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[MUD-Dev] Re: Levels versus Skills, who uses them and when.
Holly Sommer wrote:
>
> On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, J C Lawrence wrote:
>
> > Yes, the term I'm familiar with for this is "travel points", which
> > originated on a MUD (don't know which) where rarely entered rooms
> > periodically and sporadically (ie unpredictably) spawned invisible
> > "travel point" objects inside themselves. There were then two
> > requirements for advancing in level: sufficient XP and sufficient
> > travel points. This resulted in players wanting to level actively
> > searching out remote parts of the world in hope of finding/gaining
> > travel points there.
>
> Not sure if they originated it, but the first place I saw this was a few
> years back at one of Owen Elmen's MUDs (probably Arturion Dynasty).
...and I remember the term from Role master, probably from the early
'80s. 1 xp for every mile of new terrain covered, doubled if through
dangerous terrain.
Mik
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- Thread context:
- [MUD-Dev] Re: Levels versus Skills, who uses them and when., (continued)
- [MUD-Dev] Re: Levels versus Skills, who uses them and when.,
Koster, Raph rkoster#origin,ea.com, Wed 13 Jan 1999, 23:39 GMT
- [MUD-Dev] Re: Levels versus Skills, who uses them and when.,
Adam Wiggins adam#angel,com, Thu 14 Jan 1999, 01:25 GMT
- [MUD-Dev] Re: Levels versus Skills, who uses them and when.,
J C Lawrence claw#under,engr.sgi.com, Thu 14 Jan 1999, 01:31 GMT
- [MUD-Dev] Re: Levels versus Skills, who uses them and when.,
Holly Sommer hsommer#micro,ti.com, Thu 14 Jan 1999, 19:03 GMT
- [MUD-Dev] Re: Levels versus Skills, who uses them and when.,
Mik Clarke mikclrk#ibm,net, Thu 14 Jan 1999, 20:58 GMT
- [MUD-Dev] Re: Levels versus Skills, who uses them and when.,
Adam Wiggins adam#angel,com, Thu 14 Jan 1999, 21:35 GMT
- [MUD-Dev] Re: Levels versus Skills, who uses them and when.,
Mik Clarke mikclrk#ibm,net, Thu 14 Jan 1999, 20:34 GMT
- [MUD-Dev] Re: Levels versus Skills, who uses them and when.,
Petri Virkkula pvirkkul#iki,fi, Thu 14 Jan 1999, 21:18 GMT
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