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<LI><em>From</em>: "Quzah" <<A HREF="mailto:quzah#hotmail,com">quzah#hotmail,com</A>></LI>
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From: Matthew Mihaly <diablo#best,com>
> On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Quzah wrote:
>
> > From: Matthew Mihaly <diablo#best,com>
> >
> > > Darn right they do. Most players know _exactly_ the stats of their
> > > favourite swords. If they get a sword with particularly good stats, they
> > > would be furious to have it reduced, as the distribution is a bell curve,
> > > and getting ahold of a good sword is a fantastic thing for
> >
> > That being the case, who in their right mind would toss their long
> > sword of ass beating into a pile of 49 other visibly identical long
> > swords? Do you know how much of a pain in the ass it is to get the
> > right long sword out of a stack even when they have different key
> > words and there are only five or six of them?
>
> It's quite easy actually as our objects all have visible, unique
> identifying numbers attached to them. GET 438 will get sword #438. INFO
> HERE will give you a list of what is in the location and visible to you.
Ah, that's rather handy. Similar to an old MBBS game I saw once
where all the monsters had a number appended to their name. I was
of course speaking of the typical DIKU based mud where it would be
near impossible to grab the correct sword from a random pile of
50 long swords.
> > The point is, if you are foolish enough to toss your one super
> > sword into a pile of 49 other visibly identical swords, then
> > you deserve not to get the right one back ;)
>
> I suppose, but again, what happens when they pick up and examine all 50 of
> them and none of them match? Much complaining and filing of bug reports.
True. And I'd be one of the ones complaining. When I used to actually
play, I liked to run around and gather all the items in the game and
ID them, then write down their stats for my own use.
> I appreciate the physics lesson, but really, I don't care what the physics
> of something is. The system exists so differentiate items and make some
> more desirable than others. It's perfectly internally consistent, and
Yes, of course. I was missing the point. You were trying to
discuss a way to store everything, while I was pointing out a
way to avoid it all together.
> under normal conditions). People who have the forging skill and who make
> armour and weapons get quite excited when they produce a palpably superior
> weapon, and I like that.
>
> --matt
Good argument for specific stat tracking I suppose. This of course
assumes again that you are using a numbers-visible sort of game.
Quzah.
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00662" HREF="msg00662.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] The grass is always greener in the other field</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#kanga,nu">claw#kanga,nu</a>, Sat 18 Dec 1999, 05:24 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00668" HREF="msg00668.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] The grass is always greener in the other field</A></strong>,
Quzah <a href="mailto:quzah#hotmail,com">quzah#hotmail,com</a>, Sat 18 Dec 1999, 17:51 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00683" HREF="msg00683.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] The grass is always greener in the other field</A></strong>,
Quzah <a href="mailto:quzah#hotmail,com">quzah#hotmail,com</a>, Sun 19 Dec 1999, 00:49 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00673" HREF="msg00673.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] The grass is always greener in the other field</A></strong>,
Raph & Kristen Koster <a href="mailto:koster#eden,com">koster#eden,com</a>, Sat 18 Dec 1999, 17:51 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00620" HREF="msg00620.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] The grass is always greener in the other field</A></strong>,
Timothy Dang <a href="mailto:tdang#U,Arizona.EDU">tdang#U,Arizona.EDU</a>, Fri 17 Dec 1999, 00:21 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00640" HREF="msg00640.html">[MUD-Dev] Souveniers</A></strong>,
Douglas Couch <a href="mailto:dscouch#purdue,edu">dscouch#purdue,edu</a>, Fri 17 Dec 1999, 17:06 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00610" HREF="msg00610.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] The grass is always greener in the other field</A></strong>,
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