@Smoothgunner:
If you want to send a private message to someone, enter a slash before the name. For example: /smoothgunner test.
You can see the information of a card, by either typing info and the letter or number of the card, or by typing the letter or number of the card and hitting enter. You will have three or four choices then, depending of the card, you have chosen. However, one of these choices is I for info.
The same goes for the cards on your opponents side of the table. Only if they are faced up, of course.

okay so there seem to be a couple card bugs, either that or bad translation
black terano, its trap card affect doesn't seem to work? my opponent activated a mirror force, yet the attack wasn't stopped
rocket jumper's direct attack ability doesn't seem to work either, wouldn't let me

@Smoothgunner:
You can enable the Chat when you are dueling by typing f 1.
You will see something like: People can now write by smoothgunner.
If you wanna send a message, type f and the message, you want to send.
As for your suggestions. Personally, I like the idea of having your own Profile and account. But as far as I know, it was never done in the originally, portuguese Version. So I don't know, if this is actually possible.

Hi,
Due to the nature of the duel server I am strongly considering a full rewrite, which would allow us to expand.
At the moment, I am thinking of using Euphoria as the language of the server, with a custom client written for the operating systems we choose to support. Telnet-based connections will not be supported, but since I am planning to host the server in an open repository, anyone will be able to create a custom client.
My aim is to create a server which is very easy to expand, e.g. instead of hardcoding cards, they can register for various events, such as attack phase begin, end turn, summon, etc. While the rules are quite complex, I would like to add as many cards as possible (fusion included), but only from the original series. This means no syncro summoning, etc.
I have a database of about 5000 cards and their stats. Even if we add just one fifth of it, there is certainly room for rare card tournaments (meaning unlockable cards), trading, etc.
On the client side, there will be full audio support (including music, monster/card sounds, etc). I am also thinking of including card images when viewing a card's data.
Quite frankly, this is an extremely huge undertaking. I am open for any kind of collaboration, if it can speed up the project. Even so, creating this will take a lot of time and effort, please keep this in mind!
I'm in the planning stages right now.

Rob

I don't know a ton about MUDs but my suggestion is that the deck building interface is quite clumsy. I didn't really know much about what was in my deck or bag, bar basic statistics.

I also noticed the lack of a side deck between matches. Yikes! That's not right.

I almost kind of wonder if a MUD is really the best way to build a Yu-gi-oh game but I'm not really the expert here.

My two cents - have deck building available through import. Again, I have no idea how to make that work with MUDs but again I've never really worked with them in the past. The current deck building interface is very confusing.

How I was going to structure the game I wanted to build was actually going to be based off of how Eternal Duelist Soul structured it.

Essentially, the duel mat consists of the following structure:

Field Monster Monster Monster Monster Monster Graveyard Removed
Extra Spell Spell Spell Spell Spell Deck

[cards in the hand]

Definitions for non-yugioh players:

Field - Field cards are spell cards that have an effect on the entire field (cards that are not in the hand, deck, graveyard, extra deck or banished zone), such as Rising Air Current. There can only be one field spell active at a time, and if a new one is played, the old one is sent to the graveyard.
Monster - Monster cards. Only 5 monster cards can be on the field at a time, and this can be limited by certain effects (such as Ground Collapse)
Graveyard - The equivalent to most games as a discard pile, however the graveyard does have important functionality in many themed decks.
Removed - Banished zone, this actually has no specified location traditionally but most video games place it to the right of the Graveyard
Extra - Contains fusions, synchros and xys monsters, although the latter two are definitely not in your game yet.
Spell - Location for spell and trap cards, like monster cards there are only 5 spaces to be able to use. Some monsters such as Blast Sphere and the Crystal Beasts can occupy this zone due to card effects as well.
Deck - the deck (obviously). Most cases cannot be viewed by either player, although some card effects allow you to sort some cards in there (Big Eye), search through the deck (Giant Rat) or other effects, such as Convulsion of Nature which flips the deck upside down and makes it visible.
Hand - Current cards from your hand.

Thus, the game is sorted on a grid with the top two rows having a defined size with the bottom row with varying size. By pressing a toggle, you can view the opponent's field (but not all their cards since the deck, hand, extra deck and sometimes certain banished monsters are not visible to the opponent). It is far more efficient to be able to scroll through these as a grid than have what I saw in there, but again, I don't know how possible it is to do it through a MUD - I was programming my game in Java (and frankly it was messy as hell) but I can share my (terrible) source if it will help. I didn't program any ability to actually go through cards but that's because I had to drop the project due to my schedule getting cramped. However, it would be fairly easy to build a flexible ui from that.

Regarding deck building, first thing I noticed was no side deck. Side decks are extremely important in matches (best of 3 duels), which are the most common dueling structure. You don't really have this option so yeah, MAJOR problem. Second, it's very tedious to go through each card, and frankly you shouldn't have each copy of a card be an individual thing in the list, but rather what kind of cards. Also, in dueling sims, it's really bad practice to limit how much cards you have unless they're actually limited/semi-limited in play (you had only 2 Aqua Madoors for some reason in the base bag). Unless you're writing a tournament game that involves you getting boosters like EDS or all those titles on the DS it's really bad practice, especially for a simulator. I also found it annoying that it was very tedious to go through the whole pack -something I do in braillemon is that in many long lists such as items and the Pokedex you can go and use the left and right arrow keys to go and pass through larger segments of information - this makes it a lot less tedious to find what you're looking for if you know, say, the pokemon number you're trying to find. In addition there are filters in the Pokedex by simply pressing a single key which can be activated or deactivated at any time.

I don't know if this is possible in MUDs but there really should be an easier way to build a deck, for example simply importing a text file with the names of the cards on it (or accepted abbreviations since some of them have really long names lol)

Since you're saying you want to restructure it anyways this is my advice, hope it helps. I'll send you my java code if you want but it's pretty terrible. I don't have it on me at the moment so I'll get it up later.

P.S. Sorry! I didn't actually explain how a side deck works.

The side deck is a deck that you can swap cards with in matches between duels. Your main dueling deck does NOT change after a match, but between duels in a match, you can swap the cards with cards in your side deck if your opponent is running a deck that is particularly problematic for yours.

Hi,
Huge thanks for your advice!
The deck-building interface is going to use two lists. The first will contain all the available cards. You will be able to apply filters, e.g. attack > 200 and defense <250, filter the type, etc, as well as search for a card name or description. The second will be your actual deck in progress.
Most tournaments, especially rare-card ones, will require deck registration. You will be able to register two decks. At the beginning of a match, you will be able to choose your main and your side deck, based on your two registered decks.
You will not be able to edit registered decks, however you will be able to make a copy and edit it outside of the tournament play.
Side decks will not be available if you are playing a quick match (e.g. a one-round duel).
The official client for the game is going to be a GUI-based application, with an invisible list and some status areas, so that sighted people will also have an idea of what's actually going on.
Regarding card limitations: I think some of the cards were limited due to their powerful effects. Having for example 20 monsters which can remove 2 monsters from the field with a flip effect is not really fair imho. In the case of a tournament, this would also imply that registered decks should be reviewed manually.
In the current game, you can use u4 and d4 to move 4 cards up and down, or enter a card number, if you know one.

Rob

So no synchros or anything from GX or zyxel?  I also know I'm missing a series that they had started to put out but I'm unsure if it has been dubbed as of yet.  I haven't watched Zyxel mainly because the dubbed main characters voice annoyed me. I did really enjoy 5ds, and that kind of sucks that you wouldn't do synchro summons, but this is also in the planning stages as of now.  I'd like to play with the newer cards, not just those based on the original series. But, that's just me.

The screen I was describing was the deck editing screen. The game will support multiple decks of course. You will be able to choose which deck to edit, create/delete/copy, register it for an upcoming tournament, rename, etc.
We are actually not limited to 300 cards. What I am planning to do is make about 500 available in the first round. People will be able to pick and choose cards and add them to their deck, or use the predefined decks (starter Yugi, etc). Not sure how this would affect the overal balance, but we'll see. It all depends on how quickly we can implement cards and rules.

Cards traditionally have a rarity level associated to them. For example Yugi's Celtic Guardian is common, while Obelisk the Tormentor is ultra rare. Tournament prizes, and trading can be based on this.
I am not sure about the format yet. I think the 3-card rule as the only limitation is solid enough, at least for regular duels. Tournaments can be different, I can imagine tournaments having a ban list, perhaps to make the tournament more challenging. This will be up to the tournament organiser. When the game is solid enough, I would like to open up tournament creation to players as well.
I can also imagine tournaments where only official decks are accepted, so custom-made decks would not work. The sky is the limit, really...

Thank you!

I think we can stray from the official rules here, although I'd go with the international ones.

I am certainly open and accept any form you prefer. Text via Skype, any IM or mail, audio, etc.
Thank you very much for your code in advance!

Rob

I don't seem able to log into the game, my connection just times out. Is the game down until further notice (until the new code is up and running)? Or is it only me who can't connect?

when is a good time to get on the server? most of the time when I log on no one is really there. I might get 2duels a day if im lucky

Hi:
I would like to try the game out. Of course, that requires someone is online. I'll stay logged in for a bit. If anyone sees this, come join me. I'm quite curious to give it a shot.b