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<LI><em>From</em>: Shawn Halpenny <<A HREF="mailto:malachai#iname,com">malachai#iname,com</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Tue, 27 May 1997 12:43:39 -0400</LI>
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coder#ibm,net wrote:
[ potential problems arising out of increasing list traffic ]
> What to do? Is it really a problem? Suggestions and comments welcome
> either directly to me at coder#null,net or here in the list.
Although it's not a problem for me where I am right now, if I were to
forward my mail to one of a couple other accounts, it could get titchy.
Is dumping all the message traffic into a bin and letting people pull
out what they'd like to read an option? I'm not thinking about any
particular implementation, just thinking aloud.
[ getting stuck with arrows, yanking them out, dealing with the pain ]
> Note however, that rather than encourage players to go get stuck with
> arrows and then pull them out for the above gains, they also get a
> much bigger black mark against them for getting stuck in the first
> place. The game will attempt to notice when you are doing extremely
> well and everything is going your way, and will bend the rules of luck
> and probability to help -- however it will also notice when things
> start to fail, and will then bend the rules against the player,
> encouraging and flat out causing him to fail more often. This of
> course brings up the general point of causitively controlling
> probability, a generally fascinating idea which I'll discuss in
> another post.
I get positively droolly over issues involving probability (it's one of
the few things in life I've got firm, unshakeable belief in), and am
mixing a goodly bit of it into everything in my model (things like
inverse-probability regions, really nasty probabilistic disasters and
such as-of-yet nebulous stuff). Truth be told, I don't even know
everywhere it will pop up, just that there will be a stinking lot of
it. Thus, I'm particularly intrigued with what'll be in this other
post.
--
Shawn Halpenny
"People that are really very weird can get into sensitive
positions and have a tremendous impact on history."
- Dan Quayle
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00998" HREF="msg00998.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE...</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00840" HREF="msg00840.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE...</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00844" HREF="msg00844.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE...</A></strong>,
Shawn Halpenny <a href="mailto:malachai#iname,com">malachai#iname,com</a>, Tue 27 May 1997, 23:43 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00926" HREF="msg00926.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Probability (was: Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE...)</A></strong>,
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