Installing Arxcode?

[icanbeyourmuse]

For how Cobalt wants to use Simple Inventory there is a small problem: All items need to be added via the admin panel on the website. So, players can’t really use it as something to craft without putting in a request for their cool item to be added. I have the 3 plugins Cobalt wants installed on Atharia. I considered using it to simulate crafting too but that The ‘money’ is connected to Luck. I didn’t look to hard on how easy/hard it would be to change its currency.

[bear_necessities]

maybe a stupid question but would this even be worth doing on Ares? I play 99.5% through the portal, never look at people’s descs, and would have no idea if they had pretty colored clothes or not.

[Faraday]

@icanbeyourmuse said in Installing Arxcode?:

All items need to be added via the admin panel on the website. So, players can’t really use it as something to craft without putting in a request for their cool item to be added

Very true, but that’s still a potentially viable option.

There’s all kinds of potential implementations here, from total honor system, to a +request driven inventory system, to a full-fledged crafting system. You could also do a hybrid, like extending simpleinventory or the existing desc plugin without going full-bore crafting code.

@bear_necessities said in Installing Arxcode?:

I play 99.5% through the portal, never look at people’s descs, and would have no idea if they had pretty colored clothes or not.

You can still see peoples’ descs on the portal, but I don’t know how many actually care to look.
(Though from my adesc, I’m not sure how many bother to look in-client either. YMMV.)

[somasatori]

If I recall @Jumpscare did something with Evennia that has a good crafting system. I didn’t roll a crafter on Silent Heaven when I did (Simon was a disgraced med student), but it looked super cool. Maybe that might be compatible?

[Pavel]

@bear_necessities said in Installing Arxcode?:

never look at people’s descs

Well, that’s just rude. We took the time to write the damn things.

[Tez]

@Pavel That’s what you think. I’ve seen some ChatGPT in my day.

[Pavel]

@Tez Well. We took the time to copy and paste them!

[dvoraen]

@Tez I’ve seen some TezGPT too. For reasonable rates, I hear.

[Jennkryst]

… unrelated, but not me side-eyeing code again to try and get an L5R thingy going again.

[Cobalt]

@bear_necessities Right, using ares I would drop the visual part of pretty clothing and items would become props that add modifiers to rolls rather than an art form.

[hellfrog]

@Cobalt art sucks no one looks at art

[Griatch]

@Cobalt

Alas, as is outlined in the old tutorial, Arxcode is maintained by the Arx folks and not by Evennia devs.

I wrote that tutorial as a service back then when it made sense (and it did indeed easily install at the time, promise!) … but at this point I don’t think ArxCode has kept up with Evennia development (it was using an old Evennia version already when it was created, it’s even still on Python2).

I’ll check in with Tehom if there are plans to update the tutorial (or Arxcode).

[Jumpscare]

@somasatori said in Installing Arxcode?:

If I recall @Jumpscare did something with Evennia that has a good crafting system. I didn’t roll a crafter on Silent Heaven when I did (Simon was a disgraced med student), but it looked super cool. Maybe that might be compatible?

I could pull out my crafting code and allow you all to shred it to bits.

I’m mired in to-dos, but remind me in about a week and I’ll look into it.