People who wander the MU and use @take to acquire their own areas are being very helpful.

Some of the staffers have a passion for finding and fixing areas. Once found and fixed, though, they are stuck. Without having someone that wants them, they end up "sitting on them" and being responsible for them forever.

It's been suggested a couple of times that a command be written to give rooms to Atlas. This is important, and I will do it. This doesn't solve the problem above, though, because when Atlas owns a room, the staff maintain it, but NOBODY links to it except by staff approval. Specifically, Atlas owned areas are meant to provide the skeleton but don't make homes available. Only "large" areas or "necessary" links are made from or to Atlas-owned areas.

Another idea is to create a Builder character for the areas which are owned by staffers and set that builder character control flag to the staff, so any staffer can help if someone wants to work with land that is owned by the builder, not JUST the "one and only one" owner.

A different idea is to transfer ownership BACK to Chown_Char, thus allowing playesr to @take and do as they like.

Yet another idea is to set the land to Atlas and make some rooms +community so that players can build without any permission at all.

I'm open for other suggestions as to what commands (besides "+giveTo ") we need to add to make it easier for staffers to manage areas and for players to do things without being blocked when particular owners are offline.

I'll be coding the solution the weekend after next, so get your suggestions in soon.

Thanks!

Keep the Light, Otter

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My two cents... (Posted by Chaos at 2005-05-21)

  I think... (Posted by Amethyst at 2005-05-23)

Builder created (Posted by otter at 2005-05-28)

Just a note, there are the commands on my list to fix or write in the short-term:

+best_rper is broken and needs fixing

+extras is a command to create zombies that can be "shared" by members of a group or area to allow for "extras" such as minor dull characters to avoid the need for spoofing everything.

wf Watch-for needs to be updated to let people do a "watch-for" for group members directly (a way to enhance +groups)

+welcome is a command to submit new "welcome" screens that ANYONE can use and (if the submission is approved) will appear at times during the login process. This will make our Welcome to Redwall screen under the control of all the players.

mumble I don't know why or why this stopped working, but it needs to be fixed.

+giveto provides the means to change ownership of something. This is most useful for staff, but can be used by anyone. It's the opposite of @chown. With @chown, you take something once allowed. With +giveto, you change ownership of an object to someone that has granted you permission to do so.

LONG TERM GOALS

weather and sky, both of which needs a couple of people to help with the MUF. They are large and will be distributed with the NMC core MUF software.

Anyone wanting to learn MUF, talk to me.

Keep the Light, Otter

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MUF vs MPI (Posted by Chaos at 2005-05-22)

  MUF for the large ones (Posted by otter at 2005-05-31)

  If you're itchy (Posted by DZeil at 2005-06-17)

MUF (Posted by Emryn at 2008-07-20)

Would it be possible to make it say something when the guests type @create new character?...On the guest's side, I mean. I remember being a bit miffed when I was new and typed it for the first time, then nothing seemed to happen. If it's possible, it might be good to let them know that yes, it did work, and typing it several more times within the next few seconds won't make it work better. Just a thought.

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So, the bug is in @help, not +pcreate... (Posted by otter at 2005-06-11)

  Fixed (Posted by otter at 2005-06-11)

How do you create a MOTD for a region and allow all in a group/skill list to add and view it and whatnot? I wish to create one for Mapleleaf. thanks.

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+lock motd (Posted by rockfire at 2005-08-28)