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<LI><em>From</em>: Ling <<A HREF="mailto:K.L.Lo-94#student,lut.ac.uk">K.L.Lo-94#student,lut.ac.uk</A>></LI>
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On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Caliban Tiresias Darklock wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Jun 1997 20:02:47 PST8PDT, Adam Wiggins
> <nightfall#inficad,com> wrote:
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> >Hmmm, methinks we ought to get our terms straight. I use mud (capped or
> >not) to group Tiny, LP, Diku, and everything else we think of as
> >being online, text-based role-playing games into one giant lump.
>
> I used to do that. Then I figured out that they were so outrageously
> different that a MUSH and a MUD were entirely different animals.
<sigh>
[much ado about creating rooms snipped]
> >> that the type of person who makes a good RP-centric game designer is not
> >> generally the type of person who makes a good MUD builder, and the
> >> converse also holds. The learning curve is steep. The problem is not so
> >
> >Hmmm, don't know that this is true. I've found that a good builder is a
> >good builder, and a good builder is a hell of a hard thing to find.
Yep. Once you find one, you bribe him with cookies and sweets.
> Well, if someone would DOCUMENT THE INTERFACE maybe we could RTFM.
Hmm..
> >In my mind it's identical to a good author - they may have their strengths
> >and weaknesses (fiction/non-fiction, sci-fi/fantasy/modern day/western,
> >tragedy/romance/heroic/horror) but generally a good writer is a good writer
> >at whatever they choose to try their hand at.
>
> That's because they write in one language that has documented and
> accepted rules, instead of forty incompatible half-assed command formats
> that nobody ever wrote down.
I'll tread carefully.
For power muds, there is an art to creating a good area. Part of this is
to do with the QA of the mud. The rest is down to the builder himself.
It's like creating levels on a computer game. Everyone can make a level.
But... a good level...
This applies to a lot of things...
> >> much that the commands themselves are bad, but that there's too little
> >> documentation and what there is tends to be incompletely indexed.
> >
> >Oh, yes. An offshoot of being a part-time project of college kids who
> >generally only want to fool around with things that are fun for a while,
> >and then move on. Something like keeping docs up to date isn't really
> >all that much fun.
>
> Then you shouldn't be writing a MUD.
Thanks.
I'll drop everything and go home.
I like reading long messages.
Long messages which don't look out of place in r.g.a.m.
| Ling
_O_O_ Freshwater fish since 1976
Heheheh...
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01141" HREF="msg01141.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] RP=MUSH/PG=MUD</A></strong>,
Adam Wiggins <a href="mailto:nightfall#inficad,com">nightfall#inficad,com</a>, Wed 04 Jun 1997, 12:04 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01181" HREF="msg01181.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] RP=MUSH/PG=MUD</A></strong>,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Thu 05 Jun 1997, 12:19 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="01233" HREF="msg01233.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] RP=MUSH/PG=MUD</A></strong>,
Adam Wiggins <a href="mailto:nightfall#user1,inficad.com">nightfall#user1,inficad.com</a>, Wed 07 Jan 1970, 22:41 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="01236" HREF="msg01236.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] RP=MUSH/PG=MUD</A></strong>,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Sat 07 Jun 1997, 00:43 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01199" HREF="msg01199.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] RP=MUSH/PG=MUD</A></strong>,
Ling <a href="mailto:K.L.Lo-94#student,lut.ac.uk">K.L.Lo-94#student,lut.ac.uk</a>, Thu 05 Jun 1997, 23:35 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01208" HREF="msg01208.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] RP=MUSH/PG=MUD</A></strong>,
Nathan Yospe <a href="mailto:yospe#hawaii,edu">yospe#hawaii,edu</a>, Fri 06 Jun 1997, 04:46 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="01229" HREF="msg01229.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] RP=MUSH/PG=MUD</A></strong>,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Fri 06 Jun 1997, 14:00 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01201" HREF="msg01201.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] RP=MUSH/PG=MUD</A></strong>,
Matt Chatterley <a href="mailto:root#mpc,dyn.ml.org">root#mpc,dyn.ml.org</a>, Fri 06 Jun 1997, 00:02 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01100" HREF="msg01100.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Life</A></strong>,
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Wed 04 Jun 1997, 00:27 GMT
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