What happens when a client connects and completes negotiation for mssp (such as tintin++ in debug mode), the server sends back a sampling of data. This data is used by "mud crawlers" to keep an up-to-date profile of your MUD listed up their website.
What I'd like to do if I ever get some free time again is to tie these variables, as well as others into the core of tbaMUD so that a "stock" codebase could be easily added to a crawler list and provide accurate info that updates with the MUD.
Official MSSP Variables
Required
NAME Name of the MUD.
PLAYERS Current number of logged in players.
UPTIME Unix time value of the startup time of the MUD.
Generic
CRAWL DELAY Preferred minimum number of hours between crawls. Send -1
to use the crawler's default.
HOSTNAME Current or new hostname.
PORT Current or new port number. Can be used multiple times,
most important port last.
CODEBASE Name of the codebase, eg Merc 2.1.
CONTACT Email address for contacting the MUD.
CREATED Year the MUD was created.
ICON URL to a square image in bmp, png, jpg, or gif format.
The icon should be equal or larger than 32x32 pixels,
with a filesize no larger than 32KB.
IP Current or new IP address.
LANGUAGE Name of the language used, eg German or English
LOCATION Full English name of the country where the server is
located, using ISO 3166.
MINIMUM AGE Current minimum age requirement, use 0 if not
applicable.
WEBSITE URL to MUD website.
Categorization
FAMILY AberMUD, CoffeeMUD, DikuMUD, LPMud, MajorMUD, MOO,
Mordor, Rapture, SocketMud, TinyMUD, Custom. Report
Custom unless it's a well established family.
You can report multiple generic codebases using
the array format, make sure to report the most
distant codebase (the ones listed above) last.
Check the MUD family tree for naming and capitalization.
GENRE Adult, Fantasy, Historical, Horror,
Modern, None, Science Fiction
GAMEPLAY Adventure, Educational, Hack and Slash, None,
Player versus Player, Player versus Environment,
Roleplaying, Simulation, Social, Strategy
STATUS Alpha, Closed Beta, Open Beta, Live
GAMESYSTEM D&D, d20 System, World of Darkness, Etc. Use Custom if
using a custom gamesystems. Use None if not available.
INTERMUD AberChat, I3, IMC2, MudNet, Etc.
Can be used multiple times if you support several
protocols, most important protocol last. Leave empty
if no Intermud protocol is supported.
SUBGENRE LASG, Medieval Fantasy, World War II,
Frankenstein, Cyberpunk, Dragonlance, Etc.
Use None if not available.
World
AREAS Current number of areas.
HELPFILES Current number of help files.
MOBILES Current number of unique mobiles.
OBJECTS Current number of unique objects.
ROOMS Current number of unique rooms, use 0 if roomless.
CLASSES Number of player classes, use 0 if classless.
LEVELS Number of player levels, use 0 if level-less.
RACES Number of player races, use 0 if raceless.
SKILLS Number of player skills, use 0 if skill-less.
Protocols
ANSI Supports ANSI colors ? 1 or 0
GMCP Supports GMCP ? 1 or 0
MCCP Supports MCCP ? 1 or 0
MCP Supports MCP ? 1 or 0
MSDP Supports MSDP ? 1 or 0
MSP Supports MSP ? 1 or 0
MXP Supports MXP ? 1 or 0
PUEBLO Supports Pueblo ? 1 or 0
UTF-8 Supports UTF-8 ? 1 or 0
VT100 Supports VT100 interface ? 1 or 0
XTERM 256 COLORS Supports xterm 256 colors ? 1 or 0
Commercial
PAY TO PLAY Pay to play ? 1 or 0
PAY FOR PERKS Pay for perks ? 1 or 0
Hiring
HIRING BUILDERS Game is hiring builders ? 1 or 0
HIRING CODERS Game is hiring coders ? 1 or 0
I'd also like to add an OLC editor for modifying the static variables, like "hiring xxx" and others.
