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From: "Travis S. Casey" <efindel#io,com>
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Subject: [MUD-Dev] Modeling spells/skills as collections of affects
On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Maddy wrote:
> Previously, Shawn Halpenny wrote....
>
> > - Bubba pulls the rope and the rock moves (the rock receives a
> > message to be moved (probably came from the rope) and queries its
> > list of modifiers. Rock sees the rope modifier and calls a method
> > on it that lowers the dex required by the action by 3 (and perhaps
> > spews out a message fragment about being able to move the rock now
> > that the rope is tied to it). Execution returns to the move rock
> > method and the action succeeds since Bubba's dex was 17.)
>
> The way I see it, is that when Bubba (who is holding the rope) tries to move
> away from the rock, before it does lets him, it first tries and moves the
> rope. The rope since it has the "attached to" attribute, will then also
> check to see if what it is "attached to" can move and is not the object that
> was checking to see if it can move. Same goes for the rock. Unfortunately
> I hadn't thought about using strength or dex to limit whether the rock could
> be moved.
>
> I guess the rock would "ask" the rope what strength it had, who in turn
> would "ask" bubba, since the rope wasn't the original object who was moving.
> What if Boffo comes along and starts pulling the rope as well?
The rope could keep a list of who's pulling on it and in what directions.
Thus, if Bubba has strength 16 and Boffo has strength 18, there are
multiple possiblities:
Bubba and Boffo both pull north:
rope pulls north with strength 34 (assuming a linear scale)
Bubba pulls south and Boffo pulls north:
rope pulls north with strength 2
Bubba pulls south and Boffo pulls west:
rope pulls northwest (assuming a mud with standard compass
directions) with strength 24.
etc.
This would allow for tug o' war and other such fun things. :-)
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<LI><STRONG>Re: [MUD-Dev] Looking for books...</STRONG>, <EM>(continued)</EM>
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00700" HREF="msg00700.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Looking for books...</A></strong>,
Jon A. Lambert <a href="mailto:jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com">jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com</a>, Thu 21 Aug 1997, 17:01 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00645" HREF="msg00645.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Finding Space</A></strong>,
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Sun 17 Aug 1997, 19:19 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00644" HREF="msg00644.html">No Subject</A></strong>,
Maddog Worlds <a href="mailto:maddog#best,com">maddog#best,com</a>, Sun 17 Aug 1997, 18:42 GMT
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