Shattered Realms MUD / News: Recent posts

I'd like to say goodbye and a heartfelt thank you to Nip, our Senior Developer.
After working with us for 2 years of countless contributions, Nip has informed me that he has to move on. Nip has helped us expand and grow more than any single other developer on Shattered Realms MUD, and we will all miss him. We wish him well in his future ventures.

I just wanted to give a quick update. Our development is still underway, as we are setting up a new 'sandbox' machine to work with. Though things may not appear to be changing much to the outside observer, we are actually entering a new period of intense work.
We are working on game changes within SR as well as new developments within our mudlib.
After we have completed the current phase of changes, I plan to do a 'point release' of our mudlib.
A tentative time goal for this is within 6-8 months.

Shattered Realms Mud reached what we believe may be a record for LPC muds. We remained up for 29 days. We are compiling the latest/last release of the MudOS driver now, and anticipate better uptimes after the upgrade. We expect to break the 30 day record, and hope to reach 60 days of continuous uptime. Check back for more news!
Note that none of this would have been possible without Nip's skill and dedication, as well as the rest of the Shattered Realms development team. Good work!

We are currently in beta stage for the Ranger guild. This means we will evaluate and test the guild over the next few months. The guild may end up changing in different ways over that period of time, so do not be surprised as these changes happen, if you are a beta tester. I believe this guild will add a new dimension to the game.

We are having a lot of interesting discussions in our forums - everything from sleeping, eating, and drinking to dragging your platemail around. Join in the forums and make your opinion heard!

We have added two new documents in the Docs section of our project. One is an outline of how our documentation will be done, and the other is a doc on the Laws of Magic and what they mean to Shattered Realms. Very interesting reading on that one, read between the lines, folks!!!

I have opened forums for discussion of Shattered Realms. This will be a great way to keep track of ideas, decisions, and issues. Please be sure to visit them. Also, there is a general survey available for demographic purposes. Feel free to cast your votes!

It will take us a few days to move to Sourceforge, and begin to take advantage of what it offers. Everyone's patience in this transitionary time is appreciated.

We are a newly opened Sourceforge project. WOOHOO!!