[MUD-Dev] Languages (slightly offtopic, was Text Parsing)

[Greg Miller]

Matthew Mihaly wrote:
> If I might say so, without being offensive, I see a lot of tunnel vision
> going on in this list, at least as regards combat. I blame stock muds
> myself. The combat systems I've seen in every single stock mud I've 

Indeed, that was my reaction when I saw your posted description of the
combat system. Just based on that description you seem to have a pretty
good system under all that hype, but you also seem to pretty narrowly
ignore any viable choices other than the ones you made. For example, you
chose the heavy-handed approach of disallowing use of an item for a
specific period of time rather simply reducing damage/healing numbers to
slow down combat. Both approaches have advantages and disadvantages, but
your simply wrote off the alternative approach as being wrong. Question:
why are you on this mailing list, if that's your approach to design?
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