[DGD] Kotaka + DGD flexibility and performance?

[Raymond Jennings]

in regards to this email, I should mention that Kotaka is itself mostly an
experimental grab bag full of tools you can put together.

In the future I plan to have it as the basis for a multi-node concurrent
distributed world inspired by the work of Geir Hansen.

In theory if you have enough compute power you'd be able to power a world
the size of an entire galaxy with the detail level of my bedroom.

Possibly not unlike what you were planning.

My strategy thus far is to have a nested hierarchy of containment, with
suitable delegation of "busy" areas of the universe to subordinate nodes
connected by network.

For example, if Earth got busy enough, I might decide to delegate one of
hte continents to a subordinate server nad have the objects in, say,
Africa, swarm down to a fresh instance nad from that point on the server
running Earth would stay in contact with the server running Africa, for
example if Cairo decided to launch a nuke at London, or if aliens from Mars
decided to go through Earth's atmosphere to land in Zaire.



On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 11:18 PM Da'ud Vyd <d.vyd at outlook.com> wrote:

> Hi Shentino,
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> I've developed a curiosity about DGD and found your github site. I was hoping you might be able to
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> guide me toward a decision about which tools to use for a project. In short, my understanding is DGD
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> is a combination database and object mapper and Kotako is a library to use DGD to build MUDs with
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> LPC as the primary programming language. Is that more-or-less correct? Do these technologies attempt
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> to capture/recreate past programming paradigms or are they still current? For example, can they take
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> advantage of modern multiprocessor CPUs, fast SSD drives, and scale up with better hardware? Looking
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> through kotaka I could not find any predefined objects common to MUDs such as character attributes,
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> skills, items, rooms, etc. These must be defined from scratch in LPC?
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> I'm planning a MUD that has a lot of non-standard functionality, including an underlying city simulation
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> in which NPCs are always active. I'm familiar with scripting (Python & R) and have played with modern
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> compiled languages (Go). So far, I've considered evennia <http://www.evennia.com/>, which is wonderful but works in a single
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> thread--so not good for a city simulation. coffeeMUD <https://github.com/bozimmerman/CoffeeMud> is multi-threaded but written in Java, which is
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> completely alien to me. Would you recommend kotaka and DGD for my project? If not, do you have a
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> different suggestion?
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> Thnak you,
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> -da'ud vyd
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> d.vyd at outlook.com
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