Stendhal Development Meeting 2010-06-08/Result Log

The next meeting is planned for Sunday 20th June at 2000-2100 server time (do /info in game to check server time) which is 1800-1900 GMT.

Contents 1 Stendhal introduction translation 2 Help for new players 3 Costumes 4 Equipping items 5 Min level for more items 6 Marking dangerous areas 7 Marking paths on the minimap

Stendhal introduction translation

• Category:Stendhal Introduction has some translations for the Stendhal introduction text and we asked for help:

• New translations of the text for other languages
• Corrections to existing translations

• Perhaps the Rules should be translated too?
• Other projects have started to translate the game itself into other languages but it is not something our team pursues, and the other teams seem to give up after a short time

Help for new players

• It is really nice when higher level players help lower level players but we cannot force this
• Mostly people think the system of help from other players already works well and they are grateful for help
• The reward is feeling involved
• non coward creatures to kill on the first zone

Costumes

• New costumes can be made from charas or by hand
• We should explain the Graphics specification at StendhalRefactoringGraphics

Equipping items

• New players don't realise how to equip armor
• A tutorial event to explain this when you get new armor would help
• If you could see the 'character' window of another player you can see what they wear and so if they understood about equipment yet #3016681
• A guided tutorial which you work through was suggested (explaining all skills needed)

Min level for more items

• Lower level items don't yet have min levels
• It was suggested it would be fairer and more interesting for new players to add them
• You can make a list of the itemname and the level plus a reasoning of what that min level fits #3016679

Marking dangerous areas

• Zones where the creatures are dangerous for your level could have a warning
• RP is balanced enough that we can calculate danger levels, we'd need to include creature numbers
• Perhaps it is simpler just to mark the zones dangerous for low level players and draw it directly on the maps
• A list of zones with a minimum level may also help
• It's not decided how the warning would appear visually - skull and crossbones is an idea
• First step is to code a /script that gathers some statistics: #3016677
  • media:Zone statistics without collision.xls

Marking paths on the minimap

• Marking paths on the minimap would help new and old players
• They shouldn't use non-PVP (protected) areas just to do the marking, it should be a new map layer
• We need help drawing the paths: pimp was the first volunteer