[MUD-Dev] request for comments (was: Mud-Dev FAQ)

[Vadim Tkachenko]

Jon A. Lambert wrote:
> 
>  Methods of handling coordinate spaces: neighborhoods, tree forms
>  R-Trees, R*-Trees, 3d arrays, Quad/Oct trees

What are R-Trees and R*-Trees?

>  Variations on event-driven design

Can you please elaborate on that?

>  Telnet protocol and terminal emulation

Have you implemented telnet yourself? I have a draft Java telnet
implementation, the concept is: you treat the telnet session object as a
container, and as soon as you add the telnet options to the container,
it starts to support them, and performs negotiations based on which
options have been added - you may want to take look at that

>  Design of Object IDs and Object ID recycling

???

>  Virtual rooms, virtual objects, virtual mobiles

???
>  Sending mail from within a mud server

SMTP?

>  Web vs. Telnet

Why not 'Web AND telnet'?


There were more interesting topics, but let's just make this a start :-)

> Jon A. Lambert

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