<!-- MHonArc v2.4.4 --> <!--X-Subject: Re: [MUD-Dev] Collecting ideas for a MUD server... (fwd) --> <!--X-From-R13: Dnuhy Evaun <efvaunNtyhr.hzq.rqh> --> <!--X-Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 21:39:36 -0800 --> <!--X-Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.10.9912222215190.11208-100000@localhost.localdomain --> <!--X-Content-Type: text/plain --> <!--X-Reference: 3861434D.E0C13EC3@classic-games.com --> <!--X-Head-End--> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <html> <head> <title>MUD-Dev message, Re: [MUD-Dev] Collecting ideas for a MUD server... (fwd)</title> <!-- meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow" --> <link rev="made" href="mailto:rsinha@glue.umd.edu"> </head> <body background="/backgrounds/paperback.gif" bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" alink="#FF0000" vlink="#006000"> <font size="+4" color="#804040"> <strong><em>MUD-Dev<br>mailing list archive</em></strong> </font> <br> [ <a href="../">Other Periods</a> | <a href="../../">Other mailing lists</a> | <a href="/search.php3">Search</a> ] <br clear=all><hr> <!--X-Body-Begin--> <!--X-User-Header--> <!--X-User-Header-End--> <!--X-TopPNI--> Date: [ <a href="msg00750.html">Previous</a> | <a href="msg00753.html">Next</a> ] Thread: [ <a href="msg00731.html">Previous</a> | <a href="msg00761.html">Next</a> ] Index: [ <A HREF="author.html#00752">Author</A> | <A HREF="#00752">Date</A> | <A HREF="thread.html#00752">Thread</A> ] <!--X-TopPNI-End--> <!--X-MsgBody--> <!--X-Subject-Header-Begin--> <H1>Re: [MUD-Dev] Collecting ideas for a MUD server... (fwd)</H1> <HR> <!--X-Subject-Header-End--> <!--X-Head-of-Message--> <UL> <LI><em>To</em>: <A HREF="mailto:mud-dev#kanga,nu">mud-dev#kanga,nu</A></LI> <LI><em>Subject</em>: Re: [MUD-Dev] Collecting ideas for a MUD server... (fwd)</LI> <LI><em>From</em>: Rahul Sinha <<A HREF="mailto:rsinha#glue,umd.edu">rsinha#glue,umd.edu</A>></LI> <LI><em>Date</em>: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 22:18:04 -0500 (EST)</LI> <LI><em>Reply-To</em>: <A HREF="mailto:mud-dev#kanga,nu">mud-dev#kanga,nu</A></LI> <LI><em>Sender</em>: <A HREF="mailto:mud-dev-admin#kanga,nu">mud-dev-admin#kanga,nu</A></LI> </UL> <!--X-Head-of-Message-End--> <!--X-Head-Body-Sep-Begin--> <HR> <!--X-Head-Body-Sep-End--> <!--X-Body-of-Message--> <PRE> On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Greg Miller wrote: > "Wesley W. Terpstra" wrote: > > There are several of us. One of us will be writing the client and telling > > the server programmers what he wants for the protocols etc. > > So, I have no problems with shunting work on him. :-) > > We had planned on the actual gui being customizable between worlds, but > > for the first server we would have a birds eye view like Ultima 6. (great > > game!) > > I made the mistake with Tradewars: TNE of having the interface > hard-coded in the client in early versions. Having to download a new > client version nearly every time the server is updated is not a good > thing. interface agnosticism is a Good Thing ;-) on a related note, wes, do you plan to allow for text-user access? > > > Yes, I know. But making it have a gui already forces our hand, so why not > > suck on their processor to lighten the servers burden? > > If you can do that without downloading any information to the client > that's not supposed to be available to the player, and without having > the server trust the results of any client-side computations, go for it. which means you can only offload graphics computations, or some physics if you don't mind that lag will make your players "hop" > > Cool 'eh? This is why I want to know if anyone has already done this or > > whether I can stamp my name on it. ;-) > > I'm not aware of anyone who's done this, nor even wanted to. this sounds like Everquest... except for the internal MUD language portion... -RS Rahul Sinha Computer Science/ Government, University Of Maryland College Park AIM: qui dire ICQ: 9738191 (301)935-5542 _______________________________________________ MUD-Dev maillist - MUD-Dev#kanga,nu <A HREF="http://www.kanga.nu/lists/listinfo/mud-dev">http://www.kanga.nu/lists/listinfo/mud-dev</A> </PRE> <!--X-Body-of-Message-End--> <!--X-MsgBody-End--> <!--X-Follow-Ups--> <HR> <ul compact><li><strong>Follow-Ups</strong>: <ul> <li><strong><A NAME="00761" HREF="msg00761.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Collecting ideas for a MUD server... (fwd)</A></strong> <ul compact><li><em>From:</em> "Wesley W. 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(fwd)</A></strong>, Wesley W. Terpstra <a href="mailto:terpstra@iota.dhs.org">terpstra@iota.dhs.org</a>, Wed 22 Dec 1999, 20:57 GMT <UL> <LI><strong><A NAME="00731" HREF="msg00731.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Collecting ideas for a MUD server... (fwd)</A></strong>, Greg Miller <a href="mailto:gmiller@classic-games.com">gmiller@classic-games.com</a>, Wed 22 Dec 1999, 21:32 GMT <UL> <LI><strong><A NAME="00752" HREF="msg00752.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Collecting ideas for a MUD server... (fwd)</A></strong>, Rahul Sinha <a href="mailto:rsinha@glue.umd.edu">rsinha@glue.umd.edu</a>, Thu 23 Dec 1999, 05:39 GMT <UL> <LI><strong><A NAME="00761" HREF="msg00761.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Collecting ideas for a MUD server... (fwd)</A></strong>, Wesley W. Terpstra <a href="mailto:terpstra@iota.dhs.org">terpstra@iota.dhs.org</a>, Thu 23 Dec 1999, 17:00 GMT <UL> <LI><strong><A NAME="00768" HREF="msg00768.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Collecting ideas for a MUD server... (fwd)</A></strong>, J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw@kanga.nu">claw@kanga.nu</a>, Thu 23 Dec 1999, 17:08 GMT </LI> </UL> </LI> </UL> </LI> </UL> </LI> <LI><strong><A NAME="00742" HREF="msg00742.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Collecting ideas for a MUD server... (fwd)</A></strong>, J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw@cp.net">claw@cp.net</a>, Thu 23 Dec 1999, 00:29 GMT </LI> </UL> </LI> <LI><strong><A NAME="00751" HREF="msg00751.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Collecting ideas for a MUD server... (fwd)</A></strong>, Rahul Sinha <a href="mailto:rsinha@glue.umd.edu">rsinha@glue.umd.edu</a>, Thu 23 Dec 1999, 05:36 GMT </LI> </ul> </LI> </UL></BLOCKQUOTE> </ul> <hr> <center> [ <a href="../">Other Periods</a> | <a href="../../">Other mailing lists</a> | <a href="/search.php3">Search</a> ] </center> <hr> </body> </html>