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                    JOURNAL FOR THURSDAY 9TH JANUARY, 2014
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SUBJECT: Accounts and basic character creation
   DATE: Thu  9 Jan 21:46:06 GMT 2014

The silly season is behind us for another year. Work has started up again.
WolfMUD Wednesday was yesterday.

The account driver is coming along nicely. Currently I can create a new
account. Soon I should be able to create a very basic character as well. Once
complete people should not have to manually create player files any more.
Players will be able to either log into their account as they do now or just
press enter to start the new account and character creation process.

Once that is done I think it will be time to release a PROTOTYPE3. Which may
take a little longer to put together than usual...

The reason being due to a nice email I received asking if I could package the
binaries differently. So from PROTOTYPE3 onwards all of the binary downloads
are going to be complete with the executable and resources in a single .zip or
.tgz file. Then all people have to do is download, unpack and play. No more
multiple downloads or having to work out where to put data files. This should
make things much easier for everyone in the long run.

The only reason I've not done been doing this is duplication of data. My
initial thoughts were to have a common resource download applicable to all of
the binaries across the supported platforms. However feedback has shown that
people would prefer to simply download, unpack and run.

Then the question is should I repackage PRTOTYPE1 and PRTOTYPE2 for
consistency?

--
Diddymus


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