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<LI><em>From</em>: Paul Schwanz - Enterprise Services <<A HREF="mailto:Paul.Schwanz#east,sun.com">Paul.Schwanz#east,sun.com</A>></LI>
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> From: Phillip Lenhardt <philen#ans,net>
> >One issue with open-scripting is that the scripting language must enforce
> >enough coding style that poor scripters can understand the work of good
> >scripters. Even better would be for the langauge to enforce a reasonable
> >level of configurability so that adapting a script is easy as well.
>
>
Jeff said:
> I'm not even going to provide that much flexibility, although they can
> download the software and write a script if they want to - if I implement
> it, then it'd be a button what any player could click to use that script.
>
> But maybe one in a hundred of our players have any desire whatsoever to do
> any sort of programming. I think text muds probably have a lot more
> programmer-types among the user-base there.
>
Player "scripting" of characters doesn't have to be programming per se. If
you've played any RTS recently, you'll have noticed that there are usually a
number of options for having a unit do things without your constant supervision.
By using point-and-click methods and a few icons, the designers are basically
allowing gamers to "script" their characters to gather resources, guard a place
or person, defend a position, patrol a certain area or route, etc. We'll need
more complicated tasks performed in MMORPGs, but I think it would be good to
work from this icon driven model to make it more accessible to our users. It
won't take much to make SCPs (scripted player characters) more interesting than
our current NPCs, IMHO.
--Phinehas
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<LI><STRONG>RE: [MUD-Dev] Re: Family, was characters per account</STRONG>, <EM>(continued)</EM>
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00261" HREF="msg00261.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] Re: Family, was characters per account</A></strong>,
Raph Koster <a href="mailto:rkoster@austin.rr.com">rkoster@austin.rr.com</a>, Sat 15 Apr 2000, 05:11 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00247" HREF="msg00247.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Family, was characters per account</A></strong>,
Jeff Freeman <a href="mailto:SkeptAck@antisocial.com">SkeptAck@antisocial.com</a>, Fri 14 Apr 2000, 02:51 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00234" HREF="msg00234.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Family, was characters per account</A></strong>,
Paul Schwanz - Enterprise Services <a href="mailto:Paul.Schwanz@east.sun.com">Paul.Schwanz@east.sun.com</a>, Fri 14 Apr 2000, 02:51 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00260" HREF="msg00260.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] Re: Family, was characters per account</A></strong>,
Raph Koster <a href="mailto:rkoster@austin.rr.com">rkoster@austin.rr.com</a>, Sat 15 Apr 2000, 05:11 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00248" HREF="msg00248.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Family, was characters per account</A></strong>,
Paul Schwanz - Enterprise Services <a href="mailto:Paul.Schwanz@east.sun.com">Paul.Schwanz@east.sun.com</a>, Fri 14 Apr 2000, 02:52 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00392" HREF="msg00392.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] Re: Family, was characters per account</A></strong>,
Paul Schwanz - Enterprise Services <a href="mailto:Paul.Schwanz@east.sun.com">Paul.Schwanz@east.sun.com</a>, Mon 17 Apr 2000, 21:53 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00137" HREF="msg00137.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] Player controller justice systems</A></strong>,
Koster, Raph <a href="mailto:rkoster@origin.ea.com">rkoster@origin.ea.com</a>, Mon 10 Apr 2000, 23:12 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00143" HREF="msg00143.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Player controller justice systems</A></strong>,
Travis Nixon <a href="mailto:tnixon@avalanchesoftware.com">tnixon@avalanchesoftware.com</a>, Tue 11 Apr 2000, 02:05 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00144" HREF="msg00144.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Player controller justice systems</A></strong>,
Erik Jarvi <a href="mailto:ejarvi@megsinet.net">ejarvi@megsinet.net</a>, Tue 11 Apr 2000, 04:12 GMT
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