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<LI><em>From</em>: Greg Underwood <<A HREF="mailto:gunderwood#donet,com">gunderwood#donet,com</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 23:53:57 +0000</LI>
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At 07:44 PM 1/18/00 -0800, "Joe Kingry" <jkingry#uwaterloo,ca> wrote:
>We have a very basic way of handling languages on our mud. Currently each
>language has a table of sylables/words and a mapping to a some assortment of
>letters.
[...]
>But how do you handle non 100% skill in a language? I imagine in our case
>with a table that maps various fragments you could do a reverse map of the
>fragment only if you passed a skill check. I've experimented with this with
>varying results. I'm just looking for other ideas at this time.
>
>Any suggestions on how to handle languages?
mmm... how about something like this. Your % skill in the langauge
determines not only whether you got the translation at all, but what % of
it you got. IE: a 50% in the skill might result in a correct translation
of half of the phrase, or an incorrect translation of the whole phrase, or
a mix.
Something like:
results = throwdice();
if (results <= skill[target_lang])
{
// give them an accurate translation, but not
// necessarily of the whole sentance
}
else if ((results > skill[target_lang]) &&
(results < skill[target_lang] +
((100-skill[target_lang])/2)) )
{
// IE: skill[target_lang] = 50%, and they roll
// between 50 and 75 give them some correct,
// and some incorrect, and some not at all.
}
else if (results > skill[target_lang] +
((100-skill[target_lang])/2) )
{
// give them an incorrect translation/gobbly-gook
}
Just some thoughts.
-Greg
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