Starmourn Game News

Previous Article | Back to News Summary | Next Article
Announcements News Post #373

Design plurals!

Written by: Fiendish Damiel, Pew Pew Pew
Date: Wednesday, March 16th, 2022
Addressed to:


Designers!

You will now see that your designs have a 'plural' field. This is the phrase used when the item is dropped and appears as grouped in the room, for example if you drop 3 items called 'a bag of grishki flavored popkern' and the noun is 'popkern', up until this point the system would default to either whatever plural desc we have set on the base item, or it just pluralises the noun if we haven't... so it could say:
'3 bags of popkern are here' or '3 popkerns are here'

It also wouldn't differentiate between different types of that kind in the room, so you could drop 5 different cookies and it would just say '5 cookies are here'.

Well, this is now fixed! From here on in you may either leave the default plural desc or set your own! The character limit is slightly more than the appearance field at 70ch. You do not need to add the start or end of the sentence - JUST the descriptor, so like...
'bags of grishki flavored popkern' or 'sizzling zhubeast steaks' or 'comfortable beds, piled up with layers of soft blankets'
It will always start with a number and end with 'are here'.

Also, I have made it so that designed liquid containers now show what's in them when dropped, and only show their designed 'dropped' field when empty. So the dropped field on designed cups/glasses should always presume that they are empty.

I have increased the character limit for the 'dropped' field to 120ch (was 100) and the action/event fields to 350 each (were 300).

Any questions, feel free to ask. Any bugs, please submit a bug!

Hope this is helpful!

Damiel <3


Previous Article | Back to News Summary | Next Article
An aged, retro computer console with a prominent, blocky form occupies the foreground. Its screen displays "Storytellers Wanted" in a glowing, emerald green, pixelated font reminiscent of classic video games.

Join the Team! Recruiting Storytellers for the Starmourn Sector

Open call for Storyteller applications! The Storyteller role for Starmourn has grown a lot and now offers much more flexibility for the creative-minded spacers who choose to rise to the occasion. We are looking for folks who would like to peak behind the curtain and run events, create areas, puppet NPCs and the like. I…
Read More
New Feature: Looking for Group! The image depicts a three-person crew approaching a craggy mountainside with a glowing crack up the facade, seemingly an entrance to some kind of adventure.

Ready for a legendary team up? Try our newest feature: Looking For Group

For those days when you want to do a group activity, but don’t know how to ask. Now you can tag yourself via Looking For Group, and you can see a list of anyone who’s already flagged themself for a group activity. Looking for Group (LFG) Syntax Players also have access to an LFG channel…
Read More
Two humanoid figured in cloaks stand atop a stairwell, reaching out to each other. The background is all clouds and floating castle islands in comforting blue-gray shades. Golden text above the figures reads "Play With Friends"

Referral System Now Live! Refer A Friend for New Adventures today.

The revamped Referral System is now live! Got a friend who would actually click with Starmourn, or a returning veteran you have been trying to lure back? We just made it easier to bring them in, and you both get rewarded for sticking with it as they play. Read HELP REFERRALS for all specifics and…
Read More