, like lets say your smith makes a pair of Strong Steel Leggings , then an enchanter has a imbue memorized - "Greater Fire Protection", after she did her thing , it would be Strong Steel Leggings of Greater Fire Protection
• Jagang: Or an alchemist makes a potion of luck, then a miner supplies gold flakes to go in the potion , which makes it The Entrepreneur's potion - 10% more gold from monsters
• Jagang: A skinner gathers some rough leathers from some of the wilderness mobs, then a tanner hardens the leather , giving it an AC bonus, then an enchanter could put some small effect on them
• Jagang: have some way of regulating how good an item could get - dependant on the grade of materials used on the item
• Jagang: make the players create items with their trade skills to level up on the trade
• Jagang: when they surpass a point , the lower level items will no longer level them
• Jagang: then they will have to go to other players for ingredients needed , to make the items good enough to skill up
• Jagang: it almost "forcibly" stimulates the market

• Jagang: have it so the people can make their character a "free-play" character , where they play the mud like normal, or have a story mode option, where the player could follow a story line,
• Jagang: like starting life on a farm , with a family , losing the family devestatingly etc
• Jagang: maybe have a "plane" dedicated to it
• Jagang: On this plane , you start off where everyone else does , in the same "story" , but you can take it in whichever direction you want
• Jagang: I know that's kinda out there, but I think with some thought it could turn into something really interesting
• Jagang: yeah , it adds the "choice" for an rp element

Newbie Guide

• scripted (jagang is will work on details for me to code)

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 use scroll when cast
  • Uses more mana from mana pool
  • Bonus if you made that scroll?

Ninja

• Enhance THROW

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

Warrior

• Desperate Strike - less then x% hp, deal factor of damage
• Flashing blades - 50% chance of blocking attack
• balanced stance - prevents critical hits
• Thrill of victory - damage based on victim health vs char health
• deadly riposte - block attack and follow up with one attack
• disciplined stance - +ac, increasing chance to block attacks

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

Final draft

• Requirements
  • Must visit shadow plane (maybe find an item or do something there)
  • Evil alignment must be maintained

• Other
  • Receives a special "guild sword" upon joining;

Info for the guild 'DarkKnight'

 Type of guild              : SubClass
 Required to level          : Kills
 Per level Bonuses          : HP(5) Mana(5) 
 Regen bonuses              : HP(30%) Mana(-10%) 
 Required natural stats to join:
   constitution: 15

 Skills granted by guild:
   [ 1] - blood weapon
   [ 4] - frost strike
   [10] - attack bonus one
   [12] - blizzard blast
   [15] - essenceburn
   [16] - poisonproof
   [18] - dark fury
   [20] - attack bonus two
   [23] - diseaseproof
   [30] - attack bonus three

Beastmaster

• Jagang: would be nice to have a beastmaster subclass, where you could take the companion idea a whole step further
• Jagang: you would have a companion like everyone else , but maybe you could get more than 1 , (only 1 out at once), and you could do much more with them
• Jagang: like a spell called Bestial Vision - See through the eyes of your pet to explore unknown lands. (player based snoop)
• Jagang: Have different collars for the pet, like a collar for obedience, a collar for more of a free-roam, a collar for a small companion buff , ie - (+5% to health when companion is active) , etc etc
• Jagang: make a pet death penalty , so if it dies , you can't rez it back for like 8 mud hours or something
• Jagang: or just make the rezzing a granted
• Jagang: Spell - The Giant Within - Your companion grows to an enormous size, gaining damage bonuses, but also gaining more aggro.

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 restrictions only matter in material planes

• Jagang: a cool idea that vanguard uses is gear specific for tradeskilling , so when you are lumberjacking, you wear certain gear to improve your yield , etc

Alchemist

First Draft

• Jagang is working on details of ingredients and combinations

• Requirements
  • Not so difficult, maybe a simple quest to make a potion

• Other
  • Receives a special "newbie alchemical container" upon joining

Info for the guild 'Alchemist'

 Type of guild              : Profession
 Required to level          : Potion skill usage
 Per level Bonuses          : Move(4) 
 Regen bonuses              : Move(15%) Mana(5%) 

 Skills granted by guild:
   [ 1] - make potions one
   [ 2] - make potions two
   [ 3] - make potions three
   [ 4] - make potions four
   [ 5] - make potions five
   [ 6] - make potions six
   [ 7] - make potions seven
   [ 8] - make potions eight
   [ 9] - make potions nine
   [10] - make potions ten

• to level, you must practice your trade. once your skill reaches 100% through usage by making potions, you gain a level, and gain the next skill, so you can make more powerful potions

• potions
  • XXX
    • Ingredient 1 (x1)
    • Ingredient 2 (x2)
    • Ingredient 3 (x1)

• Notes
  • Ingredients are placed into an alchemical container, filled with water, then results are generated
  • Must buy empty bottles from the guild?
  • Bottles are automatically filled, or deleted and the right potion loaded

Blacksmith

• Jagang: if you do a blacksmith type trade, would be cool to have certain forges in different zones, to forge different pieces of gear
• Jagang: like you would have to travel to the astral plane, to the top of some majestic mountain, to forge some special astral gear
• Jagang: I think the more you make the Eq player involved, as far as crafting and having unique eq all over , is that much better for the mud
• Jagang: that way not everyone is wearing the same gear

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