I hinted and spoilered in
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that there will be some things coming not so far in the future. I was asked by others too why we wouldnt add content like that while we are in the code anyway and
believe me i hear every single one of you.
As a player i do like new content as well but it was also one of the major reasons i stopped playing many games when just throwing out content would break even more things that had already been annoying before. Whenever i can i take the code i have to touch during the clean-up and try to find ways to make it behave more generalized and easier to find/call/use for NON-CODERS. The entire work we do is actually based on that tantra so content can be added by people with little or no help of coders.
The lack of content for people like Kolka and others is a result of this. Content had been added in all kinds of ways and styles regarding how it hooked into the overall logic (if there was one to begin with). Much of the logic never appeared as a code function but was merely a result of a group discussion 'how' to implement it content wise. Without an overall logic events where often just hooked into a room or street and called by some conditional statement in the middle of a html link that represented both some description and action to send the user somewhere. Maintaining or adding anything to this wild mix is adventurous at best suicidal at worst.
The templates we have started with are being extended to also deliver a basic event template where the writer can basically take some 'lego'-functions and fill a room/place with some functionality in a very easy and simple way. We adjust functions like my favourite example 'Wait' to be almost fail-proof by finally adding an option to cancel the wait, to catch wrong user input in the values and then defaulting to a standard period and removing all instances that appear as copy anywhere else in the code. Without these things
we ourselves have to create the content and add it to the system and there is just so much time in a single day
Addendum: The new weather system is finished and was in testing by our QA and will be part of the next update.