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Re[2]: [MUD-Dev] Spawning and quests (was Sony ban)
On Monday, April 24, 2000, F. Randall Farmer wrote:
> I've been lucky enough to be a member of two teams who have implemented
> "shadow" copies of "realms" for individuals and groups. Let me say this:
> They
> work great, as long as people win different "shadows" don't need to join
> each other. Parallel copies of spaces can be quite jarring.
> Oracle whispers to you: "I'm in the Royal Throne Chamber, sitting on the
> throne."
> You whisper to Oracle: "I'm standing right in front of the throne, and you
> aren't here!"
> For spaces that are inherently _single_ user, it works the best. WorldsAway
> (now
> known as VZones) uses this for new user hatcheries where the user can
> practice
> alone before being dumped into the head-stealing populous. :-) They also
> used
> it successfully for single-user mazes.
This is a lot like cloning a set of rooms in an LPmud -- which is how
SWmud implements ships. The "ship object" that a player sees from
outside the ship is just an entrance point that will put a character
who enters into it into the proper cloned set of the rooms that
comprise that type of ship's interior.
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- [MUD-Dev] Search engine and thread managing, (continued)
- [MUD-Dev] Search engine and thread managing,
Stéphane Garin youri#wanadoo,fr, Sat 22 Apr 2000, 19:39 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] Spawning and quests (was Sony ban),
Nathan F Yospe yospe#hawaii,edu, Mon 24 Apr 2000, 01:20 GMT
- RE: [MUD-Dev] Spawning and quests (was Sony ban),
Lee Sheldon linearno#gte,net, Mon 24 Apr 2000, 18:47 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] Spawning and quests (was Sony ban),
F. Randall Farmer randy#communities,com, Mon 24 Apr 2000, 18:47 GMT
- RE: [MUD-Dev] Spawning and quests (was Sony ban),
Schubert, Damion dschubert#origin,ea.com, Tue 18 Apr 2000, 20:15 GMT
- Institutionalizing human behavior (was RE: [MUD-Dev] banning the sale of items),
Sellers, Michael MSellers#maxis,com, Fri 14 Apr 2000, 02:51 GMT
- [MUD-Dev] DDoS,
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