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Old 04-29-2003, 01:22 AM
Tyhm Tyhm is offline
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Messenger=Perfect Newbie Job.

You can carry things. You don't know the world very well. You're given a package (an empty box really - special NPC) and an arrow appears over your head, GTA1 style, pointing you towards the right ferry dock if you're on main or the right house if you're on the destination island. You're given free passage on the ferry (so the minimum postage is 10p for a round trip) and an hour to reach your destination. If the package does not arrive in that hour, the control system destroys that package and puts a new one just like it in the stock room. If you trade the package to the right door, you get the postage and some experience, the package is removed and the real package is transferred to that player's house.

Postmen have a similar system. A package of letters is dropped at the post office (automatically, but to keep up appearances an empty box is shipped there from the Bombo Post Office every week). Each letter, when equipped (weapon-letters, similar to the false packages) shows an arrow to the destination.

I could do the arrows with showpoly really...just need to figure out a clever way to find a house on an island.
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