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<LI><em>From</em>: J C Lawrence <<A HREF="mailto:claw#cp,net">claw#cp,net</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 17:29:17 -0800</LI>
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On Thu, 16 Dec 1999 14:06:43 -0800 (PST)
Matthew Mihaly <diablo#best,com> wrote:
> This is, unfortunately, quite impossible to do in my experience
> unless your items are all very generic and exactly the same. For
> instance, aside from the shortsword that newbies get if they go
> through our newbie introduction, all armour and weapons within the
> game (well, aside from a couple of resetting quest items) are
> produced by players, and they all have individual stats attached
> to them. Aggregating the items would require them to lose their
> individuality.
No, it would require them to lose the individuality being attached
to a *specific* object. Look instead at the class of objects and
the distribution of "individuality".
Consider:
You have 50 handmade short swords. They all have individual
"unique" stats and other qualifiers. You put them in a pile in the
corner of the room covered by a blanket, and then pull out a random
sword.
Do you really care that that sword was #438 and that its stats etc
are XYZ, or would you be just s happy with a shortsword which had a
generated set of stats which fit the basic distribution model?
If so, you can then decay all the swords under the balnket back to
ur-object swords and then instantiate them only as needed.
> It's the same problem with most items in Achaea actually. Most
> things decay with time (whether in your inventory or not), and
> aggregating them requires losing individual decay times.
I see little reason that a decay time need define a unique object.
It merely defines an object as a member of a class of objects with
similar decay stats.
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00603" HREF="msg00603.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] The grass is always greener in the other field</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#kanga,nu">claw#kanga,nu</a>, Thu 16 Dec 1999, 04:18 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00605" HREF="msg00605.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] The grass is always greener in the other field</A></strong>,
Koster, Raph <a href="mailto:rkoster#origin,ea.com">rkoster#origin,ea.com</a>, Thu 16 Dec 1999, 17:31 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00606" HREF="msg00606.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] The grass is always greener in the other field</A></strong>,
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J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#cp,net">claw#cp,net</a>, Fri 17 Dec 1999, 01:29 GMT
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