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@binary-knight binary-knight released this 25 Apr 05:37
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v0.57.15 - Tank Speed-Leveling Fix + Per-Channel Chat Mutes

Speed-Leveling Fix (Player-MaxHP Damage Floor)

Two compounding causes:

GetEffectiveArmPow returned ArmPow uncapped. WeapPow has a soft cap at 1200 with 50% diminishing above it (added in v0.54.0); ArmPow had no equivalent. The comment in the file even said "defense was never the balance problem." Endgame gear stacking proved otherwise.

The 5%-of-monster-attack floor was too generous at high floors. At floor 71 monsters hit for ~40-60 raw, so the existing Math.Max(monsterAttack / 20, ...) floor produced 2-3 minimum damage. Vs 6,686 MaxHP that's 0.03% per hit and a tank could fight forever. The floor scaled with monster output, not player resilience, so endgame players outpaced it.

Fix: player-MaxHP-scaling damage floor. New GetMinIncomingDamage(target, rawAttack) helper returns max(1, rawAttack/20, MaxHP × 0.25%). The 0.25%-of-MaxHP component scales with the player so high-tank builds can't fall below it. At 6,686 MaxHP that's ~17 minimum dmg per hit, instead of the previous 2-3. A 100 HP newbie still floors at 1 (unchanged). Applied to all four monster-vs-player damage paths in CombatEngine.cs: basic attack (line 4452), DirectDamage ability (line 4746), life-steal ability (line 4871), DamageMultiplier ability (line 4917). Same floor extended to companion-vs-monster path (line 17125). New GameConfig.MinIncomingDamageMaxHpPercent constant (default 0.0025) makes the floor tunable.

What this means in practice. A player's pre-fix 4,747 damage across 750 fights becomes roughly 50 damage per fight (3 hits × 17 minimum) = ~37,500 across the same 750 fights, or 5.6× his MaxHP cumulative. They have to engage with the encounter; heal, potion, use abilities... instead of leaving auto-battle running unattended for 100 fights.

Per-Channel Chat Mutes

New muting pattern for the slash chat channels. Type the channel command with no message and the channel toggles between muted and unmuted.

  • /gos (or /gossip) — toggle gossip channel mute
  • /shout — toggle shout channel mute
  • /gc — toggle guild chat mute (only available if you're in a guild)
  • /tell — toggle incoming-tell mute (anti-harassment; senders see "X has private messages muted. Your tell was not delivered.")

Mutes are per-character and persisted in the save (new MutedChannels field on Character and PlayerData, serialized as List<string>). They survive logouts, character switches, and server restarts. Each toggle confirms the new state and reminds you how to send a real message:

Gossip channel MUTED. You will no longer see gossip messages.
(Usage: /gossip <message>  (or /gos); type the command alone to unmute.)

Implementation: new MudServer.BroadcastToAll(message, excludeUsername, channelKey) parameter. When channelKey is set, recipients with that channel in their MutedChannels set are skipped. channelKey is null for system messages, level-up announcements, world events, etc., so non-chat broadcasts always deliver. Guild chat doesn't go through BroadcastToAll (it iterates online guild members directly), so the same mute filter is inlined into that loop.

/say and /emote (room-local) are deliberately not muteable — those are part of the immediate environment and there's no spam vector. Same for system / login-logout messages, which use null channelKey.

Files Changed

  • Scripts/Core/GameConfig.cs — version bump 0.57.14 → 0.57.15. New constant MinIncomingDamageMaxHpPercent (0.0025).
  • Scripts/Systems/CombatEngine.cs — new GetMinIncomingDamage(target, rawAttack) helper. Floor applied at four monster-vs-player damage paths (basic attack, DirectDamage, life-steal, DamageMultiplier) and the companion-vs-monster path.
  • Scripts/Core/Character.cs — new MutedChannels HashSet for per-channel chat mutes.
  • Scripts/Systems/SaveDataStructures.cs — PlayerData.MutedChannels (List) for save persistence.
  • Scripts/Systems/SaveSystem.cs — serializes Character.MutedChannels into PlayerData.
  • Scripts/Core/GameEngine.cs — restores MutedChannels (case-insensitive) from PlayerData on load.
  • Scripts/Server/MudServer.cs — BroadcastToAll gains optional channelKey parameter; recipients with the channel muted are skipped.
  • Scripts/Server/RoomRegistry.cs — BroadcastGlobal forwards channelKey to MudServer.BroadcastToAll.
  • Scripts/Server/MudChatSystem.cs — new ToggleChannelMute helper. HandleGossip / HandleShout / HandleTell / HandleGuildChat call it on empty-args. Gossip and shout broadcasts pass the matching channelKey; guild chat per-recipient loop respects the recipient's mute; tell sender sees a "muted" notice when target has tells off.

Deploy Notes

Game binary only — both features are server-side C#. Linux-x64 tarball → /opt/usurper, restart usurper-mud + sshd-usurper. No Node-side or web changes for this release.

The damage-floor change is immediate: every combat after the deploy uses the new floor. No save-format change. Existing tank characters keep all their gear; they just take more damage per hit going forward.

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