19th May 2012 - Home Location and New Ideas

Well, not a lot to show today as I've been mainly working on the inner workings, but I have decided on a new home location: Prifddinas.

Here is an extract from the RuneScape Wiki about Prifddinas:

Prifddinas is a word in the Welsh language which means "Capital City". It is the oldest surviving settlement in Gielinor. It is roughly 12,000 years old. The city cannot currently be accessed by players. Prifddinas is one of the few places that is displayed on the World Map but is inaccessible.

For the time being, it just has some banks, a hairdresser, the Make-over Mage and a general store. I plan to add an array of different tier monsters around the flat grassland. I will also add a handful of other relative shops, some fires for cooking, some low level trees and rocks, some portals and maybe a board to show who is currently on the server.

 I have made a command that dumps NPC spawn data in XML format to make spawning NPCs a lot easier. It gets the ID, location, walking locations and name automatically.


 I've also created a new class called CoreSettings which will hold a lot of variables, so that the server is easily editable.


Most of my time today was spent tampering with Thieving. It currently loops a pickpocket about 8 times before crashing the server. Skills that need to be written or re-written include:

• Thieving (crashes server);
• Fletching (crashes server);
• Prayer training (prayers work);
• Runecrafting
• Crafting
• Slayer
• Fishing
• Cooking
• Firemaking

These skills are my main focus for the next few months, after I have made a few tweaks to existing content first.

To conclude, here are a few other thoughts I have had that are still in the thinking stages:

• 3 Primary quests; one for ancient magic, one for lunar magic and the other for a large, dwarven firing device.
• A short, compulsory "tutorial island", unique to SinScape;
• A room of shame, where you can throw tomatoes at rule-breakers, giving use to the item: Disk of returning;
• Hell;

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