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When I first sat down and started working on this ol battle bot back in 1998/early 1999 I never dreamed that, over ten years later, I would still be working on patches/updates to it. Yet here I am, and here’s version 7.3.
This version introduces a new battle order system. While the old style was whoever could spam !enter first would go first, this order of who goes when in battle is now determined by the previously useless speed (eva) stat. This is recalculated every turn, so if a player is able to enhance the speed, the order may change.
There’s a new status tech type: weight. This will make the target too heavy to fly. If the target is already in the air when the status is afflicted, it will cause the target to come crashing down into the ground and doing damage.
Finally, for the last major thing in this update, is the weather. DMs (and above) can change the weather to better reflect what’s going on in the quests. The weather will also enhance corresponding spells (“windy” weather will enhance wind-based spells, for example).
For the full changelog, keep reading.
7.3
- Added a new tech status type: weight This status will make the target too heavy to fly. If used on someone who is already in the air, it will cause him/her to come crashing down to the ground and take damage. Add it like so: !addtech (person) (name) (power) status weight (mp) (stam) (ki) (desc)
- Added a new item type “cure-weight” as it implies, it cures the weight status effect. There is an example item called the tenshi_wing that does this.
- Improved the !count command so that if you check on an item that you don’t have, it will display you “have no (item)” instead of you “have (item)” (empty blank where a # should go)
- Improved the !add amount command so that you can only add amounts to items the person already has in his/her inventory. Else, it will tell you to add the item before adding an amount.
- !Count capsules will now tell you how many capsules of each type you have in your inventory (in case you forget or don’t want to see your entire inventory).
- The !speed command has changed quite a bit. Now you can only use it once (and it resets with fulls) but it increases the character’s speed/evasion by 25% of his/her base. So if the base eva is 100, the person will gain 25, making the total 125.
- You can turn the speed skill off using !speed off. Also note, the skill will be turned off when someone uses the FULL command on the character or when the character enters a battle.
- The whole battle turn order in the battle system has been completely revamped. The order of everyone’s turns is no longer based on when the person joins the battle. It is now completely based on speed (eva). The higher your eva stat the faster you will get a turn in battle.
- Changed the way Kaiou detects if the battle should automatically end when there’s only one person left alive. The old method does not work with the new way the battle order is generated.
- Better start/end battle error detection. Battles now require 2 people in order to start, else it will return an error message. Battles can’t start more than once in a row or end more than once without previously ending/starting another one.
- Weather added! Players can use !weather to see the current weather and DMs+ can use !setweather <weather> to set a weather type. The default weather types are: calm, bright, gloomy, rainy, stormy, snowy, windy, and hot Various weather will enhance the damage of spells. Bright will enhance light, gloomy->dark, rainy->water, stormy->lightning, snowy->ice, hot->fire, windy->wind, and dry->earth. It is set to increase the spells by 25% (.25) by default. This can be changed in weather.lst (just remember it’s in decimal format, so .25 = 25%, 1.25 = 125% and so on).
- Fixed a bug in the !charge and (so and so) charges (his/her) energy command.
- Monsters/NPCs can now use the “speed” skill. Add it as you would to a player, then <name> does speed The only way to turn it off, currently, is to use the FULLS command.
