[MUD-Dev] Circumstances & Situations

[Ling]

On Fri, 19 Dec 1997, Richard Woolcock wrote:

[nice example snipped]

> Basically this will only show things in front of you (or you changing
> directions), and wouldn't spam you with a load of text every time you
> move.  I am hoping this will help get around the difficulties generally
> associated with a world 5120x5120 rooms across.  I'm also going to be
> making combat reach over rooms (at least one room away) - in fact this
> will be how backstab will work (hit someone in front of you who is
> facing away from you).

Cool.  At least you have a vague idea of what I'm on about. :)  It seems
to me that for the majority of traditional game muds, the vast majority of
the time is filled with quite mundane things like moving around and baking
bread.  Possibly killing things with a client (bad game design there but
won't delve into it).  I figured it would be an idea to only notify the
player when something of interest happens.  However, it might lead to a
silly situation where the characters go from crisis to crisis each hour. 

PS: On a whim, started porting xconq to the Amiga so... hibernating for a
bit (like half a year).  Will be posting occassional things.

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