Well, as... we all... know, after christmas, my family goes on a ski vacation. This year, we will be going too Tacos, New Mexico... I'll be gone untill January 4th.

At which point i will be getting back. Now my homies, i would like to point out first, that shattered is totally in change while i'm gone, dudes! XD okay, now on january 12th my hosting and domain registration run out. For christmas this year, i recieved money for hosting and a domain, i'll be buying two domains, and putting them on my hosting, yo!

Domain one: http://www.rubixstudios.com
Domain two: I don't know yet

Domain two will be one for this site. I need ideas, so give them!

What i will have done when i get back:
While i'm gone, i will have this computer with me, as well as several PHP books. I'll be working on our top secret project, that i'm about to reveal.

rubixPets V.1.0.0

This mod will be available for public download in version 1.0.x (bug fixes) and higher versions will most likly be paid (not sure...) The first thing to put here is the idea behind this pet system. it's not an ordinary one. The users create pets by buying an element egg, there are 12 elements, and hence, 12 eggs. When a user "uses" the item, it will create the pet. the pet will stay an egg untill lv 5, where it hatches into 1 of 3 pets (per element, 36 pets) the Species is what they hatch into, rather than something that is choosen. the species is picked by a function that looks at 3 levels on a pet, these levels are changed by the way you care for your pet. (food and comfort items have a chance to change these levels)

At level 20 the pet will evolve, and regenerate the image, depending on the levels. Similar evolutions happen at levels 50, 95, and 160.

Features (this is more of a to-do list, and very detailed...)

Admin Control Panel
Pet system Options
-Is pet system on?
-Show pets in profiles?
-Is battle dome on?
-Send a PM when a Challenge is received?
-Send a PM when a Challenge is Accepted or Rejected?
Image Manager (Upload Replacement Images for species)
Create items to comfort and feed pets
School Manager
-Create a new School
--School Name
--School Cost Multiplier
-Edit Other Schools
--Edit School name
--Edit School Multiplier
--View All School-only Point-gaining abilities
--View All School-only battle dome abilities
Pet Manager
-Create a pet via the ACP
-Change a pet?s element
-Regenerate a pet?s image
-Change a pet?s name
-Change a pet?s Description
-Change a pet?s level
-Change a pet?s stats
-Change a pet?s gene levels
-Change a pet?s image
-Change a pet?s Hunger and Comfort Levels
-Change a pet?s School
-Delete a pet
-Delete Equipment on a pet
Create Weapons
Attack Manager
-Create School learned Attacks
Ability Manager
-Species to learn the ability
-Give item
--Specify item
--Number of item
--Re-sell value of item
-Give Money
--Amount Minimum
--Amount Maximum
-Level learned
-Level mastered
-Base Power cost
Create Pet eggs
-Element type
-Cost
One Player Challenger manager
-Set up challenger (Challengers are separate files with the same base coding, they have collections of stantard moves)
--Change Name and Description of challenger
--Change Base Stats of challenger
-View all Current Challengers
-Delete a challenger
-Edit a challenger
--Edit name and description
--Edit base stats

Care and Training
Care Page in IBStore menu
-Change your pet?s name
-Change your pet?s Description
-View Hunger and Comfort levels
-View Pet?s Stats
--Max Hit points
--Strength
--Defense
--Agility
-Use Point-gaining Abilities
-View and Un-equip weapons
Training page
-Built into IBStore (link is on the menu)
-View All Pet Stats
-Train Level
-Cost generated by pet level x set number (default is 15)
-Higher levels mean higher course costs, and longer time

Battledome
One player Challenges
-Challenge any Challenger from a list set by the ACP
-Challengers get harder the more they are beaten
-Default Punch bag Challenger to let people test out moves
Battle log
-Records Win loss record against opponents
-2 Player Win loss record Shown as well
Challenge Manager
-View pending challenges (ones that you made, and ones that you received)
-Accept/Reject Challenges you have received
-Cancel Challenges you have made
-Challenge Others
--Owner?s username
--Challenger Message
--(if turned on) Bet
Battledome
-Icon based battle system
-Strength and defense effect the overall damage
-Weapons Effect icons (boosted on a % basis)
-The rest: TBD!

I need ideas for the Battle system...Any ideas and suggestions will be apreciated, yo.

peace. and fo sizzle.

for the domain i dunno maybe www.werewolf-bc.com or whatever...and I already knew about the pets


edit:is that rubix site already yours...if so if your name is david then why are we calling you marcus?

I've skiied at Taos, it's amazing.

Enjoy yourself.

He's buying them both at the same time, from what I'm aware. His name is Marcus, not David, . He also wanted to avoid a hyphen in the url, since it makes it longer to tell people the url in real life, ie, werewolf dot blue dash chalk dot com).

It should also be noted that the Pet system he's designing isn't set as the one we're going to use here, unless you all want it to be. The main debate over it is largely that I think you should all get to choose (within some range) what your Pet looks like (ie, species) rather than having it randomly given to you.

Also know that the BD is a good ways off from being completed.

The pet system looks hard to code...
If we're not using that system then are we getting pets at all?

Yes, we'll be getting Pets eventually (though with the problems Marcus ran into a few weeks ago when I checked with him, it may not be possible to integrate it into the Store like it should be). Marcus just wanted to give back at IPB with a Pet system better (or at least different) from munjapets.

What's munjapets?

.::Shrugs::. The current Pet system that's going around, I think. All I know for sure is that it was taken seriously enough at the time the Store was made that Outlaw included a folder for munjapets.

Munjpets is the current pet system that is open for download. It is abled to work by it's self, but it's got serios problems. Main one: Users pic their pet image.


As for whether or not we use this here

I noted that higher versions on this would be paid. We will be using a modified version of the paid. (as far as i know)

most people agree that munjapets pretty much sucks... I've made a system called Caf? Pets at my forums, and it tuned out really well ^^ Best of luck on this one

whats with "peace. and fo sizzle."?

and "Tacos, New Mexico"? isn't it supposed to be Taos?

I think coaster finally lost it...

I completely missed that, XD! And note the "dudes," and "yo." Yup, Marcus is either overexcited, or he's gone insane... two-thousand Sparks says it's the latter.

You noticed the "my homies" too?
I would place a 1,000,000 sparks bet on insane too

just a curiosity woudl it be possible to make these pets able to battle those on idb? that woudl be tizzy

Possible, yes. Likely... well, let's just say I'd bet a trillion Sparks that it'd never happen.

as shattered said, yes, its possible, but will probably not happen. it would require too much coding and integration.

but taht would be cool
*continues listening to Initial D music*

Hey, I've played that....

*wonders who edited his post* hmmmmm

battling with IDB pets would not be possible, unless we were on the same domain... or they and us had MySQL remote access on... which is very hackable.. so no, that can't happen

Okay, i've recoded alot of the system, and the battledome is some 30% done...

Shattered, i recall sending you some files... modified store.php files and such... is there a chance you have those?

(and in case you all were wondering, i'm accessing this on dial up, this maybe the only time on the trip i'll be able to use internet....

.::Checks::. Yup, still have 'em.

Ooh! A pet system? SO Cool!

You don't know the half of it, .

unless she goes to IDB and neo, then she knows about 66%

Only Neo. She only knows the basic idea, at best.

hummmmmmm...............