New Character System

The onboarding flow for brand-new characters: a start moongate sends them to a skill-selection room, and step-on gates validate their starting skills, hand out starter gear, and drop them into the world. Source: UOD - System New Character.scp.

How it works

The system is a set of t_moongate-style floor gates the player walks over.

1. i_moongate_Start ("Join UODiamond") — on @step sends the player to character skill room, clears the screen, and prompts them to pick up their starting skills.

2. i_moongate_skill_ok ("Skills") — on @step, validates that the player selected skills at each required tier via the skillfrom_* tags:

   Required tag	Meaning
   skillfrom_500	a 50.0 skill chosen
   skillfrom_550	a 55.0 skill chosen
   skillfrom_600	a 60.0 skill chosen
   skillfrom_700	a 70.0 skill chosen

   If any is missing, it reports the missing skill and movebacks. If all present, it cleartags, gives starter items, teleports the player to their new home, and applies newbie protection.

   Starter kit granted: i_gold ×1000, an i_spellbook (into the spellbook layer), i_scroll_night_sight, t_tool_bag, and t_noob_bag. Home is set to 1417,1725,20 (src.go + src.home), and src.setnewbie grants 72-hour newbie protection.

3. i_moongate_skill_reset ("Reset your Character") — on @step resets allskills 10.0, closes the d_skillstart dialog, returns the player to the character skill room, and clears tags so they can re-pick.

Note: The actual skill-picking UI (d_skillstart) and the skillfrom_* tag-setting live outside this file; here the gates only validate and finalise.

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