The Project Getting started The Details Appendices

 

PLans for a future development of UOBod

 

Let's see if I can get Rolsim to reveal some of his plans .........

oh... not online ,, hmm...... coding again I guess :)

 

Well, I finally have some information for you.

  • UOBod will be completely rewritten and re-structured to accomodate a more open, modular design.
  • There will be DLLs for Smithy and for Taloring - and Carpenter Bods  etc. once their time comes.
  • There will be language DLLs so that interested and capable users can provide texts for a version in their language
  • The Analysis feature will be more closely integrated with the program. It should be possible to actually view the analysis for data within separate databases in a way that ressembles the intra-database analysis more closely
  • There will be a feature to save all data concerning returned Bods such as the date, GPs received and reward items. This will probably include an option to send these data and process them in a centralised database in order to generate reliable statistics and make recommendations. It should be possible to clearly demonstrate how some Bods will cost you more to fill than they will ever return.
  • The program will make an attempt to calculate the value of any Bod Collection based on the expected rewards.
  • There may be an option to link to other players' databases directly by ICQ. It will depend on the demand whether this will be implemented. If so, the user will be able to decide at installation time to use this feature or not.
  • We are not perfectly happy with the looks of UOBod. A Utility program for UO should in some way reflect the magical medeval setting, without compromizing any functionality. Rolsim has plans for making UOBod "Skin-enabled". We will probably offer a default skin and leave it to the community to create more and diffrent designs.

So this is the general direction -- there will be new suggestions from users as well as our own ideas that will make their way into the versions to come. Some changes in the user interface may be necessary, but the basic principles seem to be widely accepted and should remain.

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