For those who have missed it, I have a list of all the options currently planned for the new Character Manager on the play.net forums at The Alliance of Heroes >> Council House - Discussions with Simutronics >> Reallocation. This is your chance to request the features you’ve always wanted!

Feel free to make suggestions here as well. There is no need to create an account or to log in to reply to news items.

While waiting for player feedback, I’ve been working out the details of Height selection. The choices will vary based on Race and Age and the format of the choices list is a bit perplexing. Do I let players choose their height in inches? Is it appropriate to give human adolescents 8 choices and adult giants a whopping 48 choices all on one screen? Do I let players choose feet+inches, thus limiting the choice of inches to no more than 12 despite the fact that this will complicate the CM scripts and possibly confuse new players in the CM?

I’ve also tasked Jubalee with offering messaging for changing choices in the CM and have begun coding the actual rooms.

Aside from that I’m working on things behind the scenes and keeping busy with spring farm-work. I’ve got my garden planted and the fields sprayed, fertilized and seeded. I also had my sister and her friend and their families come to visit on their way up to Hershey Park so entertaining five children was quite the chore, but fun nonetheless. “Uncle Jeff” seems to have become iconic in their little circle of kids.

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Well I finally did it! The website has moved from its old address to a dedicated domain. If you visit the old website then you should be redirected here from now on. Here you’ll find enhancements to the News section of the website including the ability for visitors to post questions and comments about the news articles as well as RSS feeds which will help you folks get your updates to the website more directly through any number of free RSS readers.

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How many times have you heard this…?

“I’d trade Firefox over Internet Explorer any day!”

Well I’m going to rant about it again, only this time I’ll give clear reasons to all you FireFox virgins! This rant was spawned during the rewrite of the website which forced me to test the pages on IE as well as FireFox, thus reminding me why I loathe it so much.

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Here’s an explanation of what I’m doing with some 3D modeling and animation work. My niece was enjoying The Little Mermaid videos and so I wanted to create a small animation for her.

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There was talk, jibes, jokes, chatter, gossip, complaints, and confetti eggs.

Wait… confetti eggs?

Don’t ask. The point is that the GM forum went well and the GMs outlined many of their projects and plans and offered a glimpse of what’s going on behind the scenes. Players were gifted with a commemorative 10 Year Anniversary token to celebrate Alliance of Heroes being online for 10 years now! There is USAGE on the tokens so be sure to email Sunako or Holyph with your requests for custom Post-Titles.

The full forum log can be found at http://www.amaranthsgardens.com/files/GM_forum_4-1-08.txt.

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