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<LI><em>From</em>: <A HREF="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</A> (Chris Gray)</LI>
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[Alex O:]
:Hello guys.
Welcome back! :-)
:Have been a bit busy a bit lately and didn't follow the discussions.
:I'm now under a curse compelling me to catch up with the list (~800 messages
:worth of backlog... <gulp!>).
I had a co-worker over last night and we spent the evening talking, etc.
Now I find that I have 75 email messages just this morning!
:Anyways, There was an interesting thread about a month ago which discussed
:resets and repops in a mud. The consensus seems to be that resets are a thing
:to be avoided(tm).
Explicit, game or area-wide resets are something I don't like. Some kind
of resetting of state is pretty well needed locally, however, else you
can't have the same puzzle solved more than once.
:The question that was left unanswered is: How can a mud have a working quest
:system without some kind of resets?
When I was doing my little quests, the issue that come up is that of how
a given quest can be solved by different people at the same time. I was not
able to come up with an answer, and ended up being unsatisfied. One of my
entire areas shuts out other characters while one character is in it. I
don't like that, but couldn't see an alternative, given the nature of the
puzzle in it.
How *do* others out there solve this?
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Chris Gray cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00895" HREF="msg00895.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Resets, repops and quests</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00945" HREF="msg00945.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Resets, repops and quests</A></strong>,
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