Up to Main Index Up to Journal for October, 2016 JOURNAL FOR THURSDAY 6TH OCTOBER, 2016 ______________________________________________________________________________ SUBJECT: Finally a public dev branch update! With accounts! DATE: Thu 6 Oct 21:53:31 BST 2016 I have just pushed all of my recent work to the public dev branch - including account and player creation! Yes, people can create an account and a player and log into the server properly. Yay, finally! But I'm not happy :( It still needs more work, especially the layout of messages which look cramped and a bit messy. A typical example of creating an account and player: >telnet -e~ 127.0.0.1 4001 Telnet escape character is '~'. Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to 127.0.0.1. Escape character is '~'. WolfMUD Copyright 1984-2016 Andrew 'Diddymus' Rolfe World Of Living Fantasy Enter your account ID or just press enter to create a new account, enter QUIT to leave the server: > Your account ID can be anything you can remember: an email address, a book title, a film title, a quote. You can use upper and lower case characters, numbers and symbols. The only restriction is it has to be at least 10 characters long. This is NOT your character's name it is for your account ID for logging in only. Enter text to use for your account ID or just press enter to cancel: >ThisIsFred Enter a password to use for your account ID or just press enter to cancel: >Don'tTellAny1 Enter your password again to confirm or just press enter to cancel: >Don'tTellAny1 Enter a name for your character or just press enter to cancel: >Fred Would you like Fred to be male or female? >male Welcome Fred! Main Menu --------- 1. Enter game 0. Quit Select an option: >1 [ South Bridge ] You are standing on the west side of an incomplete bridge. By the looks of it the city wants to expand onto the far banks of the river. Up river to the north you can see another bridge in a similar state of construction. The only exit you can see from here is west. > Now if there are any problems when creating a player/account: >telnet -e~ 127.0.0.1 4001 Telnet escape character is '~'. Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to 127.0.0.1. Escape character is '~'. WolfMUD Copyright 1984-2016 Andrew 'Diddymus' Rolfe World Of Living Fantasy Enter your account ID or just press enter to create a new account, enter QUIT to leave the server: > Your account ID can be anything you can remember: an email address, a book title, a film title, a quote. You can use upper and lower case characters, numbers and symbols. The only restriction is it has to be at least 10 characters long. This is NOT your character's name it is for your account ID for logging in only. Enter text to use for your account ID or just press enter to cancel: >ThisIs Account ID is too short. Needs to be 10 characters or longer. Enter text to use for your account ID or just press enter to cancel: >ThisIsFred Enter a password to use for your account ID or just press enter to cancel: >fred Password is too short. Needs to be 10 characters or longer. Enter a password to use for your account ID or just press enter to cancel: >Don'tTellAny1 Enter your password again to confirm or just press enter to cancel: >Don'tTellAnyOne Passwords do not match, please try again. Enter a password to use for your account ID or just press enter to cancel: >Don'tTellAny1 Enter your password again to confirm or just press enter to cancel: >Don'tTellAny1 Enter a name for your character or just press enter to cancel: >Fred Would you like Fred to be male or female? >x Please specify male or female. Would you like Fred to be male or female? >m The account ID you used is not available. Enter your account ID or just press enter to create a new account, enter QUIT to leave the server: > It works, but things soon becomes just a sea of text. Maybe adding colours - which I wasn't going to start doing yet - would help? Some of the code still needs sorting out and cleaning up as well. There is also the slight issue of someone picking an account ID that is already taken - they have to repeat the creation process over again. So that needs fixing as well. Anyway for now, while I'm working on cleaning and fixing things, you can now spin up your own server and have actual players. And I *promise* not to break the player data files any more after this update. I would really love to release an official WolfMUD v0.0.1 on Halloween. Whether I manage to or not we shall see... -- Diddymus Up to Main Index Up to Journal for October, 2016