Ceres Pages
I'm a Trustee on Discworld and one of the administrators.
In real life I'm Derek Harding.
History
I started playing Discworld in February 1994. Since then I have been a Creator, an Independent (precursor to Senior), Lord and then Trustee — I have worked my way up so to speak. I still play (I have a couple of alts) but not a huge amount because I just don't have the time.
My first creator project was in Djelibeybi where I wrote the majority of the streets and shops in the original city.
Since then I have[1]:
- Put the Discs second city into the game (Djelibeybi)
- Put the fifth guild into the game (the assassins)
- Handled the skill cut
- Created player housing
- Written an entirely new combat system (our current one)
[1] Almost all projects on the MUD are collaborative, I was not the only creator in any of these tasks.
I'm told I don't do well with dumb people, perhaps why I find myself agreeing with this.
Projects
Currently on the heap™ are:
- Repairing the Wizard order handler
- The guild of Magi
- Unarmed combat
- Ranged combat
Hot Topics
From time to time an issue comes up that gets widely debated and that is mis-understood. When that happens I sometimes write about it. Here are some of those writings.
Old (out of date) Items
- New fighting skills
- About the new combat system
- New Combat features
- Skill problem – our current problem with skill levels.
- More suggestions – some player suggeted alternatives to the solutions proposed above.
- Skill graph – a graph of how skills would work out using the current algorithm under consideration.
