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General Discussion / Official Legacy Character Thread (multiplayer urw)

« on: September 11, 2017, 12:54:41 PM »

Making a new thread for this so that we can have all the pertinent info in the OP. This is a migration of the legacy character thread from the old forum. There are some screenshots and stories of older characters in that thread that you should read but I won't copy here.


In ##urw, we have been playing legacy characters together. This post is to make coordination of the legacy characters easier.

Rules:

• When it is your turn, play one month in game, then pass it on to the next person.
• You have 1 real life month to play your turn. If you don't manage to pass the character on in that time, we will mark you away and send the file you received to the next person in line. You are welcome to come back any time. If you are getting close the deadline it is okay to pass on in the middle of the month, better to pass it on than not.
• All characters share the same "next" order so that always the person who is next is the person who hasn't played in the longest. New people start at the front.
• You can do whatever you want during your turn. Ask urwbot for a quest and/or a rule if you aren't sure what to do.
• Try not to die. Before doing something dangerous, take dogs with you and hire some companions.
• If you die anyway, let us know what happened, and then we'll make a new character. No savescumming.
• Before making a new character, check that there is someone to pass the character onto with "urwbot, legacy players"
• If you want to make a new character, ask urwbot for a hard or insane start like so: "urwbot, start hard" or "urwbot, start insane." Play the full first month of the character's life and have it ready to send before adding it to the bot.
• Inside the character's folder is _notes.txt with a little history of what happened during the previous months of the character's life. read it when you get the character, then update it before you pass it on.
• Use map markers to explain stuff like "meat drying by this shelter" or "this village is mad at us" so we know.

How to use urwbot to join the legacy game:

You can talk to urwbot with /msg urwbot COMMAND or urwbot, COMMAND. All commands related to the legacy character start with "legacy"

• legacy join YOUREMAILADDRESS  - join the legacy game. your email will be kept private except that it will be PMed to the person who has a character to send you. A zipped character folder can be like 10-20MB so make sure you have room in your e-mail for that.
  
• legacy leave - stop playing legacy games entirely (first pass on the character you have to someone else though!)
  
• legacy away - go on vacation from legacy games. no characters will be sent to you but you can come back later.
  
• legacy back - return from away, receive characters again
  
• legacy mail - if you are next in line, get the email address of the person to send your character to
  
• legacy mail YOURNEWEMAILADDRESS - change your email address.
  
• legacy sent - tell urwbot you have sent your character to the next person in line. now you are in line for receiving a new character again.
  
• legacy new NAME - you made a new character and want to send it to somebody. Don't do this if there are already 3-4 characters in circulation.
  
• legacy next - find out who is next (the title of the chatroom should have this info too)
  
• legacy char - find out which legacy characters are alive
  
• legacy players - find out who is currently active.
  
• legacy died - report to urwbot that your character has died. it will be removed from the roster and you'll be put back in line to wait for a new character.
  
• legacy rule NAME - find out the rules for a character.
  
• legacy rule RULE - set a new rule for the character that you have.

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Solved'n'fixed bug reports / [Fixed - persists in 3.40] Pig in forest cover quest

« on: August 20, 2017, 02:43:57 PM »

Sometimes when you burn spruce twigs on the end of the trail and wait around, it doesn't work. I have a save available of a character in this situation, Reko.

I got the quest, killed the lynx that was in the area (I've noticed that the farm animal won't come if the predator is nearby but maybe that's just a superstition?) and skinned it and cooked it's meat and then I went back to the pig tracks and followed them to the very end.

I cut spruce twigs from the tree nearby and then without picking them up lit them on fire (maybe this is the problem? maybe i should have picked them up and then dropped them again?)

i waited for about 2-3 hours, no pig.

I tried lighting fires one at a time on the empty tiles surrounding that one, just in case there was a track there that I missed, waited a couple hours for each one, didn't work of course. I haven't burnt a fire on any of the other spaces with tracks so the trail should be preserved. I've tried tracking all around that area in places where i couldn't see tracks, just in case there was a gap in the trail and it continued but i'm pretty sure i was in the right place.

My character is saved standing on the burnt ashes of the fire that was on the last track in the trail. no pig anywhere

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General Discussion / Suggested forum modifications

« on: April 23, 2017, 04:08:16 PM »

In this thread we will propose changes to the board system and discuss forum bugs we encounter.

BBCode changes:

• Marquees are annoying (anything that moves is annoying) and should be removed.
• As Sami noted elsewhere, the like feature doesn't work yet.
• Spoiler boxes: A way to hide longer text or large images inside a box. It would display as a button that shows the hidden stuff beneath it when pressed. The bbcode could look like this:

Code: [Select]

[spoiler=a screenshot] hidden stuff here [/spoiler]

Bug:

• Intermittently when browsing the forum I get a HTTP 408 error. Refreshing fixes it. The timeout thing is weird because it happens immediately on clicking the link without waiting anytime for the page to load. There is a screenshot behind the spoiler.
  
  
  Spoiler: show

  
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Mentions:

• Mentions send an email, and there should be some way to choose whether to be emailed or not.

Forum sign up process:

• When you sign up for the forum, you don't have to validate your email address to prove that you are the owner of your email address. This should be some link with a token that you click so it knows it's really you.

edit: crossed out the changes already implemented.