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<LI><em>Subject</em>: [MUD-Dev] Character evolution</LI>
<LI><em>From</em>: ##Make Nylander <<A HREF="mailto:thenewt#use,usit.net">thenewt#use,usit.net</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Thu, 4 Sep 1997 17:40:20 -0400 (EDT)</LI>
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[Original message sent by Caliban Tiresias Darklock]
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| Something I've considered here and there is the possibility of hiring
| mobs to do things. When I play MUDs, I often find that I have all this
| money piling up, and nothing I can do with it; so I was thinking, why
| not allow people to pay some amount of money to a mob and give it a
| number of commands? I mean, if you're the medieval equivalent of a
| multi-billionaire, why should you have to do everything yourself?
Well, shopkeepers and healers found on many stock MUDs are
mobs rendering the player their services. You could easily
expand on that model and have mercenaries (mobs that follow
you and fight for you as long as you keep on paying them),
assassins, bounty-hunters ("50k gp for anyone who brings me
Bubba's head!"), butlers ("You sit down. Jeeves lights a pipe
and offers it to you."), guards, armorers ("and what would you
like to have inscribed on your sword, sir?") and whatnot.
In my Diku derivative I have a number of hardcoded "mob
professions" with different services available for PCs with
too much money -- most of them useful, some of them jsut
amusing.
I have no doubt that one could come up with code that would
enable the player to issue complex orders to a mob, but
unless you have very advanced "mob AI", that might frustrate
players rather than help them ("do what I mean, not what I say
you dumb mobile!").
One advantage of using pre-defined "professions" for defining
mob behaviour is that you can easily simulate supply-demand
economy for services (e.g. if someone nukes most of the
assassin mobiles in the game, the remaining ones will raise
their fees).
-- Newt
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01117" HREF="msg01117.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Character evolution</A></strong>,
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Sat 06 Sep 1997, 00:10 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01080" HREF="msg01080.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Character evolution</A></strong>,
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Thu 04 Sep 1997, 14:38 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01082" HREF="msg01082.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Character evolution</A></strong>,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Thu 04 Sep 1997, 15:16 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01081" HREF="msg01081.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Character evolution</A></strong>,
Maddy <a href="mailto:maddy#fysh,org">maddy#fysh,org</a>, Thu 04 Sep 1997, 15:07 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01098" HREF="msg01098.html">[MUD-Dev] Character evolution</A></strong>,
##Make Nylander <a href="mailto:thenewt#use,usit.net">thenewt#use,usit.net</a>, Thu 04 Sep 1997, 21:41 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01153" HREF="msg01153.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Character evolution</A></strong>,
Brandon J. Rickman <a href="mailto:ashes#pc4,zennet.com">ashes#pc4,zennet.com</a>, Mon 08 Sep 1997, 06:54 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01166" HREF="msg01166.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Character evolution</A></strong>,
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Tue 09 Sep 1997, 06:01 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00724" HREF="msg00724.html">Inebriation</A></strong>,
Jon A. Lambert <a href="mailto:jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com">jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com</a>, Tue 26 Aug 1997, 00:06 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00721" HREF="msg00721.html">Comments on MUDs from Shadists</A></strong>,
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Mon 25 Aug 1997, 18:43 GMT
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