[DGD] Relative naming

[Petter Nyström]

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Steve Wooster wrote:

> PS, is this list an ok place to discuss general mud design or should I 
> focus on the more technical aspects? I'd love to some day implement a 
> mud with relative naming (ie, a player might be known by different names 
> to different people), but there's some problems I would end up with that 
> I'm not sure how to solve.

I don't know either if this list should be used for discussing game design 
rather than stuff directly related to DGD. But I can atlesat say that I 
have implemented a system where one is able to recognize players (or other 
uniquely identifiable objects) by any name, and there are many other muds 
that have similar systems. And atleast I would be happy to help you out in 
any way I can.

If you feel the DGD list is a bad place for the discussion, feel free to 
mail me privately. Or perhaps post on a webforum on some mud community out 
there. There is a relatively new webforum for discussing anything related 
to mud development on http://mudlab.org, which is so far free from flames 
and spam. I'd recomend that one.

Good luck,

Jimorie