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From: Jacklyn Murphy <murphy@csd4.csd.uwm.edu>
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Subject: Test
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> From busey@soc4.acpub.duke.edu Tue Dec 3 17:50:44 1991
> Date: Tue, 3 Dec 91 18:50:09 -0500
> From: busey@soc4.acpub.duke.edu (ANDREW BUSEY)
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> To: murphy@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
> Subject: Test
>
> Mail me the answers with cc to Grev, Ted, and Alder.
>
>
> 1) How can you copy a file from one dir to another?
>
> 2) How do you make a dir?
>
> 3) How do you change what room your castle will appear in
> when loaded?
>
> 4) How do you make a monster appear in a room when the rooms reset()
> is called?
>
> 5) If an item is in the long room description, should you be able to
> type "exa item" and get a description of item? How do you do this?
>
> 6) How would you make an object so you couldn't drop it?
>
> 7) How would you make "players/ted/item" auto_loading?
>
> 8) How would you make it impossible for a player to say anything?
>
> 9) How would you make someone see somewhere in the long description
> of a player "Player is not NICE" when another player looks at him/her?
>
> 10) What color is a red dragon?
>
> 11) How would you find out what weapon a player is wielding and change
> it's wc to a lower value?
>
> 12) How would you prevent a player from wielding a weapon above wc 12?
>
> 13) You will make all rooms/monsters/weapons/armor/items each have a
> different file, won't you?
>
> 14) How would you make a monster that would be impossible to
> do damage to?
>
> 15) How would you make a "pet" follow you around?
>
> 16) What calls the init() in a room? (What causes it to be called?)
>
> 17) If you create a shadow for a monster and in the shadow you redefine
> query_max_hp() to return 100000; what will that do? Will it change
> the current hp's of the monster? Why or why not?
>
> 18) If a player is complaining that he lost all his gold in a crash,
> what should you do?
>
> 19) If you want the wc of a weapon to stay at 15, but you want to
> do extra damage to any monster of race "troll", how do you?
>
> 20) If you wanted to make it possible for the player to "see" in the
> dark (but only that player, not his friends in same room), how?
>
> 21) Code a room that loads a monster with money and a weapon. Code
> the monster too. They don't have to be complex, just simple
> ones.
>
> Good luck,
> Tarod
>