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<LI><em>Subject</em>: Re: [MUD-Dev] Spoken Languages & Food [was RP thesis...]</LI>
<LI><em>From</em>: Adam Wiggins <<A HREF="mailto:nightfall#user1,inficad.com">nightfall#user1,inficad.com</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Mon, 26 May 1997 20:44:21 -0700 (MST)</LI>
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> [Marian:]
> > Anything that distracts players from the numbers (stats and experience) game
> > is definitely desirable in a mud (in my opinion of course).
[Matt:]
> A noble sentiment, and one that I share. It's another reason why, whilst i
> wish to keep the notions of numerative stats, hps, and levels (lets not
> launch that one again.. these are not levels as you might know them, call
> them guild-rankings, whatever), I wish to deal with them internally. The
> player would see "You are very strong, and sturdy, but slow to learn."
> Rather than "Strength: 50, Toughness: 50, Learning: 10", and "You are very
> badly hurt, and bleeding." rather than "HP: 50/200".
Yup. And although there tends to be kick-back to this sort of thing in
the established mud community, I think it actually makes the game *easier*
to get into. One of the first muds I logged on to had an output that
looked something like this:
<right hand> 10
<left hand> 10
<right arm> 25
<left arm> 25
<torso> 75
etc. This was pretty useless to me - I quickly figured out that the list
of numbers was somehow related to the damage level of each limb, but the
numbers were meaningless for a while. I would have understood immediately,
however, if the output had been something like:
You have a nasty cut on your right arm and a bruise on your left leg.
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00687" HREF="msg00687.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] RP thesis...</A></strong>,
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Thu 22 May 1997, 06:03 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00845" HREF="msg00845.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] RP thesis... (Chinese stuff)</A></strong>,
Ling <a href="mailto:K.L.Lo-94#student,lut.ac.uk">K.L.Lo-94#student,lut.ac.uk</a>, Tue 27 May 1997, 23:44 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00814" HREF="msg00814.html">[MUD-Dev] re: RP thesis...</A></strong>,
Marian Griffith <a href="mailto:gryphon#iaehv,nl">gryphon#iaehv,nl</a>, Tue 27 May 1997, 04:58 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00819" HREF="msg00819.html">Spoken Languages & Food [was RP thesis...]</A></strong>,
Matt Chatterley <a href="mailto:root#mpc,dyn.ml.org">root#mpc,dyn.ml.org</a>, Tue 27 May 1997, 05:25 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00821" HREF="msg00821.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Spoken Languages & Food [was RP thesis...]</A></strong>,
Adam Wiggins <a href="mailto:nightfall#user1,inficad.com">nightfall#user1,inficad.com</a>, Tue 27 May 1997, 10:32 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00833" HREF="msg00833.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Spoken Languages & Food [was RP thesis...]</A></strong>,
Matt Chatterley <a href="mailto:root#mpc,dyn.ml.org">root#mpc,dyn.ml.org</a>, Tue 27 May 1997, 15:22 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00882" HREF="msg00882.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Spoken Languages & Food [was RP thesis...]</A></strong>,
Adam Wiggins <a href="mailto:nightfall#user1,inficad.com">nightfall#user1,inficad.com</a>, Wed 28 May 1997, 13:09 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00939" HREF="msg00939.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Spoken Languages & Food [was RP thesis...]</A></strong>,
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Fri 30 May 1997, 05:53 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00948" HREF="msg00948.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Spoken Languages & Food [was RP thesis...]</A></strong>,
Matt Chatterley <a href="mailto:root#mpc,dyn.ml.org">root#mpc,dyn.ml.org</a>, Fri 30 May 1997, 17:43 GMT
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