--- Trade system where shopkeepers are seperate from manufacturing, and have to purchase items from manufacturers. This means the the most frequented shops will have the most items for sale. --- A program to take a map input file and create rooms based off of it. The rooms would be output into a basic merc format so that any Merc/Rom/Envy, etc, mud could read it. The program would have defaults for each areatype including a brief description. The file would use keycodes for the type of room, and the program or routine would read the file and interpret them into rooms starting at a specified vnum. The file would look like the sample below, which would create mountains on the west, bordered by hills, then plans to the east, and at the farthest east of the area, water. #VNUM 5000 #MAP MMMMMMMMHHHPPPPPPPPWWWWW MMMMMMHHHHPPPPPPWWWWWWWW MMMMMMMHHPPPPPPPWWWWWWWW MMMMMMCCCPPPPPPPPPWWWWWW MMMMMCCCCCPPPPPPWWWWWWWW MMMMMMMCCPPPPPPWWWWWWWWW MMMMMMMHHPPPPWWWWWWWWWWW MMMMMMMMHHPPWWWWWWWWWWWW MMMMMMMMMHHWWWWWWWWWWWWW #END