ArianneMeeting200810

Important topics

• Features to be included in the next release of Stendhal
• Preparation of an event for the missing NPC called Susi
• Adoption of "Community feel"-enhancing splash screen voting system
• Easing the players' transition to the new damage system
• Evaluation of the effective use of IRC, forums, trackers...
• Talking about ways to improve interpersonal relations inside the project.

Decisions taken

• Gates for the flowerground aren't ready to be included in the 0.71 release.

• Make food healing faster for some standard foods: meat, ham, cheese by a bit. [done]
  • Soup could probably heal 1% of the total hp rather than constant 25.

• Newbies don't really learn about potions:
  • Carmen could give them away the first potion for free as they pass by.
  • When they receive their potion they are told about using it and of the advantages of potions
  • [Postponed at least until 0.72] Carmen can tell newbies to bring arandula to Ilisa to get more potions:
    • Herbs (arandula, kekik, kokuda) can be collected for potions
    • Herbs can be spread randomly around the zone (not growing likely on the same place every time) to prevent people from camping the grove.
    • Potions can be given as part of a quest or produced (not swapped directly)

• Newbies need to get potions easierly:
  • Gnome village is not an obvious place to get to for newbies:
    • If players have leveled enough (perhaps levels 4 - 6), NPC Garbiddle can give a normal sized potion away for free and tell them to go to gnome village to get more minor potions.
    • Put a path to there from semos plain n [done]
    • Monogenes can give instructions/map to it
  • Swap easily-gotten food items for potions:
    • Leander (the pizza chef) could buy cheese (ham maybe and funghi, spinachi) for money as he needs it for pizza. [cheese: done] This idea is quantitatively extended here

• Prepare an event for the missing NPC named Susi:
  • Pre-raid (server-only minor release, not a normal release like 0.71): to fix portals, add creature types but not needing new images [done]
  • Post-raid release (server-only minor release, unless 0.71 happens to be actually ready by then): to fix the the ados npcs who talk about susi being missing.
  • Write a draft of the roles played in the raid

• Have a polling system to vote for splash screens:
  • Users can submit images for each release splash screen, these images are then put in a poll and voted and the most voted image is included in next release
  • A previously displayed image is eligible for next release too.
  • There will be picture moderators, to prevent inadequate or offensive images and they will have a veto to declare the poll null (e.g. in case someone decides to script the voting system)
  • There's left to decide if wiki [see e.g. SplashScreens] or tracker will be the way for users to submit their images. This is to be done in a forum thread started by osl.
  • osl will manage the poll and compose a page with all the candidates.

• Get players more aware of damage system mechanics:
  • show "base_atk x weapon" rather than "base_atk + weapon" in the client: "base_atk x (weapon + 1)" would be even closer to be correct.
  • display level (and possibly xp needed for next level) in character window.

• osl will open a forum thread to set a date for next GM meeting

• There wasn't an agreement about when to use each medium (IRC, forums, mailing lists, ...) but it was suggested to check/use regularly more of them and not just IRC.

• Interpersonal relations were talked about, which was actually the point of it all and not coming to any particular conclusion.

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