Build 4.6.5

CoffeeMud Version 4.6.5

Released in Oct 22, 2004 6:33 PM

1. Properties Have/Wear/Ride Zappers now have a MESSAGE parm.
2. Emoter now has an inroom parameter.
3. Default clock and calendar has been drastically modified to make mud-years only about 11 real-life days long. Please example the default coffeemud.ini changes for guidelines on adapting your own INI files.
4. Races now have an aging chart to show how they progress through stages of life. Each stage can affect max-stats.
5. Players now have ages and birthdays based on the default mud-calendar.
6. Age ability can now be used to give mobs ages as well.
7. New area type: TimeZone, to separate areas into time zones without making them on different planets. :)
8. New secret spells: Youth, Torture, Blademouth, Limb Rack, Brainwash
9. New skills: Enslave, Slave Trading, Torturesmith, Behead, Tar and Feature, Collect Bounty, JailKey, Arrest, Flay
10. New Shopkeeper type: Slavetrader
11. Less expensive stat gains above 22
12. Bonuses to mana for primary stats above 21, and other bonuses for stats above 21 based on class.
13. Night can now be effectively disabled from the INI file.
14. Dress, feed, undress, mount, Push, and Pull can now be used on bound prisoners.
15. New secret prayer: Stoning
16. New commonder char class: Gaoler
17. Players can now have visible tattoos that show up on EQ lists.
18. New common skills: Tattooing, Body Piercing
19. Arrest changes: executioner will announce executions over a channel, provided a default channel defined in INI file. They will also select Behead or Stoning if they have the skills.
20. New temporary undocumented reset "genraceagingcharts" for correcting the aging charts of legacy genraces produced from pregnancy.
21. Players can now have titles/suffixes granted by archons or scriptable. See the help on MPTITLE in the scriptable guide for more information on this feature. The new command TITLE lets the player select which title to use. Polymorphs and disguised can override titles.