[MUD-Dev] Spawning and quests (was Sony ban)

[Lee Sheldon]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mud-dev-admin at kanga.nu
> [mailto:mud-dev-admin at kanga.nu]On Behalf Of
> J C Lawrence
> Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2000 12:32 AM
> To: mud-dev at kanga.nu
> Subject: Re: [MUD-Dev] Spawning and quests (was Sony ban)
>
> The fairly obvious solution to me is:
>
>   -- Upon a party of people (one or more) entering an "area" or
> "quest path" a unique and distinct copy of all the rooms and objects
> in that section is created.
>
>   -- This copy persists until no more players are present in the
> "fragment".  Once it is fully empty, it is deleted/recycled.
>
>   -- The copy can be customised in some fashion, perhaps tailored to
> the people in the party, or just random seed factors so that no two
> copies are ever quite alike.
>
>   -- The party can then do whatever they want in that area,
> unaffected by what is happening in that same area by people who
> entered earlier or later (and thus got their own private areas).
>
> This is of course rather similar to what Nathan Yospe talked about a
> while ago in an effort to resolve a not entirely dissimilar problem.
> (Nathan, want to expound?)  Ardent archive searchers are challenged
> to find the relevent threads (my memory is too sparse to give good
> key words).

This is what we were doing in The Gryphon Tapestry, and is one the primary
ways we were able to create a far richer story-telling environment than
there would have been with dozens of PCs clustered shoulder-to-shoulder in a
single area.  We could create the atmosphere of suspense or romance or
whatever, because the number of people experiencing the moment were the
"proper" number to make it work as drama.  And of course the experience
could be unique to any given PC or party based on how they reacted to the
"fragment."

I think Raph mentioned elsewhere that Might & Magic Online was also doing
something similar.

Lee




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