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<LI><em>From</em>: "Jon A. Lambert" <<A HREF="mailto:jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com">jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com</A>></LI>
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> From: clawrenc#cup,hp.com
> Subject: [MUD-Dev] Git out the boar spear, Martha!
> at 12:56 PM, Matt Chatterley <root#mpc,dyn.ml.org> said:
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> >The thread(s) upon hunger/food/nutrition a short while ago were very
> >popular and quite highly contested - I'd like to raise another issue
> >of that - the gathering of food, and specifically, implementation of
> >some way to hunt.
>
> For this area I fall into the grunt player camp. I expect my
> cahracter, outside of unsusual circumsatances (forced march across a
> desert etc), to take care of his own nutrition without requiring my
> attention or direct involvement as player. Possibly this is because I
> try and handle feeding my own body in much the same manner -- utterly
> ignorable automaticities. Eating is a bother and an unfortunately
> necessary waste of time. (Conveniently ignoring my own gourmand
> tendencies which I see as entirely seperate -- eating for pleasure as
> vs nutrition which I can't see translating into a text MUD well at
> all)
I think this may well fall into theme. It may be convenient to
assume ALL characters can hunt if your game world is primitive/historic.
If you do a modern/future theme, this skill may be more unusual and
having it as a survival skill might make a game difference.
Hunting down parts for the food replicator...hmm
>
> >I intend to allow the eating of corpses (of courpse, most players
> >will have to cut them up into suitable food pieces and/or cook them
> >first.. only trolls and orcs will be able to chow down on a freshly
> >dead body with no chance of being ill).
>
> That "chance of being ill" piece is interesting. Why should a
> character get ill from eating a freshly killed carcass? Parasites?
> There are amazingly few that can survive a human digestional system
> long enough to be real bother.
>
I not sure. Maybe I'm misinformed. I thought there was good reason
to drain the blood from that boar before eating. I also remember
something about people having digestive reactions to horse blood.
Perhaps certain creatures require special preparation, like Fugoo.
> There is considerable evidence (I find supportable) that Homo Sapiens
> is by nature a cursorial hunter. What is a cursorial hunter I hear
> you cry in bewilderment? Very simple: A cursorial hunter is a hunter
> which hunts its prey by running (jogging actually) it into the ground.
I spend much of my time hunting down my cursor. :)
>
> Several "primitive" tribes continue to hunt this way to this day.
>
There may be some modern anecdotal evidence to support this.
Did you ever see a pack of children hunt down an ice-cream truck?
JL
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01444" HREF="msg01444.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Git out the boar spear, Martha!</A></strong>,
Adam Wiggins <a href="mailto:nightfall#user1,inficad.com">nightfall#user1,inficad.com</a>, Mon 23 Jun 1997, 11:05 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01459" HREF="msg01459.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>, Tue 24 Jun 1997, 00:00 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01610" HREF="msg01610.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>, Tue 01 Jul 1997, 03:47 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01613" HREF="msg01613.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>, Tue 01 Jul 1997, 04:13 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01622" HREF="msg01622.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Git out the boar spear, Martha!</A></strong>,
Jon A. Lambert <a href="mailto:jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com">jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com</a>, Tue 01 Jul 1997, 07:38 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01424" HREF="msg01424.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] common server design</A></strong>,
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Mon 23 Jun 1997, 01:02 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01445" HREF="msg01445.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] common server design</A></strong>,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Mon 23 Jun 1997, 11:32 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01616" HREF="msg01616.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] common server design</A></strong>,
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Tue 01 Jul 1997, 05:55 GMT
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