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Coding ideas

☐ Empty ☑ Tick ☒ Cross For any players not on the staff side of the MUCK feel free to take a look at this list, but it may not make a great deal of sense if you haven't seen the code.

• ☑ Make indentation consistent [Happening as I edit code]

- It just makes code easier to read, enables code folding, and lining up corresponding if/then statements makes the code vastly easier to parse! (Yes, I know two of those points are the same, but it's an important one)

• ☐ Add prop to players that have womb/other private rooms so they can be found without looping through all room objects - it would just make more sense and improve efficiency
• ☐ Write a parameter checking function - basically an improved checkargs to highlight more clearly when incorrect parameters are passed
  • Check number of supplied parameters is actually on the stack
  • Check type of arguments
  • Something like "str:foo int:bar dbref:baz any:qux" checkparams
    • Check stack depth
    • Split on ' ' and foreach in reverse order
    • Split on ':' into type,name
    • If top of stack matches type, add to dict of parameters by name
    • Would be handy for checking the parameters are all present and of the specified type, instead of just pulling the top 'n' things off the stack and breaking with a generic error if the wrong things were passed in. (The check could produce a more detailed error message - "[funcname] called from line [x] of [calling program] expected parameters [x,y,z] but got [a,b,c]" or something)
• ☐ Unify use and +use
• ☐ Merge/replace hasBoxItem with findBoxItem - they both seem to do the same thing
  • hasBoxItem returns 0 or 1
  • findBoxItem returns the slot the item is found in or 0
  • findBoxItem could therefore be used for any binary checks that hasBoxItem is currently used for
  • hasBoxItem has caching due to many calls from combat code, so that would need considering if merging the functions
• ☐ Find the various places the bodypart list ({ "arms" "ass" "legs" "cock" "head" "torso" "skin" }) is referenced and centralise it.
• ☐ Add more RP details
  • Chastity belt affects player sex too not just NPCs? - Liquid/gel/goo players able to escape?
  • Scent always comes from skin, even if all other mutations are another species - maybe switch scent to the majority infection as per the new glance code
  • RP tick credit for players in womb room/zipper
• ☐ Encourage RP in more areas
  • Extend RP hotspot to multiple locations
  • Needs some kind of frequently visited/RPd at tracking system - pot log tidying process maybe keep a summary when the log is cleared?
• ☐ Fix rpo command, and add functionality
  • Option to randomise order
  • Indicate next person to pose?
  • Indicate previous people that posed, for rule-of-3 type groups (rule-of-n?)
• ☒ Collect all fluid production/capacity functions for milk and cum into a single library, and update existing code to refer to it as necessary [Being handled by Hex~]
• ☐ Rewrite +groin to merge actual and real size functions to remove duplicated code
• ☐ Allow setting player options directly instead of through the editplayer menu
  • Something like editplayer <option>=<value>
• ☐ Sort +gear/prove output in logical groups rather than alphabetical order
  • Keep infection props of children together, rather than having them split up by the father prop
• ☐ Use item tags to organise all items
  • Make sure to include a 'not to be handed out by +reward' tag!
    • 'availability' - used to prevent recipes showing up if they're in-progress, only available via an NPC, or other limited sources. Text field. Code (currently) only checks for existence.
    • 'reward?' - if defined, means the recipe is not valid for +reward. Should probably be renamed 'no reward'. Currently binary.
    • 'no bounty' - if defined, means the recipe is not valid for bounties (faction, top tier, makes multiple, etc). Possibly convert to enum? Code only seems to check for existence and in a couple of cases, if it contains the string "No Mako".
• ☐ Make commands consistent
  • command vs +command vs @command - IC/OOC/backend?
  • command/subcommand vs command #subcommand - second form would simplify command action naming
• ☑ Reformat xp for improved readability.
• ☐ Automated wiki update check
  • Open a +request automatically for anyone that's updated more than a threshold amount on the wiki to award mako
  • Would allow for checking it's useful and not spam
• ☐ Client-parsable navigation data
• ☐ Lore ideas:
  • Vegas
  • Los Angeles, since game takes place in California
  • How supernatural entities exist, sustain their presence, influence the world, etc.
    • How they work out of bubble, have similar powers to nanites
  • State of nanite research
    • Use of surface protocols to use nanite mesh communication system for in-bubble comm network by RSX and Zephyr
  • Headshot mutant power
  • Dr Irving NPC at Tanuki's shrine - why still so hostile after a full decade
  • Why manticore infection is only on kaiju island despite its natural size
• ☐ Make newbie status consistent (duration of 'NEW' status seems to vary depending on where you look)
• ☐ Add current patrol points to renew patrol command
  • Perhaps also add a renew patrol number to renew to a specific number?
• ☐ Extend class/player colouring to everywhere classes/players are listed