Downtime

No, your connection isn't failing. Astro is down. It's failing to completely boot properly... Fade?!

Server offline

It looks like the server went down or offline and Gohan is out of town for the next day or so. He wasn't sure if he would have access, but if his connection is down, he probably can't fix it remotely anyway. Hang in there and keep checking back, it will be back up eventually. I imagine a lot of you are playing the new WOW expansion anyway... :)

AstroMUD Moved

Eventually astromud.com will catch up with us, but in the mean time you can find us at astrohost.game-server.cc 2447. Sio and Gk are preparing for a move, and our server was dying as well, so it was time to get us relocated. I don't know if they will want to resume hosting after they move, or not, so this will be our home for a while, maybe permanently. Please thank Gohan for taking over hosting, otherwise we might have been running on our Craptastic Comcast connection.

Skal

MUD and/or Network Outage

I emailed Sio, but no response yet. I'll update this post if I hear something.

UPDATE: Power is out in California (again). We'll have to wait until its restored.

Berserker Skill

I was looking at the skills list and I noticed that we never put in the Berserker skill, which was, if I recall, meant to be the defining skill for Barbarians. This should be fairly easy to add into the code, I just need to decide what exactly it will do. Here are some ideas that come to mind both positive and negative. I don't want it to become a reason we have to buff all the mobs, so it should have both.

Some of my thoughts:

• Available at level 12.
• Entering a berserker rage is voluntary, not intuitive, but not really useful otherwise.
• Duration will random, maybe... D20+(level/5) combat rounds?
• While berserk, no casting magic.
• Add 2 dice to current weapon, ie, 5D8 becomes 7D8.
• Significant increase to bare hand damage, probably in line with mobs of the same level
• Bonus to THAC0 (offense)
• Penalty to AC (Defense, dodging, parrying)
• Increased MV usage while berserk
• No fleeing while berserk

Hrm, now that I look at that list, maybe there is a reason we never got around to it... ;-)

Astro Down

I don't have any information about what's happening yet, I did mail Sio to see if they moved suddenly without a last minute heads up. Maybe it's just power issues again, we'll have to wait and see. Gohan was ready to host the mud temporarily, but his copies of the data files will be out of date by days or perhaps weeks. I will update here when I find out more.

Skal

Update:

I got an email from Sio. The machine went down and she can't get it working. Gk is out of town, but should be back tonight. So we may be down for a few days. Hopefully its not a hard drive, that way at least the latest files will still be good. I don't remember if we were mirrored on this machine or not.

Update 2:

It's back, I'll make backups and download them in the next day or 2.