[DGD] Saving to disk

[Noah Gibbs]

It's a hard question of game design.  Does that mean that players with flaky network connections should never fight enemies near their own level because they will die on disconnect?

So far as I know, nobody has ever come up with a really satisfactory answer.

There are several standard answers, though, depending on your tolerance for cheating-by-disconnect versus random-death-by-disconnect.


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 From: "Schmidt, Stephen" <schmidsj at union.edu>
To: All about DGD and Hydra <dgd at dworkin.nl> 
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 1:02 PM
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My occasional reveries on this theme have involved requiring that players get
to a place of safety before their bodies can be put in the meat locker. If you're
sitting in the tavern, then your body can disappear; if you're trapped in the lair
of the ninth level hobgoblin, then your userless body is at the hobgoblin's
mercy unless you get it out of there yourself.

Such a thing ought to be built into the design of the game world in some way,
I expect.

Steve

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From: dgd-bounces at dworkin.nl [dgd-bounces at dworkin.nl] on behalf of Raymond Jennings [shentino at gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 3:49 PM
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Phantasmal (which used to be maintained by noah until real life on his part
dumped it into my lap) has a meat locker to store player bodies.

Users aren't exactly destroyed, but their in game avatars or characters are
at least taken off camera.

Speaking of upsetting users, you may find that many will complain if you
*don't* take them out of the action.  Leaving a userless body out in the
wild can be dangerous to their health.

There may need to be exceptions though, such as making sure players don't
cheat by ducking out of combat or other such hazardous situations by using
linkdeath as a get out of jail free card.

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