Building Guide

SHOPS

OLC: Down and Dirty in the MUD

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Here we will cover probably the hardest part of OLC...Don't despair! It's easy to do when you get the hang of it. There are different kinds of shops and different kinds of things that need to be done for each of them..

OBJECT SHOPS
(food, drink, bars, armor, weapon, jewelry and others!)
unlike pet shops and banks, object shops are designated by a shoppe. A shoppe is a mob that you make to sell and buy things. Where the mob is reset, is where the shop is. By making the shop mob wander (the stay_area flag) you make 'door to door' salesmen. By making the shop mob sentinel (stationary, will not move) you have created a store! So, here are the things you need to do to make a mob a shoppe (shop keeper.)

CREATING AN OBJECT SHOP'S SHOPPE
act - set it to sentinel or stay_area (whichever suits your purposes)
shop - type shop at a prompt to see the fields
   shop hours - syntax: the hours are in mud time.. not system time
   or RL time. So make sure you check out your mud hours first. 0 is always midnight. So you can
   judge from there.
   shop profit - syntax: buying is the % markup of an item when a player
   buys it. selling is the % of the value of the item that a player can sell an item to a shop for.

THE ITEMS YOU SELL
this is all done with resets. The first reset you create has to be the shopkeeper (your shoppe.) After that you list the items he is going to sell. The price of the items is determined by their level (set when you create them in OEDIT) and the shops values you applied to your shoppe. The shoppe will automatically post the values when you put them into the reset. Here is an example of the resets.
reset 1 mob 1 1
reset 2 obj none (this will automatically set the obj as in the shopkeepers inventory)
here's an example:
reset 1 mob 1000 1 1      (this will repop the mob and designate him as the shoppe)
reset 2 obj 1000 none      (this will cause obj vnum 1000 to be sold by the shoppe)
reset 3 obj 1001 none      (this will cause obj vnum 1001 to be sold by the shoppe)
reset 4 obj 1002 none      (this will cause obj vnum 1002 to be sold by the shoppe)

these items will be available in unlimited quantities, unlike objects sold to the shoppe by players, which will only be available in the quantity that was sold to the shoppe

PET SHOPS
CREATING A PET SHOP
pet shops are unique in the fact that when you create the room that the pet shop is going in, you MUST reserve the next sequential room vnum for a warehouse / storage room!!. So, for example, if the pet shop is room vnum 1000, you must create the next room by typing: edit room create 1001 this will create the next room as a blank room with NO exits.. Good! because this will be the pet 'storage' room. You will be resetting your pets in here! Usually, no players should be allowed in this room, so it shouldn't have exits. As far as the room name is concerned, make it something that you will recognize as the 'storage' room.
set the pet shops room flag (in REDIT) to pet_shop
the 'storage' room doesn't get set to pet_shop

CREATING A PET SHOP KEEPER
you will create the pet shoppe the same way you created the obj shoppe. Follow the same steps for the different shop fields.

CREATING PETS
create your pet mobs as usual, only you will need to set the act field to pet

FINISHING UP YOUR PET SHOP
RESETS:
in the pet shop: the only reset you need to create in the pet shop is one for the shoppe
in the pet shop 'storage' room: reset the pet mobs in this room
be careful when setting the pets reset max and minimum values for the pets.. as this will allow only a certain number of them in the area at one time. This can be good.. you can limit the numbers of each kind of pet as you want.. or make them as common as you want!

BANKS AND MONEY CHANGERS
CREATING A BANK
when you create the room that is to be the bank, make sure you set the room flag to bank

CREATING A BANKER OR MONEY CHANGER SHOPPE
create the mob as usual however, you must set the shoppe's act flag to banker or changer or both
it is not necessary to set shop times for a banker/changer, however you do have that option.
reset the banker/moneychanger like normal