I have always used Nexus and had finally gotten to where scripting in it came easy and was versatile enough to be really useful. Now you click on 'Play' and the Flash client comes up and all your reflexes are gone. Obviously, I go through the Nexus link which is not quite as available as it used to be, but I suppose if the 'new players' are all used to Flash it makes sense. How are reflexes scripted in the Flash client? Is everything manual?

Only slightly off-topic: I just have http://www.achaea.com/nexus/play.php bookmarked, and it is just as available as ever - if you want to go back to Nexus.

Thanks! I added a new icon to desktop. I would be completely lost without Nexus.

http://bc-dev.net/projects/fmud/

The flash client is a custom variation of that FMud client, so that should explain the scripting decently well. The language is Javascirpt; I'm going to work on a tutorial for it at some point, but personally, I'd stick to Nexus (it has the compass, you can highlight/copy text, and the editor window isn't stuck on the left side instead of popping up only when you need it).

Thank you. That could have been written in Chinese for all I understood of it. I wonder why Achaea changed over to a not too configurable default. Seems like it would put a kink in the new playerbase once it was discovered that one pretty much had to change to ZMud or something almost immediately after leaving Minia. Maybe this is one of the reasons that we have 25+ novices join a House during an average day and of those, maybe 3 come back after the orientation, and if you get lucky, one shows up for a whole in-game year. I would think in the long run that keeping customers for a long term run would be more important than just having them file through the revolving doors and back out again. Is having new customers every day even if they don't stay over a couple hours really that important?

I like the new client's scripting system better, but the rest of it is lacking.

Funny, I've had less trouble explaining this new flash client to newbies lately than I did before with the Nexus client.

And it runs on more computers that I use than the Nexus one does.

Sounds like it's better for newbies, not worse.

The biggest problem (unless it was fixed since it came out) is that you can't have more than 100 triggers, which is far from enough.

Also (not that I used it much), it didn't seem as if it autosaved the settings, but that you had to save them to a text-file and export/import.

Oh, and by the way, I know quite a few people who have no problem using the flash client or Nexus because they don't do combat.


And I take it you're very new to Achaea. Initial customer retention has always been low. It's one of the results of being in a niche market with a smaller target audience.


You can highlight/copy text, just double click on the output window. Do the same to remove it. It gives you a scrollback buffer you can copy/paste from. Also the editor opens when you hit the editor button and can be moved, it isn't 'stuck' anywhere.