Land of Legends

Power/Service Outage

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:10:25 CDT

Just a bit of follow-up, I contacted APC's tech support about the UPS I mentioned in the last post and they have determined that the batteries had some sort of issue while the unit was still in warranty so they're sending me a new set of batteries to replace the current one, entirely at their expense. This means that in 3-5 days everything will be back to normal again but in the meanwhile if weather steals our power again it's all without battery backup so yet more downtime. On a positive note,

Power/Service Outage

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:12:26 CDT

I know that it looks great seeing that this is the first time I'm having to add an update to this thread in over a year, but it's not really because we've had no down time in that period, it's because I'd been lazy about updating this for each minor outage (lasted only a few minutes or so) since then. Unfortunately, last night we got hit by a storm that knocked out our power for a few seconds several times and once for about a minute and our satellite services completely. The TV came back within

10/1/2009

Fri, 2 Oct 2009 01:01:08 CDT

[color=skyblue]10/1/2009[/color] It's a new month and don't forget to vote! [color=yellow]Glory[/color] [color=white]rewards[/color] for [color=white]ratings[/color] have been given out and the [color=white]ratings[/color] list has been reset! Be sure to visit our [color=yellow]web forums[/color] at [url=http://tcdbbs.zapto.org/mud/forum/]http://tcdbbs.zapto.org/mud/forum/[/url] and please remember to hit the sites listed in [color=yellow]help vote4us[/color] and [color=yellow]help vote4us2[/co

9/1/2009

Wed, 2 Sep 2009 05:36:53 CDT

[color=skyblue]9/1/2009[/color] It's a new month and don't forget to vote! [color=yellow]Glory[/color] [color=white]rewards[/color] for [color=white]ratings[/color] have been given out and the [color=white]ratings[/color] list has been reset! Be sure to visit our [color=yellow]web forums[/color] at [url=http://tcdbbs.zapto.org/mud/forum/]http://tcdbbs.zapto.org/mud/forum/[/url] and please remember to hit the sites listed in [color=yellow]help vote4us[/color] and [color=yellow]help vote4us2[/col

8/1/2009

Sat, 1 Aug 2009 07:11:46 CDT

[color=skyblue]8/1/2009[/color] It's a new month and don't forget to vote! [color=yellow]Glory[/color] [color=white]rewards[/color] for [color=white]ratings[/color] have been given out and the [color=white]ratings[/color] list has been reset! Be sure to visit our [color=yellow]web forums[/color] at [url=http://tcdbbs.zapto.org/mud/forum/]http://tcdbbs.zapto.org/mud/forum/[/url] and please remember to hit the sites listed in [color=yellow]help vote4us[/color] and [color=yellow]help vote4us2[/col

7/1/2009

Wed, 1 Jul 2009 07:12:30 CDT

[color=skyblue]7/1/2009[/color] It's a new month (Happy Canada Day, US Independence Day, Bastille Day, etc.. and don't forget to vote!)! [color=yellow]Glory[/color] [color=white]rewards[/color] for [color=white]ratings[/color] have been given out and the [color=white]ratings[/color] list has been reset! Be sure to visit our [color=yellow]web forums[/color] at [url=http://tcdbbs.zapto.org/mud/forum/]http://tcdbbs.zapto.org/mud/forum/[/url] and please remember to hit the sites listed in [color=ye

6/1/09

Mon, 8 Jun 2009 20:21:05 CDT

[color=skyblue]5/31/2009[/color] It's a new month (Happy Flag Day, Father's Day, Summer Solstice, etc.. and don't forget to vote!)! [color=yellow]Glory[/color] [color=white]rewards[/color] for [color=white]ratings[/color] have been given out and the [color=white]ratings[/color] list has been reset! Be sure to visit our [color=yellow]web forums[/color] at [url=http://tcdbbs.zapto.org/mud/forum/]http://tcdbbs.zapto.org/mud/forum/[/url] and please remember to hit the sites listed in [color=yellow]

5/25/2009

Thu, 28 May 2009 07:27:18 CDT

We've cleared several [color=white]ideas[/color]/[color=white]typos[/color]/[color=white]bugs[/color] that were reported to us and the feedback ([i]as well as [color=white]glory[/color] & [color=white]gold[/color] [color=yellow]rewards[/color][/i]) from those are waiting for the folks who submitted them to log on to be claimed. More fixes are underway as well. None of the ones done so far really were major enough to merit separate news entries but there have been changes. For example, the [color

5/28/09

Thu, 28 May 2009 07:21:48 CDT

[color=skyblue]5/28/09[/color] Fixed a minor cosmetic official SmaugFUSS bug in the [color=white]visible[/color] command which [color=deeppink]Samson[/color] described as "The command does remove AFF_HIDE, so the character isn't hidden, but it doesn't strip it from the list of affects. Adding affect_strip on [color=white]hide[/color] removes it from the list of affects so it doesn't stay there despite the fact that the character isn't hidden." The credit for this fix goes to [color=deeppink]Ban

5/25/2009

Mon, 25 May 2009 12:31:28 CDT

[color=skyblue]5/25/2009[/color] Well folks, it's been a really long year so far, but we're finally getting back to some semblance of normality, unfortunately our new ISP is terrible but we're rural enough that the only alternatives are dial-up ([i]which would be at least marginally worse[/i]) or finding a new host instead of self-hosting, and we're not quite ready to take that step yet. But we do have some good news, we've added a new [color=yellow]pet command[/color], [color=white]beckon[/col

3/29/2009

Fri, 8 May 2009 00:53:20 CDT

Just a quick update... we're nearly done with the basics of the move (actually unpacking and settling into the new home could be years in the making) but have yet one more brief trip to have to take yet, this time back to New Mexico for yet more court matters before we can actually finish everything else. We'll be gone for a few days next week (exact dates are still unknown at this point) but otherwise have already finished vacating our old house and are presently in the process of unloading or

3/29/2009

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 04:00:10 CDT

We've completed about half of our move already! The good news is that we've got our servers back online finally and most of the move related issues are resolved already. The bad news is two-fold: First, we're not really done the move and between now and roughly the second week of May are likely to only be online sporadically, though we'll make sure Vel & Rennoc continue to cover for us when we can't be online ourselves. Second, the new location is not cable or DSL capable so we've been forced to

3/29/2009

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 03:26:29 CDT

[color=skyblue]3/29/2009[/color] Conner & Dragona are moving to a new home over the next few days. The good news is that they got the house they wanted on 25 beautiful acres. The bad news is that the moing process will mean the mud and its forums and website (and everything else they host) will be down for a couple of weeks or so starting tomorrow or Tuesday. See you when we get back up in the new location!

We bought the farm...

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 04:29:26 CDT

Just an update, since we've been excessively quiet for the last couple of months.. :sorry: The ratings/rewards list didn't get updated in February because the servers were down in our absence, but they did get updated in March and will be updated again before the upcoming server shutdown. We are very sorry about the problems that the server encountered during our absence but they were temporary and we greatly appreciate those who believed in us throughout our downtime. Unfortunately, our up

1/1/09

Thu, 1 Jan 2009 19:00:48 CST

[color=skyblue]1/1/2009[/color] It's a new year (Happy 2009 everybody! Don't forget to vote!)! [color=yellow]Glory[/color] [color=white]rewards[/color] for [color=white]ratings[/color] have been given out and the [color=white]ratings[/color] list has been reset! Be sure to visit our [color=yellow]web forums[/color] at [color=blue][u]http://tcdbbs.zapto.org/mud/forum/[/u][/color] and please remember to hit the sites listed in [color=yellow]help vote4us[/color] and [color=yellow]help vote4us2[/co

12/1/08

Tue, 2 Dec 2008 00:49:21 CST

[color=skyblue]12/1/08[/color] It's a new month (Happy Pearl Harbor Day, Chanukah, Christmas, Kwanza, etc.. and don't forget to vote!)! [color=yellow]Glory[/color] [color=white]rewards[/color] for [color=white]ratings[/color] have been given out and the [color=white]ratings[/color] list has been reset! Be sure to visit our [color=yellow]web forums[/color] at [u][color=blue]http://tcdbbs.zapto.org/mud/forum/[/color][/u] and please remember to hit the sites listed in [color=yellow]help vote4us[/c

11/3/08

Tue, 4 Nov 2008 04:52:11 CST

[color=skyblue]11/3/2008[/color] We have added two new areas to our line up. The first one is [color=skyblue]Elderwood Village[/color] for those in the 60 - 70 level range and the other one is [color=skyblue]Gauntlet[/color] for those nearing avatar level.

11/1/2008

Sat, 1 Nov 2008 08:36:24 CDT

[color=skyblue]11/1/2008[/color] It's a new month (Happy Veteran's Day, Thanksgiving, etc.. and don't forget to vote!)! [color=yellow]Glory[/color] [color=white]rewards[/color] for [color=white]ratings[/color] have been given out and the [color=white]ratings[/color] list has been reset! Be sure to visit our [color=yellow]web forums[/color] at [u][color=blue]http://tcdbbs.zapto.org/mud/forum/[/color][/u] and please remember to hit the sites listed in [color=yellow]help vote4us[/color] and [color

Holidays & Birthdays

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:50:20 CDT

Hmm, ok, so I've fallen a bit behind on this one.. well, let me at least bring you the latest one: [url=http://www.massively.com/2008/10/20/today-the-mud-and-the-mmo-turn-30/]MUDs/MMOs turn 30![/url] Enjoy the read and brief stroll down memory lane. :)

Mud Facts...

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:48:10 CDT

Ok, so I've been a bit remiss about updating the numbers above, Dragona's made us a web page to share much of the same info that she's being really good about keeping up to date and she's called it [url=http://tcdbbs.zapto.org/mud/players.html]Land of Legends Statistics[/url] for those who are curious enough. It's also accessible from our [url=http://tcdbbs.zapto.org/mud/]main mud web page[/url] too. :)

Power/Service Outage

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 04:52:27 CDT

Sorry about this weekend, folks, looks like we goofed... seems that when we were disconnecting out laptops and such to leave Friday morning, one of us accidently tapped the network cable beween the firewall server and the cable modem without knowing it. The result is that our network had no internet from sometime Friday through about an hour ago when we got home and I was able to do something about it. (While we were gone, we did try repeatedly to see if it was some sort of problem we could reso

10/9/2008

Thu, 9 Oct 2008 07:52:24 CDT

[color=skyblue]10/9/2008[/color] Modified [color=white]slist[/color] to no longer display misleading output if someone tried to give it a [color=white]class[/color] name as an argument (it will no longer accept non-numeric arguments) and changed it's [color=yellow]colors[/color] from static [color=yellow]color tokens[/color] to [color=yellow]color[/color] types that players can change for themselves with the [color=white]color[/color] command. Also added two new commands based upon [color=white

10/7/2008

Wed, 8 Oct 2008 04:17:26 CDT

[color=skyblue]10/7/2008[/color] New area added! [color=cyan]Aeternus Emporium[/color] is now in the Lands. Thanks [color=deeppink]Rand[/color] for his contribution!

10/5/2008

Mon, 6 Oct 2008 04:03:05 CDT

[color=skyblue]10/5/2008[/color] Added a new race for NPCs: plants (This is to accommodate some of our newer monsters.) Added two more new [color=white]areas[/color] today, for specific details check out [color=yellow]help Along the Forest Path[/color] & [color=yellow]help Thralls Keep[/color]. We hope that you enjoy them, the [color=yellow]portal mistress[/color]es tell us they are quite exciting new places to [color=white]travel[/color] to.

How's your broadband measure up?

Sat, 4 Oct 2008 23:04:20 CDT

[quote=Conner]On one of the forums I frequent, someone had posted their results from a site called speedtest.net and got me curious, here's my result.. is your ISP any better? :P [center][IMG]http://www.speedtest.net/result/115446312.png[/IMG] [URL]http://www.speedtest.net[/url][/center][/quote] Oddly enough, someone brought this topic back to life on [url=www.mudbytes.net]Mudbytes[/url] today so I rechecked our score... Seems Comcast really did do something when we agreed to pay for the b

10/1/2008

Wed, 1 Oct 2008 05:14:58 CDT

[color=skyblue]10/1/2008[/color] It's a new month (Happy Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur, Columbus Day, Halloween, etc..)! [color=yellow]Glory[/color] [color=white]rewards[/color] for [color=white]ratings[/color] have been given out and the [color=white]ratings[/color] list has been reset! Be sure to visit our [color=yellow]web forums[/color] at [url]http://tcdbbs.zapto.org/mud/forum/[/url] and please remember to hit the sites listed in [color=yellow]help vote4us[/color] and [color=yellow]help vote4us

9/29/2008

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:52:38 CDT

[color=skyblue]9/29/2008[/color] Made a slight change to the way the [color=white]ratings[/color] are calculated, this will give some folks lower numbers though the new numbers should be a bit more reflective of competitive values. Also made it so that newbies and immortals can now see what their score would be if it were allowed on the [color=white]ratings[/color] list even though folks level 1 and over level 100 aren't by looking at their [color=white]score[/color] display. This change won't

9/28/2008

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 04:34:54 CDT

[color=skyblue]9/28/2008[/color] Fixed a trivial official SmaugFUSS bug that was discovered (and the fix reported as well) by [color=deeppink]Kiasyn[/color] in which the syntax message for the [color=white]password[/color] command was outputted twice.

9/25/2008

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:12:52 CDT

[color=skyblue]9/25/2008[/color] New area added called [color=cyan]Dregoria[/color]! This is a player requested area, have fun with it. Added [color=yellow]scan[/color] to [color=yellow]cleric[/color], [color=yellow]mage[/color], and [color=yellow]paladin[/color]'s [color=white]slist[/color]. Also added a few fire [color=yellow]spells[/color] for the [color=yellow]paladin[/color].

9/24/2008

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:34:42 CDT

[color=skyblue]9/24/2008[/color] We have a new area called [color=cyan]'Garden of Illusions'[/color]. Check it out when you get the chance.

9/23/2008

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 06:29:52 CDT

[color=skyblue]9/23/2008[/color] [color=deeppink]Adam[/color] has made it so that the command [color=white]remove all[/color] will now actually remove all your gear, even if some of it is [color=yellow]layered[/color]. [color=deeppink]Adam[/color] had made it so that [color=white]wear all.[/color] will now [color=white]equip[/color] all items in your [color=white]inventory[/color] with that name. We have revised our [color=white]version[/color] command to include significantly

9/13/2008

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 07:30:26 CDT

[color=skyblue]9/13/2008[/color] Mob no longer will pick up [color=yellow]quest[/color] items.

New Server

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:19:14 CDT

Here it is a few days later and everything from the server transition appears to be done now (though we've decided, at least for now, to leave the old server in place to serve as our firewall separately since we had trouble with the network card in the new box and don't have another network card handy). Also our main MUD web site at http://tcdbbs.zapto.org/mud/ has been almost completely redone and now even includes a java based client so you can log into the mud from within your web browser

9/8/2008

Mon, 8 Sep 2008 23:07:58 CDT

[color=skyblue]9/8/2008[/color] Dragons can now [color=yellow]gain[/color] levels again! [color=yellow]Slist[/color] now displays correctly! Also the max percents for [color=yellow]skills[/color] and [color=yellow]spells[/color] are now correctly displayed in [color=white]practice[/color] and [color=white]slist[/color]. Vampires now have the %J and %j that will display correctly for their [color=yellow]prompts[/color]. Cleaned up a vast majority of the bugs and typos that had been rep

9/1/2008

Mon, 1 Sep 2008 00:12:33 CDT

[color=skyblue]9/1/2008[/color] It's a new month (Happy Labor Day & Happy Grandparents' Day)! [color=yellow]Glory[/color] [color=white]rewards[/color] for [color=white]ratings[/color] have been given out and the [color=white]ratings[/color] list has been reset! Be sure to visit our [color=yellow]web forums[/color] at [url]http://tcdbbs.zapto.org/mud/forum/[/url] and please remember to hit the sites listed in [color=yellow]help vote4us[/color] and [color=yellow]help vote4us2[/color]. Thanks! Be

New Server

Mon, 1 Sep 2008 00:05:18 CDT

I apologize to any who were inconvenienced by the last few days while everything was being transitioned to the new server and everything's not quite done yet, in fact, but the web sites are all back now and we're mostly operational again. [more] For those who are curious, much of the new server's "stats" are visible at our [url=http://tcdbbs.zapto.org/sysinfo/]System Information[/url] page. For those wondering what's not done yet: [li]I'm still trying to get my CVS repositories transferre

Multi-Class News!

Mon, 1 Sep 2008 00:02:37 CDT

News entries pertaining to the addition of Multiclass [more] [color=coral][u]March 16[/u][/color] [ul][li]Fixed what ouputs to the player when they level[/li] [li]Fixed how mobs name displays when a player practices[/li] [li]Reworded what is seen when you gain a level in a class[/li] [li]Capped xp per level to stop at 0 instead of going negative[/li] [li]Fixed the lag message when someone would addclass[/li][/ul] [color=coral][u]April 6[/u][/color] [ul][li]Added help files for [color=y

Power/Service Outage

Thu, 7 Aug 2008 00:51:20 CDT

Apologies to anyone affected by today's outage, but it appears to finally have concluded. For the record, here's what went down as far as we know: Internet went down for us at 5:39 PM EST. Called Comcast at 5:56 PM EST and spoke to Maurice who couldn't do much because their provisioning system was down but he scheduled a technician to come visit tomorrow afternoon. Called Comcast again at 6:23 PM EST and spoke to Joshua in hopes of getting more/better information, he confirmed that it w

New Areas...

Wed, 6 Aug 2008 15:28:41 CDT

lol conner, k, a holy abbey :)

8/1/2008

Fri, 1 Aug 2008 06:55:04 CDT

[color=skyblue]8/1/2008[/color] It's a new month and we are getting down to the last testing phase of multi-class! [color=yellow]Glory[/color] [color=white]rewards[/color] for [color=white]ratings[/color] have been given out and the [color=white]ratings[/color] list has been reset! Be sure to visit our [color=yellow]web forums[/color] at [url]http://tcdbbs.zapto.org/mud/forum/[/url] and please remember to hit the sites listed in [color=yellow]help vote4us[/color] and [color=yellow]help vote4us2

New Areas...

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:38:20 CDT

[quote=Rand]Heh, tell ya what, i'll build a [b][u]holly[/u] abbey[/b] and send it in and Dragona can take a peak at it and change it at will :)[/quote] Are we talking a druidic monastery here?

New Areas...

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:33:04 CDT

Heh, tell ya what, i'll build a holly abbey and send it in and Dragona can take a peak at it and change it at will :)

7/17/2008

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:55:37 CDT

[color=skyblue]7/17/2008[/color] Added a new spell, [color=yellow]dispel good[/color], to replace the spell, [color=yellow]dispel evil[/color], for those [color=white]classes[/color] that are strictly evil and to provide an alternative for those [color=white]classes[/color] that allow any [color=yellow]alignment[/color]. Be warned that both spells will automatically [color=yellow]backfire[/color] on anyone who tries to [color=white]cast[/color] the spell, if they are of the [color=yellow]alignm

Power/Service Outage

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:32:30 CDT

Yet once again.. (Sorry I didn't post last night, I just had so many other things to catch up on first...) Comcast hath struck! At or about 12:15 AM EST, we lost internet completely. I called Comcast at 12:25 (gave them a few in case it was something really minor) and waited on hold for ten minutes to talk to a representative who spent less than a minute with me to advise that their technicians were performing scheduled maintenance and I could expect to be without internet until at least 6:0

6/1/2008

Tue, 1 Jul 2008 06:07:46 CDT

Not really certain what happened here, this one should've been posted on June 1st, but somehow got skipped so it got added July 1st instead which puts it as showing up here on the front page later than the entry from June 15th... apologies for any confusion this oversight may have caused anyone.

7/1/2008

Tue, 1 Jul 2008 06:05:38 CDT

[color=skyblue]7/1/2008[/color] It's a new month and we hope you all are having a Marvelous May Day! [color=yellow]Glory[/color] [color=white]rewards[/color] for [color=white]ratings[/color] have been given out and the [color=white]ratings[/color] list has been reset! Be sure to visit our [color=yellow]web forums[/color] at [url]http://tcdbbs.zapto.org/mud/forum/[/url] and please remember to hit the sites listed in [color=yellow]help vote4us[/color] and [color=yellow]help vote4us2[/color]. Than

6/1/2008

Tue, 1 Jul 2008 06:04:15 CDT

[color=skyblue]6/1/2008[/color] It's a new month and we hope you all are having a Marvelous May Day! [color=yellow]Glory[/color] [color=white]rewards[/color] for [color=white]ratings[/color] have been given out and the [color=white]ratings[/color] list has been reset! Be sure to visit our [color=yellow]web forums[/color] at [url]http://tcdbbs.zapto.org/mud/forum/[/url] and please remember to hit the sites listed in [color=yellow]help vote4us[/color] and [color=yellow]help vote4us2[/color]. Than

Power/Service Outage

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:02:46 CDT

Comcast won't admit that they've actually done anything (thus is couldn't have been their problem) but their people must've done something because as of this afternoon, everything [i]feels[/i] back to normal-ish to us and all our pings seem to be returning at decent speeds again. So I'm going to remove the note about it from the special announcements, let me know if you find things appearing otherwise.

Power/Service Outage

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:24:56 CDT

Well, Comcast's technician was here yesterday, as scheduled, for quite awhile so he could replace all our cables and splitters (one at a time) and finally it was decided that the next step is to have "maintainance check the hard line" which basically means they've scheduled the actual network admins to check the feed for the whole neighborhood. This was supposed to happen either some time last night or some time this coming Monday, since today the connection seems to feel about the same as it ha

Power/Service Outage

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:14:21 CDT

Many of you may have noticed that the last three weeks have been a bit rough for us, we've experienced intermittent lag of very notable degrees. Last night, from about 12:30am - 2:15am EST we had a complete outage and I contacted Comcast about it and was told they were doing scheduled maintenance. ([i]I really wish they'd let me know where they schedule these maintenances so I could be aware of them ahead of time...[/i] :bs:) This morning, the problem was so much more exacerbated that I contacte