ErisMUD 0.4

ErisMUD is a MUD engine written from scratch in Python using SQLite for storing 
data. ErisMUD is distributed under the GPL. It is a work-in-progress but already
has many features:

- ANSI colors (optional).
- Creating/destroying/listing rooms, items, NPCs.
- Adding aliases to objects.
- Player stats and skills.
- Basic health/damage system.
- Talking using the "say" command, chatting using the "chat" command.
- Cloning items, dropping them on the floor, getting them, giving them to other players.
- Instances: a single object may be cloned multiple times and every instance is
  independant.
- Easily add or modify help files with a single command.
- File logging.

Read the TUTORIAL file for a quick overview of the possibilities.

== INSTALL ==
No install is required for ErisMUD per se, but you still need to have Python, SQLite and
pysqlite on your server (see requirements below).

To start the server, simply edit the parameters in eris.py
and the login message in login.py and start the server by running:
# python eris.py

Don't forget to add your player name to the 'coders' file (one per line) in
order to use the coder-only commands.

== REQUIREMENTS ==
- Python 2.3 (http://python.org)
- SQLite 3.2 (http://www.sqlite.org)
- pysqlite 1.0 (http://www.pysqlite.org)

More recent versions should work without problems, older versions should work too.

== KNOWN ISSUES ==

* Since handle_error() is subclassed, no python error is ever raised. This makes
  debugging difficult. Comment out SecondServSock.handle_error() in eris.py to see errors.

== TODO ==

* Make it possible to refer to instances with a number. So if I have two swords
  in my inventory, use 'look sword 1' and 'look sword 2' to differentiate them.
* Add a command to ban a player.
* Add aliases to NPCs.
* Add a revision-control system to allow different versions of objects to coexist.
* Add a simple combat system.

== AUTHORS ==

ErisMUD is written by Manuel Lanctot <sensoz@gmail.com>
Shoutouts to Ouroboros, misuba, Steven Vogel, Andrew Murphy/Elias, Katherine, Tiefling,
Taral, Maud and Jesse for the great suggestions, debugging and help during development.
If I forgot you, let me know.

== OBLIGATORY LICENSE STUFF ==

ErisMUD, a MUD engine/server written in Python.
Copyright (C) 2005 Manuel Lanctot

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY 
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A 
PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this
program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, 
Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA