Androgyne gender, Other changes. Lasher, May 3, 2023May 3, 2023 Androgyne/Non-Binary Gender, other changes: The main reason for this reboot was to clean up a lot of things with gender. Mostly the messages like “They is dead!” and a lot of the socials. I think some of the clan info messages might still be off until we review them but, other than those, if you see any messages or socials where the wording just doesn’t fit with the gender, please post them on typos. Many thanks to everyone who helped go through all the socials on the test port – it was a lot of work and a few very dedicated people got it done quickly. The ‘neutral’ gender that was known as ‘genderless’ for about 5 minutes is now called ‘Androgyne’. There is a ‘help androgyne’ which explains more about why. If anyone used tpspend to genderless and really doesn’t like this new name please contact me and I will return the trivia points so you can change back. HELP ANDROGYNE: Androgyne is the Aardwolf neutral (none-binary) gender. In-game actions and commands will use they/them/their pronouns for characters with this gender. After adding a non-binary / neutral gender into Aardwolf, we had some fairly long conversations about what to call it. Neutral was too easily confused with Neutral alignment. We had 'genderless' for a while and it just seemed too bland. The Wikipedia description for 'Androgyne' fits exactly what we want to accomodate and also has a "kind of RPG" feel to it: "An androgyne is a person who does not fit cleanly into the typical gender roles of his or her society. Androgynes may identify as beyond gender, between genders, moving across genders, entirely genderless, or any combination or all of these. Androgyne identities include pangender, bigender, ambigender, nongendered, agender, gender fluid, or intergender. Androgyny can be either physical or psychological; it does not depend on birth sex and is not limited to intersex people." "An androgyne may or may not look androgynous. Someone who looks androgynous may or may not be an androgyne. A "psychological androgyne" is one term for a person who has an androgynous gender identity, but doesn't necessarily look androgynous." This is a very complex and rapidly changing real-world situation while we are a fantasy based RPG. I do sincerely hope that these recent changes help make Aardwolf more inclusive, but we also need to move on and focus on the core game now. We will fix messages and code that just sounds “wrong” with the new gender, but no other changes for now. Some other changes in this reboot: It is no longer possible to train stats with a cost higher than 1 while you have unallocated tier stats or wish stat. There is a new command ‘areaquests’ that will show the most popular areas for quest targets. Like mobdeaths, this is on a delay and updates every 15 minutes or so. Not exactly Aardwolf’s biggest need but I wrote it to troubleshoot a bug report so figured I would make it available to everyone. The ‘quest obj’ stat max amounts have been raised slightly, they are now as listed below: Levels 1-29 : 1 stat Levels 30-59 : 2 stats Levels 60-89 : 3 stats Levels 90-119 : 4 stats Levels 120-149 : 5 stats Levels 150+ : 6 stats One of the gquest ranges has moved from 200-201 to 201-201 which means it will pick up some additional areas. There is a new ‘spamreduce consider’ option – when this is turned on you will no longer see when other people consider mobs in the room. MUD News
Extended Global Quests, Other Changes November 4, 2012 Extended global quests: If a global quest is completed before 5 minutes have passed, and there is someone else still in the global quest, it will be extended by 3 more minutes to give people a chance to get a few extra qp mobs. Gquest info will show that the… Read More
The Nyne Woods, Tier HP Carryover, Other Changes July 27, 2012 New Area – The Nyne Woods: The island prison of The Nyne Woods has only been opened briefly, yet the rumors are circulating about its inhabitants. They say the most heinous of criminals have been magically sealed here ever since the escape of the vile Damian. Now a mysterious man… Read More
Friend list changes, Quit Check, Other Updates. January 15, 2011 New Friend List Options: There is a new ‘nofriend‘ command that will prevent others from friending you. This does not apply if they are already on your friend list and are just adding you back. New Syntax ‘friend reject [person] [reason]’ will remove someone from your friend wannabe list and… Read More