So building a quick-list of interface panels or templates that need to be built.

Some of these can start out as command-line.

• Character
• Picture
• Synopsis
• Attributes
• Effects
• Modifiers
• Skills
• Active Slots
• Known
• Learnable
• Inventory
• Equipment
• Chat
• Trade Listing
• Trade Browse
• Trade
• Group Listing
• Group Browse
• Party List
• Enemy List
• Character Mini
• Character One-Line
• Faction Preferences
• Faction Listing
• Proposal
• Props Popup
• Buddy List
• Death / Resurrect
• Login
• Game Preferences
• Account Preferences
• Graphics Preferences
• Sound Preferences

Some ideas with assets and icons. I’m going to try to leverage Flash 8 as much as is possible, by utilizing filters, color transforms, rotations and scales. I think by using these we can maintain a level of customizability and width to our assets without having to spend as many hours in photoshop. That said I’m trying to slowly build up a list of assets that we MUST do.

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Some chat message types that we will need:

• msg - sends a message to a channel
• join - joins a channel
• part - leaves a channel
• mode - changes channel mode
• kick - kicks another member from a channel
• who - request list of members in a channel or by match
• roll - request a random number reply in a channel
• list - request list of public channels

There are probably 10x the number of client-side commands, but these are the message types to send to the server, and reply via.

I think most message types can be reused as return messages, since the server->client or client->server distinction will be obvious.