MetaLife Feature List, version 1.14

This is an overview over the most prominent features of MetaLife, version 1.14:

• Realistic damages, depending on weapon handling:
  
  • the closer the impact to the body, the higher the damage
    
  • certain body parts are more or less sensitive
    
  • frontal hits cause more damage
    
  • you must aim more accurately if further away, also for melee weapons
• no overpowered weapons (all weapons legal)
  • weapon speeds are normalized in a way that makes the use of all weapons legal and fair (i.e. you won't win only because your weapon uses high damage attacks)
    
  • this does not mean that all weapons are equal! Actually MetaLife allows even very strong and very weak weapons!
    
  • various legality checks are performed, too fast attacks (also of multiple weapons) discarded. Multiple wielding is without effect
  
  
• new sims can create own roles with custom floating tokens and soundsets
  
• new sims can adjust toughness, health and stamina regeneration speed for each role
  
• shielding supported
  
• armor and helmets supported
  
• blocking with weapons or other tools supported
  
• weapon protocol allows mixed cut/thrust attacks, also dynamical
  
• safezone based weapons and protocol extensions supported by many other meters are supported
  
• traditional and dynamic channel supported (and NO this does NOT cause lag!)
  
• different physical constitutions (gender, race) supported
  
• defense experience can be built up
  
• very low lag
  
• physics-lag optimized, especially suitable for openspace sims (void sims)
  
• low impact floating text and health/stamina indicator
  
• innovative downing and aiding procedure
  
• health and stamina, affected by gender/race, armory, movements
  
• stamina loss may force interruption of fighting
  
• illness RP
  
• coma and death, active killing (no forced death possible)
  
• binding and leashing
  
• 'look-at' feature
  
• various soundsets with preview feature and volume control
  
• arena mode, afk/ooc mode and ooc chatter
  
• auto-updates
  
• checkpoint in order to enforce wearing the meter
  
• low impact floating titles - for those who don't want to wear a book floating over their heads
  
• optional arrow range restrictions (via region server)
  
• optional over/under-weighting of melee/ranged damages
  
• optional gender (in)equality settings (via region server)
  
• optional arrow splash restrictions (via region server)
  
• landicaps: terrain that inhibits movement, slows you down (for swamps, deserts etc; availabe as add-on)
  
• contains free high-quality weapons
  
• free and non-commercial
  

Some major technicalities that have been introduced newly by MetaLife and are not implemented in other meters:

• custom roles
  
• very effective legality checks
  
• arrow range limitations
  
• free damage and range variables
  
• core regions for melee attacks
  
• combat fairness by correlating damage/delay, range/angle etc, similar for armor/stamina, helmet/screen size
  
• support for cross-development: other protocols implemented as subsets, meaning even your old freebie bows will work and will be legal
  
• Landicaps
  
• active aiding, no artificial timeouts
  
• stamina transfers
  
• dynamic damages
  
• health/stamina damages for more weapon variety, bringing tactics into SL fighting
  
• optimizations against physics lag, especially on openspace sims
  ... much more ...