Esoteric Edits BBS--MudRev base with extensive custom edits

[cuckoorules]

Telnet: esoteric-edits.crabdance.com
Website: http://esoteric-edits.fhero.net
Facebook Group (Discussions/Update info): http://facebook.com/groups/EsotericEdits/
Max Chars per person: 3 online at one time, have as many as you like overall
Max Level: 255 (working on expansion/finishing up endgame MudRev)
PVP: Currently disabled but player driven
Death: -20000
Hangup penalty: none
Sys Commands: Sys Map is available to all players, there is a residing bot which has commands for adding lives, retrain, changing alignment, checking if bosses are alive, clearing your suicide password, and even providing sex changes and speaking to players from the Gods.
Portal system to all major towns
Extensive quests with more to come in the future!
Recently re-edited ganghouses back into the realm, but with no way to break in and teleport spells so you can get there from any location similar to the recall spells/potions.

Quite an active realm with a lot of friendly players of varying degrees of ability. Working diligently with my players to polish all of the broken edits of MudRev into one glorious realm which will some day be a beacon of hope for the true remaining mudders who still want to be part of an active community. There is also a Quest Advisor which will read all your quest flags and tell you where you've left off on all quests and a bank which can hold up to 32767000 runic. This has been a long running project for me and things are now starting to really take off. I highly encourage people to come check us out if you haven't already! See you there!

[cuckoorules]

Would love to see some talented new mud faces around. One of the last standing mud realms with an active player base who love to help each other Come check us out!

[cuckoorules]

So, I am toying with the concept of taking my bot's conversation log and writing a java program to read the text file line by line and have that create a 2nd text file (or really HTML file) which converts the plain text into an HTML file which could then be FTP'd to my site periodically to display public conversations in semi-live time via my website. Has anyone toyed with doing anything like this at all? It doesn't sound super complicated (to me) other than figuring out how to get it to run as a service or periodically in an efficient manner and how to efficiently add to a running file of conversations. If there's anyone still out there who has any advice on the best way to handle this, stop by my BBS or my facebook group and chat me up sometime...

Thanks

[BearFather]

If you are running Linux, you can run webpages(php mostly) as a crontab "php mypage.html". I have many idea's on this. The next feature I was gonna work on my Gosbot was to be able to connect thru a webpage and talk with the realm.

[cuckoorules]

Not running Linux, just an old XP box with another XP VM running a backup. Upgrading my PC is on my list but its still alive and chugging. Definitely looking for some new players if anyone wants to drop in and check us out! Usually at least a few people around to help, and if not, theres a bot!!! hahahah

[cuckoorules]

Update: I did actually write a java program that successfully writes and even FTPs my convo log on my bot to the website, but my java environment seems to time out after about two days and I have to manually restart it. I will have to look into it further, but just thought I'd mention I did get it working. On an un-related mud note, I added a hidden portal for venshire for max level characters only that charges mithril (the currency above runic). Still going strong for anybody out there.

[cuckoorules]

Realm has been eerily quiet because most people who play maxed level a long time ago. Gearing up for a reset soon-ish. In case anyone wanted to check it out before we reset, I thought I'd give a little bit of fore-warning as somehow many people still seem to have never experienced a mudrev edit before. No specific date set as of yet, but I'm thinking january-ish. Open to suggestions.

[Joker]

Realm has been eerily quiet because most people who play maxed level a long time ago. Gearing up for a reset soon-ish. In case anyone wanted to check it out before we reset, I thought I'd give a little bit of fore-warning as somehow many people still seem to have never experienced a mudrev edit before. No specific date set as of yet, but I'm thinking january-ish. Open to suggestions.

Can you give some basics on mudrev? Does it look and feel like standard majormud, and what are the major differences? No need to get into too much detail.

[cuckoorules]

@Joker -- It has all the standard mud things but some stuff has been modified. I believe exp is 5x normal exp for regular mobs and 10x for bosses as far as stock monsters is concerned. Most stock paths will still work but I have a zip of fairly decent paths that go most everywhere in the realm, however as there is a portal system these WILL mess up stock realms. I also include instructions on how to install a second instance of MegaMud separately so that you can run both on my website FAQ.