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<LI><em>From</em>: <A HREF="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</A></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Tue, 27 May 97 10:44:47 -0700</LI>
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In <<A HREF="msg00809.html">9705261529.829g#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</A>>, on 05/26/97
at 07:54 AM, cg#ami-cg,graysage.edmonton.ab.ca (Chris Gray) said:
>[Michael H:]
>:Since we've got tons of individual characters to choose from, we could
>:come up with every terrain type we could possibly want. This would also
>:make it easier to have natural disasters change the terrain, since it
>:would be a simple matter of changing a few characters in the overall map.
>I've done something like that in my current scenario, and in another
>one which isn't part of the main one (yet!). The idea can work not
>too bad, but I think you'll find that you *will* quickly run out of
>character types...
You can grab another 26 by using case-sensitive letters. Another
fairly simply possibility is to use something like UTF-8 (probably
preferably over one of the UCS or Unicode codesets). You won't get a
directly addressable array any more, but its still fairly simple and
semi-human readable.
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<LI><STRONG>Re: [MUD-Dev] Resets, repops and quests</STRONG>, <EM>(continued)</EM>
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00852" HREF="msg00852.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Resets, repops and quests</A></strong>,
Ling <a href="mailto:K.L.Lo-94#student,lut.ac.uk">K.L.Lo-94#student,lut.ac.uk</a>, Wed 28 May 1997, 00:33 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00967" HREF="msg00967.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Resets, repops and quests</A></strong>,
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Sat 31 May 1997, 05:56 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00830" HREF="msg00830.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Internal Mud Languages</A></strong>,
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Tue 27 May 1997, 12:56 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00809" HREF="msg00809.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Rooms, 3D arrays, etc.</A></strong>,
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Mon 26 May 1997, 21:47 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00854" HREF="msg00854.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Rooms, 3D arrays, etc.</A></strong>,
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Wed 28 May 1997, 00:56 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00906" HREF="msg00906.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Rooms, 3D arrays, etc.</A></strong>,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Thu 29 May 1997, 02:33 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00881" HREF="msg00881.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Rooms, 3D arrays, etc.</A></strong>,
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Wed 28 May 1997, 12:58 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00975" HREF="msg00975.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Rooms, 3D arrays, etc.</A></strong>,
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Thu 01 Jan 1970, 10:07 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00890" HREF="msg00890.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Rooms, 3D arrays, etc.</A></strong>,
Miroslav Silovic <a href="mailto:silovic#srce,hr">silovic#srce,hr</a>, Wed 28 May 1997, 17:59 GMT
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