Web Site Suggestions on SlothMUD

Potion Database

Thu, 25 Mar 2021 02:16:10 +0000

It feels like, canned magic (potions and wands/staves/rods) is the last bastion of lack of transparency.

EQlist doesn’t sort potions by what spells they are or duration.

I am not the least bit talented enough to build such a database but if we had one, what would we want from it, what fields? I would think gold value, weight, duration, plusses, spell affect, non-spell affect, level of spell

This is just to stoke discussion.

would we pull from a JSON but pull different fields than the ones the EQlist is interested in, or would we manually craft with player submissions? What are the nuts and bolts.

–Idj

Live auctions & eqlist

Sat, 09 Jul 2016 18:03:12 +0000

At the time of this post is written there’s one nice item at live auctions - emerald of perfection. If we go from live auctions to the eqlist using the provided link: http://www.slothmud.org/wp/equipment/eqlist?AucID=7, then we’ll get following info:

an emerald gem of perfection

.. may be picked up off the ground

.. may be held

.. imbue’s the user with +10 Heal Bonus

.. imbue’s the user with +4 Regen Mana

.. is Magical

.. is Restricted to Cleric = 40

.. may be used as a light

.. has a Weight of 2

Mother Ronnie in The Moon Temple (BH) [MAP]

Keywords: emerald-gem-perfection

Any experienced player will find it is quite doubtfully that such great item could be used by anyone who has Cleric = 40. And if we search for that item either in the offical or Fluffy’s eqlist, it’ll be also revealed that the item is restricted for 6x40. Which is not revealed when going to eqlist from live auctions. Which could lead to someone losing 6m without being able to wear the purchased item. Probably a bug.

Few top20 list bugs

Fri, 01 Aug 2014 08:39:56 +0000

There are weird player names in top 20 list. Kinda incorrect druid form saving in some way.

Weekly Top Lists (Jul 05, 2014)

Under 40

38 hawk fierce Neverblo

42 crocodile large croc%

56 asp small snake Neve

They cant be access by player page (<LINK_TEXT text=“http://www.slothmud.org/wp/live-info/pl … cs?pc=neve”>http://www.slothmud.org/wp/live-info/player-statistics?pc=neve</LINK_TEXT>)

In some normal active players pages no classes shown.

For example:

<LINK_TEXT text=“http://www.slothmud.org/wp/live-info/pl … s?pc=Saiko”>http://www.slothmud.org/wp/live-info/player-statistics?pc=Saiko</LINK_TEXT>

<LINK_TEXT text=“http://www.slothmud.org/wp/live-info/pl … atermelonx”>http://www.slothmud.org/wp/live-info/player-statistics?pc=Xwatermelonx</LINK_TEXT>

Would be not bad idea(from my point of view), to hide level 1 players from top20 lists.

Avatar Guide

Fri, 23 Aug 2013 10:44:03 +0000

Hello!

Here’s my suggestion to the website:

a) update Avatar Guide (+hp/ma/mv/hit/dam per level, new spells/skills and their corresponding improvements with avatar levels etc),

b) host this guide on reliable hosting place, because at this moment the guide in sticky topic in General Chat is unavailable.

Thanks!

Yasik wrote: Hello!

Here’s my suggestion to the website:

a) update Avatar Guide (+hp/ma/mv/hit/dam per level, new spells/skills and their corresponding improvements with avatar levels etc),

b) host this guide on reliable hosting place, because at this moment the guide in sticky topic in General Chat is unavailable.

Thanks!

… and a cup of tea for me please, Yassik.

"Mark all topics read" upward

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 10:39:56 +0000

… would be useful imo, atm its located down, so we must scroll to the bottom of the page to mark it.

Or even a small button right next to the thread title.

Thanks.

(It) overrides player statistics

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 01:56:12 +0000

Just text, not red bold link.

Would be nice also if players’ names are vertically aligned.

alignment works fine on

IE v10.0.9200.16484

Firefox v19.0.2

Chrome v25.0.1364.152m

all current browsers.

the only way that wouldn’t work is if the CSS files failed to load (which considering the webhost, it wouldnt surprise me)

Forum suggestions

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:37:36 +0000

Hi all,

I would like to start by saying that I have quite a bit of experience in these matters. The purpose of this post is to give a couple of suggestions designed to increase traffic in our forums. They are purely suggestions. In other words, it won’t hurt my feelings if y’all just say “Nah.”

1.Lending Library: A section dedicated to the trade of spellbooks, a place for “teachers” to advertise what they currently have available, and a place for players to post the Sbs they are looking for.

2.Looking for Group: This section would be a nice place to organize and schedule group runs. This would be an excellent spot for those on a work/school/life schedule to find the xp/eq/cp/etc groups they are looking for.

3.Kudos: A spot to congratulate people on reaching Milestones, getting that special peice of Eq, or whatev.

I would like to point out that all of these (especially #2 and #3) could also be accomplished very nicely on a Facebook fan page. I could go on, but I digress.

Thanx for reading,

Harm

How about a SlothWiki

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 21:46:48 +0000

Has any thought gone into the idea of having a community developed SlothWiki?

I think that a wiki would be a very accessible way to get players good information. It might help with player retention, and it would increase the relevance of SlothMud to search engines (a lot of sloth themed content, means more search engine relevance).

A good game wiki that I have used is the Dofu wiki (http://dofuswiki.wikia.com/wiki/Dofus_Wiki) this wiki has really helped improve my game experience, and I think a similar tool for sloth could help her as well.

If this idea is liked, I would be willing to setup a wiki for this game however the admins would like (external on wikia, external using wikimedia or even internal using wikimedia).

I would also be willing to do the grunt work of porting a lot of information over to the wiki.

There is a lot of good information currently on the sloth site, but it feels a little stale, and does not have a lot of information beyond the technical.

Users being able to amend content, would allow this information to stay fresh, and up to date.

Cartography could be moved to the wiki allow it to be updated by users as changes are made and discovered. It would also remove the webmaster as having to be the single source for updates and changes, which is a huge task considering how large/rich slothmud is.

Let me know your thoughts.

Thanks,

Dan (currently Apoc, not sure where my older characters or their logins went)

iron skin brew

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 10:59:28 +0000

The brew list is missing an iron skin potion from this note:

The following words are drafted on a sheet of paper obviously in a hurry:

‘ufaigtui sealed in bottle requires a human n two troll blood mixed a

wooden cup recite ufai runes rewritn w mercury (book’s long may need two

of ’em) also ask human ghost guarding spring abt ufaigtui it can do above

to for fee name ihsamat’

Some site suggestions.

Thu, 11 Nov 2010 10:37:25 +0000

1.When displaying cp in eqlist, show what it is cp for. Probably with expandable block, like forge info. Should be very usefull when you found something and dont know how usefull it is.

2.Maybe posibility to change view of eq list, to something like old eq list design. You know, table view. One line - one item, separated by wear type.

Separation by type is good idea even to basic view. Not straight list of items, but devided into sections.

Those additions not so hard to implement, but quite usefull.

Thanks for attention.

second wind missing from skill stats

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 14:31:31 +0000

Second wind is missing from skill stats.

It also is missing a message, when it fails, but I’ve reported it to bugs already (twice).

Thanks.

maps

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:17:58 +0000

maps of sloth world would be nice for old timers who are returning and new ppl who are just starting :D

erm, yeah. That is nice that maps are available on the webpage. It’s a frequently cited compliment about Sloth. Under Cartography.

not everyone who reads this forum/browses this site is american. perhaps they do not know that the word ‘cartography’ refers to maps and mapmaking/reading. perhaps if we simply changed the label from cartography to ‘maps’ there would be less confusion.

“i have been told that the best crackers in the world can do this under 60 minutes but unfortunately i need someone who can do this under 60 seconds.” -gabriel –>swordfish

help me with profile

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:06:09 +0000

Any moderator can respond, why i can’t change info in my profile and can’t change password (need always use copypast from mail). I want set something by myself. :P Thanks.

Bazilus the Crazy Python

NO PROFILE FOR YOU!!!

(Profile-Nazi)

I have the same prob. So if someone could post a fix, that’d be great.

bump

Currently my profile has an email addy and website URL that no longer exist.

It would be very helpful to be able to update it.

I can get to the page to enter new details, and click to save, but the details do not save.

Ultimate Avatar Guide

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 19:10:58 +0000

Can someone put this link back on the left menu again please?

http://img364.imageshack.us/my.php?image=avatar46qe.gif

[img:12lcxupu]http://img364.imageshack.us/my.php?image=avatar46qe.gif[/img:12lcxupu]

thanks

hrm

[img:gbilqhxg]http://img364.imageshack.us/img364/7626/avatar46qe.gif[/img:gbilqhxg]

if only…

darksight, stalk, or undead visage don’t show up on the Mayor’s list :(

As far as I know, you can only buy perm spells/skills that you can use yourself, so a necro could buy darksight or undead visage, and a monk could buy stalk.

Help Files

Thu, 16 Nov 2006 14:14:49 +0000

The Game play helps in the library are great, but the online help files in game have much more recent spells, skills, etc and really awesome.

Could the online help files be added to the web site as well?

Thanks.

Clink has updated the game play helps-they are now current with what is ingame.

On a side note, we have added well over 200 helpfiles this last year:-)

Enjoy,

Splork

Failed sending email :: PHP ::

Tue, 31 Oct 2006 17:13:22 +0000

I received this error message when responding to a post. I’m assuming, without looking it up, that this either means that the imap is not installed for php or that the email address in someone’s profile is invalid. I was posting in response to a ‘picture post’ with cats.

Will the top 20 lists ever work again...

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 14:27:29 +0000

subj…

We state this every month…the top 20 lists get updated when we get the chance. We have several other things on our minds atm. If you guys would rather we remove the link entirely till we can find someone to write a cron which will automatically update these lists we will.

Splork :D

Both the current weeks plus an automated system will be in place shortly. Finishing up some higher priority stuff at the moment.

Clink

another website bug

Fri, 01 Sep 2006 12:37:11 +0000

if you value your forum account.

Do not goto profile, and change the board style to: jenova

You will no longer be able to view the forums.

Thus making you make a new account, like I just did.

Yup, that happened to me. But I bugged the hell out of admin and Clink ended up fixing it for me. Thanks Clink!

-Corinn

Town Crier Post Order

Fri, 02 Jun 2006 19:48:16 +0000

Though there is actually less functionality available with the Newest Post on top, I will go with the popular opinion. Voting closes in 4 days.

Post comments on reasons why you would persuade your fellow board members which way you would want it.

(A) I’m not an expert at software usability, but I guess there’s something to be said for leaving software interfaces operating the way users are familiar with them operating.

(B) Using either method, some people will have to open the thread and scroll all the way to the bottom. If the newest posts are on the bottom, then the people who use the crier most often are scrolling to the bottom most often to check the newest posts on a thread. If the oldest posts are on the bottom, people who are new to the thread scroll to the bottom so that they can read the whole thing.

It seems your most frequent users who are always checking for the most recent posts might save time and effort if the newest posts are on top.

Website Bug

Fri, 19 May 2006 05:41:36 +0000

Library->Fantasy Names got me to a page about Clients!

When is the class skill pages coming back to the website?

And Hall of Flame needs updating as well…

I don’t see rynquald, vaire or his nabness in there yet :(

Come to think of it I don’t see myself in there either! :twisted:

Feedback/Comments

Sun, 08 Jan 2006 13:35:40 +0000

Dunno how much of a pain it’d be, but would be nice to have some way of rating people buying/selling stuff on block, and/or adding comments to auctions (yeah, I know, it’d get abused a bit, but a little flaming never hurt anyone, and it’d still be usefull :) )

This is on my list, but quite frankly not a high priority at the moment. It is not for lack of merit of the idea, just have a lot of things that need to get done.

Suggestions always welcome on the chopping block and other parts of the site.

Clink

Class Abilities

Wed, 06 Jul 2005 12:23:17 +0000

The ‘Find’ menu under class abilities is a great feature but very understated I think. Currently, if you are in say… the Bard Class Abilities list and you click on Wealth and Glory, it gives you what’s listed on the website Game Play Helps (or I think it does). Would it be possible to have this link to the Find instead? Since it lists the help for the skill as well, I don’t think you’d lose anything.

It also seems like it should be possible for the individual class ability lists to be built off of the data in Find. It seems like there’s a few skills missing from some of the lists and this would help to keep them current.

Either way, they’re both great features, just seem like they could work better together. :)

Error in "Experience and Gold Table" ??

Wed, 29 Jun 2005 12:36:14 +0000

This may or may not be a typo, but it does seem a bit out of place.

According to the website’s Experience and Gold Table, for a player to obtain level 40 in their primary class, they require 40 million experience and 648 million gold. It seems out of place becuase level 39 only requires around 1/2 million gold, and level 40 avatar only requires around 4 million gold.

bug in Bard class abilities window

Wed, 15 Jun 2005 08:22:32 +0000

Tail and Hide links pop up a window with a code error (too many arguments….).

Newbie Primer

Mon, 13 Jun 2005 13:13:14 +0000

I’ve tried reading the primer about a dozen different times and I think I’ve gotten as far as page 8. Could one of the gods please create a page for it on the site? It would make it a lot easier to read for newbie and vet alike.

Also, newbie info is pretty scattered, though the site map does a somewhat decent job of combining it. A grouping for Newbie info containing the Newbie Center, Primer and a link to the FAQ in the forums might provide for greater visibility for the newbie types. Considering the number of newbies lately, it might prove beneficial. Also, I know the gods aren’t partial to editing posts, but trimming some of the unneeded stuff in the FAQ, or creating a way to navigate it more easily would probably make it less intimidating.

weight indication in eq list

Sun, 12 Jun 2005 10:32:38 +0000

Hello!

The website is really good… so i think the only thing it might improve what i saw til now would be the indication of weight in the eq list… i think it’s an important quality of every piece of eq, but i haven’t found it in the eq list, filters and so (if it is there disregard my dumbness and please point me to that )

;)

Taki the monk

Forum Index Link.

Fri, 20 May 2005 18:58:50 +0000

from anywhere in the forums there is a big black box in the upper left that links to the Forum Index. I doubt this is a secret forum index. is it suppose to say something?

:twisted: :?:

That’s the mirror universe forums, where people say how much they love it that it’s so easy to be good now. Notice the goatee on the black box.

choppin block nah

Sun, 03 Apr 2005 00:06:25 +0000

Look at date plz!

What is it?

Thank you. Your bid has been submitted.

Serpent Skin Coif Refresh

Description: Worn in: TAKE HEAD AC-apply is -1.2 Can affect you as: Affects: DEX by 1 Only those who are at least master clerics and also experienced warriors may use this item.

Seller: Ezekiel

Closed: 2005-04-02 17:58:27

Minimum bid: 3500000

High bid: 9639666 By Vixn

Number of bids: 21

Bid increment: 96396

Auction Bid History

Vixn 9639666 2005-03-29 20:32:33

Vekna 9545160 2005-04-02 17:58:43

Vekna 9358000 2005-04-02 17:58:23

Vekna 9173640 2005-04-02 17:58:04

Falados 9000000 2005-03-31 20:36:05

Falados 8200000 2005-03-31 19:09:56

Falados 7850000 2005-03-31 19:09:43

Falados 7350000 2005-03-31 19:09:31

Falados 6830000 2005-03-31 19:09:19

Falados 6490000 2005-03-31 16:01:14

Falados 6250000 2005-03-31 16:00:59

Falados 5900000 2005-03-31 16:00:46

2 things...

Mon, 14 Mar 2005 09:52:10 +0000

Hi!

Guess I should do my first post in the forum of the mud IÂ´m in love with :shock:

There are two things I would like to see on the homepage. The first

is stats on my own character. Like mob-kills, total exp etc. Like the

top20 but for each character.

And the other thing is more a wondering. Why dont you bind the

character in the mud to the user on the homepage? Would require that

all had the same name on the site. But many of us I guess have that….

Thanks for a great MUD! :wink:

/Achazia

Live Info - Player Stats

Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:18:27 +0000

Could you make it so that the week you are looking at either shows up somewhere or is a different color in the list? I like to look back sometimes but can never remember which week I’m looking at. Thanks.

Warrior Skill/Manual List

Fri, 14 Jan 2005 13:23:55 +0000

I looked at this today and only ONE poppable manual is listed

for warriors. I’m not sure if whomever is in charge of this

dpesn’t know where they load or hasn’t bothered tp update in a long

time, but here is a list of what I know of just incase, if you could please update it.

Bloodrage sb- dawrven warriors s and w od SS town on way to mountain

Critical hit- derro warriors SS, reptilian warriors in crypt AH

Entrench (mud covered pages) dollar bet it loads on mud beast in bh castle

Deathblow - Spectral Guards in rlyeh castle on island

that’s all I know, maybe other folks could post what they know too and

see if we can get this sorted out.

Aaron

Emporium

Wed, 24 Nov 2004 23:05:02 +0000

Can it be set up so the ‘The Emporium’ link on the left pane brings you right into it rather than bring you to a new page with only one place to go (that being ‘The Emporium’)?.

Done.

Instant Messenger

Tue, 09 Nov 2004 12:18:23 +0000

Can instant messages be changed so that we can delete them without replying? It seems stupid that if I don’t want to reply, I have to close the message, then go to my list of messages, just so I can delete the one I just read.

maproom?

Sat, 06 Nov 2004 01:20:18 +0000

I suppose this isn’t really a suggestion, but what happened to the maproom? It’s been broken for awhile :(

also… was the top20 list just to show that it can actually be done, or will it be updated at some point?

Sorry about the problem w/ the maproom page– I accidentally overwrote it with a page that just kept redirecting it back to the same redirect page over & over.

i.e.,

10: goto 0

Anyway, I found a backup yesterday & put it where it belongs. Everything is back to normal.

chopping block suggestion

Tue, 10 Aug 2004 12:26:12 +0000

as we all know, for whatever reason people occasionally retract bids - they popped the item in the meantime, decided they don’t want to spend that much cash on something, whatever. could it be possible to show highest and 2nd highest bidder in chopping block, so if person who actually wins the auction backs out, the item can still go to someone who wants/needs it without it being rechopped or the seller having to keep a running track of who has bid what? (yes i’m lazy as hell)

Navigating site

Mon, 09 Aug 2004 10:03:44 +0000

What you think ppl?

I think it would be more easier to navigate, since main website meniu is not accessible when eq or map room is entered.

It is on my list of things to do to make the navigation bar visible in the map room and eq list. I hope this would make popups unnecessary.

Clink

There is a way to get back, but it’s non-obvious. Click on the word Sloth in the upper left part of the eqlist. As for the map room, I’m not sure if it has the same thing or not.

Live Info: last player

Wed, 04 Aug 2004 09:30:36 +0000

I think MUD software once in N minutes drops WHO and GWHO results into

text files and Live info uses those files. If i right it can be difficult to create, but stil

it would be nice to have a possibility to get last player info though web site.

( you can use sockets and do a real mud login with some test char and execute a command ).

thx

A few questions

Thu, 24 Jun 2004 16:08:24 +0000

2 things I’ve noticed:

When we’re posting a reply, is there some option you can turn on so that we can see the post we’re replying to? It makes it hard remember all the points you wanted to cover when you can’t go back and read them.

Also, when I’m at work, the ‘remember me’ button when I log on only occasionally works. How is that notation handled, that it might be different on different machines? Because my browser (ie 6 or something) is pretty much set up identically to home since I work from both places, yet it always remembers me from home. I’m not behind a firewall or anything, and I don’t reset my cookies all the time.

Skins for phpbb?

Thu, 27 May 2004 09:34:31 +0000

Add some skins, preferrably text only one :)

Of course, smileys, avatars, hosted by angelfire and knowing that hotara listens aguliera all the time is very important information, but having an option to get rid of it saves nerves as well as bandwidth.

Hehe, that big Hottie IP sniffing avatar may be partly the reason it was removed. There’s an option in phpBB to upload avatars where size and dimensions are restricted, which apparently the admin have enabled now but it’s not working.. the signatures are obviously still open but in order to disable so much stuff being added there I suggest admin cut down the default 255 character maximum signature length to say 150.

Encyclopedia

Thu, 27 May 2004 09:20:48 +0000

Make a link for it, and add info into there.

Also, it is bad that terms arent being auto-linked in wiki fashion.

If it was that easy, it would be done. However, we are working on fixing it up to work with this version of Nuke and plan to use it for Help Files. Do you have any other suggested content?

Perhaps bring Kirin’s sloth photo site over to here if she’d like to get it off her server?

Avatars

Tue, 25 May 2004 19:38:03 +0000

Damn. I was just going to add my weasel avatar (80x80, 7kb) and find that option has been removed again.

I guess someone started abusing it again. Thanks [img:1vqcnbac]http://forum.twinflame.org/images/smiles/097.gif[/img:1vqcnbac]

BTW admin, if you go into the admin area and click ‘configuration’ under the General Admin subheading, scroll down to where it says ‘Avatar settings’. You can allow uploading of avatars and specify the file size and dimensions so it’s not abused as far as that goes. Set it to a max of say 100x100 and file size of maybe 10k bytes on there and you shouldn’t have a problem. If people post porn or something, ban them for a while.

regarding auction forum

Mon, 24 May 2004 16:34:34 +0000

If you can do this, an option for the author of an auction thread to be able to lock that thread when they close the auction would be great, and it would also mean when you view the auction forum you can just look down the list of threads and know which ones are closed straight away by seeing the little ’thread locked’ icon on it. Dunno if phpBB will give this sort of flexibility though. It would also mean that people auctioning stuff have to remember to lock each thread when they close the auction, so maybe it’s not such a great idea in practice, as how many people would remember to do that.. hmm.

Changes In New Website...

Sun, 23 May 2004 22:25:41 +0000

Well, I noticed that the webmasters altered certain aspects of the website based on readers opinions, so, i suppose if we were to post all the changes we would like to see under one post it would ease their task.

Personally, I’d like the following things looked into, and would like the opinion of those here as well over it;

The Prompt for Visual Mode, where a textbox pop’s up when you’re about to type a message so use visual mode.. is it just possible to have a button like the B, I U quote, thing instead?
Members Online screen, this screen refreshes far too soon, intervals of less then 30 seconds. I can’t say for everybody else, but it does something funky to my screen everytime I am to scroll past it and it refreshes. Is it just possible to have a button on the screen that says something along the lines of “Refresh this Shit?” :)
The forum highlight things have been removed from certain pages(?), but when typing a message, the highlight persist. These highlights often cause lag and of course, is an obsolete add-on that serves no purpose then to make the text we’re clicking much harder to see :)

That’s about it for now :>.

new web site

Sat, 22 May 2004 22:47:16 +0000

Don’t wanna start posting here from criticism, this site is somewhere better, somewhere worse comparing to the old one, so I think we could start a thread where ppl can express their opinion what they like and what they dont.

Personally I don’t like running news/last forum posts. IMHO it looks ok only for made for 5 minutes homepage of a week ago started to use the internet boy.

Also while I was writing this post I noticed that always flashing “members online” window is very annoying…

New Board not cutting it

Fri, 21 May 2004 20:37:24 +0000

I have to say this new crier board is a pain

i mean sure it has :mrgreen: :shock: :twisted:

but it is imposible to follow any threads

at least consider condesing the topics

It’s like every other board I read on the internet. I like it. I like being able to know it’s really shadis, really next and really me posting. I wish more ppl would post here. I hope it starts to pick up. Maybe we should start a flame war!