RE: [SMAUG] help setting newbie area

["Eos" <Smaug@auricmud.com>]

In mud.h search for the following text:

Well known room virtual numbers.

Those rooms respecitvely defined are:

Limbo, where players go when linkdead/idle too long
The supermob's room.
The immortal meeting room
The default recall point
The default altar
*The first room of the school 
*The room where players start the game
The room where pkillers go/pkill city.

The asterisks are there because depending on how you set your system, if
you disable wait_for_auth, people will go immediately to the school as
the starting point, bypassing whatever starting point you have setup.

You can find a similar section by searching for:

Well known object virtual numbers.

Which includes simple things like money, corpses, and academy equipment.

Those vnums can be changed to reflect the vnums of where you have those
things, or referenced so you can actually find those things yourself to
look at what the defaults look like.

To set the name of your mud you use the command cset:
cset mudname thenameofyourmud
Cset save

To change the name of the MUD shown during login, you will need to edit
the helpfile, greeting.
hedit greeting

To change to the ascii picture shown during login after the main page
you will need to change the file in your system directory called
mudtitle.asc, mudtitle.rip, or mudtitle.ans depending on which you wish
to change.

If you have additional questions, please try to ask them in as much
detail as you can, different people have different terms for things, and
it can cause uncertainty as to which question you were really asking. In
your case "default vnums" and your reference to setting vnums leaves me
uncertain whether you're asking how to change what I've given you or if
you are asking how to use aset in general, or how to renumber an area,
or several other possibilities for what you could mean.

| -----Original Message-----
| From: owner-smaug@game.org [mailto:owner-smaug@game.org] On 
| Behalf Of soshi
| Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 4:49 PM
| To: smaug@realms.game.org
| Subject: [SMAUG] help setting newbie area
| 
| 
| this is my first time building up from the ground, so please 
| bear with me if i seem totally obtuse.
| 
| I'm working on a new newbie area, only i don't know how to 
| set the vnum of the newbie starting area. likewise, i do not 
| know how to set default vnums. It was much easier back when i 
| used smaugWIZ and just had to type it in. If anyone can 
| inform me how to do this, i'd be very grateful.
| 
| Also, i do not even know how to set the MUD name. help with 
| that would be nice too. 
| 
| Thanks very much
| -soshi