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<LI><em>To</em>: Caliban Tiresias Darklock <<A HREF="mailto:mud-dev#kanga,nu">mud-dev#kanga,nu</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Subject</em>: Re[2]: [MUD-Dev] The Best Guy on the Mud Thing</LI>
<LI><em>From</em>: Travis Casey <<A HREF="mailto:efindel#io,com">efindel#io,com</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 11:15:43 -0400</LI>
<LI><em>Reply-To</em>: <A HREF="mailto:mud-dev#kanga,nu">mud-dev#kanga,nu</A></LI>
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On Monday, September 20, 1999, Caliban Tiresias Darklock wrote:
> On 09:18 AM 9/20/1999 -0500, I personally witnessed Travis S. Casey jumping
> up to say:
>>IMHO, the problem with "word-combination" spell systems is that finding
>>spells is being made a player-level puzzle, rather than something that's
>>done on the character-level.
> I *like* player-level challenges!
I wasn't trying to say that player-level challenges are bad -- just
that, in this case, the problem people were discussing could be
avoided entirely by handling learning of spells on the character level
instead of the player level.
It's ultimately a case of designer judgement -- you may have a reason
for having learning spells be at the player level that makes you want
to do it in spite of having to find a way around the problem of
players trading information. If you don't have such a reason, though,
you may want to simply have it be done at the character level.
>>At the player-level, players can help each
>>other out easily. If spell knowledge is moved back to the
>>character-level, it becomes much easier to restrict.
> Consider this.
[snip system]
I didn't say it was *impossible* to stop -- other people had already
suggested mechanisms that would work. Just that moving it to
character level means you don't even have to make the effort.
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00396" HREF="msg00396.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] The Best Guy on the Mud Thing</A></strong>,
Wes Connell <a href="mailto:wconnell#adhesive,com">wconnell#adhesive,com</a>, Sat 18 Sep 1999, 02:00 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00411" HREF="msg00411.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] The Best Guy on the Mud Thing</A></strong>,
Travis S. Casey <a href="mailto:efindel#io,com">efindel#io,com</a>, Mon 20 Sep 1999, 17:06 GMT
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Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Mon 20 Sep 1999, 19:54 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00421" HREF="msg00421.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] The Best Guy on the Mud Thing</A></strong>,
Dundee <a href="mailto:SkeptAck#antisocial,com">SkeptAck#antisocial,com</a>, Mon 20 Sep 1999, 22:34 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00508" HREF="msg00508.html">Re[2]: [MUD-Dev] The Best Guy on the Mud Thing</A></strong>,
Travis Casey <a href="mailto:efindel#io,com">efindel#io,com</a>, Mon 27 Sep 1999, 16:58 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00518" HREF="msg00518.html">Re[2]: [MUD-Dev] The Best Guy on the Mud Thing</A></strong>,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Tue 28 Sep 1999, 14:05 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00385" HREF="msg00385.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: The Best Guy on the Mud Thing</A></strong>,
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