MegaMOO 0.10.0-beta4

Take this one. b3 was correct for a single player; with two people in a room it was not.

pip install --upgrade megamoo
megamoo init mygame
cd mygame && megamoo --dev

Fixed

• Every character introduced itself as "ICharacter." Emit substitution prefers cname and chargen only ever set name, so every third-person message named the prototype. The actor never sees those messages, which is why it survived so long.
• Ordinary exits announced departures as %%S %%OMODE out. — a default message left in the retired % sigil, doubled by the display escape.
• Rooms counted each player once per move, forever. plist compared objects against a list of object numbers, so arrivals always appended and departures never removed. It was wrong in four separate places; rooms already carrying the damage now repair themselves.
• @move ... with <message> never delivered its message — it was reading iobj for text the parser had already put in dobj2.
• @tel passed no subject to any of its three emits, so &S never substituted — which is why the stock wizard's message hardcoded a name. It also told you about your own departure.
• A client that typed before the prompt lost its first line. The opening negotiation window read input and discarded it. Invisible to a person, reliably fatal to a script.
• Containers weigh what they hold (the check was per-item), and a sheath now refuses a cannonball — the opening was computed from the two largest dimensions instead of the two smallest.
• @adverb ... with rx auth=3 created a verb named rx auth=3. = is matched anywhere in a string and wins over a later word preposition; the verb reads argstr now, and the rule is documented in the guide.
• find_verb scanned local verbs linearly before consulting its own index: 8,819 ns on #3 Base_Character, where every staff command lives. Now a flat 148 ns.

Also

TLS on a second port, MCCP2 compression, MSSP for listing sites, megamoo.toml actually read, and fifteen config settings deleted that were declared, documented, sometimes validated, and read by no code at all.

Community

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Verified from this wheel rather than the source tree: installed into a clean virtualenv, megamoo init, then the browser client over HTTP and the game over telnet with two connections — splash, login, walking, chargen, entering the game, a room emit naming the actor to the other player, and @checkpoint writing a real timestamp. 355 tests.