Hee hee, had to bring back the wave.
But seriously - as it stands, servers start blank. If you want a really simple HP System, I think Stefan has one scripted...somewhere...it's actually in an announcement under the NPC Scripting Tutorial in the NPCs forum. It may or may not be in the wiki. It may or may not be in graal.net. It may or may not still be supported.
It's just too distributed. Why not start servers off with a single set of simple, supported scripts?
I'm working on simple baddies
on the Playerworlds Main forum (as part of an effort to make sure they're globally available)...anything else? Serverside movement control, scripted damage system, chat-override...?
A variation on a theme: What if Graal had its own compression filetype? Nothing fancy, just renamed Zip files - any archive technology that allows multiple files within a single folder-structure...that way, one could distribute Serverside Baddies in one file instead of
1) Download the zip
2) Unzip to a folder on your desktop
3) Move the graphics to your server's graphics folder
4) Move the ganis to your server's gani folder
5) Move the sample level to your server's levels folder, rename if necessary
6) Open the text file
7) Select a script (not including the header with class-name)
8) Copy and paste that script as a new Joinable class
9) Repeat steps 7 and 8 for all other Join Scripts
10) Copy the Baddy NPCs into all applicable levels
11) [finally] script your doors, dungeons, etc. around the baddies.
Steps 1-9 could be condensed to:
1) Download the GPack file.
2) On RC, hit Install GPack. If anything's a file-name-overlap, rename as necessary.
10) Copy the Baddy NPCs into all applicable levels
11) [finally] script your doors, dungeons, etc. around the baddies.
I know it'd make MY life easier...plus you could backup your entire server into one GPack file (an option ONLY available to owners, as the possibility of abuse is way too high for disgruntled LAT Admins), restore your entire server, copy it to dev, etc...