Fun-Day Fridays: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 13:21, 13 September 2025

A staff-wide effort to push out new weekly releases, pushed out every Friday. Because of a larger staff pool to rotate through, this project can accommodate releases that are a bit larger in scale than Tuesday Tidings.

Announcement

Hi folks!

We've had over 4 years (2020-2024 and still going, for now!) of weekly Tuesday Tiding releases coming from a small, 4-5 person team.  Team members have rotated in and out over time, but for us, we've liked having a set schedule (and rotation!) of project deadlines.  X GM knows that they have to release a project on Y date to keep the streak going.  We wanted to push this to a staff-wide effort.

Having more people in the pool to rotate through each "cycle" means a longer time between each individual's releases, and it brings some fresh input in the types of projects we're working on.  If there's one thing that Tuesday Tidings have proved, it's that there's a TON of little things we can do to keep improving the game!  But this longer timeframe also means that individuals can plan some of their bigger projects better because they have a target date to aim for.

So!  Lyneya announced it at SimuCon, but we're introducing a new Fun-Day Fridays series of releases.  Some of these may be smaller things like TT projects, or they may be new, bigger systems or areas or other types of projects.  Funny story -- Lyneya was meant to be project #1 during SimuCon the day it was announced, but we hit some hiccups and recovery post-con in getting her project out.  BUT!  Grejuva is picking up project #1 THIS week, and we'll hopefully see Lyneya's before next Friday!

Much more to come in the weeks/months ahead!  Stay tuned!  With that, I turn this over to Grejuva for his project!

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2024 • 2025

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Fun-Day Fridays (2024): #1 - #20

2025

January 2025

Fun-Day Fridays 21: The FLAGS command now has an option to toggle on ShowRoomID. This will let players see underlying room IDs, though it is still a work in progress. For now any rooms with special mechanics attached to them are excluded, but more will be evaluated over time for addition to the list.^[2]
Fun-Day Fridays 22: Opening of a new shop in the House of the Silver Star in Shard.^[3]
Fun-Day Fridays 23: Addition of new animated items to fight in Tref Dinta south of Leth Deriel.^[4]
Fun-Day Fridays 24: The disheveled architect has been added to the squat bungalow to sell customizable home blueprints to estate holders for 250 LTBs.^[5]
Fun-Day Fridays 25: Release of the Sorrow spell for Moon Mages.^[6]

February 2025

Fun-Day Fridays 26: Added HEALTH TOGGLE, which allows seeing numeric percentages for health, spirit, and fatigue from HEALTH, as well as in combat messaging. ^[7]
Fun-Day Fridays 27: New breaking & entering loot added to the armory and workroom.^[8]
Fun-Day Fridays 28: Update to inventory at Ocan's Bait and Tackle in Fang Cove. Bait, hooks, and lines are now in wearable containers, with lines and hooks of the same size consolidated into a single container.^[9]
Fun-Day Fridays 29: Introduction of new high level (180) creature near El'bain's Stop in Therengia, the thornkin. ^[10]

March 2025

Fun-Day Fridays 30: Addition of the FUME roleplaying verb. ^[11]
Fun-Day Fridays 31: Addition of the BOOP roleplaying verb. ^[12]
Fun-Day Fridays 32: Dokt has retired from his work as a healer, and opened up a new store in Knife Clan. ^[13]
Fun-Day Fridays 33: The LANGUAGE command has been updated to allow speaking Common with accents, based on race and citizenship. ^[14]

April 2025

Fun-Day Fridays 34: The rest of the guild renown scrolls have been updated to use the new system, where they will reset annually and have some tweaked criteria. ^[15]
Fun-Day Fridays 35: Updates to Embrace of the Vela'Tohr. Plants show how damaged they are in the active spell window, show what room they are in for Empath PERCing, and corpses can be healed by someone pointing the plant at them.^[16]
Fun-Day Fridays 36: Release of the new Advanced Combat Maneuver, RUSH. With a shield held in your left hand, allows you to jump to melee and perform a shield slam.^[17]
Fun-Day Fridays 37: Updates to Arnack's Tavern in Wolf Clan, adding a dart board, mud wrestling pit, bath, and some additional merchandise. ^[18]

May 2025

Fun-Day Fridays 38: Rearrangement of the murky caverns in the Zaulfung swamp to split basilisks and shadow beasts into separate hunting areas.^[19]
Fun-Day Fridays 39: Addition of the CUTTHROAT roleplaying verb.^[20]
Fun-Day Fridays 40: It is now possible to parry while holding a ranged weapon. ^[21]
Fun-Day Fridays 41: Gem cases have been fixed, and should be safe to use for displaying your gems, even on home surfaces. They can also be bought once again in the Ratha Trader Shop.^[22]
Fun-Day Fridays 42: Opening of the Colorful Cosmetics shop in Fang Cove, selling cosmetics and containers for them.^[23]

June 2025

Fun-Day Fridays 43: It is now possible for Warrior Mages with sufficient Summoning skill and Charisma to command familiars without needing to hold the talisman. It is also possible to use a free hand to summon a familiar via a worn talisman, and new chains for wearing talismans are available at Sierack's Reagents in Shard.^[24]
Fun-Day Fridays 44: Release of the new Advanced Combat Maneuver, DISTRACT. With a Small Edged or Small Blunt weapon that weighs no more than 30 stones, allows you to immediately slip into hiding as part of the attack.^[25]
Fun-Day Fridays 45: A new TASK option added for Traders, to run trade routes in exchange for money and Trading experience.^[26]
Fun-Day Fridays 46: Release of the new Thief ability, Khri Unburn. A reactor ability that allows reversing recently received damage from elemental sources.^[27]

July 2025

Fun-Day Fridays 47: A new window implemented in the Wrayth client for visually displaying your injuries. With a similar window for Empaths to show a patient's wounds when TOUCHed, with some basic click to heal functionality that could be expanded on in the future.^[28]
Fun-Day Fridays 48: New B&E loot in the Library and Sanctum.^[29]
Fun-Day Fridays 49: Addition of the AUTOCAST command, to allow automatically casting a spell when it is fully prepared, or after a specified number of seconds.^[30]
Fun-Day Fridays 50: Opening of a new shop in the House of the Gilded Longleaf near Shard. ^[31]

August 2025

Fun-Day Fridays 51: Re-opening of the Quest Nexus, with a new shared prize suite and currency in the form of nexus moments. The currently available quests are Akigwe's Legacy and Prison Riot: The Aftermath.^[32]
Fun-Day Fridays 52: Release of a new creature in the Ker'Leor area with a vicious streak a mile wide.^[33]
Fun-Day Fridays 53: A new caravan route added to Therengia, between Riverhaven and Therenborough, making use of the Gyfford Bridge.^[34]
Fun-Day Fridays 54: An expansion to Feta's Kitchen in Arthe Dale, offering catering services to fill picnic baskets.^[35]
Fun-Day Fridays 55: Release of the REVEAL verb, which removes invisibility and resets the timer on pulsing invisibility.^[36]

September 2025

Fun-Day Fridays 55: Update to the INVENTORY command to provde a number of new search options, as well as showing the full tap of items in the results instead of just the sort.^[37]
Fun-Day Fridays 56: Release of the new frost troll creature, a roughly level 180 opponent found in Seord Kerwaith.. ^[38]

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