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Written in a recent article in "The Adventurer" was:

Mark: Inns will allow visitors to rent private rooms costing a certain number of Dinars for a certain length of time. This'll be helpful because it'll provide a temporary space where visitors can stash gear between visits. The ability to store your stuff already exists.

Is Mark talking about storing your gear in bags, backpacks, etc, or is there a place to rent out space or lockers?

Ooops, Mark was being unintentionally ambiguous.

What I meant was, the code already exists which allows gear to be left in a place, and still be there after a reboot. This is the core of the coding for Inns; what remains undone is the infrastructure for renting the rooms, and dealing with deadbeats who run out of money without retrieving their stuff.

There's currently no way to rent out rooms, lockers, etc. So you have to carry everything with you, if you want it to survive reboots.

When completed, Inns and Player Houses will provide the permanent storage you're asking about.

I hope this is more clear!

--Mark

Mark, thanks for clearing that up. I should have figured it was something like that. I guess the prospect of being able to stash some of my gear just got me all a-fluster

I'll take that as encouragement to get my ass in gear. Er, that is, to prioritize my tasks appropriately.

--Mark

*jumps up and down* me me me! i want a house!!! =)

I hope this means we will not be REQUIRED to rent a room like in other MuDs, or own a house as it seems.

I hope this means that those are only options we could use to store our stuff without it being on our persons.

If we really have to either rent at an inn, or own a house, I'm going to be disapointed, as I believe this is a rather annoying inconvenience, especially if people can't get on every day or so to make the money to pay for the rent.

Indeed, owning a home is a difficult task to those with no income...

just a note to bring this thread up to date.

inns are online, providing inexpensive rented spaces for storing your important stuff between server boots. they're all over the place; just look.

character houses are also available, providing permanent storage which characters individually own.

see the motd for more details.

~pooh

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