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<LI><em>From</em>: "David Bennett" <<A HREF="mailto:ddt#discworld,imaginary.com">ddt#discworld,imaginary.com</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 13:44:19 -0800</LI>
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On 1/10/00, at 11:45 AM, Eli Stevens (Grey) wrote:
>I had been considering having the occupants of adjacent rooms visible to
>everyone as part of the standard 'look' command.
We did this for large open spaces on Discworld. It works quite well...
You also get messages like:
The happy wizard moves southeast in Sator Square.
The happy wizard leaves Sator Square to the northwest.
etc... Makes the squares really feel like a busy part of the city.
>One thing I like about it is that it gets rid of the silly "is here"
tagged
>onto the end of everyone's short desc. Crowded areas could become a
>problem, but I think that by only allowing a player to notice a subset of
>the present/nearby people, the spam should not be too bad (if you are in a
>crowded hallway, you just _cannot_ see everyone). This would be in
>conjunction with the features of the attention thread mentioned a while
>back, rooted at (or near):
We didn't get rid of the 'is here' though. The description lines end up
looking like:
The happy beggar is meditating to the northeast, the spotted dog and the
beggar are standing to the west and a red badger is here.
Good luck!
David.
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00074" HREF="msg00074.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Fair/Unfair? Scenarios (fwd)</A></strong>,
Eli Stevens (Grey) <a href="mailto:ens017#mizzou,edu">ens017#mizzou,edu</a>, Mon 10 Jan 2000, 17:57 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00076" HREF="msg00076.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Fair/Unfair? Scenarios (fwd)</A></strong>,
Douglas Couch <a href="mailto:dscouch#purdue,edu">dscouch#purdue,edu</a>, Mon 10 Jan 2000, 20:01 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00078" HREF="msg00078.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Fair/Unfair? Scenarios (fwd)</A></strong>,
Dundee <a href="mailto:SkeptAck#antisocial,com">SkeptAck#antisocial,com</a>, Mon 10 Jan 2000, 20:31 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00217" HREF="msg00217.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Fair/Unfair? Scenarios (fwd)</A></strong>,
Chris Turner <a href="mailto:christ#rd,bbc.co.uk">christ#rd,bbc.co.uk</a>, Sat 22 Jan 2000, 18:14 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00081" HREF="msg00081.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Fair/Unfair? Scenarios (fwd)</A></strong>,
David Bennett <a href="mailto:ddt#discworld,imaginary.com">ddt#discworld,imaginary.com</a>, Mon 10 Jan 2000, 21:49 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00073" HREF="msg00073.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Ok, got some brand new core dumps.</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#kanga,nu">claw#kanga,nu</a>, Sun 09 Jan 2000, 19:41 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00062" HREF="msg00062.html">[MUD-Dev] An introduction...</A></strong>,
Geoffrey A. MacDougall <a href="mailto:geoffrey#poptronik,com">geoffrey#poptronik,com</a>, Thu 06 Jan 2000, 23:11 GMT
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