Ability to lock the room

[Accipiter]

Yes, locks has been brought up in various forms from the very start, I think.

The issue with them is that there are so many possible variants that players might want to have:

• Locks requiring a pass phrase
• Locks requiring the character being on a white list
• Locks that can be locked from the target room (and needs to be auto-unlocked on an empty room)
• Locks requiring an item or tag
• Locks that propagates a message (like @Scarlet_Himari suggested), or those that do not.
• etc.

So, in the end, I felt I’d rather have that solved by the “scripting feature” that I hope to build. I mentioned it under LUA scripting in this topic:

@Accipiter

LUA scripting

One thing that will be added, not too far from now I hope, is support for LUA scripting.

LUA scripts will run on the server, have access to some sort of persistent storage, and would be tied to entities such as rooms/areas/items (once that is created) where they can hook into different types of events.
The LUA scripts will also be able to communicate on internal channels, so that a script running in one room can send a message to scripts in another room, telling it to block or change an exit (allowing the creation of locks).

The LUA scripts would require permissions from the owner of the entities which it needs access to, using the same ownership structure that exists.