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Pentharian
I wanted to keep you all updated on where things stand, because knowing is half the battle! The list of things that are approved but not in yet is growing, but it's certainly better than the hundreds of thousands of lines of ideas that were in the Idea list that didn't have any kind of conversation.

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Unclassified (Approved by Pentharian, not yet by Maya).

-Orbs should not prevent people in arenas from flying.

- In ASK <DENIZEN> <ITEM>, show decay time.

- Icewalls shown in a room, instead of "3 icewalls here" "There are 3 icewalls here, to the north, west, and south" or else "an icewall blocks the exit to the south, an icewall blocks the exit to the west" etc.

- Private (hidden from honors) clan and having the members list hidden split into separate options.

- New Nirvana Description.

- Allow prepending on tmotes.

- Beheading with all weapons.

- Bardic "waystations" as a form of magic travel. Major inns, excluding enemied cities. Details TBD.

- Allow a person who is trans weaponry and has a prof in X weapon to teach that proficiency to another person, possibly with other caveats.

- Letter list (lets you see all of your letters, what kind of letter they're written on, and maybe show the first line of what's written on it

- A more customisable prompt, similar to what other IRE games have. Able to set or remove any of the four main stats, as well as toggle prone, kola, flying, etc.

- Everyone should be able to see the TASKS, or at least people over level 50 who can also speak on Newbie to help them.

- subterfuge await should work at all times, whether the person is offplane or even offline.

- HOUSE REMOVEPOWERS <list of powers> rather than having to relist everything with SETPOWERS

- Have a CLAN DEFAULT SET <POSITION> or something like that, rather than having all new members come in with no position.

- Allow tailors to cover/uncover legs to allow stockings, etc to show (like cover/uncover navel.)

- Clan privs that allow or disallow writing to the news and reading the news. That is, investable powers of NEWS_READ and NEWS_WRITE, probably both enabled by default.

- In dictatorships and oligarchies, if the successor challenges and after 7 RL days the leader is listed as dormant, the challenge automatically succeeds to bypass a month of waiting, or also to stop someone who was dormant to get an IM saying "come reject your challenge" and then promptly going dormant again.

- Consider disabling veils along with other artefacts that give worldgame advantages.

- CLAN INVEST <power> ALL to allow anyone in the clan to use it, even unappointed people.

- Add HELP FLASH as given here: http://forums.achaea.com/index.php?s=&...t&p=1141722

- Allow addition of a note to bank deposits as well as transfers.

- Combine probation and house restrict into one thing, and allow customisation as to what it does (no speaking on house channel, no news, no crystalhome, no access to house estate)

- House Tournament (or a general tournament system) as described here: http://forums.achaea.com/index.php?showtopic=38432

- Allow city council members (viziers, Viceroys, etc) to city lock and city unlock doors without having to be security aides.

- In org help files, allow the leader to read all files no matter what the permissions are, and add a leader-only permission.

- Combat rankings as a house upgrade.

- Have a designated house totemer like there are for cities that can retune org totems.

- Add a bit on the website with IC time/date

- Have lotteries be able to be set up to only be accessible to a certain org, or else disallow certain orgs.

- Allow humans an extra stat point to be assigned at level 80.

- Allow mounted people to follow other mounted people and not have them get left behind.

- Allow "LIE ON <furniture>" which would show "Bob is laying on a long silver couch" or whatever it may be.

- logging in as a soul puts you at the cave, to prevent qqing as a soul and using a gem to exploit game mechanics.

- If a loyal den kills something, the kill be credited to you in terms of deathsight

- City/house lasttitle. If you find "the lord of darkness and cake, bob" in your city, you can find out who gave them that title and punish them.

- Take a look at off-plane extermination, and make some decisions on if it's fair for all involved.

-Coloured rattling, configable

- Organization LMS based on thread here

-Ability to refer to corpses (headed and headless) by adventurer name.

- Grouping of furniture, if they are the same. For example, if three chairs all with the same characteristics are at a table, it says "there are three chairs with red velvet covering at a table" rather than listing them all separately.

-Make CITYENEMIES show only active enemies, and add CITYENEMIES DORMANT and CITYENEMIES ALL.

- Allow arrow envenoming in arena.

- If you try use channel/fortify and already have them open, you are told that you cannot do that and do not spend the mana.

- When you lag out of arena, reset willpower and endurance as if you just left it normally.

- When using post office to magically preserve letters from a stationary kit, have it put in the "magically preserved" line to the probe desc.

- Allow gemstone birds to deliver letters

- Take a look at who can induct in cities. CR5+ and council members, and if they should be able to hide from the list.

- If lagging out of arena events, stay in them rather than being thrown out.

- Add a line to a probe desc of the item number around the decay info

- Extend pagelength config option to 1000 max.

- Use the editor to compose issues.

- If a newbie has used their free reincarnation before they turn 20 or so, allow then another free one as some true newbies change race without much thought. Rather than making them restart a new char or having them invest in a dagger after only a couple weeks, this gives them a chance to correct a mistake. If they still have their first, they do not accumulate a second.

- have custom emotes have their own balance. This prevents assorted issues that arise from when people wish to RP while following, or other times.

- Allow houses to purchase mouse reeducation centre

- Some things regarding tailoring/jewellery privacy and marks, here

- Lower stats on bastard sword to something near longsword and allow dsl with it, creating the image of a double swipe with a longer, two-handed sword. A few other notes about it here

- Two new races, basically opposite sex satyrs and sirens (So, we'd have buff, hardy women and genetically sexy men). Proposal and discussion here: http://forums.achaea.com/index.php?showtopic=34458

- Able to do THROW X AT Y LEFT ARM or whatever...onthefly targeting for throwing

- First person miss message for throwing (you throw the bowl at bob to the east...you miss)

- Cooking proposal as discussed in the forums.

- Allow IH to show which ent is attacking you. Allow "DSL firelord of <person>" to stop you from killing the wrong ent if someone else wanders into the room.

- Special license for forgers that will let them do custom designs on their armour. Similar to other crafting skills.

- Allow certain jewellery or clothing to be attached to others. For example, a brooch could be pinned on to a coat or blouse, and would stay attached, and change the description to "a blah blah coat -with a blue pin on it-" or whatever (the -'s for emphasis of the change)

- HOUSE SKILLS <person> [all] showing each ability, not just the general levels.

- When you have thirdeye, using farsight will also give an exact room, no matter if you are in the same area or not.

- A "remort" type system. Retiring one character and starting new with some returned investment from original. Full discussion here: Thread

- CHANNEL HISTORY ## to only show X amount in case you only want the last few.

- Chivalry users get one extra free proficiency in any dual-wielding weapon at some point, virt-trans perhaps.

- Try to change convention of "superfill" to "fill" and have regular 40 fills be "partial fills"

- When someone has Weaponprobe, if they're looking at items in a shop, the enchantment on the item will show up with it

- Change to Raido, either making it impossible in the arena or allowing one in the arena while there is still another one outside of it.

- Sigils not being used up in arena, or being used up but given back at the end of combat.

- Allow History to be used for HTS as well as HT and HNT.

- When following through a wormhole, show "you follow bob through a wormhole to chamber of blah" not "you follow bob east"

- Smelting type ability for jewellery and clothing

- Allies of a city being able to check that city's allies and enemies

Approved pending check of code complexity

- SHOP EMPLOYEES to give stocking privs

- LOOK JOE SHIRT to get the full description instead of making them show it off.

- Some kind of "customisation sigil" artefact to attach to a weapon/armour that changes the appearance. Will be keyed to that particular type of item. Resets and can be reattached to next weapon.
---This is approved (and really isn't pending code...) but there's a longer timeline on this as Maya has to figure out exactly how she wants to implement this.

- Copying any forms of written text at Mydoin. The item retains it's owner's seal.

- a "city trade log" showing comm transactions...http://forums.achaea.com/index.php?showtopic=28560&hl=

- Some kind of org writ cause for killing org denizens. http://forums.achaea.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=827090
--Maya has said that this is something she needs to think about. It's not outright denied, but not yet approved.

Approved (Approved by Maya as something to be done by Coders when they have a chance)

(As a secondary note, I'm also including some of the ideas I've found submitted through the IDEA command that have merit, so you may not have seen all of these on the forum)

- CONFIG COLOUR for when you receive and delete msgs

- the TIME function should be configurable - All times could still be logged in GMT, and time would be displayed in GMT (default) unless specifically stated, for instance you could choose a time zone and Achaea could compensate for the difference when outputting for the TIME, maybe even have the time in GMT:Configured time zone? What can I say, I'm lazy. (I like. TIME ALL maybe could show you time in GMT and then all of the other time zones, too. Mostly since DST messes a lot of people up)

- make real hardcore zappings red, and warnings blue? That's all people ask after they see one, anyways.

- For the wilderness map, as opposed to making it so that gallop is useless, perhaps allow a move of say 3-5 spaces at a time

- SAY IN HUMAN (blah blah) : Add some way to fluidly change what language you're speaking for only a sentence or so. Kinda like SLASH (limb)

- Some kind of inept diag skill with a high cost in eq or something for newbies to figure out what's afflicting them. Regular diag in the same spot later.

- Ink creation system
o This needs a full proposal.

- Make falcon glove tailorable.

- Have more abilities with specific deathsights. General list here: http://forums.achaea.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=818711
o This will have a thread for msg ideas.

- Cloak hoods in some form or another

- Medallion of enchantment working on meteor arrows

- A "poses" system of some sort, somehow like Imperian's, but different.

- Equine legendsteeds

- Using a system like the registration process for submitting bugs? Prompt the adventurer for the object's numeric ID (if applicable) and everything else you need to know in a step by step process.

- Someway of removing one's self from an election ballot running for office if one decides to change their mind... (no refund of the 10k to challenge of course)

- Inept Survival or Vision skill--By virtue of your sentience, you are able to access the networks of telepathic communication that span Achaea. As a side-effect of this connection, you are able to know the identity of those immediately around you.

- Cities should be able to close the city gates and lock them, like any other door

- a chivalry falcon skill that lets someone send a stray falcon to sanctuary if the owner isn't in the realms

- a printer-friendly copy of the entire mythos on the page.

(I've removed denied and completed as it was getting too long. I will announce them in posts as I update this list)
finchy
Pentharian
Wow, I really didn't expect that for at least a few more posts.
finchy
It's been that kind of day, love the new additions.
Herenicus


...to keep releasing these awesome updates!
Pentharian
Got some updates posted, and I thought I'd go over them here. Shaitan went over the list and made some denials, although Maya hasn't had a chance to do approvals yet. It's the whole "good cop, bad cop" routine.


Denied:
DSL target with VENOM VENOM
Dragon decapitation
Pipes being able to be filled while still having things in them, and being able to empty through selfishness
Organisation of any who lists by any parameters. People wanted hwho being sorted by rank, but unfortunately that's pretty processor intensive, especially since people use the command a lot.
Same deal on CITY GUARD LIST being sorted in different ways than they are now
Having banishment stop Voyria


Things that have been done at least somewhat recently and have been taken off the list, and off my personal list:
Snub list showing who has you snubbed
The proposal about clouds area. Duanathara as a result!
Relax insomnia
Some upgrades for Guide characters to better answer newbie questions
Reject/renounce changes relating to grace and patron
Xorani being able to melt icewalls with firebreath/no need for tinderboxes
There were some ideas about voluntarily freezing your password for some given amount of time so you could take a break. With the new registration stuff, you can mix your password and then reset it from the website.
New artefact descriptions for the more "girly" ones.
Pentharian
Update!

Big list of things moved from pending to approved.

Couple of points of interest:

There were two ideas asked to be put through classleads, so please recommend these to them if they do not already have them on their reports, and you'd like to see it:
In skills with archery, be able to shoot flaming arrows by using a cloth comm (or something like that) on the arrow and then lighting with a tinderbox. Xorani would not need tinderbox.
Enlightenment in Devotion could show denizen alignment, since it already does for players and it is important for young players with devotion to know denizen alignments.

Also, props not giving back gold after an arena event was a bug. I've submitted a bug report for this.

Ok, Denied things:

- Being able to ban a house member from using their falcon. This can be enforced IC, and even if it were to be put in, it would likely only work when the House Lord had Chivalry, which means it would only be used in a few houses. With the ability to send someone else's falcon to sanctuary approved, this is not really necessary.

- Allowing other people to edit your house or give out privs. Houses are bought with credits, and credit-things are non-transferable basically. This would raise too many problems to be worth it.

- Orb of Confinement not affecting citizens. This is seen as a tradeoff where you get the protection, but you have to deal with it yourself as well.

That's about it.
Pentharian
Updates:

I've added a huge list of things from "IDEA" into a list for Maya to look at, and she's taken care of a few of the quick ones. They were in an announce, but I'll repeat them here.

- KNEEL when already kneeling won't make you stand.

- You can now BUILD CAMPFIRE (assuming you have the ability) without a
tinderbox if you have other means of fire (same as you would need for
lighting a pipe, i.e. if you are a Xoran or Dragon).

- You can no longer KAI BANISH those in egghunts or bandersnatches.

- PW can now be used in place of PARTYWHO

- You can now RELAX STARBURST (non-forceable) to remove the starburst
defense.

- ARENA ANNOUNCE added - for those who have arena powers, the syntax is
ARENA ANNOUNCE <arena> <text>
Pentharian
Pipelist and tattoos both updated to be easier to get info from.
Ships can be recovered from any harbour.
Dragons stay dragonformed between login/out
Pentharian
- The prompt can now be set to relative values in words. Full, High, Medium, Low, etc. rather than ####.

- RATTLE will echo what is said back to the Serpent.

- Players can no longer pick up adventurer corpses while walking in
Divine Grace.

- BREATHSTORM no longer triggers kaido DELIVERANCE.

- CONFIG COLOUR now shows the proper name for clans in the examples.

- SHOW COORDS was added to show your current coordinates in a mapped
room.

- Refunded gold from auctions will now be returned to your bank account
in your home city, should you have one.

- Channel HISTORY now has timestamps.

- SECRETS equilibrium cost reduced slightly.

- Weapon maintenance was added to Seafaring, allowing you to repair and
lengthen the lifespan of weapons.

- A new damage and misfiring system was implemented for ship-based
weapons.

- Two new artefacts have been released - A cigar box and a tabac pouch
that generate contents every Achaean day.

- ARMOURLIST/ALIST <type> can be used to narrow down the results.


Also of note, removed from the list was herbs in the arena going back into the rift to simulate real battle. The amount of processing power required is significant enough that this will not be happening soon unless Tecton finds a workaround to the approach he was looking at when he decided this.
Pentharian
Added to game and removed from list, along with some combat things per announce 2994:
- Failed attempt at healing having no third party message, reducing spamming.

- If you are deaf (no mindseye) and someone is talking in your room, you will have an X% chance of seeing "soandso's lips move, but you hear nothing"

- Being able to raise shrine if you have the total amount it costs, even if you're not completely full (if you're full at 10, it costs 5 and you have 6, you can do it and be left with 1)

- Have fashion give 3rd person msg, just like any other attack.
Pentharian
Beltloops, Sheaths, and baldrics added!
Pentharian
Ladies and Gentlemen (and eunuchs, or whatever else you may be),

I've just returned from an extended vacation to Europe, and will be taking care of the backlog of ideas this week. I apologise that I didn't let you guys know ahead of time!
katia
QUOTE (Pentharian @ Sep 28 2009, 06:55 PM) *
Ladies and Gentlemen (and eunuchs, or whatever else you may be),

I've just returned from an extended vacation to Europe, and will be taking care of the backlog of ideas this week. I apologise that I didn't let you guys know ahead of time!


Hope you enjoyed my neck of the woods and weren't horribly mugged in paris or something.
Rynn
wb

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I apologise that I didn't let you guys know ahead of time!

I'll forgive you this once. wink.gif
berenene
QUOTE (katia @ Sep 29 2009, 07:45 AM) *
QUOTE (Pentharian @ Sep 28 2009, 06:55 PM) *
Ladies and Gentlemen (and eunuchs, or whatever else you may be),

I've just returned from an extended vacation to Europe, and will be taking care of the backlog of ideas this week. I apologise that I didn't let you guys know ahead of time!


Hope you enjoyed my neck of the woods and weren't horribly mugged in paris or something.

lol I read that as muggled
Gorlasintan
QUOTE (Rynn @ Sep 28 2009, 05:07 PM) *
wb

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I apologise that I didn't let you guys know ahead of time!

I'll forgive you this once. wink.gif

This idea would imbalance combat greatly, and should be ignored.
Pentharian
Wasn't in Paris...went on a cruise from Venice to Athens, Mykonos, Kusadasi, Istanbul, Naples, Rome, Florence, Monaco, and Barcelona. I probably passed at least one Achaean along the way, yeah? Managed to not get robbed, unless you count buying a jewellery box for my mom from a guy in the bazaar in Istanbul at half his asking price, which was still probably twice it's worth.

I'll take a look at the behead stuff.
Alinoe
You went to Europe without going to Norway? That's like not going to europe at all!

(oh, and congrats, etc.)
Rynn
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- If a resetting (to player) item is placed in another resetting (to that player) container, it will reset to that item instead of into their inventory

This was implemented already unless I'm mistaken. Thought I'd mention it since you seem to be doing some house cleaning in this thread.
Pentharian
Yep, thanks!
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