Where we are

there is no us vs them. there is no us. there is no them. wtf is criteria into being 'us'? what's the criteria to being 'them'?

a large portion of people here are involved players of the game and likely also post on the GDB. i think this is most evident in the fact that in the last day, when I put up the files as an attachment, the number of logged in users viewing the board are the highest in the last few years...yet participation has mostly been the same general group of people and the only other reason to login besides posting is being able to download attachments from posts. a majority of the posters that have been logged in haven't participated in discussion, and a substantial number have never participated in discussion yet held membership here for a year+.

the community here largely overlaps with the GDB. evilcabbage boasted about how he totally trolled a couple of posters that had a mental health crisis with his bilbojagginz account. i caught a helper shit-talking people, who then quickly deleted their account. there were multiple people in the discussion thread on the GDB that said 'hey i post there'. hell, malifaxis has posted here before too despite his dr. cox-esque rants about how we are awful video game people -- he spilled some interesting tidbits. you should also keep in mind that some of the vocal people posting on the GDB were possibly sockpuppets: I can confirm Ammit for sure. he made certain to repeatedly get his two cents in on both his staff and mortal account as well as declare me some sort of de facto leader. there are other posters who I suspect also participate in the GDB and here and take pains to keep the identities secret because they don't subscribe to the 'us vs them' mentality because it's dumb.


if people want to pursue the old codebase and do it, go right ahead. but it's not a 'shadowboard project' or 'us project' -- it's a project of people who decided they wanted to work on it.

Good luck!

Rob (Linedel) put it back up for download. I've downloaded and gotten it running. I'm familiar with it and have used it before. It lacks some functions but it's a great base to start from ground up that is still DIKU and arm inspired look/feel while not having anything to do with IP towards arm.

I've already integrated mySQL into the code, added some updates to the way it compiles and have added OpenSSL compatibility so when the time comes to work on accounts I can hash them with SHA256.

My plans right now are to:

1. Add in game accounts.
2. Convert PCs to database
3. Convert rooms to database
4. Convert objs to database
5. Convert npcs to database.

Once that is done, I will begin work on the stats system along with chargen which includes the coded races, guilds, subguilds etc.

I'm still up in the air on an RPP/Karma system. I'm kind of thinking of just having 3 levels of Karma.

0 - Starter, all mundane roles open.
1 - Magick roles open (for those who have been with the game enough to understand and play it accordingly)
2 - Those who have proven themselves capable leaders for leadership roles.

Then there's the system I've thought about where you earn RP by your emotes with other people. You would get so many points for an emote. More points if you target an object or person. If people are present in the room, etc.

Then I could make the guilds cost RPP and it would be it's own RPP economy.

I want to get the game functional as in building with the new DB, then I plan on asking for building help. I estimate this to take a couple of weeks.

If you are interested, send me a PM or email me @ vintrius.athasmud (at) gmail (dot) com.

I know there's been a few projects around here, I know that someone announced a darksun mud at one point using the code from black desert? black sands? Anyway - It doesn't look like it took off.

Realistically we could be operational in a couple of months. Sure we won't have all functioning systems, but we'll have enough for folks to RP and develop the game along with us, creating changes as we go.