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<LI><em>Subject</em>: Re: [MUD-Dev] Population container</LI>
<LI><em>From</em>: Nathan Yospe <<A HREF="mailto:yospe#hawaii,edu">yospe#hawaii,edu</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 12:16:37 -1000</LI>
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On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, Wout Mertens wrote:
:hey all!
:Here's an idea I had:
:Instead of having all that trouble of having to constantly update your
:objects, even when noone is around, I present:
:The Population Container
:What is it? Well, you take a kind of monster that you want to populate a
:zone with. Now make a population model, something like Fibonacci's row or
:so (rabbits!), and update the model every once in a while.
:Now, if a player is about, and he 'spots' one (or more) of the population,
:decrease you population by one (or more) and make the appropriate monster
:appear.
Even more, you can hold off on generating the actual instance until a
closer examination is performed. This is the biggest use I make of my
massing containers. While it is not exactly the same concept - my massed
containers don't model population growth and such, and are viable only
within a single locality - it does bear certain similarities.
:This way, you can have zillions of flies, musquito's, dwarfs, etc etc, you
:could even describe the critters from the container (some dwarfs are
:lurking about) (tho I think that's a bit farfetched), and all with
:virtually no memory or cpu overhead.
It is hardly farfetched at all. Observe:
The crowd class is derived from the containment class, and from the
physical class. Thus, it is an example of a "massing container", similar
to the body class, and others. Like all containers, it defaults to
carrying uninstantiated members first. Because of this, any glance at a
crowd will be described by the crowd, and not by an assemblage of members.
All containers are equipped to handle cases where some members are
instantiated, so if a known associate of a character was hiding in the
crowd, the character could pick that individual out. Examples:
There is a large crowd of peasants milling around the field.
There is a large crowd of peasants milling around the field, and an
armored knight standing among them.
(To a dragon)
There is a large crowd of filthy humans milling around your sleeping
grounds.
There is a large crowd of peasants milling around the field. Matilda
is among them, chatting with a tall, skinny man.
:That's it.
:Thoughts? Questions? Ideas? Stuff?
Just an additional comment: these things can get really fun.
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<LI><STRONG>Re: [MUD-Dev] Git out the boar spear, Martha!</STRONG>, <EM>(continued)</EM>
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01507" HREF="msg01507.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Git out the boar spear, Martha!</A></strong>,
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Thu 26 Jun 1997, 08:08 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01404" HREF="msg01404.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Git out the boar spear, Martha!</A></strong>,
Matt Chatterley <a href="mailto:root#mpc,dyn.ml.org">root#mpc,dyn.ml.org</a>, Sat 21 Jun 1997, 16:57 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01362" HREF="msg01362.html">Population container</A></strong>,
Wout Mertens <a href="mailto:Wout.Mertens#rug,ac.be">Wout.Mertens#rug,ac.be</a>, Fri 20 Jun 1997, 01:51 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01383" HREF="msg01383.html">[MUD-Dev] Population container</A></strong>,
Brandon Cline <a href="mailto:brandon#sedona,net">brandon#sedona,net</a>, Fri 20 Jun 1997, 16:08 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01391" HREF="msg01391.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Population container</A></strong>,
Nathan Yospe <a href="mailto:yospe#hawaii,edu">yospe#hawaii,edu</a>, Sat 21 Jun 1997, 05:16 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01483" HREF="msg01483.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Population container</A></strong>,
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Wed 25 Jun 1997, 06:44 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01558" HREF="msg01558.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Population container</A></strong>,
Wout Mertens <a href="mailto:Wout.Mertens#rug,ac.be">Wout.Mertens#rug,ac.be</a>, Fri 27 Jun 1997, 22:37 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01358" HREF="msg01358.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Name/language generation</A></strong>,
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Thu 19 Jun 1997, 21:48 GMT
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