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Polling Login Inforn, posted on Sun Feb 8 10:33:04 2009
Posted by: Drakkos
Category: General
Hola.

Those of you who hate the login inform for the polls may now choose to suppress them through 'options output suppress_poll = on'. However, bear in mind that polling is your chance to have a say in MUD development decisions, and as such it's better for everyone if you don't switch it off 'just because'.

Drakkos

Polling, posted on Thu Feb 5 11:35:29 2009
Posted by: Drakkos
Category: Web and General
Sometimes, we would like to know things from the playerbase, and we don't have any way of putting simple questions across. In the spirit of addressing this, we've added a polling system to the web page (you may have to force a page refresh to see it) and to the MUD (the 'poll' command).



The current poll is just a test - please take a few minutes to try and break it before we start using it for Important Things.



Thanks,

Drakkos.

Votes And Topmudsites, posted on Tue Feb 3 16:29:52 2009
Posted by: Drakkos
Category: General
This isn't really a development, just a bit of commentary. Perhaps there should be a blog for that, but there isn't (yet).

We managed to hit 3,200 votes last month - we usually hit the 2,000 mark. As a result of your diligent voting, upon the refresh of the site we hit #1 and kept it for a day and a half. Not bad when you consider the #2 MUD at the time has about double our playerbase! You guys rock.

Thank you all for your continued support of the MUD, and remember those of you who want...

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Refreshing And Achievements, Revisited, posted on Tue Feb 3 16:08:00 2009
Posted by: Drakkos
Category: General
So, the change to restrict the spending of achievement XP based on guild level turned out to be a lot clunkier in practise than it was in theory, so I have reverted it. Sadly, this means that login and age achievements are no longer awarded upon refresh. Sad, but alas neccessary to prevent abuse. Those who have already been awarded their experience for the achievements will be grandfathered in.

Now, your login date and age achievements count from your first login, *or* your most recent refr...

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Refreshing, Achievements And Teaching, posted on Wed Jan 28 18:36:19 2009
Posted by: Drakkos
Category: General
So, as is always the way, some Bad Eggs have attempted to spoil a nice thing for everyone. As is, I'm sure, open knowledge - if you refresh an old character, you'll get the achievement XP for age and login time again. This wasn't intentional behaviour (as in, it wasn't specifically designed to be like that), but I liked it and so didn't change it.

Alas, some people have been Taking Advantage of that, and so it's had to be changed a little. Now, you cannot spent achievement XP on learning fr...

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Blog RSS Feed, posted on Mon Jan 19 14:23:27 2009
Posted by: Drakkos
Category: Web
I've added an RSS feed for each of the blogs, because that's kind of cool.

More Than Playing, posted on Sun Jan 18 11:18:30 2009
Posted by: Drakkos
Category: Web
A new page is available on the web-pages, under the Playing->Help submenu (http://discworld.atuin.net/lpc/playing/more_than_playing.html). It lists some of the opportunities available for those who wish to make a more formal contribution to the MUD.

Oracle, posted on Sun Jan 18 11:16:59 2009
Posted by: Drakkos
Category: General
Newbiehelpers and Playtesters have been given operational access to a knowledge management system known as the Discworld Oracle (http://discworld.atuin.net/lpc/secure/oracle/oracle.c?base=Newbiehelpers). It's available under the playing menu for Newbiehelpers, and the Playtesting menu for playtesters.

This tool is part of a research project between the University of Dundee in Scotland, the University of Miami in Florida, and IBM in New York. All users of the system are part of this research ...

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Vote Reminder, posted on Sun Jan 18 11:15:15 2009
Posted by: Drakkos
Category: General
Players are the life-blood of any MUD. Discworld is completely free, which means that we don't have the budget of commercial MUDs to advertise or put our name out there. One of the ways in which you as a player can help us is by voting regularly for us on the MUD portal sites.

If you want to be reminded whenever a new voting period is available, then there is a new opt-in automated reminder available - 'options output vote_reminder = on' to switch it on.

Every thirteen hours, a remind...

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Developer Blogs, posted on Sun Jan 18 11:11:52 2009
Posted by: Drakkos
Category: General and Web
We have added a blogging system to the game, to better serve you! The idea behind this blog is that it gives us an opportunity to announce things that are cool, but too minor for a news post. We do a lot of things, all of the time, and most of the time it never gets wider coverage than a 'fixed' reply on a bug-rep. Keep checking the blog!

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