Speedwalking Landmarks

Estarra

We're starting to add speedwalking landmarks to cities and communes. You'll only see them if you are in the city or commune and a member of that org. We are also including a few that are guild-only (i.e., speedwalk to your guild).

So far, we've enabled Magnagora only. If you have suggestions for your own org, feel free to let us know here! Keep in mind this is primarily to help new players move around (though they can be helpful to anyone!).

Estarra

FYI, here's what Magnagora's landmarks look like:

Notable locations within the City of Magnagora are:
           Cityzoo - City Zoo
          Megalith - Megalith of Doom
      Bloodtheatre - Theatre of Bloody Threnodies
      Necromentate - Pit of the Necromentate
      Necrocollege - Entrance to the College
      Necrolibrary - Library Atrium
   Necropostoffice - Postal Office
         Necrobank - City Bank
         Necronews - Literary Archives
    Necrowarehouse - Commodities Warehouse
          Midnight - Midnight Coliseum
         Bonehoard - Bonehoard
        Ixiiatower - I'Xiia Tower
      Dmuranitower - D'Murani Tower
   Silentcathedral - Silent Cathedral
     Marketcomplex - Market Complex
         Workhouse - Workhouse
       Darkportals - Portals of Magnagora
           Gorgulu - Monument to Gorgulu
        Baalphegar - Monument to Baalphegar
         Luciphage - Monument to Luciphage
         Nifilhema - Monument to Nifilhema
         Ashtorath - Monument to Ashtorath
        Blackpearl - Blackpearl Jewellers
         Ironbrand - Ironbrand Parlour
    Necropentagram - Enchanter's Pentagram
         Engineoil - Engine's Oil
       Nightsoigne - Nightsoigne Workshop
      Wailingwoman - Wailing Woman Inn
         Dreadhelm - Dreadhelm Forge
          Bloodink - Sanguine Bindery

 

Viynain

Suggestions for Gaudiguch could include:

The Eternal Flame (Nexus)

Illuminati Pyramid (GH)

Pyromancer Pyramid (GH)

Templar Pyramid (GH)

Gullagumbah Gallery (GH/Stage)

Gaudiguch Post Office (Post Office)

The Bank of Gaudiguch (Bank)

The Archives of the Illuminate Mysteries (Library)

Offices of the Gaudiguch Gossip (Newsroom)

The Portals of Gaudiguch (Portals)

A crowded commodities cache (Comm Market)

A fountain plaza deep in the bazaar (Marketplace)

Before the golden gates of the Pyrodome (Arena)

The house's best seats (Collegium)

The Gaudiguch Council Chamber (Council room)

A stall crowded with cages (Lizard purchaser)

Fetid kennels (Tracker hounds)

A fume-choked dome (Enchanter pentagram)

An illicit alchemist's workshop (Alchemist alembic)

A crowded jeweller's shop (Firejewels trade room)

A well-appointed workshop (Flameweavers trade room)

An alcove lined with pots and pans (Spicegulch trade room)

A crowded forge (Emberplate trade room)

A dingy press room (Gossipers trade room)

Before the tip of the Eternal Flame (Landmark: Drachou)

The House of Meditation (Landmark)

The Eyrie Roost (Landmark: Stables)

Arched foyer of the Palace of Pleasure (Landmark)

Foyer to the Menagerie of Perfected Flesh (Landmark)

The Laboratory of Mu (Landmark)

Before the massive Lava Falls (Landmark)

Dapper Dashro backroom (Landmark)

I'd personally toss in the 10 dreamcatcher rooms too, since those are important to the city, but I don't know if there's a cap or not. I could list them if you want though!

Lavinya

For the record, this is SUPER helpful. I remember being new and struggling on nexus, even with directions in scrolls. This is great for new players who don't have fancy mappers, and it's cleaner than reading directions scrolls and the like. Big thumbs up! (man it would have saved me some wandering when I was new)

Alacardael

Suggestion: if you're standing in a landmark room, you can reach landmarks up to 100 rooms away. Some villages (Rikenfriez comes to mind, plus the UV villages, I think) are more than 50 rooms away from other landmarks, and it's kind of difficult to get to for the new guy.

Ssaliss

For Glom:

            Master - Before the Master Ravenwood Tree (1337)
         Wyrdaltar - The altar to the Wyrd (18342)
             Drums - Meshwork of plants (1317)
       Wyrdstables - The Stables of the Wyrden Thorn (17177)
        Shadowvale - Grotto of Preparation (10919)
        Shadowmaze - Arched entrance to the Shadowmaze (13956)
               ??? - A branch in a subterranean tunnel (7722) (connects to shops and gambling)
        Blacktower - Inside the Black Tower (1427)
        Darkhammer - The Forge of the Darkhammer (7809)
       Shadowfeast - Shadowfeast Kitchens (7806)
     Glitteringweb - The Glittering Web (7808)
      Raventhreads - The Threads of the Raven (7807)
     Wyrdpentagram - A dimly-lit enchantment workshop (17991)
        Laboratory - Mystic laboratory (1431)
     Arcanelibrary - Arcane Library (1430)
      Nightchamber - Chamber of Night (1433)
           Gazette - The Glomdoring Gazette (7733)
          Wyrdbank - Ebonglom Bank & Trust (7731)
         Wyrdcache - Commodities cache (7730)
    Wyrdpostoffice - Dark Tidings Postal Service (7732)
       Glomportals - The Portals of Glomdoring (7747)
          Wyrdling - Lair of the Ebonglom Wyrdling (1469)
         Darkheart - The Grand Hall of the Dark Heart (13326)

Morshoth

I can't approve of this more!  This is a great idea!

Eventru

Alacardael said:

Suggestion: if you're standing in a landmark room, you can reach landmarks up to 100 rooms away. Some villages (Rikenfriez comes to mind, plus the UV villages, I think) are more than 50 rooms away from other landmarks, and it's kind of difficult to get to for the new guy.

The problem with expanding the distance is it creates an even larger processor draw. I've not looked at how it's coded, but I presume it's much the same as everything else of this nature. The bigger the radius the much, much bigger the draw.

Ssaliss

There's the solution of pre-calculating paths between landmarks though. So every (major) landmark has a stored path to every other (major) landmark. With major, I mean the non-org-based ones (i.e. the ones everyone has access to).

Ssaliss

Or, something that I'd rather see: Setting your own paths. So PATH USE <list of dirs> would allow you to set your own path of length 5, 10, 50, 100 or more. There'd probably have to be some limit though, of course (so no storing a path that's a thousand steps long), but it'd remove the processor from the equation.

Llandros

Is there a way to have them not go through specific areas? Like if the walker sends a newbie through the blasted lands it's almost certainly a death sentence.

With a gate from the city to that area I can see quite a few newbies coming home from their triumphant hunting or questing only to be murdered by the fancy path system.

Xenthos

Being able.to tell it to exclude certain areas from the path would be great (and I would expect that to decrease processor usage, if room is in a restricted area go no further up that path).

Then default certain areas to restricted (Blasted Lands, the seas with their waves, villages, and so on).

Might be more database storage per person, but could just make it only store if the user specifically sets the flag, otherwise it uses the global default. Also could limit it only to certain problem areas that can be so restricted, to make it an easier project.

Svorai

Yessssssss! Thank you so much!

Ssaliss

How possible would it be to allow people to set their own landmarks? Let's say I want one at Trader Bob, for instance; I'd just go to him and use LANDMARK HERE BOB to create a new landmark called "Bob" that worked like other landmarks.

Shaddus

Ssaliss said:

How possible would it be to allow people to set their own landmarks? Let's say I want one at Trader Bob, for instance; I'd just go to him and use LANDMARK HERE BOB to create a new landmark called "Bob" that worked like other landmarks.

SETALIAS GOBOB PATH WALK <Bob's Vnum>

Tandrin

Out of curiosity, how do you get a vnum for a room?  Is the only way from the ingame mapper or is there some command I don't know?

Enyalida

It also shows in gmcp.

Tylwyth

Tandrin said:

Out of curiosity, how do you get a vnum for a room?  Is the only way from the ingame mapper or is there some command I don't know?

PATH ROOMNUM for just the v# or CONFIG MAPVIEW ON. 

Sakaki

Tylwyth said:

Tandrin said:

Out of curiosity, how do you get a vnum for a room?  Is the only way from the ingame mapper or is there some command I don't know?

PATH ROOMNUM for just the v# or CONFIG MAPVIEW ON. 

Holy necropost batman!  (Seriously, the post was dated 2 years ago!)

Tylwyth

Hey Ididn't learn about  Path roomnum till about 2 years in. so.....