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<H1>[MUD-Dev] Re: MUD Design doc - Combat</H1>
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<LI><em>Subject</em>: [MUD-Dev] Re: MUD Design doc - Combat</LI>
<LI><em>From</em>: James Wilson <<A HREF="mailto:jwilson#rochester,rr.com">jwilson#rochester,rr.com</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 20:20:44 -0500</LI>
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On Tue, 05 Jan 1999, Koster, Raph wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: J C Lawrence [<A HREF="mailto:claw#kanga,nu">mailto:claw#kanga,nu</A>]
>> Sent: Monday, January 04, 1999 12:29 AM
>> To: mud-dev#kanga,nu
>> Subject: [MUD-Dev] Re: MUD Design doc - Combat
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>> I *really* dislike generically automated combat. There's a balance
>> there between control and amusement. I'd rather not enter commands
>> for every beat of my character's heart. I'd also rather not see
>> enter-command-and-sit-back-until-desired-state-accomplished.
>
>There's one darn good reason to have the latter--it's less vulnerable to
>latency. The more interactive, the more vulnerable the player is to loss
>of connection or packet loss or plain old lag which causes them to miss
>or mistime crucial input.
>
>Lots of ways to handle this, of course, some of them more subject to
>abuse than others. Queuing systems and programmable actions & the like
>can help with this, of course. But a queuing system loses actual
>interaction in favor of pre-programmed estimates. Programmable actions
>are, frankly, only for the expert gamer, which may not be your target
>audience.
>
>-Raph
I'm curious - has anyone implemented a system allowing variable levels of
combat detail ('brief-mode' vs 'verbose-mode', for instance)?
James
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00054" HREF="msg00054.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: [OT Humor] Mudder's Rhapsody</A></strong>,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Tue 05 Jan 1999, 23:38 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00049" HREF="msg00049.html">[MUD-Dev] [OT Humor] Mudder's Rhapsody</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00047" HREF="msg00047.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: MUD Design doc - Combat</A></strong>,
Koster, Raph <a href="mailto:rkoster#origin,ea.com">rkoster#origin,ea.com</a>, Tue 05 Jan 1999, 19:18 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00057" HREF="msg00057.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: MUD Design doc - Combat</A></strong>,
James Wilson <a href="mailto:jwilson#rochester,rr.com">jwilson#rochester,rr.com</a>, Wed 06 Jan 1999, 01:32 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00058" HREF="msg00058.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: MUD Design doc - Combat</A></strong>,
Nathan F Yospe <a href="mailto:yospe#hawaii,edu">yospe#hawaii,edu</a>, Wed 06 Jan 1999, 02:25 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00077" HREF="msg00077.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: MUD Design doc - Combat</A></strong>,
James Wilson <a href="mailto:jwilson#rochester,rr.com">jwilson#rochester,rr.com</a>, Thu 07 Jan 1999, 02:09 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00078" HREF="msg00078.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: MUD Design doc - Combat</A></strong>,
diablo <a href="mailto:diablo#best,com">diablo#best,com</a>, Thu 07 Jan 1999, 02:51 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00079" HREF="msg00079.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: MUD Design doc - Combat</A></strong>,
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