News of Land of Karchan

Blackfyre

Hello

I hope the game will stay stable, whilst I go and have holidays for two weeks in the United States.

Regards,

Karn

Players of Karchan!

Blackfyre

Hello,

I've added some stuff that should prevent the crashes we've seen and will enable a little more closely monitoring.

Regards,

Karn

Attention: On the issue of Knights using the arrest command. Yes, Knights CAN use the arrest command for ANY reason that they see fit - with or without accompanying rp. If we, as the deps, did not want them to have this power, well... they wouldn't have that power. The people who play Knights are respected rp'ers (respected, at least, by the deps) who we trust will use the powers we've given them properly. If you think that a Knight is unjustified in arresting your character because your character is too uber cool to ever get bested by a Knight, then think again! The Knights ARE the uberest, most skilled warriors in the land (as well as some of the best rp'ers). If you feel like your arrest was unjustified because the rp did not make sense or the Knight simply didn't try, the only thing you can do is appeal to a dep. Most likely the dep will tell you to take a hike. This game is largely dependent on cooperation between players regarding what one person can do to another person through rp - hence auto-hits are frowned upon. But there are SOME things that do not require consultation, and being arrested is one of them. There are a TON of reasons the Knights have the powers they do (ever notice none of the evil guilds have auto-arrests? There's a reason for that), and I would be more than happy to elaborate further to anyone who wants to communicate privately about it. Point is, if you get arrested, suck it up. If you're a wanted criminal and don't want to get arrested, I suggest staying away from the road and not openly taunting or attacking Knights! In other words, show them the respect they have earned. That's how it is.

Ephinie

Alrighty!

Blackfyre

Alrighty peoples,

There seems to be a bit of a glitch in the game. No idea what happened, but yeah. It seems that emoting in certain formats allows you to do said command to anyone in the game if they are on. As long as you are using an adjective. So if I am at the castle and you are at the road you can do something like 'think carefully to Midevia' and I will see it. It seems to only do this for the format of 'command adjective to name' not 'command name adjective'. At least not yet. I have no idea when exactly this broke it was probably fairly recently. So, I am telling you now just because it is doing this does not mean you should abuse it. Might be funny. Seem harmless. But I wouldn't use the command that way until it gets fixed personally. So don't until you hear otherwise. Thank you.

Midevia

Greetings, People of Karchan

Sorry about the slow response. I've looked and apparently there was a Memory problem with the mud (not the server), i.e. we ran out of memory.

I'll look into it if it starts happening more often.

Karn

Hi Guys,
Just to let you know, I've been told that the enchanted forest is on fire. A magickal fire too so it isn't going to go away or fade out naturally according to sources. :-)

Mya

There is a long message on the roleplay board regarding the formation of my new town and what I need from people to help. Please take a look at it at your convenience! Thanks.

Ephinie

I currently have openings for a glass blower, an innkeeper, and someone to run a public bath house. These are positions available for people who have characters that want to live and work in Lakeshore. If you are interested, send me a mudmail explaining why you would be best for the job. Thanks.

Ephinie

Hello, Karchan

Everything has been restarted, but I've not found the cause of the problem.

Let's hope it never ever happens again.

Karn

Just to add to the already extensive login message, I could use some help to. I am currently writing a history for the Elven race. I have asked around, and there doesn't seem to be one already put down. If there are any oldies out there who might know something I don't on the subject, please mail me. Thank you
-Ronan

Ronan

Hey all. I'm working on a few projects and stuff, and I'll need some volunteers to help me with things. Let me know if you are interested. I am making a town to the north of the Grove of Nature, accessible by travelling up the north road that will start at the waterfall and hug the river up that way. I need the help of anyone fluent in Norwegian, Swedish, or Finnish to help me with place names. It won't be anything even really as complicated as full sentences; I just want to make sure I come up with reasonable adaptations for the name of the town (Lakeshore), possibly the names of the streets, and possibly shop names, and maybe even bot names. For anyone who wants to give me input on the new town, the basic idea is this: It is a fishing community that sits on the southern shore of a large lake. It is at the mouth of the river that eventually empties into that huge waterfall up at the Grove. That is the basic geography of it. There will be shops - hopefully new shops that are not repeats of things we already have. That is the basic premise, so let me know any ideas you might have. Thanks!

Ephinie

Blackfyre

Merry Christmas andHappy New year! Or for those who don't celebrate, Happy Holidays or a suitable phrase for making you feel all gooey and happy at this time of year. I won't be on much between now and New Year! So you will have to mudmail me any requests. And I'm psychic so all the deps are saying the same as my first two sentences. Mwah mwah mwah! Wuv woo all.

Mya

Howdy!

Blackfyre

Hi Guys!
Just a message to say in the past few weeks/month I have had a few messages from people to say that someone has said something about them ooc thats not nice. Remember that this is a game for everyone, everyone has different styles so embrace it! Games are meant to be fun. If you genuinely have a problem with someone I would suggest thinking about it for a few minutes and then tell them tactfully perhaps in a tell or over aim/msn how you believe their rping could be improved. Like Mya is never serious and I'm sure that winds some people up but I dont do it to offend people I do it cause I have fun rping Mya like that and it makes me want to play the game.

Mya

By player request I have added the ability to get into the hospital without crossing The Mound. When standing in the Grove of Nature simply type hospital and you may skip right past The Mound and thusly avoid any complications. When The Mound in no longer considered battleground, I will remove the command.

Blackfyre

Blackfyre

"Mah Felloh Karkanyuns",

Blackfyre

Greetings, people of Karchan.

Well, I'm back (from vacation) and apparently Blackfyre is once again a deputy.

I hope he'll be nice. *grins*

Karn

Just a reminder from your friendly neighborhood deputies: Rape RPs are not allowed. This is a game for people of all ages and backgrounds. Consider the fact that, at least in the US, one in three women are raped in their lifetime. Starting RPs like that may very well inadvertently make this game a significantly less safe place for people here who are not looking to relive events like that.

Cedri

Just a little hint guys, explore and you never know what you may find.

Mya

Some items are being erased, changed, or exchanged. If you find that you are no longer wearing an item that you had on previously or that one of your items has changed slightly in description or name, this is because I am getting rid of duplicate or similar items and most likely not a sign that someone has hacked your character. Yell and scream if you have questions. ~Cedri

Cedri

Hello, People of Karchan

As we all know the server has not been entirely stable these past months. It required a dayly reboot because of crashes.

Rumour has it that there was a problem with the memory (recently discovered) which caused all these very odd occurrences. The memory has been replaced, and I hope the world will remain stable for a long time.

High regards,

Karn

Happy New Year!

Karn

Merry Christmas and New Year to all!
Mya

Mya

Hello, people.

I think I've activated all the commands that I am personally responsible for.

Thankfully Midevia pointed out that I needed to do that.

Good luck trying them out!

Karn

Hello, everyone

It's been a while that I've put a notice up. Anyways, some news...

The server is still unstable, but is rebooted every day to fix the problems we are having. That's why we all can play like we do.

The special commands seem to be working again. At least, I think they do, as I just enabled the pounce command. Ask the deputies to turn on the special commands that you are missing.

Good luck!

Karn

Hello, everyone.

Well, we're still having problems. In order to find out the problem, we're planning on having a controlled shutdown of several services during the night, in an attempt to pinpoint the problem.

The game will be unavailable during this time.

More announcements as events warrant.

Karn

Well, it doesn't look like things have been fixed. We'll have to trudge on with what we have until we can get a new server with a fresh baseline install.

*Karn sighs*

Karn

Hello, peoples.

There is the slight possibility that the problem has been solved and that normal operations will commence shortly.

In the mean time, there seems to be still a problem with the special commands and the events that take place in the game. I'll try and have that sorted out as quickly as possible. At the moment, all special commands have been disabled.

High regards.

Karn

Hello, everyone

Yes, there have been and still are problems with the server. Let's hope they can figure out where the problem is.

Regards,

Karn

Hello, folks.

I'll be leaving for sunnier climes tomorrow and will not be available for two weeks. I doubt you'll notice anything, unless the game crashes.

I'll try to check periodically.

Karn

Sorry, people.

Apparently the server was kicking up again. And it was doing so well up until now. *sigh*

Regards,

Karn

Hello, all.

Well, we're still having problems with no definite solution in sight.

We'll keep you posted.

Regards,

Karn

Hello, all.

Well, that was a scare to say the least. The problem seems to be resolved for now even though we do not know what the cause was.

Let's hope it does not happen again.

Regards,

Karn

The Character Null is a message you will get when you try and login from now on to make a new character. The character creation system has changed. Below where you login on the main page, is a sentence in italics. It says 'If you wish to create a new character, click here.' So, when on the main page and wanting to make a new character, click the link and you will get to make one!

Crissy

It has come to my notice that several players are under the impression that Blackfyre is a Deputy of Karn. He is not. He was in years since past, but has not been for a number of years. If he does regain his deputy status at some point in the future, the public will be duly notified. And since he is not a deputy, he cannot do room descriptions, character descriptions, items, or anything else that a deputy can do. The following is a list of the current deputies: Argo, Cedri, Crissy, Desdamona, Ephinie, Kesair, and Mya.

Crissy

Silly person testing to see how this works. Yes this is a testing system of your beautiful login message. Goodbye.

Crissy

Again, I must say, look for a sign! A sign from above, nifty merchandise could be found by those you follow the sign.

The deranged and lovin' it,

Crissy

A sign! A sign! I tell you to look for a sign, and you might find something new and spiffy, who can find what the sign means first? Who knows, if you seek and find, maybe you'll have a new spiffy, jazzy, thing? A sign! A sign!

The only slightly and deranged Crissy

Crissy

My bad, I forgot, right now almost none of the guilds have been set up, and also don't just apply. This is helpful for people that have gotten into the guilds already. Some John Doe shouldn't type guildapply mif if he hasn't tested with the MIF and been accepted.

Argo

Alright, the guilds are back up. We're still tweaking things, but we can start the rebuilding process. If you are currently a leader of a guild, contact myself or one of the other deputies and give them your guild details. I'm talking official guilds here people. Examples would be the MIF, Knights, etc. Now, to get into a guild once we set it up, you type, "guildapply [the name of the guild]" so, to get into the mif, one would type "guildapply mif". Once you have done that, both you and the guild leader need to be in the game. The guild master can then either accept or reject a person by typing "guildaccept player" or "guildreject player". There are more features to the guild, some just for the guildmasters and some for the members. Type "help guilds" to find out more.

Argo

Hello, everyone,

I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy Newyear! I'm on vacation right now, so I'll see about logging in a little more often.

Karn

Howdie, People

Let me remind you for just a minute that when filling out a bugreport, make sure the bugreport is not already provided by someone else.

Regards,

Karn

Hey my beautiful people.
Just for you lot to know there is a Karchan worldwide rp going about that demons are plaueing the land and it would be simply divine if you lot actually rped this. There has been quite a bit hard work by one rper to get this rp off the ground. You can just do what you want and can contact Symon about it to try to get more info about it.
Thankies darlings.
Mya
xxx

Mya

Hello, everyone

On the 17th of November, Thursday morning, at 01:00 hours, the server will be unavailable for 30 minutes. This is due to changes in the network infrastructure.

Regards,

Karn

Hello again,

I seem to be posting a lot lately.

Anyways, next week I am going to do a cleanup of the database. Any characters that have not logged onto the mud for at least 6 months will be *gasp* deleted.

Regards,

Karn

Hello, people of Karchan

Important: This relates to the passwords again. Right now, when you logon to the game, your password will be converted automatically from the old format to the new format. This will, if all is good, not effect you, but it is important that you log on as each of your characters at least once.

This code is temporary and will be removed in a couple of months, meaning that in a couple of months all the old users that use the old format of the password cannot log on. They will have to request a password reset from me or the deputies.

Implemented some more stuff:

• money is displayed in your inventory
• shopkeeper can buy things (Karcas is the only shopkeeper right now)
• shopkeeper can sell things
• shopkeeper complains and will not buy items that are worthless (i.e. do not cost money)
• you can ask the shopkeeper how much an item is worth using the show command. For more info check help show.
• it is also possible now to give money to another character

Karn

Hello, everyone

Sorry about the mess with the passwords. It should be okay now.

Any new characters that were created during the mess with the passwords are inaccessible now. If you need to log in using one of the new characters, ask me or one of the deps to change the password.

I added some functionality (which was basically the cause of the problem) regarding money. Currently implemented:

• money is displayed in your inventory
• shopkeeper can buy things (Karcas is the only shopkeeper right now)
• shopkeeper can sell things

• ask shopkeeper what is for sale
• ask shopkeeper what the value of an item you are carrying is
• give money to someone else
• drop money on the floor
• pick money up from the floor
• put money in bags
• get money from bags

Karn

Hello, people.

Sorry to say there was a power outage on Friday at the data center. It was fixed the same Friday, but our little server failed to boot properly when power was restored.

I managed to fix it this morning.

Karn

Attention: the special commands should be available again.

Keep those bugreports coming.

Karn

It is possible that I've fixed the punctuation-problem.

Check it out!

Karn

That is right, I've started programming on the mud again.

One of the first changes noticable is the extra adjective on the items.

Karn

Hey,

My quest is open. Sorry it took so long to work the bugs out. There might even be a few small bugs left crawling around, but nothing that will interfere with the quest. Now, know before you start that the first half of the quest involves finding items and rooms and what not, and the second half of the quest involves RP. There is no like, prize that I am going to hand any one winner, you get the prize through the IC RP at the end. That is all, have fun with it. The beginning of the quest is somewhere across the bridge over snake river. That is the only hint you are getting, and don't ask any other deps. They won't help you.

Argo

Hey

The Winter Wonderland has been expanded.

Argo

Howdie, people

Sorry to scare you like that, but the server had some sort of hardware malfunction. I hope it has been fixed, and that things will go smoothly from now on.

Let us pray.

Karn

Howdie, people

Well, the transfer to the new server seems to have been relatively painless. Someone mentioned that new data is missing. This might be true. I\'ve used a backup of the database, made on 2005-07-31. So that was last Sunday.

If anyone has serious problems regarding this let me know.

Also, the deputy email addresses do not work at the moment.

Karn

Hey

I am attempting to set up a quest thingy, and I was wondering about the grand prize of it all. Would you the people rather have A) A full set of enchanted armor that heals you, and is unbreakable, which in turn would give you an advantage in duels or what not, B) A robe that allows you to transport throughout Karchan, C) An uber powerful weapon, or D) Something else. If something else, mail me at Argo@karchan.org and tell me what you would want instead. No promises here, by the by.

Argo

Hey

There's a new area. If you go to the grove of nature, then over the bridge that way, past the white castle and down to the field with the stairs in it. There is now a winter wonderland type place there. Let me know what you think, explore a little.

Argo

Motherboard has been replaced, and the server seems to be enjoying itself. Took less time than I feared.

Good luck with the new setup!

Karn

Howdie

Scheduled downtime: Monday, May 9th 2005. Hopefully for only a couple of hours.

I plan on putting in a new (uhh... well, at least, better) motherboard/memory/cpu, as the age of the server is starting to show.

Regards,

Karn

The accidental global ban has been lifted. Good to know that a lot of people are still playing this thing, though.

Karn

Serious problems with the game, apparently. I will try to reset the game periodically.

Karn

For anyone wearing a long, black cloak :

There is a small glitch with the item that can not be fixed while anyone in the game is wearing it. If you are wearing this item please remove it until we can fix the problem. If everyone cooperates we'll hopefully be able to fix it sooner. So if you see someone wearing a long, black cloak, please let them know.

Cedri

In case any of you wish for some nourishment, but no money to pay for it: there is a SoupKitchen on Madriel Avenue in Pendulis.

Regards,

Karn

Howdie, people of Karchan

Yes, we're back after one week. The server is running the new OS. Let's hope that never happens again, or at least not for a very long time.

Karn

Howdie, people

It is about time to update the server to a new version of Linux. This will take place sometime on Saturday, 22nd of January and will take a few hours. The game will be offline during that time.

First time I'm going to try a remote upgrade via the internet, so I don't actually need to be physically present!

Can you ph33l t3h 133t|\|355 !!1!

Karn

Happy Newyear to all!

Karn

Hello, people

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!

Karn

Howdie

I'm back from Thailand, so you will be seeing me on the mud more often again.

Karn

Howdie

Listen, I'm going to be gone for three weeks come Saturday. I'm going climbing in Thailand.

Keep the mud in one piece, and I'll see you all on the 12th of December.

Regards

Karn

Everyone knows that on and off people seem to have been disappearing from the room.

After talking with Kel, I knew in which direction to look. While going upstairs to bed, it hit me, so I went back downstairs and I think I fixed the bug on the spot.

If it does not happen again, I'll close the bugreports. I'll check tomorrow.

Now I really need some sleep.

Karn

There seem to be serious glitches with the mud. I'll see what I can do about it this evening.

Write bugreports (detailed ones, on how to reproduce the problem) so I can fix it.

Regards,

Karn

Howdie

Some information on the deputies situation (as requested). The only current active deputy is Desdamona, so there are basically open positions for 6. Check the FAQ on the website for requirements.

Regards,

Karn

Howdie, People

It is possible that the game might be unreachable for about an hour today. They're doing some work on the core switch or something.

Some things that are, presumably, working:

• pounce command
• goose command
• yawn command
• bots are talking again

Regards,

Karn

Howdie, People.

Some notes on Internet Explorer (and webbrowsers in general). When playing the game, cookies are set that enable you to fill out a charactersheet as well as add links to the link page and add bug reports. Several people reported that this does not work.

However, when starting a new webbrowser, these cookies are not present in the new webbrowser.

So, for instance with Internet Explorer, when opening an additional webpage in a new window (like links or charactersheets), please open a new window by clicking in the menu of your current Internet Explorer window and selecting File->New->Window instead of starting Internet Explorer a second time. This should fix the problem.

Pfew! One of my longest posts ever. I'll put it also in the FAQ.

Regards,

Karn

Howdie,

Fixed small bug. eyebrow command seemed to add a I do not understand that message. Doesn't anymore, though.

Karn

Howdie, people

I changed the me command back to the way it was, based on requests.

Karn

All righty then! Fixed some of them bugs on the list!

Karn

If you notice a bug in the game that you feel I should fix, perhaps the following link might help: Bug Reports.

Regards,

Karn

Made a small change. It is now possible to add links to the links page, and add your character sheet on the website without having to enter your name and password.

Requirement is that you are at the moment logged onto the game for this to work.

Karn

I added a more dynamic links page on the main website.

This linkpage makes it possible for you (if you have a character on Karchan) to add links to related websites. For example if you wish to add a personal homepage regarding Karchan or add a homepage of a guild of which you are the guildmaster.

I suggest you check it out!

Karn

Following stuff has been fixed (I hope):

• users are clickable in the room description
• I have a script in place that lets me import items from the old database, let me know by email (karn@karchan.org) or tell me in the game if you are interested.
• the public message board is again in operation. Use the commands public and readpublic at the road.

Karn

Following stuff has been fixed (I hope):

• cannot send mudmail to persons active in the game
• communication used to have different layout
• the titles do not work
• slashes are added when people use '.
• the external wholist doesn't work.

Karn

Am about to go on holiday to visit my brother in Italy. When I get back I plan on installing the new Java version of the mud, wether it is finished or not. Some functionality will be missing. I will return during the weekend of the 15th of May. Better hang on for a rough ride.

Karn

One of the partitions of the drive was full. It happened to be the partition that is used for storing the user logs.

Sorry about that. It was the reason communication was problematic. Have taken steps to prevent it from ever happening again.

Karn

Well, my home internet account has been reactivated, so I can maintain everything from home again.

Made some stupid mistakes in the php scripts. Fixed it, and the who list and everything works again.

Karn

Great! Just great! Well, here comes some of the crap I've had to deal with:

• my home cable internet connection is gone (they have shut me off because I was sending bad ips onto the network. I managed to trace the problem to a bad netmask, but they still have to reconnect me. What is it for way of working to first shut a persons connection down, and provide information only when I call. Sheesh, the calls alone are a disaster. Helpdesk reconnects me to the Technical Support. Technical Support reconnects me to the Misuse Department. Still isn't fixed, will have to call Tuesday.) Thank god I have Internet at work.
• my hosting company had an issue with their UPS, causing a reboot of several machines (not only mine). Seems to have been fixed and I restarted the mud server.
• I'll see what I can do about the who list.

Karn

I wish everyone a happy christmas and a happy new year!!!

Karn

Well, I got the emailaccounts up and running again. (you know, deputy@karchan.org and all that stuff.) I cannot make any promises about answering emails ofcourse.

Also added PHP support to the Apache server. If this does not mean anything to you, well, let me tell you it is damn cool stuff. I am redoing the whole cgi-script thingy in php as it takes way too much time to maintain. Check out the who list on the main page for an example.

Karn

Well, the initial problem was a little one. The disk partition was full. After deleting some files I restarted the server and suddenly nothing worked.

Well, I have no idea what is wrong, but after some god-awful hack I got things working for now. I have to get this program redone in Java and rather right now, before the whole thing comes crashing down. Anyone care to help?

In how far would you people mind if I get a preliminary version done in Java that works flawlessly, but most of the functionality will be gone? Or would you rather have the current situation, a shitty server program that restarts itself every 30 minutes but has items and whatnot.

Karn

Well, after compiling a new kernel, the server seems to be stable.

I think it is safe enough to switch back to DefCon 4.

Karn

Wow! The server crashed or something. I asked some people to reboot it, and it seems to work again. Do not know how long this will last. Will investigate. I suggest you pray.

Karn

Added Legolas back as dep.

I seem to have trouble being motivated enough to do something with the mud programming. I hope that changes sometime soon.

Karn

Hmmm, one of the things about upgrading to the new version of Linux is that we are running the new version of Apache (2.0) which I did not count on.

Had to do some fiddling. Hope everything's okay.

Karn

Yo! I upgraded the server to the new version of Linux. I hope everything works right out of the box. At least I have not found any problem yet...

Mail me if you do find something.

Karn

I have the privilege of announcing a new deputy added to the ranks.

Her name is Crissy.

Karn

w00t! w00t! The Cable Guy came by last Thursday and installed everything perfectly. I had to do some fiddlin' but I got it working right away.

All I have got to do now, is create the proper setup.

You would not believe how fast the connection is! The Speed is making me quite dizzy!! Some preliminary figures point to a download of 300 Kbytes/s.

I should be satisfied with my setup tomorrow evening, so I can devote some more time to the mud!

Karn

Came back from the con last Sunday. It was great! Especially liked Fruits Basket and Mahoromatic.

Karn

I'll be gone during the weekend. Going to a Dutch Anime Con that is held each year. I will try to log on on Monday to see what's up.

Sayonara, d00dz.

Karn

Essent @ Home called me on Saturday. Apparently the cable guy is going to come by on the 27th of February to fix my Cable internet.

*sigh* It's about bleeding time.

Karn

Well, apparently I had to do some more stuff to get that thing fixed. It should be fixed permanently now and healing and encumberance and all the other stuff should work again.

Regarding the items, apparently the items table was empty when I looked. I had to put back a backup from the previous day. It did not seem to be a database problem though.

Regarding my Cable Internet. It seems I will really receive a phone call one of these days. Here's to hopin'.

Karn

Well, some people claimed that the stats did not improve when you rest. I fixed it, I think. Sorry about that.

I would also like to welcome a new deputy into this realm, Desdamona. Way to go, Des!

Karn

Back from Italy, but most people already knew that.

Only thing I changed is that the News page of the web now contains a full history of all logonmessages since I started using this here CVS thingy.

Regards,

Karn

I am off to Italy for a spell (approx. one week) to visit me brother.

Take it easy on the mud, okay?

Karn

I don't know if any of you noticed but the game seems to become less and less responsive when more and more people are active. This is due to the fact that the server is single-threaded. (i.e. it executes a command sent by a user and then proceeds to the next)

I have recently made the mud multi-threaded. Every command to be executed is handled by a different thread. So, several threads (i.e. commands) can be handled in parallel which should increase the responsiveness of the game wonderfully.

However, this stuff is ofcourse still in beta so I have to do some stuff with it to find out if all is well.

On a side note, I only got a cdrom and manual with my cable internet because the repair-guy is supposed to bring all the necessary equipment I need with him. I am just waiting for a phonecall so I can make an appointment. Do you think he will call before the end of the year?

Anyway, to everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Karn

Got a package in the mail yesterday from Essent Cable Internet. I was really happy.

Opened it. Turned out to contain nothing but a manual for Karn's sake! What do I want with a manual? I need a cable modem and hardware, not a bloody manual.

I am sad again.

Karn

All righty then.

The Game now has a Land of Karchan - Main Soundtrack. The full mp3 version is available here, but a small wav version of the first thirty seconds is available here. Ofcourse, the mp3 has much better quality.

Where did I get this? At my place of work I know a person who calls himself Redheat, who makes Synthesizer music. He was kind enough to license two of his tracks to me for free distribution on my karchan.org website. You can find his website at http://www.red-heat.com. He has more scrumptious music to be downloaded there.

Bear in mind that I have licensed his music so I am allowed to distribute these two tracks through my website. If you wish to use these sound tracks as well, you will have to contact him yourself.

I hope you all like the music.

Karn

In light of recent events, I would like to remind everyone to read and abide by the Laws of Karchan. The Laws can be accessed by the link on the main page. Any severe disobeyment of these laws can, and probably will, result in a term of banishment that may extend until the end of time.

Kel

Dammit! It's 23:56 and still not sleepy.

I have recently started a project at SourceForge, in order to provide better facilities to anyone wishing to contribute. You may find my specific project (called MMud) both here and here. One of the facilities is for example to submit bug reports.

Several people reported that creating new characters did not seem to work. I checked it out, and they were right. It seems that the mud had some problems dealing with empty fields. Fixed it. Mail me if it happens again.

I usually only accept requests for deputyship via my official email address maarten_l@yahoo.com.
Current list of people interested in becoming deputy:

• Desdamona
• Krytt
• Katt
• Phorlian

Karn

Righty ho, the problem with the debugging statements is fixed. Should not happen again.

Karn

THe database was shot down by the operating system because it was taking up too much memory. Ah, well, that happens when any one program keeps running for approximately 200 days straight.

Restarted and now we have plenty of free memory again.

Karn

Current list of people interested in becoming deputy:

• Desdamona
• Krytt
• Katt
• Phorlian
• Hayden
• Ayane
• Kobi
• Rienn Iriydgrayne

Karn

Seeing as important and possibly security sensitive information has been removed from the source code and put into a nice config file, I don't see why I cannot provide people (read) access to the CVS Repository. The CVS Repository is the place where I work (and the deps, when they feel like it) on the source code. As such it always carries the latest and greatest changes. How this works can be found at www.cvshome.org .

Here is the info for you to access my source code through CVS:

• username: anonymous
• password: no password, just don't fill out anything
• proper commandline: cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@www.karchan.org:/karchan/mud/cvsroot <command>
• (You are ofcourse free to use another program to access my sourcecode. I hear WinCVS and TurtleCVS are quite nice Windows GUIs)

Regards,

Karn

Darnit, still not sleepy. Anyway, the latest addition to the mud is the fact that no longer are important information hard coded. The mud runs now by means of a configuration file. (Whooo! 22nd century technology!)

That, and I decided to make the logonmessage a little smaller due to increased demand.

Karn

Remember that I mentioned that sometimes you could get the white screen of death? Well, I think I fixed it. We should now get less white screens of death. Mail me at karn@karchan.org with which commands it is still possible to create the white screen of death.

Karn

Just finished with a new implementation that might make the game act wonky again.

Also, some emotes seem to be buggy. They will not crash the server, but give each individual user sometimes the white screen of death. Use the back-button on your browser to fix it.

Furthermore, I have decided to accept about three (3) new positions for deputy. Now all I need to do is dive into my emails of last few months to see who wanted to join. For more info, read the FAQ.

Karn

Some more good news: the mudmail seems to be fixed. I caught the bug and at the same time (as I was bored, anyway) I added some, I think, nice features to the mudmail system.

One of the little changes that you might have noticed is the extra little piece of text at the top of your screen. It contains the Version Number and last Compile Date/Time stamp of the new mud engine.

Sometimes the game will freeze up. This means that I screwed up and one of the commands used is the cause. What happens is that I fix it immediately and restart the game server. However, between the game freezing up and me resetting the game the game is unavailable.

Regards,

Karn

Sorry guys, I was away to A Campingflight to Lowlands which is a popfestival. But I resetted the game as soon as I came back today.

Karn

I am back from Croatia and I am still in one piece. It was a nice two weeks.

I am currently busy with a new implementation of the mud.

What does not work:

• sendmail (sending mudmail)

• HTML tags in commands
• bigtalk

Karn