Hello, I don't know all of the exact terms used to explain it all but the skills can still be looked up when needed. Just not using the skill_lookup function. Most of these changes happened one day when I was working on the nanny function. That is where that bit of code I posted comes from.. ch->pcdata>learned.. Thats how players get the default weapon in rom before entering the mud.
In regards to the skills, I noticed one day that not everything was parsed as mutilple words yet having the same meaning. Once I used Erwins online skill/spell setting and while I could, setskill mage magic, I was not able to setskill mage magic missle. Then another version came out I think.. Anyway.. I don't have the space in the name of the skills anymore.. So in a sense, I guess the skill name can be used as a gsn or for skill lookups if needed. I moreless was able to keep modifying things and as I found different examples, just incorportated some of those.. As I had mentioned, the code I submitted in the last post comes directly from rom.. To see how to use a system without slot numbers like diku, merc, rom, then check out Envy 2.0 or 2.2. All of the different examples are already online. I just hadn't looked back at this or how I had done in years... I was making on these changes back when I posted on how to remove the alignment and groups from the login screen back in 1997 I think.. Was along time ago.. I can't really make a snippet since it required making changes to every file and the majority of the source code.. But there is information out there about this. Thats how I figured it out back then. Also, if you ever create a system using python, lua or something to load/unload skills on the fly, the name is what gets used, not a gsn or slot number.. Russ didn't really make major changes here in a sense.. If you look at Merc 2.1 after years of coding on Rom.. Well, Rom looks just like Merc.. nanny and all the old architecture is still there. The difference is all the added features coded into Rom, finishing of the flags and so forth.. Only thing I can say is to look at how people are writing c muds today.. Everything is much more advanced than a diku/merc deriv..New networking code, libraries, scripting engines like lua and python and everything else. Sourceforge.net has 1000's of mud servers showing everything from custom scripting, new sockets / programming code and more.. I've seen docs on using entities too as that can be used to replace allot of extra stuff that is hardcoded into rom.. I think overall that it's ashame that people think that Rom is forever Rom.. Just because it was coded that way doesn't mean it has to stay.. I am by far an expert and I've had my share of trial and error problems along the way but there is so much more that can be done.. Look at Smaug and Rom.. Both built atop merc, two very different directions in terms of how they were coded and how the gameplay is between the two..Rom is just so hardcoded that it takes allot of work to get it to do something that isn't or wasn't meant to be rom specific. Chris
