Run Migrate. Implemented a full separation between Player and Character - Players (OOC entities) can now also hold cmdsets and execute commands. This means that "disconnecting" from a Character becomes possible, putting the Player in an "OOC" state outside the game. This overall makes the game much more stable since there used to be issues if the character was destroyed. Having an OOC set also avoids the previous problem of @puppeting into an object that didn't have any cmdset of its own - you couldn't get back out! A new default OOC-Cmdset handles commands available to a player while OOC. Commands in this set are applied with a low priority, allowing "IC" mode to give precedence if desired.

This change meant several changes to the lock and permission functionality, since it becomes important if permissions are assigned on the Player or on their Character (lock functions pperm() and pid() etc check on Player rather than Character). This has the boon of allowing Admins to switch and play/test the game as a "Low access" character as they like.

Plenty of bug fixes and adjustments. Migrations should make sure to move over all data properly.

src/players/player.py

@@ -12,19 +12,20 @@ instead for most things).
 """
 from src.typeclasses.typeclass import TypeClass
 
+from settings import CMDSET_OOC
+
 class Player(TypeClass):
     """
     Base typeclass for all Players.     
     """
     
-    def at_player_creation(self):
+    def basetype_setup(self):
+        """
+        This sets up the basic properties for a player. 
+        Overload this with at_player_creation rather than
+        changing this method. 
+        
         """
-        This is called once, the very first time
-        the player is created (i.e. first time they
-        register with the game). It's a good place
-        to store attributes all players should have,
-        like configuration values etc. 
-        """        
         # the text encoding to use.
         self.db.encoding = "utf-8"
         
@@ -35,6 +36,21 @@ class Player(TypeClass):
         self.locks.add("boot:perm(Wizards)")        
         self.locks.add("msg:all()")
 
+        # The ooc player cmdset 
+        self.cmdset.add_default(CMDSET_OOC, permanent=True)
+        self.cmdset.outside_access = False 
+    
+    def at_player_creation(self):
+        """
+        This is called once, the very first time
+        the player is created (i.e. first time they
+        register with the game). It's a good place
+        to store attributes all players should have,
+        like configuration values etc. 
+        """        
+        pass
+ 
+
     # Note that the hooks below also exist
     # in the character object's typeclass. You
     # can often ignore these and rely on the