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<LI><em>From</em>: J C Lawrence <<A HREF="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</A>></LI>
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On Wed, 13 Jan 1999 17:35:09 -0600
Koster, Raph<rkoster#origin,ea.com> wrote:
>> From: Mik Clarke
>> At the moment I'm working on quests and the like to give players
>> some way of getting xps without having to kill things.
> Quest XP is a classic tactic. XP for merely visiting rooms (or for
> visiting specific rooms), which we always termed "explore XP" is a
> nice tactic too, until the rooms become known.
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.
> [And yes, right here someone is going to say they implemented
> remembering every room visited, or every room remembering who
> visited it, and don't have that problem, and once again I'll
> shudder at the data storage their mud entails.
Aaargh, even I wouldn't attempt that.
> Am I the only one who is paranoid about memory usage?]
I doubt it. I'm just careful to distinguish between working set
data (which must be in memory, even if its virtual) and other data
which is usefult o have at hand but can be keep nice and cheaply on
cheap disks.
<<I got to play on a machine recently with the better part of half a
terrabyte of RAM (600Gig and some change IIRC). 'Twas heady>>
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00193" HREF="msg00193.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Levels versus Skills</A></strong>,
Marian Griffith <a href="mailto:gryphon#iaehv,nl">gryphon#iaehv,nl</a>, Fri 15 Jan 1999, 21:34 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00200" HREF="msg00200.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Levels versus Skills</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Sat 16 Jan 1999, 03:38 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00148" HREF="msg00148.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Levels versus Skills, who uses them and when.</A></strong>,
Koster, Raph <a href="mailto:rkoster#origin,ea.com">rkoster#origin,ea.com</a>, Wed 13 Jan 1999, 23:39 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00155" HREF="msg00155.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Levels versus Skills, who uses them and when.</A></strong>,
Adam Wiggins <a href="mailto:adam#angel,com">adam#angel,com</a>, Thu 14 Jan 1999, 01:25 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00156" HREF="msg00156.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Levels versus Skills, who uses them and when.</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Thu 14 Jan 1999, 01:31 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00164" HREF="msg00164.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Levels versus Skills, who uses them and when.</A></strong>,
Holly Sommer <a href="mailto:hsommer#micro,ti.com">hsommer#micro,ti.com</a>, Thu 14 Jan 1999, 19:03 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00170" HREF="msg00170.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Levels versus Skills, who uses them and when.</A></strong>,
Mik Clarke <a href="mailto:mikclrk#ibm,net">mikclrk#ibm,net</a>, Thu 14 Jan 1999, 20:58 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00176" HREF="msg00176.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Levels versus Skills, who uses them and when.</A></strong>,
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